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Alabama, Fake News, Fox News, James O'Keefe, Project Veritas, Propaganda, Roy Moore, Sexual Misconduct, Washington Post
If you have been following the news, you’ve probably heard that fake journalist James O’Keefe and his organization, Project Veritas, have been out spreading the stupid again. Apparently, they approached the Washington Post with a fake story about Roy Moore molesting yet another underage girl. The goal here was clearly to poison the well for all those women who have already come foreword (and perhaps any who might be thinking about it) by showing just how easy it is to get fake accusations into the media. One clearly fake accusation would, so they clearly hoped, go a long way to dilute the impact of any standing accusations from credible sources.
Only the Washington Post was wise to the con and busted them good.
So, you might wonder, how the right wing propagandists might deal with this set-back? How would they handle the apparently loss of this narrative?
Apparently the folks handling the Twitter account at Fox News deal with it by telling the same story anyway.
(Too bad the guy posting the story and the one posting the blurb in the video aren’t on the same page. Still, the disconnect between the actual story and the tweet is pretty damned telling.)
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rawtin bastids! But yeah, the manipulation is amazing. But it’s human nature to believe what you want to believe and call BS on the rest. Truth has very little to do with it.
Not a fan of Fox News, but they seemed to present the WAPO story nearly intact.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5661196886001/?#sp=show-clips
I don’t object to their story. I object to the mislabeling of that story. It’s a common trick. Take a reasonably objective story and simply reframe it with a title or in this case the text of a tweet. Whoever wrote that line completely misrepresented the story itself. Unfortunately, those headers are often the part that sticks with people. Long after they’ve forgotten the story, if they even watched it, they may well remember that line.
You got it, Daniel. That said, beyond Fox, as well known a “winger” as Allahpundit from Hot Air totally called out O’Keefe on this one.
With Corporate America owning both side of the news the right and the left, it seems pretty foolish to me watching working people, the everyday people fighting each other as we all are being washed away by a river of shit. We are fighting each other while proudly pointing to one particular turd or another in a river of shit with discuss. It’s time we wake up before the lever is pulled flushing us all away.
I’m not sure everyone gets that there’s liberal media and rightwinger media. Neither are authentically left or right, just parodies. The former is MSNBC, CNN, and various local news outlets including many newspapers. The latter is (also) many newspapers, FOX, and talk radio. It’s actually kind of amazing to listen to/read both, because legit stories show up in both places, and many only show up on one side of the dial. It’s what they leave out rather than what they put in, half the time, that makes them fake news. If you report a story but leave out certain parts of it, then you can change the overall impact of the story. Or, you might report a contextual detail that contradicts the overall tone of the story, but bury it and minimize it. All kinds of ways to do this. “Cable News Confidential” by Jeff Cohen is a great firsthand look at how “liberal” cable news, isn’t.
The idea of ‘spreading the stupid’ made me smile… there’s certainly a lot of that happening across the world today 🙂
I find the commonality of unscrupulous scoundrels and sycophants in journalism, politics, law enforcement, and other publicly funded “services” to be ludicrously reprehensible. This BS should NOT be the norm, people. I say it’s high time we citizens start expecting integrity from ourselves and our so-called leaders, the latter of whom ought to feel an ethical imperative to Be Better than treacherous grifters.
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