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Indeed! I remember this being discussed as early as 1993, in the film "Rising Sun" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107969/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107969/ A
by binarymax 9y ago
Indeed! I remember this being discussed as early as 1993, in the film "Rising Sun" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107969/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107969/
Another good example is https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bp-and-the-gulf-oil-spill-misadventures-in-photoshop/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bp-and-the-gulf-oil-spill-misad... ...which I remember being a wake-up call to those who didn't know it had already been going on for a couple decades.
I truly wonder how much of what is presented in the MSM these days is actually not real and manages to slip by...
- javajosh 9y agoOn another note, did Michael Crichton ever apologize for that book? It was alarmist xenophobia targeting the Japanese, verging on racism, and one of the reasons I stopped reading him. (Watching history unfold in a way totally unlike his dark, paranoid vision has been a great pleasure.)
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- Cacti 9y agoThat was a quarter of a century ago. Maybe you should let go?
- CM30 9y ago> I truly wonder how much of what is presented in the MSM these days is actually not real and manages to slip by... Quite a lot presumably. Ever since the idea of a media started, there have been people trying to hoax it for whatever reason or not: http://hoaxes.org/weblog/categories/category/Journalism http://hoaxes.org/weblog/categories/category/Journalism If a story is mainstream enough (or remotely political), hoaxes will probably get identified at some point or another. If it's in a specialist subject area? Forget it. Who knows how much questionable stuff slips through when neither the journalist nor their audience know what's plausible and what isn't?