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>>whenever people call out Anderson Cooper caught in front of a green screen Huh? A quick Google Search shows only sources from absurd places like InfoWars. Ha

>>whenever people call out Anderson Cooper caught in front of a green screen Huh? A quick Google Search shows only sources from absurd places like InfoWars. Have any conclusive evidence that can't be easily explained by motion compression algorithms?

dboreham 9y ago
And there we have the real Fake News. The term originated as a label for crackpot/tinfoil-hat/state-actor misinformation ops. It was picked up by Trump who presumably misunderstood the meaning, and used by him to describe MSM he didn't like. Sort of Fake News squared...
- aalleavitch 9y ago
  I don't think he misunderstood the meaning at all. I think he just realized he could turn the label into an attack on legitimate news sources that were printing unflattering stories about him while devaluing the use of the term against actual false reporting that benefited him in one fell swoop. I'd find his strategy brilliant if it weren't for the fact it is an all-out assault on the very concept of truth and it's likely doing irreparable damage to the very institutions this nation is founded upon.
jsoc815 9y ago
Can't speak to djsumdog's allegations. While they're probably true, it's also possible that people are thinking of a key part of "Wag the Dog" w/ Dustin Hoffman et al. Anyway, maybe the following links will help: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/03/16/hollywood-designer-creates-military-media-center.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/03/16/hollywood-designer-c... and http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/29/hollywood-and-thepentagonarelationshipofmutualexploitation.html http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/29/hollywood-an... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_In... I'm sure we all know that America's media has had a long history of telling the "right" story for the "right" reasons. I don't feel like digging around for cites, but it's pretty well known that the point of "embedding" journalists w/troops for the (formal) continuation of the 'Gulf War' was to make the journalists feel more sympathetic to the mission (troops) and thus tell the folks at home the appropriate story. There's also a long history of the CIA recruiting journalists, editors, owners, etc... Real example from recent history: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/corres... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/mark-mazzetti-shared-maureen-dowd-column-with-cia.html http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/mark-mazzetti-s...

dboreham 9y ago

And there we have the real Fake News. The term originated as a label for crackpot/tinfoil-hat/state-actor misinformation ops. It was picked up by Trump who presumably misunderstood the meaning, and used by him to describe MSM he didn't like. Sort of Fake News squared...

aalleavitch 9y ago
I don't think he misunderstood the meaning at all. I think he just realized he could turn the label into an attack on legitimate news sources that were printing unflattering stories about him while devaluing the use of the term against actual false reporting that benefited him in one fell swoop. I'd find his strategy brilliant if it weren't for the fact it is an all-out assault on the very concept of truth and it's likely doing irreparable damage to the very institutions this nation is founded upon.

jsoc815 9y ago

Can't speak to djsumdog's allegations. While they're probably true, it's also possible that people are thinking of a key part of "Wag the Dog" w/ Dustin Hoffman et al. Anyway, maybe the following links will help: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/03/16/hollywood-designer-creates-military-media-center.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/03/16/hollywood-designer-c... and http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/29/hollywood-and-thepentagonarelationshipofmutualexploitation.html http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/29/hollywood-an... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_In... I'm sure we all know that America's media has had a long history of telling the "right" story for the "right" reasons. I don't feel like digging around for cites, but it's pretty well known that the point of "embedding" journalists w/troops for the (formal) continuation of the 'Gulf War' was to make the journalists feel more sympathetic to the mission (troops) and thus tell the folks at home the appropriate story. There's also a long history of the CIA recruiting journalists, editors, owners, etc... Real example from recent history: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/corres... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/mark-mazzetti-shared-maureen-dowd-column-with-cia.html http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/mark-mazzetti-s...