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Even the streaming stuff will include it subtly though. I was watching a show on Netflix with my wife the other day, Sweet Magnolia’s and it seemed about as con

Even the streaming stuff will include it subtly though. I was watching a show on Netflix with my wife the other day, Sweet Magnolia’s and it seemed about as controversial as a Hallmark channel show. But these days I notice whenever specific catch phrases or expressions are getting used across multiple news outlets and it puts me a little bit on guard if a suddenly notice a phrase being used excessively…as if the point is to normalize it in your language. That show constantly used variations of the “Your truth” thing, which has always seemed in opposition to “the truth” or just “truth”. It’s one of the shadier expressions out there because it seems so harmless IMO.

Lascaille 5y ago
>But these days I notice whenever specific catch phrases or expressions are getting used across multiple news outlets and it puts me a little bit on guard if a suddenly notice a phrase being used excessively…as if the point is to normalize it in your language. This is very very visible on reddit, where a term, phrase or expression will become ubiquitous almost overnight. The most recent one I can think of was the acronym 'BIPOC' - and from the circumstances of its use it was clear that a lot of users didn't understand what it meant, and were just using it as a synonym for 'minorities'. It leads me to conclude that there is much more centralisation of content than you would otherwise expect.
legulere 5y ago
That discussion about the truth is already older and is just arriving in mainstream media. I first stumbled upon it at the chaos communication congress in 2007: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2334.en.html https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events... It’s easy to see how such an idea can become mainstream when our society is losing a common agreed upon basic understanding.
themacguffinman 5y ago
News channels, especially many local news channels that are owned by the same company, can and do explicitly coordinate their messaging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

Lascaille 5y ago

>But these days I notice whenever specific catch phrases or expressions are getting used across multiple news outlets and it puts me a little bit on guard if a suddenly notice a phrase being used excessively…as if the point is to normalize it in your language. This is very very visible on reddit, where a term, phrase or expression will become ubiquitous almost overnight. The most recent one I can think of was the acronym 'BIPOC' - and from the circumstances of its use it was clear that a lot of users didn't understand what it meant, and were just using it as a synonym for 'minorities'. It leads me to conclude that there is much more centralisation of content than you would otherwise expect.

legulere 5y ago

That discussion about the truth is already older and is just arriving in mainstream media. I first stumbled upon it at the chaos communication congress in 2007: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2334.en.html https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events... It’s easy to see how such an idea can become mainstream when our society is losing a common agreed upon basic understanding.

themacguffinman 5y ago

News channels, especially many local news channels that are owned by the same company, can and do explicitly coordinate their messaging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo