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There's probably some piece on Fox News, or a blog post from some influencer that cites these institutions. Most regime policy begins with some media outrage li
by dboreham 1y ago
There's probably some piece on Fox News, or a blog post from some influencer that cites these institutions. Most regime policy begins with some media outrage like this. You and I aren't exposed to that content so it seems arbitrary.
I first realized this decades ago when I ran into someone socially who started on about how evil the red cross was. I'm like wtf? Then did some research and discovered some fringe belief originating in the Vietnam war. There are thousands of oddball grievances like this.
- exceldrawing 1y ago> There's probably some piece on Fox News CNN published articles pushing the narrative that the 50 so called security experts believed Hunter's laptop was fake. It turned out to be true. CNN also famously had the two reporters standing in the same parking lot pretending to be in different geographic locations. Viewers called out their bullshit when the noticed the exact same traffic driving through the backgrounds of both reporters.
- Valodim 1y agoGuess that makes them morally completely even then, is that your point? See also, whataboutism
- dboreham 1y agoThe sets of "news organizations fabricating stuff" and "news organizations generating specific fringe outrage stories for consumption by the administration" are overlapping. Yet those are distinct sets. The outrage-inducing specific stories don't even have to be fabricated. Just not really that important in the grand scheme of things.
- BriggyDwiggs42 1y agoWho cares about CNN? Who brought them up?
- slater 1y ago> It turned out to be true. It didn't.