I've had the rumblings of a project for a while bouncing around my noggin. I would like to present people with examples of how the media lies to you. How they take clips of video completely out of context and spinning things as something they are not. Examples of blatantly false stories, etc... I want to compile these videos/stories into a nicely organized website that anyone can just shoot a link to their buddy and say, "THIS....is why you can't trust the media any more"
When I was younger. It only took a few of these events to make me begin questioning what I was seeing. As silly as it will seem, it was actually some shoddy "reporting" on a tropical storm that got me questioning things; a reporter standing waist deep in a ditch full of water pretending as if he was in the middle of an intersection and that the streets in this town had been flooded. Another simple example was a politician quoting his opponent... "My opponent says 'We have to raise taxes on the middle class'".... but the media took the clip of his speech, shortening it to "We have to raise taxes on the middle class" and passing it off as if HE originally said it.
Anyways, You get the picture. If you have an examples please pass them along.
You can find a ton of that just by watching President Trump's press briefings vs what the news reported. But Trump is probably not the best example since those full of hate gear it toward him.
These are my thoughts as well. I think at first, I want to focus on non Trump related material b/c the last thing I want is someone to come to the site with a biased mindset. I really want to leave them thinking....."Fuck...if they're lying to me about THIS stuff...."
Maybe start with just the covid back and forth..... they were hypocritical with it enough. There has to be great material there. Although they could argue that is was a 'new' virus and that's where the misinformation comes from. Definitely an issue worth pursuing, but the topic has to be right, I agree.