I got 5 lines into that piece and counted no less than five emotive / loaded expressions. This is not "journalism" but an outright propaganda piece. It's written more like a yellow-journalism tabloid than a serious article... but more importantly when you come across pieces like this that use such inflammatory rhetoric, you know who the intended audience is.... slow witted, easily manipulated sheeple.
Thanks, fren... what infuriates me the most are the various local media outlets, dutifully reading the latest propaganda from on high, their corporate masters. Except maybe for the weather forecasts, local "news" has simply become another venue for spewing the party line.... GET YOUR VACCINATION!! STAY SAFE!!! WEAR YOUR MASKS!! DON'T GATHER IN GROUPS!! It never stops, and I have had to turn them off and rely on Accuweather or WeatherUndergound to see what the weather is.
It's the absolute insipid bland reassurances from our local talking heads that get to me. Not one ounce of truth, whether it's about election fraud or the Constitutional crisis we are in, or COVID numbers. They probably don't even know themselves what the truth is, they're no better than robots. If you can read a teleprompter you can be a "news person." Yeah, right.
It's very sad because a friends entire family are absolute MSM brainwashed non-thinkers that I know are the exact audience to be manipulated into believing articles like that. They read it, too uneducated to understand it is full of strawman arguments and other logical fallacies to realize it's pure manipulation and does not look into facts at all.
I got 5 lines into that piece and counted no less than five emotive / loaded expressions. This is not "journalism" but an outright propaganda piece. It's written more like a yellow-journalism tabloid than a serious article... but more importantly when you come across pieces like this that use such inflammatory rhetoric, you know who the intended audience is.... slow witted, easily manipulated sheeple.
Spot on TNBanjoMan = you get it. This is what infuriates me, the sheeple will never be shown any truth under the present tense. SNAFU!
Thanks, fren... what infuriates me the most are the various local media outlets, dutifully reading the latest propaganda from on high, their corporate masters. Except maybe for the weather forecasts, local "news" has simply become another venue for spewing the party line.... GET YOUR VACCINATION!! STAY SAFE!!! WEAR YOUR MASKS!! DON'T GATHER IN GROUPS!! It never stops, and I have had to turn them off and rely on Accuweather or WeatherUndergound to see what the weather is.
It's the absolute insipid bland reassurances from our local talking heads that get to me. Not one ounce of truth, whether it's about election fraud or the Constitutional crisis we are in, or COVID numbers. They probably don't even know themselves what the truth is, they're no better than robots. If you can read a teleprompter you can be a "news person." Yeah, right.
It's very sad because a friends entire family are absolute MSM brainwashed non-thinkers that I know are the exact audience to be manipulated into believing articles like that. They read it, too uneducated to understand it is full of strawman arguments and other logical fallacies to realize it's pure manipulation and does not look into facts at all.
It's "1984" with a more subtle twist.
I've said, Operation Mockingbird meets 1984.