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- Wed Jan 22, 2020 12:38 pm
- Forum: Video Reviews
- Topic: B5: And Now For a Word
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5104
Re: B5: And Now For a Word
Though we can comfort ourselves that it's not as bad as 19th century London newspapers often were. What a clown show that was. Or Early 20th Century American Papers, which literally started a war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish%E2%80%93American_War Are we not still in a war...
- Tue Jan 21, 2020 12:53 pm
- Forum: Video Reviews
- Topic: B5: And Now For a Word
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5104
Re: B5: And Now For a Word
A fun episode all around, even if it does remind me of why I stopped watching TV journalism about a decade back. My late teenage self never would have guessed that such naked bias would become a point of pride. What is the alternative though? All news reporters are thinking subjects who will thus i...
- Tue Jan 21, 2020 12:40 pm
- Forum: Video Reviews
- Topic: B5: And Now For a Word
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5104
Re: B5: And Now For a Word
I have to imagine some part of this episode was spawned from a reading of Manufacturing Consent , the book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. Going off the model of news-media as masked propaganda; we can better predict major news events by seeking out what effects people in power want instead of...
- Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:32 pm
- Forum: Video Reviews
- Topic: JLU - Patriot Act
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8629
Re: JLU - Patriot Act
I love Chuck's closing statements. Love to see how that goes down with certain individuals on this forum. Oh hey. Yeah, I was not huge on the closing remarks. Things get better for some and worse for others in all times in history. Just because things seem better or worse from my point of view, and...