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If you are like me and feel the msm owes us an apology for lying about NV (Original Post) jillan May 2016 OP
Awesome. Perfect. Bernin4U May 2016 #1
Thanks - it's how I channel my anger these days. jillan May 2016 #4
This reminds me so much of the Dean Scream. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2016 #2
It's the faux news method. Tell a lie enough times and people will believe it. Excellent LTE! jillan May 2016 #3
Excellent points dreamnightwind May 2016 #6
^^^exactly!^^^ nt hopemountain May 2016 #10
Wendell Pierce assaulting DI Freighter Watcher May 2016 #5
They need to be called on it. felix_numinous May 2016 #7
Kick! nt mhatrw May 2016 #8
K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations. Enthusiast May 2016 #9
They got behind the truthiness that was being pushed Babel_17 May 2016 #11

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,691 posts)
2. This reminds me so much of the Dean Scream.
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:36 PM
May 2016

Dean got excited at a rally; the way he was miked made him sound louder than he was; and the media reported that he sounded kind of unhinged and out of control. It didn't take long before all the MSM was saying Dean had gone off the rails and everybody else believed it. The Nevada Non-Riot report has been made even worse, not only by the media but the legions of trolls and bots, paid and unpaid. "A lie goes around the world before the truth can get its boots on."

A good LTE in my local newspaper today said pretty much the same thing:

With regard to the May 19 editorial “Sanders must quell campaign violence”: Oh, my goodness, where to start and where to end? Let’s start with accuracy in reporting. First, no video has surfaced of chairs being thrown at the Nevada state convention. Second, no reports have been made of arrests at the event. No mention has been made of the midstream machinations that disenfranchised 64 Sanders delegates. No mention was made of the convention chair failing to follow established parliamentary procedure in the official conduct of the party’s business.

Does any of this absolve Bernie Sanders from adhering to the highest level of moral conduct? Absolutely not. Nobody condones violence and most assuredly not Sanders. But the same standard of the highest level of moral conduct has to be applied across the board.

Where has been the outcry for the voters disenfranchised in Arizona, in New York, in Nevada and elsewhere? Where has been the outcry for an insular, intransigent political party doing everything in its power to demonize and marginalize one of the candidates running under its flag? Where has been the outcry of mainstream media parroting the institutional views of the established political parties?

The Star Tribune at one time was considered to be an essential organ of the Fourth Estate, but when it perpetuates a false narrative of reality (namely, that it is the symptom, not the cause, that is the problem), it becomes a sock puppet of the corporate voice. This failure is at the same level of betrayal of “moral responsibility” as when mainstream media was complicit in the narrative that sent this country into Iraq. The king has no clothes.


http://www.startribune.com/readers-write-may-20-the-bernie-sanders-campaign-the-legislature-license-tab-fees-real-id-airport-security/380193561/

jillan

(39,451 posts)
3. It's the faux news method. Tell a lie enough times and people will believe it. Excellent LTE!
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:38 PM
May 2016

And YAY for your newspaper for posting it.

We cannot let them lie about us.

dreamnightwind

(4,775 posts)
6. Excellent points
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:48 PM
May 2016

It fits very well with a post I just made in another thread, which I'll paste below.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512010191#post174

And we are manipulated into wars using the exact same process

Presentation of non-supported allegations, repeated in so many different venues by so many establishment hacks who are getting their lead lines from the corporate-political pipeline, reinforce lies and misrepresentations to sell the American people on the need to attack people in foreign lands and spend all our money on the largest military machine ever seen on this planet.

It's worth looking at how this happens, how false or misleading premises are established as fact by endless repetition and selectively-edited quotes and clips.

I don't know if the majority of people will ever be capable of sorting through these kind of distortions to get any actual understanding of events. I doubt it.

So the only solution possible is to remove agendas from media. One way to do so is through democratization of media, such as what the internet allows. There are still distortions, but all sides are able to make their case, rather than only those who ally with corporate interests.

Another way is to prohibit for-profit corporations from doing news or political opinion on the airwaves or cable. A total non-profit news delivery model, with no corporate money allowed in the process. Kind of like what we need to do with our political campaigns.

We're not even close to having any actionable solution for this, nor even an agreed-on strategy. But until we do, the country will be running on consent given by people who are basing that consent on manufactured consensus and lies. And that''s no way to run a "democracy".
5. Wendell Pierce assaulting
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:45 PM
May 2016

A female Bernie supporter. Dang that out of control, violent , aggressive HILLARY supporter! Now there is a real news story! Where is Hillary condemnation of this man and his actions? Crickets!

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
7. They need to be called on it.
Fri May 20, 2016, 05:36 PM
May 2016

And the DNC followers owe us an apology if they expect to be taken seriously.

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