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Octafish

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5. Media Lie Like Rugs
Fri Feb 6, 2015, 01:29 PM
Feb 2015

An example of dishonesty in the truth biz comes from a commercial that aired yesterday on NBC's Sunday Night Football, telling viewers that NBC's "State of Affairs" is "the critics' favorite new drama":



See how they use a nice quote from the "critic" at E! Online to make sure the point is hammered ho-, er, uh, reinforced visually.

What is missing from the screen and audio track, what NBC doesn't tell you, is that NBC is owned by Comcast and that Comcast also owns E!

Thus, no duh. Without question "State of Affairs" is "the critic's favorite new drama" at E! They get paid by the same company what made the new drama.

That little omission represents a major deceit. They lead viewers to believe the critic is a person without ties to NBC and Comcast and their television show. A critic with ties is a biased critic and that is no critic.

Just one example of how Media Lie. It's all business as usual for the Media Monopoly, the six global players that pretty much create almost all of what We the People see, hear and read every dumb day. That undemocratic reality also is omitted from what passes for news and information these days.

So, the next time the Corporate Media are at work on your and your family's minds, remember that the bosses of the few corporations think We are too dumb to notice when they do their Thing.

PS: Sorry about the image quality -- it's a phone camera capture.

PPS: "State of Affairs" also has a greatly memetic tagline: "All the President's men are nothing compared to her."

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