Trickster

[matrixmann]

Western journalism offers a strange habit: All the time spitting hot air, they state a lot of things like they're already proven truth, but don't bring up any solid evidence to the scene. Lies become the truth. Mistakes become the truth. And never there would be an apology or a correction of the facts, if they were reported falsely.

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They also do this

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/27/us/nba-team-owner-alleged-racist-remarks/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

All this article covers is this:
Los Angeles Clippers players apparently found a way to show they're upset by racist comments attributed to team owner Donald Sterling.
As they warmed up Sunday for an NBA playoff game, the Clippers players removed their warmup shirts bearing team logos to reveal red T-shirts worn inside out, with the logos hidden. They finished warming up, removed the red shirts and played the game wearing their regular uniforms.
That's it!

It is 10 PAGES OF REHASHED CRAP FROM OTHER ARTICLES.

Nearly every article is half of another article, sometimes barely related. I don't have news anymore - we have InfoTainment.

[matrixmann]

Thought to drop a note on infotainment, but then thought like "Is this really something new?" - since infotainment's been a pest for decades already.

[red-child.livejournal.com]

I'd come to notice this a decade ago, back when I was browsing articles on news websites during my nights when you're was staying up too late in high school. I ended up dropping that habit and just watching subtitle-bearing Japanese anime instead, because the news was so BoSs d and presumptuous. I figured all it was good fot was entertainment, so I might ad well just be wasting my time on things intentionally designed as entertainment instead of the dishonest, biased and misleading media that news stations were offering.

I'd love to see both sincerity and accountability enter the western news markets... but how does one bring about such a revolution? The system has been so deeply corrupted and heavily clotted, not to mention for so long. How on earth do measly citizens combat that? Especially when the number of us sensitive/aware of it is so small?

[matrixmann]

I also wouldn't know how you could do that. If you watch some different kind of news, either you have to be aware of this NWO-like nonsense, or the rest of the self-called civilized world shouts "you're watching Russian propaganda!".
At the moment the quality of news and journalism that comes from Russian sources really mixes up the market, that's something you need to admit, whether you like it or not. The more you keep investigating it, you - beside the content differences - you notice the difference in the working process. What reports and articles are made like. Frankly, actually they don't even need to spread propaganda on purpose, the propaganda writes itself by the reality that takes place. Even though you also have those privatized media corporations existing on their sides.
It really challenges the market in the Western states - but what comes as a reaction out of this cultural circle are accusations, offenses, trials to limit their spread and their radius to work in (short time ago, some financial assets of the news agency Rossiya Segodnya had been frozen in the UK due to that their boss was put on the list of sanctioned people). Literally, sabotage instead of maybe taking it as a challenge to produce better media content themselves again.