Media Manipulation

Can you think of any examples of media manipulation happening today? Feel free to post.

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Do some C.S. posters countdunno grin
You've said it all!

I'll think of more examples later ....uh oh
Please post some examples. :
You've been here long enough to know who they are. Go figure.grin
"Can you think of any examples of media manipulation happening today? Feel free to post."

Why don't You give us some examples of your own to kick things off about Media Manipulation. That one in the copy and paste image is someone elses and it's not a good example because one is very active and in the limelight wheras the other is not.

Or did you want really want to talk about Climate Change.
Please share some examples you consider valid then.
Can you guess the motive in someone sending out fake photos like this?

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The media picked up on it, but it started elsewhere.
Yeah, just think of how effective future media manipulation using AI. wow
Like resisting arrest?

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This one for a start. Imagine anyone thinking this was the King and Queen of the U.K. dressed like that.grin


Superimposed or what.


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The skilled digital artist has quite the following for his pop art like this.
China and Russia say US media manipulate what is shown to the US people on a regular basis, do you believe this true Sdarlagg ?
Today?

-Well are they finished telling us Putin had no motive yet,
except greed and megalomania even if he only reacted just as USA did in 1962 (?)

-Telling us we need the corrupt Biden cos the good guy Trump
is a manice to democracy when in fact they are.

- Giving us the idea China is dangerous to world peace
only cos they want Taiwan back under their umbrella again.
Let them have it dammnit!

- in the Gaza matter it's mostly the tune of "stop the bombing"
when Israel is trying to change out
the leadership of that land with a very good reason.
Actually they are dong the dirty job for us - while presented as villains.

- - - -

So... I see no neutral Media any longer. They take sides each time now.
And if you look closely you can recognize patterns.
Do they work for one master or a few? How can it be this well coordinated.
That is a bit of a mystery even to me.

I bet they got a bit confused when Kiev went out and defended Israel! rolling on the floor laughing

drink pouring
Also they love immigration, the more illigal the better.
Love gays and muslims to the extend they even try to mix the two
but forgot that is like oil and water.
Ehmm what else, yes hate the christian god but will support christmas shopping.

Hate Trump ofcourse, across the board.
Support woke and that crap and anything slightly perverse.

Rite- so one don't have to look for a few examples-
the whole western media is colored like that.
Thank god we have internet right now. Or else we'd be rather f'd.
China and Russia are right about this. I think journalism and truth died slightly right after the USA Military left Vietnam and finally croaked in 1981 with Walter Cronkite's retirment.
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Bin Laden's letter to the US govt back around 2000 shocked a lot of young American's, the US govt took it down from a govt site after it got onto social media..
The youth were saying ignoring Bin Laden's threats back then has made US people targets ever since, US media are always tripping over their own lies..
Many examples on cable, tucker, hannity come to mind. thumbs up
A typical example:

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There's one above, from Chat.doh

Unfortunately, many believe it.roll eyes
The biggest media lies or propaganda these days are the current affairs being reported to the American people about Ukraine. Until recently the majority of Americans didn't have a clue what's really the cause of the war and only believed that the media fed them. There has been some eye opening revelations since then.
Every single organization out there (media, government, business, religion, . . .) got its own agenda and it is never for the good of common people, only for the advancement of what they want.
.MSM will also only publish and report what they get told to report. Below is an example of avoidance.

Trump Jr. condemns Zelensky for US journalist’s ‘murder’
January 13, 2024
The ex-US president’s son questioned sending aid to a country where American citizens are killed
The death of journalist and filmmaker Gonzalo Lira is a “murder,” and the blame for it lies with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, the son of former US President Donald Trump stated on his page on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Gonzalo Lira, a national of the US and Chile, has died while in jail in Ukraine. Lira passed away on January 11, with his family reporting his death the following day. The US Department of State then confirmed it.
“So we are now allowing our foreign welfare recipients, such as Zelinski , to kill our citizens and our journalists?” Donald Trump Jr. wrote.
Trump Jr. also denounced the likely lack of reaction to this tragedy in the US media. “I would have waited for the outrage of our media, but I know that it will not happen,” he lamented.
Isn't that the truth.
And still some voters want the same old.
“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”

? Thomas Sowell
Just like the politicians of the world the media needs a good boot in the arse for the death and hate they cause, would love to see some big media outlets get taken to the cleaners by average people..
I don't think we should blame the media in general to be honest. Imagine if we had no news whatsoever about ongoing issues.


My personal take on this "press bashing "is that some people who read the news and have a fixed mindset and play with the truth to further their own interests.
Every conspiracy theorist's fantasy is that the MSM cannot be trusted. This is necessary if you want to live in a bubble and in a world of make believe where everything you think is correct. The MSM is the greatest protection we have against the flat earthers and their fantasies.
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Here speaks the voice of a desilliusioned one.laugh

"MSM is the greatest protection..." rolling on the floor laughing

As for the ones living in a "bubble" they're the ones who need to wake up and start thinking out of the box!
A schoolteacher once said to me 'snowy, don't be under any illusions'...wink
I remeber I was on an airplane some time autumn 2016 before it was decided yet who'd win.
And I said to the well mature guy on his 50's next to me as we already had a chat abt life in general "why is all norwegian newspapers is so clearly against DT?"
He scratched his head and first wanted to suggest not all - but upon a deeper look he had to admit not even the used to be conservative 'financial times' type of outlets would give DT a pass.

So this idea of msm all singing the same anti Trump tune is not new
nor taken out of thin air. It just isn't a conspiracy theory, it's a simple fact.
Anyone here wanna deny the big leading media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic
is against the guy who half of America is voting for?
Minus Fox that is.
Oh.. and who blew up the pipeline... anyone?

drinking
You know..
Smart decent truthful experienced people
with their heart in the right place-
like:

-Tulsi Gabbard
-Mearsheimer the professor of Chicago
-Kennedy jr
-Oliver Stone
-Colonel Douglas MacGregor
(who lead a tank brigade into Iraq in 1991)

all indicate Trump is being framed cos of an internal power struggle
between the old built up corrupt system
and him as the front figure of fed up citizens who want their voice back.
When such people as listen above say the same as me
(Or rather, I have these people to thank for my education)
then I'd say I'm in good company.
You seem to be under the illusion that Man can keep crapping in his nest, forever without consequences. The Earth's atmosphere is a closed system. CO2, and other warming gasses, are accumulating. Where do you think all the CO2 goes?, it floats off conveniently to Mars, or somewhere? You may give me the smug answer that it is "plant food", but there are insufficient plants, trees etc, to absorb it. Hence the oceans are warming. Why is every year (global temperature average), hotter than the previous one? Answer that, if you can. Come up with some actual peer reviewed Science, instead of this nonsense.



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I'm not very worried. Let it rise a few notches.
It has before. Will again. Then, it sinks some.

So what that got to do with Trump anyway?

I can tell you this. Let's say there was a real danger of heating.
And I will remind you that all co2 emissions reduced last year in EU,
was tripeled by India alone the same year. One step forward in the west, three back in the east.
That is basically why Trump denied the Paris accord that would give China a free ride for too long.
Anyway, back to "real danger"... if Trump was in power he'd listen more than any Biden or someone like him.
You know why? Cos Biden don't care. That's why. But you listen to his lies.
Trump on the other hand don't lie.
Not really.
Ever heard of the Milankovitch-Cycle?
There were periods with more CO2 in the Atmosphere and colder Temps!
More CO2 in the Atmosphere is a consequence of Warming,not the cause!
Pray tell, then, what is the cause?


confused
Let nature run its course. doh
In a nutshell.

Increases in CO2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases such as methane increase the absorption and emission of infrared radiation causing a rise in average global temperature and ocean acidification.

CO2 is slightly heavier so it saturates the earth and oceans therby warming them too.

Troublemakers will always try to cause trouble.
This pair is known for it.
@ merlot

Thanks for the support. I already know this, I was just being facetious.

With respect to the "two trouble makers", I leave the following quote:

"Many are born to reason incorrectly; others to reason not at all, and others to persecute those who do reason"


- Voltaire
Hilarious, Trump never listens to experts, he is the God of knowledge (not).

Biden listens to experts far more than the last two-three Presidents.
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