Not one I'd normally drag up but is anyone else getting rather tired of certain media outlets, in particular the BBC and C4's obsession with so called fake news or the "post truth era" whatever the hell that is. They wang on like they are the only providers of truth, C4s tag line of "the home of real news" strikes my mind. It all ignores a simple fact, media, wether private or state funded exists for an adgenda, be that capital or capatol(see what I did there :D). Basically the facts have never stood in the way of the end game. That could be The Loch Ness Monster or the announcement that bacon makes you 300xs more likely to get cancer. Hazey facts and tortured stats are what media are all about. So maybe these lot need to get off there high horse. Maybe they need to realise we all already know they're full of BS half the time and we can see that the underlying intention is to save the neck of the printed press who are loosing to a growing didgital press.

This is supposed to be a discussion, so no bashing people's ideas please. No attempts to turn it into some crazy hysterical conclusions. Thoughts anyone?

Bring back Ron Burgandy!

I'm with you Steve....

 

...And then we have situations where the media sensationalises everything, to the point of whipping up a frenzy about something mundane. EG this alleged vegetable shortage - what shortage? Every Saturday morning for the last few weeks, all I have seen in the supermarkets are full shelves??? The press and TV drum up a few pictures of empty shops, tell us how bleak it is all looking; and then offer the final piece of advice..... "The public is urged not to panic buy.....!!!" The very words which make the intellectually challenged, go out and do just that...:lol:

 

Somehow Jonathan Pryce's Bond villain, Elliot Carver, in Tomorrow Never Dies does not appear so far fetched these days....:no:

News makes money, be it from sponsored links or getting one on other news agencies, the advent of social media has served to grow the phenomena even more, added to that, smart phones buzzing away every two minutes with the latest news feed items and Facebook awash with scandalous fake news that is shared and liked the world around in just a few minutes, it is no wonder, it seems to appease the masses and gives the less then true aspect of most news credence.

 

Facebook is among the worse of the bunch along with twitter and such like for not only propagating fake, unreal, unchecked news, but actually actively nurtures it, I still see with shock how many accordingly bright people will share some absolute *****cks without checking it out at least on Google ( erm ?)

 

I choose to wait and see if a news item is real before commenting.

 

Jeff

Bring back Ron Burgandy!

 

And Fred Dineage.

News makes money, be it from sponsored links or getting one on other news agencies, the advent of social media has served to grow the phenomena even more, added to that, smart phones buzzing away every two minutes with the latest news feed items and Facebook awash with scandalous fake news that is shared and liked the world around in just a few minutes, it is no wonder, it seems to appease the masses and gives the less then true aspect of most news credence.

 

Facebook is among the worse of the bunch along with twitter and such like for not only propagating fake, unreal, unchecked news, but actually actively nurtures it, I still see with shock how many accordingly bright people will share some absolute *****cks without checking it out at least on Google ( erm ?)

 

I choose to wait and see if a news item is real before commenting.

 

Jeff

 

I spose arguably how long has, I won't call it true news but regulated news been a feature. Thinking back to even to the propoganda of the 50s (justified or not) the press is still pretty unregulated. Celebrity gossip for example is mostly fabricated tripe. Any one with two brain cells must source check and fact check the information provided really. There seems to have been a complacency that's developed where by the public except the papers publish facts and that the papers believe thier "facts" too.

I'm with you Steve....

 

...And then we have situations where the media sensationalises everything, to the point of whipping up a frenzy about something mundane. EG this alleged vegetable shortage - what shortage? Every Saturday morning for the last few weeks, all I have seen in the supermarkets are full shelves??? The press and TV drum up a few pictures of empty shops, tell us how bleak it is all looking; and then offer the final piece of advice..... "The public is urged not to panic buy.....!!!" The very words which make the intellectually challenged, go out and do just that...:lol:

 

Somehow Jonathan Pryce's Bond villain, Elliot Carver, in Tomorrow Never Dies does not appear so far fetched these days....:no:

 

Give it another few weeks and the increase in fuel price will be a disaster, I can see the Gardian now "Brexit drives up fuel prices" totally ignoring the fact it was £1.50+ a litre not long back.