Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

Re:Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks by Digital-Citizen on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:54PM (#18851908)

But we've had media lying before, media lying about objectively important issues of life and death (far more important than allegations of Trump campaign colluding with Russians) such as headline NYT articles alleging justification for invading Iraq (the greatest crime of its century), and yet the discussants here and in corporate media want us to take this seriously.

One has always had to be careful reading the media. Only those who don't understand history take refuge in feeling sorry for themselves about lying media.

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Re:Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks by thatoneuser on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:01PM (#18866365)

I’d say the power modern day media manipulation is at a point that is indescernable to a good chunk of our people. People aren’t capable of identifying the mistruths, it seems.

I often have friends try to convince me of something they read. After examining the article the source, I demonstrate how the words in the article don’t actually support the headline. It’s not that they didn’t read past the headline - it’s that the article is set up in a way that makes you think it’s convinced you, even tho it fails to do that. There’s somewhat of a pattern, like: claim, talking around the claim, declaring that the claim was proven. I’m not sure what it is exactly, but I’ve had doctors and researchers fail to pick up on this.

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