Screenwriter for House of Cards: "Man, this job is impossible. Every time I come up with something scandalous, corrupt, or intriguing to write about, the real Federal government front-runs it and steals my thunder. I give up. I'm going to call my pal Charlie Brooker and see if Black Mirror needs any help in the screenwriting department."

...

"Goddamn it so much."

More seriously, I don't understand how this is two years old and I'm just now seeing it for the first time. Incredibly powerful video, and scary as hell.

This was the first video that popped into my head after watching the video from TFA. I've seen similar ones in the past for talking points against political candidates and such. One that sticks out was "gravitas", a word parroted by media everywhere during an election cycle some years ago. This is a big part of why I avoid "news" anymore.

"optics" entered the news vernacular very recently, now everyone uses it.

This one drives me nuts when the Sunday morning bobble heads toss the wrong word around when they want to use "perception".

>when they want to use "perception".

Or "PR". I'd hear "doing that would make for bad optics" where I'd previously "... for bad PR". It irritates me for some reason.

'Optics' implies objectivity while 'perception' implies subjectivity. It makes them sound more authoritative.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

I'd forgotten how good that is.

Thank you for posting this. Now I'm curious about my own country.

For anyone interested in hearing more about this, John Oliver ran a segment on this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc