Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ...
by palmfacehn on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:30AM
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This is a bit of a tangent. I haven't reviewed all of the claims you outlined.
Turtles all the way down. I would say it typifies media across the board. There's also the meta-distortion where partisan sources misrepresent the statements of opposing partisans to present them as dishonest.
Re:The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle ...
by mmooss on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:24PM
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> I would say it typifies media across the board.
It depends on what you mean by 'media', but I think among top-level news media, Fox and ideological fellow travelers embrace disinformation and produce it at orders of magnitude higher volumes, while others make occasional errors.
Is it fair to say this kind of distortion is typical MAGA? Typical Republican? Is it decent? Why lie?
Fox initially ran with a story the NOLA truck illegally crossed the border with Mexico. This disinformation is intentional, no one is this incompetent. They know their demographic wants to be lied to. Disinformation is the product they're selling. Same with the politicians.