Comment Re: Totalitarian (Score 4, Insightful) 420
Hehehe, naive child. ;)
Think Trump has any real power? Check out Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. Consolidation of media power in the 1980s had become obscene. Media is bought and sold for!!! And now? You have a tightly bound group of media conglomerates controlling the narrative.
I love the idea of fact checking, but remember when Facebook started doing this and used "vetted" sources like Snopes? That's a guy and his cat! What makes them an authority? Most of their pages are just as logically shaky as Trump's one-off sound bites. It usually boils down to one shaky fact dug up by the cat and the guy's analysis. ;)
You need to see through the veiled attempt. They muddy the waters by posting opinion rather than fact and then post false facts and finally offer a tiny retraction long after everyone's attention on the matter has dissolved. The news media are notorious for this! Trump trolls CNN, they have aneurysms, they rip him to shreds with attacks just as cheap, and only a particular type can stand either group! Twitter is setting itself up for this exchange, we know whose side Jack is on, and it ain't gonna be pretty! Much less pretty than the frosted tips on Jack's beard. ;)
Think Trump has any real power? Check out Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. Consolidation of media power in the 1980s had become obscene. Media is bought and sold for!!! And now? You have a tightly bound group of media conglomerates controlling the narrative.
I love the idea of fact checking, but remember when Facebook started doing this and used "vetted" sources like Snopes? That's a guy and his cat! What makes them an authority? Most of their pages are just as logically shaky as Trump's one-off sound bites. It usually boils down to one shaky fact dug up by the cat and the guy's analysis.
You need to see through the veiled attempt. They muddy the waters by posting opinion rather than fact and then post false facts and finally offer a tiny retraction long after everyone's attention on the matter has dissolved. The news media are notorious for this! Trump trolls CNN, they have aneurysms, they rip him to shreds with attacks just as cheap, and only a particular type can stand either group! Twitter is setting itself up for this exchange, we know whose side Jack is on, and it ain't gonna be pretty! Much less pretty than the frosted tips on Jack's beard.
