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Picture Worth 1,000 Unrelated Words
I just saw this in my LinkedIn feed.
The article is about Confederate soldier costumes being sold at Party City. The Civil War is part of American history and people can debate whether or not that makes for an appropriate costume, but that is not what annoys me.
The graphic used is not of a Party City store. Looks like a tent so it is probably some sort of flea market. So, why was this picture used? Because you have a Trump flag next to a Confederate flag so the message is, Trump supports the Confederacy and thus he is pro-slavery. Maybe that wasn’t their point . . . but that absolutely is their point. No mention of Trump in the actual article.
As media bias goes this isn’t all that big of a deal, but the blatant dishonesty ticks me off more than it probably should. If Trump was as bad as they say, you should be able to criticize him without actually lying, right? I guess not.
Published in General
You can’t be too ticked off at the media. It’s not possible. The corruption of the media is destroying civil society. We can’t trust anything we hear, see, read and we can’t trust each other. Fake news may very well bring this country down.
It’s like they are the enemy of the people when they lie.
Fixed it for you.
I think we’re all hypersensitive, and with good reason. When moved to fight back, we should.
And now we will have debates moderated by DNC cheerleaders.
Oh, this stuff happens all the time. And groups know how to take advantage of it.
I remember the opening of a new Chick-fil-a shop nearby. Big crowds.
A handful of protestors came by, they carried a big banner on poles, they stood in front of the crowd with the banner held high, got photographed, and it looked for all the world like it was an enormous protest.
Alinsky would be proud.
Exactly. 100%.
Chick-fil-a hires gays and does not have a history of discrimination against gays or other sexual minorities. The media went out of it’s way to hide that.
That brings up a good point that I’ve been noticing the last few years, ever since web sites went from print to 98% pictures with six-word captions, comic book style. I wonder just how much my opinion of anyone is influenced by the “candid” pictures the sites choose to present. It seems nowadays that web sites have thousands of stills on any given person in the news, and they pick the one that spins the story: oh, look! sad, mean, sleepy, creepy, etc.
I noticed it most when I was looking up the Spygate characters on wikipedia. The framed guys all had loser, hang-dog expressions, especially the normally Bond-esque George Popadopoulos. And the FBI and CIA conspirators either looked dedicated and intelligent, or weren’t shown at all.
It’s also fairly common for someone to write a fair news article, only to have an editor write a sensationalist headline that misrepresents the content of the article. People who just scan the headline and not read the article will end up with an idea that is contrary to the truth, even though the actual journalist did their job.