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JULY 5, 2008 10:18AM
does Fox News think their viewers are idiots? Do they care?
busy weekend, you may have missed this in salon.com's war room.
Fox "News" altered the photographs of these New York Times reporters.
They don't even seem to care if it's obvious that they are altering the photographs.
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i was astounded by the lack of subtlety of the altered photos. it makes you realize the alterations are most likely happening on a less obvious level all the time.
I don't watch Faux News and don't plan to start for just the reasons the yes and no answer expresses. While I've never been fond of the collection of wing nuts, GOP snake oil salesmen, supply-side shills, and just plain loons (Peggy Noonan is in a class of her own) that is the WSJ's op-Ed lineup, the rest of the paper does give factual straight-up news. What it will be after Mursoch is done with it (his assurances to the contrary aren't worth a brass farthing) makes me shudder
Here's the url:
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/
This became very clear in a 2004 New York Times Magazine article by Ron Suskind:
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The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html
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Obvious examples of the construction of artificial reality include the assertion that the U.S. is a "Christian," nation, and the falsehoods propagated in the run-up to the Iraq war.
But perhaps the best example is what happened in the Terri Schiavo case. There were probably tens or hundreds of thousands of right-wing blogs and web sites engaged in the fabrication of virtually every detail of the Schiavo case. Michael Schiavo was called a "monster," and accused of doing something to his wife that caused her collapse. Terri Schiavo was said to be a "disabled" woman who was actually alert and aware and not in a persistent vegetative state. Michael Schiavo was accused to trying to get rid of her so as to get rich off of the malpractice settlement. The list goes on and on, and virtually everything on these web sites was totally false.
Amazingly, David Gibbs, an attorney for the Schindler family, even said that early on Terri Schiavo was beginning to recover, learning how to walk, and could speak -- both of which are utterly contradicted in the medical and legal record. You can see him make these outlandish claims about 30 seconds into the following video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kXXeA_yibj8&feature=related
He then claims that Michael Schiavo received a "multi-million dollar" malpractice settlement. In fact, he received $300K and another $700K was put into a trust fund for his wife. This guy is an attorney, and he know this, but nonetheless lies about the settlement. He goes on to utter further lies later in the video, claiming that during dehydration the "heart literally explodes." This video was made long after Schiavo's autopsy report was made public, so he knows that this also was completely false.
There should be no surprise about Fox News displaying altered photos. This is what these people do, and the photos are merely a clumsy example of that.
" 'And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.' ''
Truly, he revealed the origin and raison d'etre of the current batch of illusions in which we live. The proper words to describe what I have been observing have been obscured in my mind, but now I have them, and apparently "they" know what they are about.
I feel a post coming on as I am reading Susan Faludi's "Dream of Terror" just now...it will have to wait until I finish studying her work, however.
Ultimately, we will all have to decide how we want to live on this Earth. Armed with the knowledge of their master plan we need push ourselves to study and dissect each of the new realities. The inevitable perpetuation of such illusions could be halted if we persevere to unveil this manipulation. ALL could just boil down to:
What can be done to check the uncontrolled power given to the current cast of "history's actors".
But, most of us at OS already know that...
FoxNews--We distort, you deride.