tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post115660426045205374..comments2023-09-01T09:38:54.262-04:00Comments on Dumb Looks Still Free: Separating stories, news, analysis and facts in the MediaA Jacksonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-1156698957764305302006-08-27T13:15:00.000-04:002006-08-27T13:15:00.000-04:00I thoroughly agree with you on those things! The ...I thoroughly agree with you on those things! The problem is not putting events into context or giving them connection with wider events so that a context can be created. That was my main concern with the 'fauxtography' problem and the entire disingenuous reaction of the media to it. This has been a stated problem in the graphic arts community for a decade, and even Scientific American did a write up on photomanipulation back in the mid-'90s. Without context, the actual timeline and meaning of events is lost.<BR/><BR/>Mostly in pursuit of this thing called a 'story'. What has also been lost is that events take place within a larger context and are not stories, save that they do have representational dileneations within a timeframe. By creating individual timeframe snippets and purporting that they *are* the story, the MSM lies by ommission. They lie by commission when they not only falsify factual evidence, but when they purport older factual evidence to still be in-place while events have superceded them.<BR/><BR/>I address these topics in the following:<BR/><BR/>http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/08/note-to-msm-re-images-still-and-motion.html<BR/><BR/>http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/08/media-review-panel-for-fairness-in.html<BR/><BR/>http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/08/disingenuous-media-reaction.html<BR/><BR/>http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/08/problem-of-media-misreporting.html<BR/><BR/>http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/08/my-letter-to-editor-publisher-re.html<BR/><BR/>And what a real police blotter reporting would look like in Iraq, here:<BR/><BR/>http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/08/try-this-for-definition-for-bad-things.html<BR/><BR/>This covers the entire gamut from sheer ignorance to blatant fraud by the MSM in recent weeks. Quite frankly I don't know why anyone trusts them beyond basic facts, and even *those* they get wrong on a frequency scale to require double-checking. Trying to track down the bombings in Iraq on 25 AUG and I can find only two real reports, one by AP and the other by AFP. The first is sketchy and the second a diatribe with a fact or two thrown in. So, I wait for the police blotter to catch up.<BR/><BR/>In all we now have people that look like reporters but are reporting fictional news... perhaps we could get some fictional reporters to stand in for them: http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/08/fictitious-news-and-fictional.htmlA Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-1156697746869908432006-08-27T12:55:00.000-04:002006-08-27T12:55:00.000-04:00I did not mean to imply that VBIED started in the ...I did not mean to imply that VBIED started in the Yugoslav conflict in WWII, I brought up that conflict as an example that long-term, organized, violent/explosive resistance to an occupation is nothing new, which the MSM states with regard to the conflict in Iraq. While in each conflict the explosives available at the time are used, the tactic itself is not new. What is new however, in my opinion, is the MSM non-stop propaganda against the currently elected government. I find this fact very disturbing because, in spite of the availability of news through the Internet, the MSM has a much greater impact than it is normally realized. To use as an example something other that the Iraq war, look at the fact that Nugin was reelected in NO in spite of all the corruption and incompetence shown during huricane Katrina last year; and now with the approaching aniversary of that event the MSM will again revise <BR/>history by INVENTING NEW FACTS.<BR/>Cheers,luchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09730219357861957198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-1156695826297686732006-08-27T12:23:00.000-04:002006-08-27T12:23:00.000-04:00luc - My pleasure and glad to give some insight o...luc - My pleasure and glad to give some insight on things.<BR/><BR/>BC is *definitely* becoming a chat room, and might be better served by that or by having a suite of topics areas to post at, with BC providing main links and then topics and sub-topics addressed within the bulletin board. That would allow for differentiation between differing outlooks and see how they cross and interact. Truly I can barely keep up with the cross-talk at BC and give that a pass most days.<BR/><BR/>I doubt that the VBIED actually started in the Yugoslav conflict as the conception of car bombs are easily traced back to the mafia and other criminal organizations circa the 1970's. Their use as a weapon of terror, instead of targeting a single individual or his cohorts, is an addition to the base concept, but not a recasting of it.<BR/><BR/>The media, however, concentrates on the drumbeat of bad news and purports it to be an entire symphony. Actually, from what I have seen, it doesn't even give good rhythm or timing...<BR/><BR/>Do feel free to wander around! As I say here, I mostly put my thoughts out for myself... and to give a 'life line' for people awash in a sea of desperation looking for something *better*. That, however, is in the eye of the beholder.<BR/><BR/>Note, blogger is acting up today... so things are not fun.A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-1156695132626802132006-08-27T12:12:00.000-04:002006-08-27T12:12:00.000-04:00Hi!Thanks for your reply about stats at Belmont Cl...Hi!<BR/>Thanks for your reply about stats at Belmont Club; it is interesting. I do not know if you saw my post regarding <BR/>If not here is a copy:<BR/>luc said... <BR/>jamie irons,<BR/>“What the Islamic Way of War does mean to both Israel and to the United States is this: the Arabs now possess—and know that they possess—the capacity to deny us victory, especially in any altercation that occurs on their own turf and among their own people.” Andrew J. Bacevich<BR/><BR/>Is the glass half full or half empty?<BR/><BR/>Do the Arabs possess the capacity to deny us victory or they have learned how to use against ourselves our capacity for compassion? It seems to me that the only thing they posses for now is the capacity to die and make us feel guilty; this may change in a short time. <BR/><BR/>8/26/2006 07:54:47 PM <BR/> and<BR/>luc said... <BR/>rufus said... 8/26/2006 10:03:34 PM<BR/><BR/>“It's just timely nonsense.” <BR/><BR/>I agree with your point of view. As I posted earlier the only thing new the Muslims possess, until Iran gets nukes, is an illusion that they have become invincible, while in reality it is only continuous MSM propaganda describing their “victories” coupled with our lack of resolve to finish the fight. I submit that what is happening in Iraq since the war ended after only three weeks is not that much different from what happened to the German army in Yugoslavia during WWII. The difference is that the Germans did not worry about civilian casualties and so they managed to fairly well slow down the partisans.<BR/>It is amazing how the MSM has invented a “new” weapon for the Iraq; the IED or more ominous sounding VBIED. What is the real difference between these “new” weapons used by the insurgents in Iraq and the mines, dynamite and bubby traps used by the partisans in Yugoslavia? Not much! The main difference is the nationality of the dead soldiers and our society’s inability to accept casualties unless they are provoked by “super special weapons” wielded by “super smart worriers”. If I want to be cynical I would say that probably the Pentagon finds the idea of “super mines” useful to explain casualties; because as Wretchard’s post shows this is the obsession even if the numbers are very low.<BR/>With respect to Andrew J. Bacevich’s article referred to by Jamie, I would like to submit that the reason some find it seductive is because it proposes no ACTION only more study on how we should change our ways. At this point I will confess that Andrew J. Bacevich’s most recent book title, “The New American Militarism” sounds to me like something coming from the Soviet propaganda machine.<BR/>Good night! <BR/><BR/>8/26/2006 10:46:46 PM <BR/><BR/>BTW am I wrong or is BC becoming a more of a "chat-room" where comments seem to be posted more for the pleasure to "hear" oneself talking father than having anything to say about the subject at hand?<BR/><BR/>If you care to reply, I will check later in the comments of this blog. Thank you. :)luchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09730219357861957198noreply@blogger.com