Honest Reporting has a very interesting little flash resource that serves as a primer on various issues, how the media mis-reported them and what the truth ended up being. Al-Dura, Jenin, Lebanon, Gaza Beach, the Gaza "Siege"...worth bookmarking.
Still, in looking at the five or six examples revealed, what is most striking that which is revealed only more tacitly, essentially as the obverse side of the coin that is more overtly revealed. What is most striking is the utter pervasiveness, the utter depth and breadth of the "reach" of these malevolent "news" items. Iow, the meta-level reach is virtually at a subconscious as well as a more conscious level, precisely due to the pervasive quality, the constantly and almost endlessly repeated quality (repetition per se representing a faux epistemic grounding that slowly begins to gain traction and help to form a false consciousness), and the ideologically and viscerally invested quality of it all as well.
A very solid corrective to such media driven lies can be found in some of the work of a Jacques Ellul, his media oriented work, but of course there are other sources as well. But Ellul, as sociologist and thinker in general, addresses his critique at an absolutely foundational level, very solid, very substantial stuff.
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Superb set of presentations, absolutely superb.
Still, in looking at the five or six examples revealed, what is most striking that which is revealed only more tacitly, essentially as the obverse side of the coin that is more overtly revealed. What is most striking is the utter pervasiveness, the utter depth and breadth of the "reach" of these malevolent "news" items. Iow, the meta-level reach is virtually at a subconscious as well as a more conscious level, precisely due to the pervasive quality, the constantly and almost endlessly repeated quality (repetition per se representing a faux epistemic grounding that slowly begins to gain traction and help to form a false consciousness), and the ideologically and viscerally invested quality of it all as well.
A very solid corrective to such media driven lies can be found in some of the work of a Jacques Ellul, his media oriented work, but of course there are other sources as well. But Ellul, as sociologist and thinker in general, addresses his critique at an absolutely foundational level, very solid, very substantial stuff.