<story><title>Things You Notice When You Quit the News</title><url>http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>Look at recent events if you need further evidence of this. The term &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; has exploded in just under a month in the mainstream media.&lt;p&gt;If my memory serves me, tabloids like The Enquirer have been sitting on news stands for as long as I can remember. So how did this fervor over &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; coalesce so quickly and uniformly?&lt;p&gt;Mainstream outlets move in lockstep with each other and these are the final, desperate death throes of an outdated and superfluous institution. Don&amp;#x27;t expect they&amp;#x27;ll go down without a fight though.</text></item><item><author>pipio21</author><text>5. You are being manipulated by mainstream news.&lt;p&gt;You can learn Arabic or Russian and go to Ukraine or Syria or Iraq and inform yourself talking to the people there, both sides of the story, or you can let the TV media tell you what is happening.&lt;p&gt;I have done it(I don&amp;#x27;t know much Arabic and a little Russian but I have traveled there) and it is quite an astonishment that what TV shows you has nothing to do with reality. I remember talking with a Syrian showing me a CNN video from US News of a Syrian manifestation(from natives that were being flood by foreigners with bad intentions), they reduced the audio volume and told everybody the manifestation was from the other side(the side that US was supporting).&lt;p&gt;The fact is that people that understood Arabic could listen what the protesters were saying and they(CNN) DID NOT CARE.&lt;p&gt;They did not care because it is a numbers thing, most Americans don&amp;#x27;t know Arabic, and millions of them will watch the channel and make themselves an idea from the eyes and ears that people in power have chosen for them.&lt;p&gt;The city where the protesters went into war and was bombarded for years and nobody displayed it on the news. Now it is displayed every single day because the people the US is supporting is losing there. Now it is so important civilians in this city, when for years they simply did not exist.&lt;p&gt;If you control the perception, you control the emotions that people will feel, and you could make them do exactly what you want. They will even believe they are &amp;quot;free&amp;quot;, because they are to behave as they wish, but they are not because emotions are quite automatic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnarbarian</author><text>The whole FUD campaign regarding &amp;quot;Fake News&amp;quot; is comically hypocritical in my opinion. Glenn Greenwald has an excellent article calling them out for it:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theintercept.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;a-clinton-fan-manufactured-fake-news-that-msnbc-personalities-spread-to-discredit-wikileaks-docs&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theintercept.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;a-clinton-fan-manufactur...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit:
Ironically, that post was doing great until it got flagged.&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: It has been unflagged&lt;p&gt;Edit 3: Flagged again.</text></comment>
<story><title>Things You Notice When You Quit the News</title><url>http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>Look at recent events if you need further evidence of this. The term &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; has exploded in just under a month in the mainstream media.&lt;p&gt;If my memory serves me, tabloids like The Enquirer have been sitting on news stands for as long as I can remember. So how did this fervor over &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; coalesce so quickly and uniformly?&lt;p&gt;Mainstream outlets move in lockstep with each other and these are the final, desperate death throes of an outdated and superfluous institution. Don&amp;#x27;t expect they&amp;#x27;ll go down without a fight though.</text></item><item><author>pipio21</author><text>5. You are being manipulated by mainstream news.&lt;p&gt;You can learn Arabic or Russian and go to Ukraine or Syria or Iraq and inform yourself talking to the people there, both sides of the story, or you can let the TV media tell you what is happening.&lt;p&gt;I have done it(I don&amp;#x27;t know much Arabic and a little Russian but I have traveled there) and it is quite an astonishment that what TV shows you has nothing to do with reality. I remember talking with a Syrian showing me a CNN video from US News of a Syrian manifestation(from natives that were being flood by foreigners with bad intentions), they reduced the audio volume and told everybody the manifestation was from the other side(the side that US was supporting).&lt;p&gt;The fact is that people that understood Arabic could listen what the protesters were saying and they(CNN) DID NOT CARE.&lt;p&gt;They did not care because it is a numbers thing, most Americans don&amp;#x27;t know Arabic, and millions of them will watch the channel and make themselves an idea from the eyes and ears that people in power have chosen for them.&lt;p&gt;The city where the protesters went into war and was bombarded for years and nobody displayed it on the news. Now it is displayed every single day because the people the US is supporting is losing there. Now it is so important civilians in this city, when for years they simply did not exist.&lt;p&gt;If you control the perception, you control the emotions that people will feel, and you could make them do exactly what you want. They will even believe they are &amp;quot;free&amp;quot;, because they are to behave as they wish, but they are not because emotions are quite automatic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelchisari</author><text>Because this is the first election where &amp;quot;spirit cooking&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;pizzagate&amp;quot; conspiracies were put on equal footing with foreign policy and economic positions.</text></comment>