« You know what we call people who go after someone who was acquitted/no billed? | Main | Neil (Pretentious Middle Name) Tyson: Getting dumber by the day. »
December 1, 2014
The media’s ability to define the narrative is so enormously powerful it almost distorts reality.
Take Ebola. Everybody knows that the epidemic is over because it’s no longer reported. But as Deutsche Welle notes, it isn’t. The apparent drop is an artifact of the way the disease has been reported. Belmont Club ｻ Left Out of the Narrative
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 1, 2014 10:19 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
The media is accurate in inverse proportion to your knowledge of the subject.
Posted by: tscottme ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://americandigest.org/sidelines/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 1, 2014 12:56 PM
The LSM gives it's watchers exactly what they expect and deserve. Just like the gov't.
Posted by: ghostsniper at December 1, 2014 1:55 PM
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep the conflicts under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
The lapdog media play the tunes DC wants so as to further an agenda.
When a crisis has been utilized but no longer needed it goes back in the archives. Expect to see more of Benghazi when Hillary gets serious about running. Dirt by the ton and specifically tailored to the objective.
Imagine what we'd see if Sarah Palin got involved? Yikes.
If we want to cripple the current govt leaders we should blow up the media.
Posted by: chasmatic at December 2, 2014 10:14 AM