media

Give me lust, baby.Flash.Give me malice.Flash.Give me detached existentialist ennui.Flash.Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.Flash.

Does nothing new ever happen in this fucking country?

The truth has no agenda.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.

I swear it only hit me then, with full conscious force, who the real villains of this piece had been from start to finish_those lying, cancerous dogs of the mainstream media!

Nothing is easier than to find some individuals__n any group__ho share a given writer__ opinion, and to quote such individuals as if their views were typical.

Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts.

Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.

Alternative facts and fake news are just other names for propaganda

For a lie to add piquancy to a story the story would be factual. Fantasy needs no lie to stimulate or excite. But if the factual story is contrived or fallacious then it__ the fantasy that is the lie.Daniel Kemp

New media don__ succeed because they__e like the old media, only better: they succeed because they__e worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old media are bad at. Books are good at being paperwhite, high-resolution, low-infrastructure, cheap and disposable. Ebooks are good at being everywhere in the world at the same time for free in a form that is so malleable that you can just pastebomb it into your IM session or turn it into a page-a-day mailing list.

{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write and very few have televisions, radio is the dominant media. The fact that some newspapers were still printing the truth didn't matter much to the part of the population that couldn't read.Most of the literate people were already politically aware. While an educated person might question what they read or hear from the media, the uneducated tend to accept it. The uneducated are more easily affected by threats and the emotional trauma that propaganda like this can create.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

The press can__ do shit about corruption in Africa without the masses. Everybody knows the offices that ask for bribes and everybody continues to pay. So reporting an incident of corruption in the media is like announcing that the sun rises in the morning.

In the absence of a confirmed fact, rumors are usually sanctified as the truth. And that is what goes out there in the media.

Publishers and advertisers can't differentiate between the types of impressions an ad does on a site. A perusing reader is no better than an accidental reader. An article that provides worthwhile advice is no more valuable than one instantly forgotten. So long as the page loads and the ads are seen, both sides are fulfilling their purpose. A click is a click.

If you do not read the newspaper, the lack of knowledge will show. If you do read it, misconception of reality will prevail.