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Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts) Mon Apr 21, 2014, 02:02 AM Apr 2014

The media playing the media on tv.

I'm nearly done watching season 2 of House of Cards. I mention that because that show does it a lot to augment the realism that makes the show seem so compelling.

The longer I think about it, the more disturbed I become . . .

Is it appropriate when influential members of the media are contracted by fictional television shows clearly with the blessing of their respective media companies to do fictional political interviews from their company's real studios about fictional topics with fictional politicians and fictional political players?

The most disturbing to me is how damned good they are at it. They sell a completely fictional narrative as credibly and convincingly as they sell the real stories. There seems to be no perceivable difference in delivery. To me this is off-putting. Is it to anyone else?

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The media playing the media on tv. (Original Post) Ed Suspicious Apr 2014 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Ed Suspicious Apr 2014 #1

Self kick in the hope that the morning Ed Suspicious Apr 2014 #2

Maybe. If they can stop arguing about stupid shit for a minute - cuz woo! nt ChisolmTrailDem Apr 2014 #4

In the span of a a few shows they had Rachel, Hannity, Tweety, and Chris Hayes. Ed Suspicious Apr 2014 #6

Sometimes what I see on the "news", doesn't jive with what I see in real life. For instance, ChisolmTrailDem Apr 2014 #7

Precisely why they're able to run a continuous con on the American people while the ChisolmTrailDem Apr 2014 #3

And, they've been playing this game for so long the young ones don't know the difference. KoKo Apr 2014 #5

"Wag the Dog" nailed it. KurtNYC Apr 2014 #8

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Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)

2. Self kick in the hope that the morning

Reply to Ed Suspicious (Original post)

Mon Apr 21, 2014, 11:02 AM

Apr 2014

crowd might take up this idea for discussion. It was late last night when I was considering the potential implications of our news media being nothing more than stage actors in a grand corpro-political play.

Who writes the script? Is it too obvious?

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)

4. Maybe. If they can stop arguing about stupid shit for a minute - cuz woo! nt

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Mon Apr 21, 2014, 11:05 AM

Apr 2014

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)

6. In the span of a a few shows they had Rachel, Hannity, Tweety, and Chris Hayes.

Reply to Ed Suspicious (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 21, 2014, 11:36 AM

Apr 2014

Maybe the description of news show misses the mark some, but I rely on most of these people for news and analysis. I'm not sure I should put so much faith in actors.

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)

7. Sometimes what I see on the "news", doesn't jive with what I see in real life. For instance,

Reply to Ed Suspicious (Reply #6)

Mon Apr 21, 2014, 11:44 AM

Apr 2014

the economy is supposed to be really bad, even with the fixes that have succeeded to an extent. But what I'm seeing, at least here in DFW where I live, life is just as busy (if not more so) as I've ever seen it. Some news is easy to believe, like airplane or ferry disasters. Other things are subject to manipulation. It's the latter that's harder to suss out.

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)

3. Precisely why they're able to run a continuous con on the American people while the

Reply to Ed Suspicious (Original post)

Mon Apr 21, 2014, 11:05 AM

Apr 2014

oligarchs gone wild.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)

5. And, they've been playing this game for so long the young ones don't know the difference.

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 21, 2014, 11:21 AM

Apr 2014

I think back to the movie "Network." Somehow it should be revived as a mini-series.

That old website "Media Whores Online" captured it. They are propaganda whores with the scripts written for them by the Oligarchs who run the companies that employ them and the Think Tanks and other Oligarchs who are their "expert guests." Along with the rest of the TV Circus.

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)

8. "Wag the Dog" nailed it.

Reply to Ed Suspicious (Original post)

Mon Apr 21, 2014, 12:13 PM

Apr 2014

The coverage of the Libyan uprising in 2011 was full of fakery -- guys shooting at the empty sky for TV cameras. All the stuff about how ex-accountants with home-made weapons in the backs of Toyota pick-ups were shutting down Ghadfi's planes and tanks. Utter BS for the domestic US audience.

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