(08-28-2024, 09:33 AM)Lynyrd Skynyrd Wrote: It's a 100% true story. My first thread post, and you call me a liar?
No, if I wanted to call you a liar I would say it clearly, but why would I call you a liar? I don't know you or the situation you posted about. In fact, I always assume people are telling the truth.
My intention was to say that there is no need to assume the media is doing the state's work for some specific agenda, as any agenda, pro or against the state, is good for the media if it creates some revenue and/or good for the "journalist(s)" reporting them.
And people do like the more sensationalist titles and stories.
As an example, several years ago, on a different forum (abovetopsecret.com), one member complained to me that most people ignored his threads based on provable information and flocked to threads about silly things with no proof. I suggested him to keep on posting the same type of threads but to make more sensationalist titles and to always add three exclamation marks at the end.
It worked.
Quote:What sort of clown forum is this?
The kind of forum in which you can post whatever you want, as long it is according to the Terms & Conditions Of Use and other forum guidelines.
Quote:This may be the wrong place for me, blocky cartoon moderator.
Maybe, maybe not, stick around some more just to be sure.
(08-28-2024, 03:31 PM)guyfriday Wrote: This is the core of Trotskyism. Create a safe place within the confines of the state and showcase the chaos of not being part of it. In exchange for the peace of being protected by the state you work solely for the benefit of the state as indentured servants to the committee that run the state.
That was more or less how the fascist regime in Portugal worked, from the common person everything was fine: there was no crime and all suicides were "accidents with a hunting gun".
The media only published good news about the country and only a few bad about other countries, they usually just ignored them. The state censorship took care of the rest.
