-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/2016 11:22 PM, xorcist@sigaint.org wrote:
Myself, I'm MUCH happier with the way "the news" is today (with competition by the Internet, etc) than 20 years ago. Â I remember well how "the news media" misled the public with the Randy Weaver case, Waco, etc. Â "The news media" wouldn't touch discussions about complaints by various women about Bill Clinton, UNTIL one of them filed a lawsuit in about 1996. Â The next day, as if on cue, suddenly all the media began to talk about that case, as if they had suddenly become aware of what was going on...when everyone knew that they must have been already quite aware.Sure, some of today's 'information' is 'the chaff', rather than 'the wheat', but I'd rather have the opportunity to sift through ALL of the news, rather than let the MSM (mainstream media) Â decide what little to show to us.
True. Good point.
You're right that competition from the internet has caused the news to tighten up some, in that certain things can't be ignored. But it also seems to me that the spin and misdirection that they use is also ramping up to bigger-than-ever levels. I guess the two probably go hand-in-hand.
Good catch, 2x. Anything called "activism" intersects with broadcast media (one to many) and network media (many to many) in the information warfare battle space of Political Warfare. Any actor one has not personally vetted should be presumed hostile, at best easily manipulated; those one does trust for real reasons will make mistakes. Opposition propaganda, astroturf, deception operations, elicitation, smear jobs, joe jobs, etc. ad Illuminatus Trilogy run rampant. Anyone who aspires to schange the world, without controlling access to multi-billion dollar assets, needs to fight and win the Internet. There are no instant easy answers; just learning to ask the right questions is a major undertaking. Razer has a very solid background on WTF the people whose boots are on the real, physical ground are up against. When radicals fail to integrate physical and network comms strategies successfully, radicals fail is all. The opposition is in the same position. As Bugs Bunny would say, "This calls for strategy." An occasional reminder that we are not /just/ playing games with computers and shit is well in order. :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX3h9EAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqVBcH/3loG5dsu6Jv6ANJic+Gr2yU TBhPo9aGtVUQRb1TgbrzEJ8kxE+V3qeOgLG0ZuaLICLOmVQg4wJeVWf6a3v6mgTv NsfntHgMPMN95+SR2E4kxcPYnOLVf11wOR44ldI1cZ0HhS3R5za4QWr8mSBFf6dF hOt0du1BwUK1ZsYg0l3DSPt1aHHoeWh6EX0pNPPoCXsmBbdMi++y+MJGCwu6m8ST JZ136Ohvx+FHh0xakjfy47b2vNrnIzuNzHsDdqJS2NupSd3TTAlDsqtckaPzcAfw wBDx/ePRuTiB/qNwWO6z+0DZXHbnG6vx3zOc5Pi5K21jnpjL9BnuaSpUh3ELZ/o= =9dP6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----