Peace Fams -
Was digging thru the digital crates when I stumbled across this gem:
https://imgur.com/uSeqnrz
Occurred to me that back in the day, we had a lot of cool insights like this floating around and giving insight to the innate flaws and flexibilities of language -
Something that I recollect waxing philosophically and having a blast with y'all about over the years -
We made our own garbage headlines and spread them out - lots of yuks to be had -
Thing now is: kinda get the feeling that this is getting to be more prevalent in media in general, perhaps from the 'more fun than you really wanted' angle -
I know there is a high level of general media skepticism in these parts (this may come across as preaching to the choir), but it feels more and more like most news outlets (at least of the political inclination) are just mailing it in these days -
Not to get all nostalgic about the past, but I feel like at least they tried to make the scandals and conspiracies seem legitimate back in the day -
Maybe it's an artifact of having the Internet around this long -
Who knows -
Maybe what I'm feeling is that fake news is more fun when it's not blatantly coming from the actual news -
Maybe
Maybe
Maybe
(PS - I dont know how to input images in a forum post anymore - bear with me if that dont work)
(PS pt II - yea - I cant figure it out - there is a link instead)
Was digging thru the digital crates when I stumbled across this gem:
https://imgur.com/uSeqnrz
Occurred to me that back in the day, we had a lot of cool insights like this floating around and giving insight to the innate flaws and flexibilities of language -
Something that I recollect waxing philosophically and having a blast with y'all about over the years -
We made our own garbage headlines and spread them out - lots of yuks to be had -
Thing now is: kinda get the feeling that this is getting to be more prevalent in media in general, perhaps from the 'more fun than you really wanted' angle -
I know there is a high level of general media skepticism in these parts (this may come across as preaching to the choir), but it feels more and more like most news outlets (at least of the political inclination) are just mailing it in these days -
Not to get all nostalgic about the past, but I feel like at least they tried to make the scandals and conspiracies seem legitimate back in the day -
Maybe it's an artifact of having the Internet around this long -
Who knows -
Maybe what I'm feeling is that fake news is more fun when it's not blatantly coming from the actual news -
Maybe
Maybe
Maybe
(PS - I dont know how to input images in a forum post anymore - bear with me if that dont work)
(PS pt II - yea - I cant figure it out - there is a link instead)