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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: YAX on January 21, 2022, 10:54:49 AM

Title: The media is fake after all.
Post by: YAX on January 21, 2022, 10:54:49 AM

Anyone that predicts the future in the media is fake. Like how we keep getting told that any day now, Trump is gonna get in trouble. Nothing yet. Just predictions.  That’s not news. That’s opinion. I know Fox News does it a lot too and other no name right wing media does it all the time. But right wingers still believe it’s news. To them. Anything that makes them feel angry is news.

Title: Re: The media is fake after all.
Post by: Reporter on January 21, 2022, 11:01:05 AM

“If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes accepted as truth.”--Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels

Title: Re: The media is fake after all.
Post by: Reporter on January 21, 2022, 11:32:51 AM

That's called illusory truth effect.

We Hmong have a similar thing, too, but we don't use it to distract people in politics; rather, we make things sound just more cool by doing so. Our tactic: rhyme suggests truth. E.g. "hlub ntxov, hlub rov." Not just our listeners but we--the speakers, too--actually believe such rhythmic statement to be true.