Friday, March 21, 2008

The most trusted name in news???

I seriously doubt it.

A piece of recent news from the so-called "the most trusted name in news" channel raised a huge controversy. The video is no longer available on the original website but someone put it on youtube.  It's not difficult to see this is yet another hoax. This is not news, it's propaganda.

I have to admit that those guys working in this channel are really good at making such propaganda. They might be good at news in the US, as it's more difficult to fool the US readers on civil issues. In terms on foreign news, they definitely have taken advantages of the fact that people in this country do not really know  (or care) that much on the rest of the world.

Often they like to use words like these: he says...they say...they might...some believe...they could... Sometimes they add a few facts, but they are presented in such a way to (probably intentionally) either mislead the audience or draw a wrong conclusion. It's done in a very natural way and most people do not find it obvious until they think it over carefully. I have seen a lot of media doing similar things, not only in the US. But this one is the most disgusting, as it tends to call itself the most trusted. In fact, some people have started to collect evidences and present them on their websites. Here is a new one. Shame on you, the most "trusted" name.


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