When does the media know when to stop embellishing news paper stories when they do it on a daily basis? Did they drop it when reporting 9/11?
Two cases of embellishment I've seen recently in UK newspapers.
A story of a Dingo having attacked a child accompanied by a picture of a Dingo sitting down with an all too obvious lower jaw cut/pasted showing a wide snarl [could have been a yawn]. Apart from "the look" anyone who knows about dogs know their facual expressions when they ARE aggressive and know that no wild dog would be sitting down in a resting position and aggressive at the same time.
Then a picture showing one starling [a UK bird almost extinct] in the foreground with a huge "flock" of software bold mottling in the "sky" on a backdrop of faint mottling. Of course you can't see a bird shape amongst any of that bold mottled "flock". And the story that goes along with it is the complaint of the amount of mess these "flocks" of starlings do.
We have the start of a new series of "24" tomorrow. Kiefer Sutherland did a voice over on one of these "93" docudramas and because of his patriotism and part of the hero in the 24 series it was natural that his commentary was going to receive some authority. He has also an article in the Sunday Telegraph supplement. A quote of his "I think the world can tell the difference between 24 and Abu Ghraib prison".
I wonder if Jack Bauer will come up against the Counter -Terrorism Evaluation Group.
----- Original Message -----From: Rosalee GrableSent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:47 AMSubject: [911InsideJobbers] [Fwd: Aliens in LA.]
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Aliens in LA.
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:36:25 +1100
From: Gerard Holmgren <holmgren@iinet.net.au>
[[On the news they illustrated the story with a clip from the movie
Independence Day.
They show the building being attacked by Aliens.]]
That brings up two things. One is the prospect of the simulated alien
invasion getting closer. The other is the continual process of merging
fantasy and reality until they are indistinguishable.
This was one of the things I noted about Angelina Jolie. She is being set up
as a "save the world hero" in real life, parallel to the way she's portrayed
as such in her movies.
There's the tomb raider series, where she's saving the world from the
illuminati. Then there was another movie called "Captain Sky...
(something.)" - I don't remember exactly the title, I think it was a kind
of spaceship battle type thing against the evil empire.
In real life, she's the first celebrity on the scene of any "natural "
disaster, adopting another orphan. She's big in the anti-poverty celebrity
show.
If I remember rightly ,the theme song from Captain - whatever-it-was was
"Save the world" which I think is what they also used for one of those big
anti-poverty celebrity shows.
So the covert presentation of Hollywood fantasy as reality is gradually
being morphed in an overt merging of the two. Perhaps the prevalence of
reality TV - a lot of which is actually staged - is also with the intention
of blurring this boundary.
We've had the underground thing of snuff movies for quite a while. Perhaps
this will now evolve openly into "reality" movies, and the Jolie type
parallels could be the pre-cursors to the first fully fledged openly
promoted-as-such "reality movies".
Showing as "news", aliens attacking the same building that terrorists were
allegedly planning to attack in the "real" world could be another chipping
away at the boundary between the real world and the fictional world.
On the alternative media front, the planehuggers are certainly pushing a
prototype of the concept that reality is whatever you imagine - a concept
which Bush is alleged to have openly stated to one of his advisors, and the
whole concept of "truth" is being morphed into something which can imagined
or adapted to fit one's desires.
We are going one step further than Orwell. Heading towards an age where the
idea that there is no difference between truth and imagination or between
reality and fantasy becoming openly promoted aa a valid philosophical
concept.
Ironically, once this becomes promoted more openly and aggressively, people
may actually argue this concept itself as the "truth" - which is a self
contradiction - thus removing all meaning to any language. Truth is whatever
you imagine it to be and that's an indisputable truth.
In the past, elites have emasculated language in order to remove any
vocabulary which can be used to express a dissenting view. This would remove
any vocab which could express any view at all. Language simply becomes a
background noise which goes beyond reinforcing certain ideas. Its actually
to prevent anyone having ideas at all, so they just follow whatever they're
told to follow without even having any concept of the question of what it
actually whether of they agree with it- because nothing means anything
anymore. There is only action and reaction.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rosalee Grable [mailto:webfairy@thewebfairy.com]
Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2006 7:53 AM
To: Gerard Holmgren
Cc: 'Nico Haupt'; naserian@earthlink.net; 'brad'
Subject: Re: hopeful anecdotes
On the news they illustrated the story with a clip from the movie
Independence Day.
They show the building being attacked by Aliens.
Bushie didn't even get the name of the building right.
On the good side, after this a lot of people are going to catch on that
they are making stuff up as they go along.
Most folks are happy as long as their lines aren't cut.
Film school dropouts join PR firms and write themselves into the script.
http://thewebfairy.com/911/bingham
Gerard Holmgren wrote:
>
> I was waiting in a shop yesterday, there was a TV on, and Bush came on
> about the plot to shoe bomb LA. I had a bit of smirk and giggle, and
> then caught the eye of a middle aged woman across the room who was
> doing the same.
>
> I said "I don't believe a word of it".
>
> She said. "Neither do I . They're just making it up as they go along."
>
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