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2022-01-27 -Great Cultural Revolution

Fact-Checkers Are Used To Confuse The Public: Sharyl Attkisson

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
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#1 The bigger problem is the public happiness with being confused.

I think it was Cicero's brother who said (way back in 55 BC) "The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived." Or for the Latin purists, "Populus vult decipi; decipiatur!"

Posted by Tom 2022-01-27 10:56|| 2022-01-27 10:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not confused. I know which media brands I can ignore out of hand. I assume ones I used to trust could join the "ignore list" any day (looking at you, FauxNews). As soon as I see the phrase "fact check," my BS detector redlines.

Same thing goes for pols. You can make a mis-step or mis-speak any time. But only once and I tune out your "walk-back" immediately and permanently.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-27 11:01|| 2022-01-27 11:01|| Front Page Top

#3 With COVIDianism, this backdoor censorship has gone off the rails. Here's Dr. Robert W. Malone on the media's Orwellian "Trusted News Initiative":

The scientific process requires constant external challenge and criticism to reach a working approximation of truth. Such (typically autocratic, paternalistic) people lose the ability to maintain objectivity and typically transition to functioning as an enforcer of their version of reality. These people often resort to a form of crude binary thought – their version of the truth versus all alternatives.

In contrast, the modern scientific practitioner approaches the effort to draw truth out of the unknown as something closer to mathematical calculus, a process of serial approximation which gradually approaches an asymptote hypothesized to be scientific truth.

Enter the "Trusted News Initiative." Here is the official BBC justification for this intrinsically anti-science, pro-censorship insult to the free exchange of ideas, and an alternative interpretation of this Orwellian bureaucracy. This intellectual obscenity purports to be able to discern and enforce scientific “truth” by defining truth as that which established public health bureaucracies (and singularly autocratic public health “leaders”) say it is.

The Trusted News Initiative aggressively employs both globally coordinated media and the tools of modern big technology to censor, demean, de-platform, delegitimize and de-license all others who seek to document, advance or discuss alternative versions of officially endorsed reality.

The "Trusted News Initiative" has functionally morphed into Orwell’s predicted ministry of truth. Backed by the combined power of national and international governmental structures, massive transnational investment funds the likes of which the world has never seen before, and the commercial assets (Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Tech) over which the funds exert horizontally integrated control through access to investment capital and structural leadership ties.

This is the most intrinsically anti-science global organization ever implemented in the history of modern man. The closest historical approximation to this monstrosity is the Catholic Church during the Spanish inquisition.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-27 11:18|| 2022-01-27 11:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Middlemen are great if you need a fifth of whiskey as opposed to a keg of whiskey. Or a dozen candles as opposed to a gross. Past that, they are not an advantage to the consumer.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-27 11:21|| 2022-01-27 11:21|| Front Page Top

#5 if you need a fifth of whiskey as opposed to a keg of whiskey.

EH?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-27 13:51|| 2022-01-27 13:51|| Front Page Top

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