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The media took a brief break from its political feeding frenzies to gorge on a generally apolitical tragedy.
The story of the OceanGate sub all but took over the airwaves as the media whipped up suspense over the fate of the people on board. The people on board were however dead and had been all along.
The Navy was aware of that. So were most experts. Even Titanic director James Cameron weighed in with the obvious.
The idea, held up by the media to profit from eyeballs and clicks, that people were sitting somewhere in a stranded sub waiting to be rescued was a lie. And the media knew that it was a lie.
9 times out of 10 a mysterious disappearance is just a death that hasn’t been discovered, but it doesn’t stop the media from generating suspense and promoting a search not because it cares about the people involved, but because it cares about its bottom line. Ideally, for its purposes, the sub would never have been found and then the story could have dragged on forever. Think about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 or Madeleine McCann.
These stories tend to be detached from the lives of the viewers and so can be safely consumed as a vicarious soap opera of the “did ya know” variety.
Two decades ago media critics would have pointed that out, but the media is so far gone that it hardly seems worthwhile to decry sensationalism. The “news” can now include summaries of viral videos, including SNL routines or John Oliver and Stephen Colbert reactions. Most of it consists of editorializing or clickbait.
Still it can be helpful to look at an example of apolitical fake news to what drives its political fake news.
Sure, the media hates Trump, Republicans or anyone who doesn’t want their kids to change genders overnight, but it’s also a money machine and it’s driven by the need to generate clicks and subscriptions.
Journalism wasn’t so much corrupted by politics, as it was always corrupt and that corruption clicks neatly with its politics.
The media has always created news at least as often as it reported on it. Politics is a good disguise for the basic corruption in the system. Much like celebrities virtue signal to seem more important than they are, the media virtue signals because “exploiting pain and making up stuff for money” sounds like less of a justifiable career.
Good one, Daniel. Looks like “Ace in the Hole” strikes again.
Yellow journalism at it’s finest – Floyd Collins 1935. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins#Media_attention
Poor Floyd, an habitual explorer, worth more dying and dead than he was alive.
“it was always corrupt”
My reference point is the Spanish Armada, which I happen to have read some about, and enjoy reading about. Both sides were lying in the media, plus the media was lying on its own account.
Of course there were lies in ancient times, but I’m thinking kind of after the invention of the printing press.
The sensationalized human interest stories are just one component of fake news. This story was dragged out as a filler to reduce or omit coverage of the House investigation of BlowHunter.
The Navy knew since Sunday that the sub had imploded but continued with its cruel countdown of air hours left. Imagine the stress and anguish family members underwent unnecessarily. And of course the ghoulish fake news media loved the ratings boost it gave them.
Yesterday morning, John Fredericks of Real America’s Voice proposed the countdown was to distract from the Hunter Biden story. That was quite the insight and I agreed with it immediately. In the afternoon, Carl Higby of Newsmax made the same observation. And golly gee, after the Crack Hunter diversion and probation were settled, the sub wreckage was “disvovered.”
This administration is corrupt and vile beyond belief. It’s an enemy of the people and the Navy disgraced itself, no matter what its orders from the White House were.
Our government
Hapless CNN can’t catch a break. First, CNN gave airtime to President Trump for the purpose of demeaning him, only to find Trump’s poll numbers soar. Then the tragic submarine saga played out over several days after CNN’s fateful decision to fire Don Lemon, CNN’s longtime on-air prognosticator about all things alien and lost. Rumor has it that Don Lemon now occupies a black hole, full-time.
The Navy knew since Sunday that the sub had imploded but continued with its cruel countdown of air hours left. Imagine the stress and anguish family members underwent unnecessarily. And of course the ghoulish fake news media loved the ratings boost it gave them.
Yesterday morning, John Fredericks of Real America’s Voice proposed the countdown was to distract from the Hunter Biden story. That was quite the insight and I agreed with it immediately. In the afternoon, Carl Higby of Newsmax made the same observation. And golly gee, after the Crack Hunter diversion and probation were settled, the sub wreckage was “discovered.”
This administration is corrupt and vile beyond belief. It’s an enemy of the people and the Navy disgraced itself, no matter what its orders from the White House were.
The Navy knew since Sunday that the sub had imploded but continued with its cruel countdown of air hours left. Imagine the stress and anguish family members underwent unnecessarily. And of course the ghoulish fake news media loved the ratings boost it gave them.
Yesterday morning, John Fredericks of Real America’s Voice proposed the countdown was to distract from the Hunter Biden story. That was quite the insight and I agreed with it immediately. In the afternoon, Carl Higby of Newsmax made the same observation. And golly gee, after the Crack Hunter diversion and probation were settled, the sub wreckage was “discovered.”
This administration is corrupt and vile beyond belief. It’s an enemy of the people and the Navy disgraced itself, no matter what its orders from the White House were.
And all of this for an EVIL crack head criminal.
Why does the time on my last comment keep changing? I suspect it’s to make Greg’s comment seem as though it was submitted after Greg’s. The time orignally listed for my comment was 6:00 pm even though it was submitted at 6:00 am. We’ve got 11.5 hours until 6: pm. Now it’s changed to 6:05, one minute after Greg’s 6:04.
I smell something rotten and suspect tampering.
Perhaps the comments get shuffled at random after a period of time?
Who knows, it’s weird. And my comment appeared three times, even one version that was unfinished. Whatever.
Greetings, Jeff. You can’t help but smell something rotten and suspect tampering in today’s political environment where the Democ-rat Gestapo has criminally charged President Trump in order to keep him off the ballot. Talking in a civil way about politics in a banana republic implies complicity. However, Front Page is one of the last places folks like you and I can post an irreverent comment. Keep posting, brother.
Thanks, you too. There aren’t many websites like this out there. Not quality ones, anyway. And what Trump has been subjected to is the beginning of the end, if you ask me. Or its acceleration. I suppose Bareback Hussein Osama was the beginning.
Hey Jeff, similar things happen to me some times. It’s just software bugs.
Yeah, you’re probably right. Conservative websites are forced to use what they can get because of left-wing discrimination and oppression.
And why are there three copies of my comment? I didn’t do that. I can’t.
Software bugs. I kinda understand what is happening since it happened to me also, but trying to explain all the tricks I use to get around it would give me a headache (and probably everyone else too 🙂
One thing I do is shut the article down, then bring it back up again to see if anything happened.
Yeah, I closed the website and came back.
Of course, my HP laptops are crap. I’m getting a Chrome Book on Tuesday, I expect it will be just a tad superior to this HP, which doesn’t even have a menu!
When a life threatening catastrophic event occurs, how will people know who or what to believe? That is the problem. Even in the most dire situations manipulation of the facts occurs with only the manipulators knowing the truth. In the sub story it was the MSM controlling the facts/truth. Everyone else was fooled for several days.
“Save qu’elle peut” 🙂
Loosely translated, you’re on your own. Run for your life 🙂
Ain’t that the truth. Thank God for friends and select family members but there are many time where you’re on your own.
“We don’t ,know what the noises are.”
Wasn’t a noise heard when contact was lost?
Perhaps I’m ignorant of all the facts, but what from I’ve read, seems like more than the media were in on the scam.
William Randolph Hearst lied us into the Spanish American war. Maybe the excursion into Cuba was a “splendid little war,” but the Philippine campaign that came afterwards was no picnic.
It took people’s attention away from the Biden corruption.
It did, but we all found out that the owner of the company was reluctant to employ 50 year old white men.
Affirmative action in action.
Retired 50 year old white men with a career of experience and expertise in the field, although he didn’t want black ones either. He paid for his woke attitude with his life, which is apt though tragic, but the piece of shit took four innocent people with him.
Yeah, it’s unbelievable that people don’t know how important experience is in engineering.
My grandfather was a bridge engineer so I kinda followed bridge disasters. Like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge or something, a high-faullin new-fangled bridge, but oops, there was a small problem 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)