Truth

What is Real?

What is propaganda? What is fake? What is real? What is a lie? What is the truth? Can you really rely on media to give you the answer?

What makes you twitch, what gets you mad, what makes you ask the burning questions? Is it the news, that Coca Cola advertisement, that man holding up the sign “Honk if you love Jesus”? This world is full of fake news, but how do you separate the real from the fictitious? Fact is fact, a lie is a lie, when it comes to propaganda they are one in the same.

When someone produces a media based message, and sends it out to the world, withholding specific details and information, it is a strategy. It is something that these people do, not naming any names…politicians *cough, and they do it so that we are basically hypnotized to believe that all the facts are included. Our minds are trained to believe that if the information has become a symbol to the public, it must be fact. The hardest thing to grasp about corporately funded news is that they imply to trick us. They set out to find new words and terms that sly away from fact and bring us to the only other alternative, belief.

How do you know what I’m saying is true? You don’t. But you better believe it.

Example:

THE STORY:

An email circular claimed that President Bush had the lowest IQ in presidential history, so the typing fingers of every journalist not currently employed by Fox began twitching with anticipation.The story claimed the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton conducted a four-month study of President Bush's IQ levels and concluded he ranked at a solid 91 due to his lack of grasp over the English language, limited use of vocabulary and lack of scholarly achievements, unless you count being able to say the alphabet backwards after doing five straight keg stands.

The Truth:

Proving that The Guardian newspaper and Doonesbury cartoonist, Gary Trudeau treat email forwards with the same level of skepticism as your mom, both picked up the story and ran with it. Had they bothered to check the source of the email, they would have traced it back to the reputable news source LinkyDink.com, and the original press release, which claimed that Dr. Lovenstein "lives in a mobile home in Scranton, Pennsylvania running an Internet business called College Degrees for Sale.”

Works Cited

"7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream Media | Cracked.com." Cracked.com ? America's Only Humor & Video Site Since 1958. Web. 07 Oct. 2009. .