Can we trust NewsTrust?
There's an article in AlterNet by Rory O'Connor concerning a self-described "online social news network" that promises "free, not-for-profit service" offering " the most trusted news of the day, as selected by community members using state-of-the-art media literacy tools."
A noble cause, to which we say, "Hooray."
But look carefully at the second paragraph:
Did you catch it?
He lumps "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in with everything phony about the news.
Well, here's some news for Mr. O'Connor: "The Daily Show" is fake news, and they never claim to be anything else. It's comedy, not news.
Of course, Stewart's (and his writers') wit continually cut through the crap to get to the heart of the matter (through comedy), but it's still comedy.
O'Connor almost had us there. Too bad.
A noble cause, to which we say, "Hooray."
But look carefully at the second paragraph:
After all, we live in an age of media scams and scandals -- from blowing it up on "Dateline" NBC to making it up in the New York Times (and the Daily News and USA Today and the Boston Globe and the New Republic and so on, ad nauseum and seemingly ad infinitum…) and from Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" to O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" show… from Fox News to faux news all the way to even phonier video 'news' releases… and from government-and-corporate-sponsored "opinion" commentary to paid Pentagon propaganda posing as authentic journalism to Disney's undocumented 911 "docudrama" -- wherever and whenever you look, examples of media make-believe abound.
Did you catch it?
He lumps "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in with everything phony about the news.
Well, here's some news for Mr. O'Connor: "The Daily Show" is fake news, and they never claim to be anything else. It's comedy, not news.
Of course, Stewart's (and his writers') wit continually cut through the crap to get to the heart of the matter (through comedy), but it's still comedy.
O'Connor almost had us there. Too bad.
posted by truthisnews at 3:30 AM
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Is the international news media is being taken for a ride by Hugo Chavez and AP?
The survey that has most assisted to create the impression of a runaway Hugo Chavez lead in the upcoming elections on December 3, 2006, is the one made by IPSOS and announced to the world by AP on November 24 and it is a crazy survey.
This survey contains some questions that show that the majority of respondents do no trust the electoral system in Venezuela and that they are concerned with facing reprisals. Since it also includes many detailed questions on government programs which leaves the respondent in no doubt about who is behind the survey, the results, unsurprisingly, turn out to be 59% in favor of Hugo Chavez and 27% for Manuel Rosales.
This survey would of course have been ignored except for the fact that contrary to all other surveys that have shown this type of lead for Chavez and that have all admitted being directly or indirectly ordered and paid for by the government, this one specifically says that it was carried out “by the polling firm Ipsos for The Associated Press”.
And so we ask, who can believe that the Associated Press would order and pay for a survey that poses 37 questions to 2.500 Venezuelan responders, in “face-to-face-interviews”?
Melville Stone, the great general manager of the Associate Press said about it in 1914 that "the thing it is striving for is a truthful, unbiased report of the world's happenings … ethical in the highest degree." We expect a timely response from AP, before December 3.
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