Apparently according to the spell check I’ve just invented a new word. Whether that’s true or not is impossible to know but I’ll enjoy the moment non-the-less. I stumbled upon the most remarkable story of mainstream media skullduggery today. It was a story about Fox News adding two photoshopped images to a article about the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle (CHAZ). The CHAZ is an autonomous zone taken by protesters in the city which has drawn the ire and threats of Donald Trump to which the local Mayor has suggested they’re doing nothing wrong. Apparently they’re “ugly Anarchists”, he’s a bizarre man. The article then was attempting to discredit the autonomous zone with Fox News uploading these heavily edited images.
It is hard to believe that someone in a highly paid and responsible position in the Fox News studio looked at that image and thought it would acceptably pass scrutiny. It looks like I have attempted to edit it and I can’t edit. They’ve just clumsily stuck the gunman right on top of an image of the zone. It’s like they’ve not even tried.
This second image was from riots in the city at the end of May which had nothing to do with and was before the CHAZ existed. It is also incredibly lazy, they haven’t even got the proportions right. They attached images of burning vehicles too as you can see at the top of this article. For the sake of accuracy it’s just unfortunate that this particular image was from a riot in Minnesota.
It’s probably not worth getting into one about how full of shit the media are. That’s established. What makes this event worthwhile is how little effort they feel they need to put in. This isn’t just lazy, they don’t even need to care about keeping any pretence of accuracy. Yes they deleted it once awareness of it had been raised but they were still willing to put it out in the first place. Is it an indictment of them or does it suggest they haven’t the most discerning of subscribers. It is very hard to change the window you see society and the media through when you come across these kinds of images. They speak a thousand words. It all just seems so corrupt to the core. But you don’t need me to say it, just take one look at that attempt at news.
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