Been seeing a lot of libs say they can’t trust the NYT and mainstream news any more but I’m sure there’s plenty of reasons to not trust them already. Recent or historical examples

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    FLIGHT 007: THE REST OF THE STORY

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    AS THE director of worldwide television for the U.S. Information Agency, I was summoned to a secret meeting at the State Department over the Labor Day weekend 13 years ago to discuss a TV production. Entering a small conference room through a heavy metal door with a combination lock at its center, I was given an audio tape. I was instructed to produce a video document based on the contents of the tape that would be shown two days later at the U.N. Security Council.

    Korean Airlines Flight 007, with its 269 passengers and crew, had strayed off course over a Soviet missile installation in the far Pacific and was shot out of the sky by Maj. Gennady Osipovich, in his Sukhoi-15 fighter. Minute by minute, top secret American intelligence stations near the Soviet border had monitored Osipovich’s pursuit of Flight 007 as it cruised on the last leg of its journey to Seoul, and its destruction at 2:26 p.m. Washington time, Aug. 31, 1983. Working with other producers, we fashioned a slick video which was played at the Security Council Sept. 6, and beamed around the world by satellite – marking some thing of a new era of government-to-people diplomacy.

    The video was powerful, effective and wrong.

    This was referenced in Blowback Season 4.

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      What replaces 1980s-style disinformation in the future may make it seem wholesome by comparison, and the press must be ever more vigilant.

      It turns out all you need to trick the audience is simply claiming you saw beheaded babies and sexual assault when it didn’t happen. No need for sophisticated spying devices.

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        There’s an episode of The Orville, where the crew see what the political process is for a horribly xenophobic race… and its just AI generated videos of politicians saying and doing things they didn’t do…

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            I first watched it years ago, years after it started, and was honestly pleasantly surprised.

            I expected “Family Guy” but got a slightly more down to earth Star Trek. It can be a bit wishy-washy with its political/moral messaging at times but most of the time it felt like it was trying to be honest to the characters.

            I liked it enough to watch it a few times over the years and i would recommend it if you dug ST:TNG.