Lies // Noise
Consider and contrast:
Galloway on Hezbollah.
Zionism as a force in history.
With the commonly held opinion that Hezbollah are damned dirty terrorists. That could be argued to be a simplification of the other side, and it is -- except that in many people's cursory understanding of the situation, that IS the underlying principle of the events.
The second link is so far to the flip side of that that I have an extremely difficult time reading it. Am I "conditioned" to reject information that far out of line of the mainstream understanding of the world, due to the same fears it purports -- that is, fear of the label of conspiracy theory? At what point do events that are plausible take so much behind-the-scenes-manipulation become "conspiracy theory" and therefore "on the fringe" or the workings of a diseased mind?
In pondering this, I came to this conclusion: it is impossible to find truth in media.
Chomsky's first filter on the news -- that media corporations are owned by businesses whose bottom line, and therefore principle motivation, is profit -- obviously applies here. I attempt to take anything offered me from a media corporation with a grain of salt, yet the pure volume of noise they spew forth has the echo-repeater truth-making property: if you hear it enough times, it becomes true.
On the flip side, you have the "conspiracy theorists" -- whatever that means -- a cunningly pejorative filter on alternative news interpretation.
What the hell is a so-called free-thinking person to believe? It is ironic that in an age of unlimited information, almost none of it is worthwhile.
Galloway on Hezbollah.
Zionism as a force in history.
With the commonly held opinion that Hezbollah are damned dirty terrorists. That could be argued to be a simplification of the other side, and it is -- except that in many people's cursory understanding of the situation, that IS the underlying principle of the events.
The second link is so far to the flip side of that that I have an extremely difficult time reading it. Am I "conditioned" to reject information that far out of line of the mainstream understanding of the world, due to the same fears it purports -- that is, fear of the label of conspiracy theory? At what point do events that are plausible take so much behind-the-scenes-manipulation become "conspiracy theory" and therefore "on the fringe" or the workings of a diseased mind?
In pondering this, I came to this conclusion: it is impossible to find truth in media.
Chomsky's first filter on the news -- that media corporations are owned by businesses whose bottom line, and therefore principle motivation, is profit -- obviously applies here. I attempt to take anything offered me from a media corporation with a grain of salt, yet the pure volume of noise they spew forth has the echo-repeater truth-making property: if you hear it enough times, it becomes true.
On the flip side, you have the "conspiracy theorists" -- whatever that means -- a cunningly pejorative filter on alternative news interpretation.
What the hell is a so-called free-thinking person to believe? It is ironic that in an age of unlimited information, almost none of it is worthwhile.