Or alternately, the media has never strung two true words together in the history of the media, depending on your "angels on a pinhead" definition of "lying".
I disagree with Scott that laundering their made-up narratives through political partisans who can be counted on to give the appropriate quotes to support this pre-existing lie is in any way better than just writing the fiction directly. It's just lying with one extra step.
Scenario 1:
Journalist: Hur dur, I'm gonna write that the Hunter Biden laptop isn't a story its.......[shuffles deck] White supremacy! Wait, that might look weird since he's white. Russian disinformation? Let's roll with that!
Scenario 2:
Journalist: Hey Bill, I'm trying to spike this Hunter Biden story, can I quote you as an "anonymous national security official" saying it's your professional opinion that it's Russian Disinformation? Great! Thanks buddy! Hail Obama~!
Scott looks at those and says "see! They didn't technically lie in the second instance! They got someone to say the thing they wanted to say, so by the rules that I've just made up, it's not an untruth!"
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Or alternately, the media has never strung two true words together in the history of the media, depending on your "angels on a pinhead" definition of "lying".
I disagree with Scott that laundering their made-up narratives through political partisans who can be counted on to give the appropriate quotes to support this pre-existing lie is in any way better than just writing the fiction directly. It's just lying with one extra step.
Scenario 1:
Journalist: Hur dur, I'm gonna write that the Hunter Biden laptop isn't a story its.......[shuffles deck] White supremacy! Wait, that might look weird since he's white. Russian disinformation? Let's roll with that!
Scenario 2:
Journalist: Hey Bill, I'm trying to spike this Hunter Biden story, can I quote you as an "anonymous national security official" saying it's your professional opinion that it's Russian Disinformation? Great! Thanks buddy! Hail Obama~!
Scott looks at those and says "see! They didn't technically lie in the second instance! They got someone to say the thing they wanted to say, so by the rules that I've just made up, it's not an untruth!"
And I say they're the same picture.
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