It has become a morbid habit for me every Sept. 11 since the attacks: I soak up all the media I can about that day in New York City. I put on DVDs, seek out TV shows on the History Channel, scour the Web for any new videos. My real focus in on the broadcast coverage of that day, watching anchors and reporters — some of them former colleagues — react to the second plane hitting, the Pentagon’s smoke streaming, the towers falling. Archival footage of national and cable news takes me back to an impossibly sunny day and my last week in my midtown Manhattan apartment.
Before, if a small minority of people who worship ignorance, and actually want to distort the truth via BS, like a certain politicians shout at a presidential speech, in which his side has actually been doing almost all of the lying, all you would have was the news organizations to work from to figure out who was telling the truth. What are they saying, and have been? Well, one of Faux's pundits also lied, claiming that Obama had, despite his explicit wording to the contrary, said that the people running insurance agencies where bad people.
The internet has, on one hand, made it possible for people to, more so than perhaps before, only read/listen too what they "want" to hear, but this is hardly new, just easier. But, at the same time, its made it **very** easy, for people that care at all, to track down, find, and expose just what the real agenda of certain groups is, and just how completely insane some of them truly are. And, this has led even the people "in" the party currently showing most of the insanity to abandon it as possibly unsavable. Imho, this is a good thing, because without immediate means to see what someone really said, without some way to track their attempts to hide their real ideas and intent, without fools speaking up, and proving they are not just fools, but possibly, in some cases, seriously insane, they could, with impunity, continue to lie in public about their real intent, while despising the very people that elected them in private for being both gullible enough to elect them, but also not sufficiently religious, racist, paranoid, imperialist, environmentally destructive, or what ever flavor of madness and anti-social, or just anti-different, craziness they actual believe in. Now, if you are one of them, you get to find a home, among the other 15 people that are just as nuts. If you want to know what people really think and intend, then you can find out just how crazy they are, in a few clicks of a mouse, instead of waiting for them to be caught doing something serious enough for them to lose the next election.
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The Post-9/11 Internet: A Breeding Ground for Anger and Lies
Posted by: Renay San Miguel September 11, 2009 04:00 AMIt has become a morbid habit for me every Sept. 11 since the attacks: I soak up all the media I can about that day in New York City. I put on DVDs, seek out TV shows on the History Channel, scour the Web for any new videos. My real focus in on the broadcast coverage of that day, watching anchors and reporters — some of them former colleagues — react to the second plane hitting, the Pentagon’s smoke streaming, the towers falling. Archival footage of national and cable news takes me back to an impossibly sunny day and my last week in my midtown Manhattan apartment.
The internet has, on one hand, made it possible for people to, more so than perhaps before, only read/listen too what they "want" to hear, but this is hardly new, just easier. But, at the same time, its made it **very** easy, for people that care at all, to track down, find, and expose just what the real agenda of certain groups is, and just how completely insane some of them truly are. And, this has led even the people "in" the party currently showing most of the insanity to abandon it as possibly unsavable. Imho, this is a good thing, because without immediate means to see what someone really said, without some way to track their attempts to hide their real ideas and intent, without fools speaking up, and proving they are not just fools, but possibly, in some cases, seriously insane, they could, with impunity, continue to lie in public about their real intent, while despising the very people that elected them in private for being both gullible enough to elect them, but also not sufficiently religious, racist, paranoid, imperialist, environmentally destructive, or what ever flavor of madness and anti-social, or just anti-different, craziness they actual believe in. Now, if you are one of them, you get to find a home, among the other 15 people that are just as nuts. If you want to know what people really think and intend, then you can find out just how crazy they are, in a few clicks of a mouse, instead of waiting for them to be caught doing something serious enough for them to lose the next election.