That’s the Faux Noose technique, yes. But it far predates Cable TV: Consider “yellow press” for instance, which way back in the late 60s I was calling “Outrage (us) Journalism”
BREAKING NEWS!!!. A lady hoeing her garden was attacked by a hog that got loose from a wagon being pushed by the man who was stealing it from the farmer who was haying. Hog was killed by a rock thrown by a passerby who was hauling stone to the castle to be used for the execution of a peasant who spit in the moat. STAY TUNED.
Interesting comments by Maher https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/maher-afghanistan-woke-oppression Also interesting that the only place I could find these was on FOX.
The American Revolution was incited by elite extremists writing anonymous letters to newspaper exaggerating British actions (Paine, et al) or going to taverns and getting the town drunks to throw less expensive tea than he was selling in the harbor (Hancock)
Plenty of material here: If you make it to fifteen you are considered middle age, small pox, dysentery, the nobles get the best cuts of meat and crops, backbreaking labor from sunrise to sunset. And roughly some 250+ laws on the books that prescribe capital punishment for, what are considered petty crimes these days. Church on Sunday, and since you cannot read, you believe the lies the man in the dress behind the pulpit keeps telling you. And taxes on top of it all for good measure.
Sadly, the main stream media has joined in the game. Preferring sensationalized ratings grabbing headlines and spin. Some are worse than others, but too many are missing the chaos ratings of Trump’s presidenting by Tweet years.
Any news source that went back to reporting and not creating news, might take a momentary drop in ratings, but I think eventually people would gravitate to the old fashioned dry way of presenting the facts. Go back to entertaining weathermen, local segments, as the secondary draw. Put together a great team and you can stick with the truth and not the sensational.
Thankfully, much of the old team is still there, but this is from before they were bought by a right leaning company. So much more fun.:
Beginning of cable news? Have you never heard of “yellow journalism”, practiced in the 19th Century, playing fast and loose with the truth, and their most outrageous exaggerations printed on yellow paper to attract more nickels? Charles Foster Kane was based on real-life newspaper magnates William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer, and Harold McCormick and their actual practices.
My husband watches both liberal and conservative-leaning programs (I can’t bring myself to call them “news”), just to see how each side will put their spin on the same issue. There appears to be a lot of raised voices and pearl clutching on both sides, and I can’t stand any of them. They’re all absolutely sure that their take on an issue is the only way to see it, and usually can’t allow that the opposition has anything of value to contribute. Both sides are at least partially responsible for the division we have in this country, and I just wish they would all calm down and engage in civil discourse.
It certainly explains why the loudmouth is well-dressed and living in the castle while everyone else there is dressed in rags and living in a sh*thole.
C’mon, Wiley! We need a break. Takes us back to the down-east diner in Maine so Capt. Eddie (w/the cat on his shoulder) can carry us on a sea-journey that we can can tell our grandkids. Please!
Reuters Institute did a survey of 46 countries this spring about news media. They asked people in 46 countries, “Can you trust most of the news, most of the time?” The US media came in 46th of 46, dead last, with only 29% answering yes. This is lower than Malaysia and lower than Bulgaria. There’s a reason for the low rating: US news media have shown repeatedly that they are not trustworthy.
saobadao about 3 years ago
Perfect
RAGs about 3 years ago
If they can’t find anything to be outraged about they will stage something.
Bilan about 3 years ago
You … Yes, you … they want to steal your wheelbarrow!
eastern.woods.metal about 3 years ago
I’m mostly outraged AT cable news
Concretionist about 3 years ago
That’s the Faux Noose technique, yes. But it far predates Cable TV: Consider “yellow press” for instance, which way back in the late 60s I was calling “Outrage (us) Journalism”
in.amongst about 3 years ago
Cable news should be incarcerated for wire fraud!
sirbadger about 3 years ago
Not much happened today, but I’m supposed to talk for 24 hours, so I’ll babble on and on.
eastern.woods.metal about 3 years ago
The origin of cable news was the slithering thing and the apple
Cornelius Noodleman about 3 years ago
Hear ye, hear ye, the Grand inquisitor of the inquisition will arrive at noon today!
Superfrog about 3 years ago
But first, a word from our sponsor.
mikeyman about 3 years ago
Help! Help! I’m being repressed.
Baarorso about 3 years ago
I am SORELY tempted to make a “Newsmax” or a “Fox News” remark, but because of the flamewar that would ensure I will not.;-D
pcolli about 3 years ago
Throw a rock at him.
braindead Premium Member about 3 years ago
Cable “news” says to take your ivermectin.
Hydroxychloroquine is so last year.
cdward about 3 years ago
I suspect outrage predated even serfs and their overlords.
admiree2 about 3 years ago
This just in. The so-called experts are telling us that people are getting sick because of invisible things in the air. Can you believe that?
It’s a hoax and you heard here first. Next thing they will try to tell us is that leeches don’t work when you have trouble breathing.
Keep listening for Friar Tucker and Ben Dover Hannity tonight.
Egrayjames about 3 years ago
It ain’t just cable news Wiley…….It ain’t just cable news!
FreyjaRN Premium Member about 3 years ago
Nailed it!
dflak about 3 years ago
This is one of the things I do look for in newscasting in any media and on any of the channels: what they don’t report.
Display about 3 years ago
Fake news! Peasants in the middle ages were better educated and more intelligent than the Fox Noose audience.
sandpiper about 3 years ago
BREAKING NEWS!!!. A lady hoeing her garden was attacked by a hog that got loose from a wagon being pushed by the man who was stealing it from the farmer who was haying. Hog was killed by a rock thrown by a passerby who was hauling stone to the castle to be used for the execution of a peasant who spit in the moat. STAY TUNED.
bryce.gear about 3 years ago
This way to close to the truth. Maybe because it is the truth.
boydjb47 about 3 years ago
Interesting comments by Maher https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/maher-afghanistan-woke-oppression Also interesting that the only place I could find these was on FOX.
Prey about 3 years ago
I love the pig in the cart, great expression.
c141starlifter about 3 years ago
What??? No one shoveling “Bovine Feces” in the background?
Gandalf about 3 years ago
And social media… They feed off each other.
the1951hapster about 3 years ago
Is it just me, or has Wiley drawn the “village crier” to resemble Downton Abbey’s valet to the Earl of Grantham, Mr. Carlson?
thelordthygod666 about 3 years ago
The American Revolution was incited by elite extremists writing anonymous letters to newspaper exaggerating British actions (Paine, et al) or going to taverns and getting the town drunks to throw less expensive tea than he was selling in the harbor (Hancock)
gammaguy about 3 years ago
And then there’s cabal news.
timbob2313 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Wiley nailed it today. 2 thumbs up
Space_cat about 3 years ago
Plenty of material here: If you make it to fifteen you are considered middle age, small pox, dysentery, the nobles get the best cuts of meat and crops, backbreaking labor from sunrise to sunset. And roughly some 250+ laws on the books that prescribe capital punishment for, what are considered petty crimes these days. Church on Sunday, and since you cannot read, you believe the lies the man in the dress behind the pulpit keeps telling you. And taxes on top of it all for good measure.
morgankhat about 3 years ago
The network news isn’t much better….
mindjob about 3 years ago
So this is what I’m missing by not having a TV
Linguist about 3 years ago
The Castle Crier looks uncannily like Sean Hannity.
tee929 about 3 years ago
“all the world’s a stage” doesn’t mean you have to fill the quiet with drivel such as Fux Spews!
Sgt. Snorkle about 3 years ago
Sounds like Fox news! but they don’t give news, just warped opinions!
GiantShetlandPony about 3 years ago
Sadly, the main stream media has joined in the game. Preferring sensationalized ratings grabbing headlines and spin. Some are worse than others, but too many are missing the chaos ratings of Trump’s presidenting by Tweet years.
Any news source that went back to reporting and not creating news, might take a momentary drop in ratings, but I think eventually people would gravitate to the old fashioned dry way of presenting the facts. Go back to entertaining weathermen, local segments, as the secondary draw. Put together a great team and you can stick with the truth and not the sensational.
Thankfully, much of the old team is still there, but this is from before they were bought by a right leaning company. So much more fun.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaS3ox-yJ-g
cmxx about 3 years ago
On some level, the job of any communications medium is to deliver an audience to its advertisers/donors.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago
Beginning of cable news? Have you never heard of “yellow journalism”, practiced in the 19th Century, playing fast and loose with the truth, and their most outrageous exaggerations printed on yellow paper to attract more nickels? Charles Foster Kane was based on real-life newspaper magnates William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer, and Harold McCormick and their actual practices.
ncdrifter about 3 years ago
This newscaster put it perfectly; what we REALLY hear when we watch the news.
Lola85 Premium Member about 3 years ago
My husband watches both liberal and conservative-leaning programs (I can’t bring myself to call them “news”), just to see how each side will put their spin on the same issue. There appears to be a lot of raised voices and pearl clutching on both sides, and I can’t stand any of them. They’re all absolutely sure that their take on an issue is the only way to see it, and usually can’t allow that the opposition has anything of value to contribute. Both sides are at least partially responsible for the division we have in this country, and I just wish they would all calm down and engage in civil discourse.
Vangoghdog01 about 3 years ago
The sheer incompetence of Joe Biden and his Administration has cost the US every friend and ally we have or ever hoped to have.
Ed Brault Premium Member about 3 years ago
Good morning, America! What are we supposed to be offended by today?
jvscanlan Premium Member about 3 years ago
Fox News anyway . . .
Say What? Premium Member about 3 years ago
It certainly explains why the loudmouth is well-dressed and living in the castle while everyone else there is dressed in rags and living in a sh*thole.
As Monty Python put it:
“Who’s that then?”
“I dunno. Must be a king.”
“Why?”
“He hasn’t got sh*t all over ‘im.”
UnklGene about 3 years ago
So…, that’s where it all began!
UnklGene about 3 years ago
C’mon, Wiley! We need a break. Takes us back to the down-east diner in Maine so Capt. Eddie (w/the cat on his shoulder) can carry us on a sea-journey that we can can tell our grandkids. Please!
keenanthelibrarian about 3 years ago
Do they need to be reminded?
Ray Helvy Premium Member about 3 years ago
Reuters Institute did a survey of 46 countries this spring about news media. They asked people in 46 countries, “Can you trust most of the news, most of the time?” The US media came in 46th of 46, dead last, with only 29% answering yes. This is lower than Malaysia and lower than Bulgaria. There’s a reason for the low rating: US news media have shown repeatedly that they are not trustworthy.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 about 3 years ago
Ok, so now they are assigning the outrage, good to know.
198.23.5.11 about 3 years ago
WIZARD OF ID does the town crier thing better.
dimndno about 3 years ago
Cable News idea of objective journalism.
aussie399 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Yep, sure will.Motto: "never let the facts get in the way of a good story "!