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Non-Information: The New Media Propaganda

Michael Savage

October 19, 1999

First there was disinformation, then there was misinformation. Now the newest technique of the left-wing media is "non-information." Case in point, a Filipino immigrant goes berserk in the San Francisco Bay Area. He takes out his handgun, goes upstairs, and shoots two neighbors. The media then blames his depressed state of mind. He was plagued by depression, they say. His drugs weren't having the right effect. Because he was a person of color they didn't emphasize the gun or his race, as they would have if he had blue eyes and blond hair, but his emotions that were supposedly outside his control. So instead of a "hate crime" the media spun it as the involuntary act of someone who wasn't receiving proper drug therapy. They didn't blame the murders on his doctor for not prescribing the right antidepressant, but their meaning is clear: He was the victim of neglect by a discriminatory establishment that is unconcerned with the needs of "minorities."

Another technique of the new media propaganda is the trick of photo enhancement. Take, for example, Gov. "Red" Davis of California, one of the least attractive public figures in modern history. His photos are digitally enhanced, courtesy of friends in Hollywood, to make him look like a leading man. But during the prior Wilson administration, they dug up the worst possible picture of Gov. Wilson, taken after he had come back from a long bout with the flu. And they ran this picture, never changing it, for about eight years, making him look sick and meek the entire time. In reality, though, if you've ever seen the real Pete Wilson, he's a healthy, energetic-looking man  something you can't say about Davis. Remember, today there is more to a photo than meets the eye.

Another case in point, at midnight on Saturday Gov. Davis passed a heroin-needle exchange bill, bowing to pressure from the radical homosexual lobby. But Monday morning the newspapers reported that he passed a touchy-feely nurses bill while they ignored the needle-exchange bill altogether. Yet Davis had run on a platform of centrism, claiming that he would not approve needle-exchange legislation because it would send the wrong message to our children. Apparently, the media feels we have no right to know about the governor's hypocrisy, not to mention many other unpleasant facts about Mr. Davis and his past as chief of staff for ex-Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown.

The Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty was rightly defeated by the Republican-controlled Senate. Yet the leftist media made them look like warmongers. This just two weeks after Communist China celebrated 50 years of tyranny with a massive show of military might in a parade of weapons (nukes, too!) not seen since the heyday of the Soviets in Red Square.

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-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@Y2KOK.ORG), October 20, 1999

Answers

They don't how to be investigative reporters anymore, the educational standards are so slow it's impact is emerging everywhere from badly written, uninformative, and unintelligent articles to gobs of the business community not grasping "Y2K is real!"

I'll never forget one AP article I came across, it vowed the people of East Timor were starving because they sat around chomping bananas.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), October 20, 1999.

"Another technique of the new media propaganda is the trick of photo enhancement."

i remember coming across a site back when clinton was running against bush that showed the photos that several large newpapers were running concerning the race..........every single one of them showed a smiley faced clinton looking ruggedly handsome and ready to whup the world..........while the photos of bush showed a haggard looking old man ready to drop from exhaustion................the topper was one that showed bush on a city street and in the background was a large street sign declaring "Wrong Way"

can you say subliminal?.................i thought you could!

-- andrea (mebsmebs@hotmail.com), October 20, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

Despite a mountain of evidence, mainstream media will not investigate Y2K, claiming that it is unsubstantiated. However, they will print unverified government and business PR statements without investigating those. What's wrong with this picture?

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), October 20, 1999.

This Burmese lady describes it perfectly--

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it." (Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom From Fear, 1991)

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-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), October 20, 1999.