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You mean the Incredible Frog Boy is just a fabrication?
Noooo!
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Originally Posted by UsAll
As I stated multiple times in my postings, I am NOT concerned with innocuous stories that don't involve uncalled-for or unproven slander, character assassination, false accusations, et al that defame, demean, mislead, and otherwise adversely affect the body politic of our nation and of the world-at-large. Publications in the business of promoting fairy tales like the "Incredible Frog Boy" and their ilk are apparently looked upon by all persons (except the most extremely gullible amongst us) as being put forth for obvious entertainment, amusement, and titallation purposes. That is NOT what I am addressing in this thread I started.
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Originally Posted by P47P47
OK, but when I saw "SUPERMARKET TABLOID INDUSTRY", the first thing that came to mind was the Incredible Frog Boy.
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Originally Posted by UsAll
I remember years ago (around 1982) that a supermarket tabloid's front page story was that "Adolf Hitler in alive and well, living in Argentina, being kept alive by sex hormone shots and other medical methods. And he masterminded the Falkland Islands invasion by the British in 1982 and the Israel-Lebanon crisis . . ." and so on and so on with other such incredible claims. Now how would they possible know all this to be true? Hitler gave them a person interview? And they video- and audio-recorded the entire interview and took photographs as well . . . ALL of which can be vetted and investigated for credibility? In short, everyone knows (or presumably knows . . . except for the feeble-minded in the population-at-large) that THIS particular kind of material is just put forth to captivate and titallate readers (to add some excitement to their otherwise-boring lives).
I just remembered someting to add to my very last comment that you see quoted above, which is this:
And just HOW exactly did this supermarket tabloid come to "know" all these details about Adolf Hitler still being alive and well in this day and age (around year 1982)? The tabloid said that a psychic held a certain knife in her hands and, from doing so, she was able to "know" and proclaim that "Adolf Hitler in alive and well (n year 1982), living in Argentina, being kept alive by sex hormone shots and other medical methods. And he masterminded the Falkland Islands invasion by the British in 1982 and the Israel-Lebanon crisis . . ." and so on and so on with other such incredible claims.
QUESTION: For all the present-day (year 2016) controversy over so-called "fake news" (which is a valid issue to be concerned about and addressed), why doesn't the very long-standing "SUPERMARKET TABLOID publishing industry" ever get brought up? By-and-large, along with any elements of truth that they do or may have in them, they are undeniably filled with many many false or unprovable accusations, conspiracy theories, uncalled-for slanders and character assassinations, totally-invented stories and narratives (whether harmful stories or just plain innocuous stories but still totally invented), unproven or unprovable claims (e.g., medical miracles, visits from aliens from elsewhere in the universe, etc. etc. etc.), etc., etc., etc., . . . ad nauseum.
That is, if so many in our society are so concerned with the practice and phenomenon of so-called "fake news", why isn't the supermarket tabloid industry at-large reigned in majorly for libel, slander, public deception, et al? So many of their promoted stories can be picked apart and determined to be made up or else stories containing morsels of truth and them appending them with falsehoods (or at least with claims that can't truly be proven in a court of law or when otherwise subjected to intense scientific-like scrutiny). Shouldn't it be illegal and prosecutable to make a way-of-life and a profit-making enterprise out of being in the business of propagating lies and falsehoods (to deceive the public at any cost in order to make a profit or to accomplish some other political or economic or social-cultural objective)? Or whatever else their motive(s) is or are for being in the business of creating and propagating what can honestly be labeled as "fake news"?
Because this new complaint about 'fake news' isnt' really about fake news, its about the mainstream media trying to belittle the up and coming twittershpere and the youtube channels of independent journalists. Its the MSM saying "this is new, we are established and because we are established, that means we are the real news and the 'new' news is the fake news'
In reality, their establishment means nothing, its what have you done for me lately and lately, they've been bad, very bad and very crooked and even though they've been exposed badly this election cycle, they are doubling down on their lies and deceit. No thanks, if i want real news i'll surf youtube and twitter and find some honest and respectable journalists who are protecting their own brand by reporting truth.
QUESTION: For all the present-day (year 2016) controversy over so-called "fake news" (which is a valid issue to be concerned about and addressed), why doesn't the very long-standing "SUPERMARKET TABLOID publishing industry" ever get brought up?
Because as bad as it is, it's more accurate and unbiased than today's mainstream media?
I saw "Batboy, The Musical" performed a few years ago by a local theater company so thank you tabloids! And the Nat'l Enquirer used to be awesome. I haven't read it in almost a decade but I grew up with it and it wasn't so much 'fake news' but 'gossip', and celebrity info, it rarely sensationalized things the way some of the lower level rags did. I remember some pretty big stories they broke over the years.
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