Or only the HeadLine Writers?
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The image is from an article at Zero Hedge, China Is Testing Weapons That Can Reach The US In 14 Minutes. Upon reading the article you discover NO SUCH THING. The Chinese are building a hyper-sonic wind tunnel.
All the talk of weapons is just that...talk.
Michael Crichton addressed the subject a decade or more ago when he said
- “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
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In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
I know this to be the gospel truth. Each and every time that I've seen anything in the newspaper about an event that happened which I was an eyewitness to....the newspaper account was bogus.
One time my young bride and I were walking our dogs in a park..we saw children playing with frisbee's.
Later that day we read newspaper accounts and talking heads on TV blovating breathlessly about the riot. WHAT riot? We were there...no such thing happened.
They made it up..slow news day I guess.
Who you gonna believe? The news media or your lying eyes?
Have you seen the same thing? Has it happened to you? Tell us about it.