How The Media Presents Fake News As Fact
The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, wrote that global warming would damage a tenth of the world’s residential property by value
They reported that this includes:
“many houses that are nowhere near the coast. From tornadoes battering Midwestern American suburbs to tennis-ball-size hailstones smashing the roofs of Italian villas, the severe weather brought about by greenhouse-gas emissions is shaking the foundations of the world’s most important asset class.”
Once upon a time, the Economist was a respected magazine.
Today, there is no point in advertising there because, clearly, the people who believe these articles are brainwashed and hopeless unless you are pitching green investments that always lose money.
Can you imagine that now 10 percent of all real estate will be damaged by global warming?
The entire problem has infected the media for centuries. Donald Trump did not suddenly invent Fake News.
Here is an article from the New York Sun published on September 3rd, 1892. The Sun charged its competitor, the New York World, with:
“manufacturing news in its own office purporting to be cable news of interviews with prominent scientists in Europe.”
The article states it cannot be condemned for it:
“strikes at the vital point in the character of a newspaper… Of all unfortunate and foolish things a newspaper may do, that of destroying public confidence in itself is most unfortunate and most foolish, and it can accomplish this end in no other way more quickly or more completely than in the matter of ‘fake’ news.”
The first time I heard about corruption in the media was in a GRADE SCHOOL history class in the early to mid-60s. The teacher explained that the media created the Spanish-American War, which manufactured news to sell newspapers.
You needed sensationalism to sell newspapers. The Hearst model was all about selling sensationalized stories to sell papers – not necessarily the truth.
The New York Daily Times had significant circulation among conservatives during the mid-19th century since its founder, Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820-1869), was often known as the Godfather of the Republican Party.
He became its first Chairman and was elected to the US House of Representatives.
Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, said:
“The Times, I believe, is always true to the Union, and therefore should be treated at least as well as any.”
In August 1896, Chattanooga Times publisher Adolph Ochs (1858-1935) acquired The New-York Times, implementing major changes to its basic structure making it a merchant’s newspaper.
At first, Ochs wanted to steer the paper to be the antithesis of the competition like the New York World that was focused on the sensation sales model. Ochs was trying to sell his newspapers to people who wanted real news and information to enable them to invest money.
The Wall Street Journal did not begin until 1889. In 1910, Ochs made a political realignment whereby he rejected the Republican Party and moved more progressive as Marxist Socialism became popular.
This went to the New York Times, becoming a political agenda.
There is just no more integrity in mainstream media, and when you really look at its history, one can argue it has ALWAYS been about fake news—because fake news sells. They are businesses and, at the end of the day, need a profit.
A few decades ago, I asked a major movie producer why all the movies about love projected happily ever after. He said people want to leave the theatre with a smile—not crying.
I think that explains the problem. The sad part is the press interprets the First Amendment to mean they are free to twist the truth in any way they like for profit.
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The people that did this used to be called “Spin Doctors” to spin/twist the text to reflect the apparent opinion. Where can we find NEWS without a “Spin on it”?
Just like X-Files, the truth is out there, but not here, if we stop searching, they win.
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NEW YORK TIMES-February 14, 1895: “Geologists think the world will be frozen up again…”
LOS ANGELES TIMES-May 23, 1902: “Disappearing Glaciers…deteriorating slowly, with a persistence that means their final annihilation…scientific fact…surely disappearing.”
NEW YORK TIMES- October 7, 1912: “ Prof. Schmidt of Cornell University Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age”
MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW-1922: “The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface.”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE-1923: ““Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada” – Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress.”
WASHINGTON POST-1923 – “The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age”
NEW YORK TIMES-1924: “NATURE is in a strange mood beyond the Arctic Circle, Glaciers are moving from their age-old beds, pouring greater quantities of ice into the sea than recorded history has known. Broad areas of land are sinking to new levels. A number of islands have disappeared.”
LOS ANGELES TIMES-1929 – “Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer”
THE ATLANTIC-1932 – “If these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age”
NEW YORK TIMES-1933 – “America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise”
FEDERAL WEATHER BUREAU-1933 – “Widespread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather…Is our climate changing?” – Federal Weather Bureau
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY-1938: “Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide, “is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power.”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE-1938 – “Experts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise…Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities throughout the world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer climate in the last two decades”
WASHINGTON POST-1939 – “Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right… weathermen have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer”
NEW YORK TIMES-1952: “…we have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century”
U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT-1954:“…winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing”
FORTUNE MAGAZINE-1954: “Climate – the Heat May Be Off”
NEW YORK TIMES-1959 – “Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures”
US NAVY-1958-59: “USS Skate which surfaced at the North Pole in 1959 found open water both in the summer and following winter. We surfaced near the North Pole in the winter through thin ice less than 2 feet thick.”
NEW YORK TIMES-1969: “…the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two”
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