I remember reading "Nt.0" by Umberto Eco (2015)... some years ago. A group of people living in Italy, are planning to start a new newspaper.. 'Domani'. The idea is ,deceit and misinformation..quite amusing....packed inside this novel..is a bit of history... what really happened to Mussolini at the end of the war? Did he die... or what? After a dive on the net ... I found that the postulate in the novel actually did hold water....There you go... the truth always bubbles up to the surface, being so much lighter than the 'muck' below! Tom Waits in one of his songs states.." never trust a man in a blue trench-coat " ...my view is.. don't trust anyone until you've your research... period.
ps. Thank-you for a very civilized article... best regards
Dr. Jan Oberg, I say you need more exposure! Thank you, what a relief to read this. Some bits if you can use them (and if they make sense) - the USA infection is so longstanding, where is a list of identifying symptoms to share? With antidotes? From another conversation, in haste, my own experience:
I'm (ashamed to say) finally contacting legislators. There are more of us than them. And political and media arguments are so over the top stupid, illegal, and immoral these days they're not hard to rebut, with humor. My state journalism association refused to respond to my question on their MIA support for Assange; 'independent' statewide media seem hooked on grants from apparently self-interested sources. All good info to expose and ask neighbors, is this what they want?
Ralph Nader confirmed my sprouting discomfort with NPR in his expose' of corporate board member conflicts of interest, too often revealed especially as reporting omissions. Another red flag was paging back up to check categories in WaPo and NYT articles labeled 'News' not 'Opinion' - articles with too many adjectives. 'Unprovoked' and 'full scale invasion' are laughable compared to facts yet who all swallowed them hook, line, sinker?
How many media follow this handy reference, https://www.spj.org/pdf/spj-code-of-ethics-bookmark.pdf ? Shouldn't we be asking why not? Reuters's 'principles' even helpfully admits it: serving many interests, no effort spared to maintain leading business position. Or how am I reading this wrong?
"4. That Thomson Reuters shall pay due regard to the many interests which it serves in addition to those of the media; and 5. That no effort shall be spared to expand, develop, and adapt the news and other services and products of Thomson Reuters so as to maintain its leading position in the international news and information business" https://reutersagency.com/about/our-trust-principles/
Von der Leyen isn't the only one with tools. And the more tools are used, the better the craftsmanship and higher quality product. My barometer is four close to me I've been sending factual (please gods) news since I realized MSNBC Maddow was all-Hillary/zero-Bernie and Taibbi explained it in Hate, Inc. When these four remove their news IVs to argue facts and issues not identities or just silence, I'll know the tide has turned and we can consider a better world for all.
Hi - many many thanks for your kind words and thoughts. I must say that I would not complain about the exposure and media interest I am experiencing - just not in the West, and I can live with that...
I agree/share your frustration with Western media. On the famous other hand, there are so many other possibilities today thanks to the internet, social media etc. that we have better chances to form a quality worldview than a couple of decades ago. Let's look at the positive sides of life... All my best, JAN
I'll do my best to share with my sliver of the west. And thank you for Edelman to see and share.
For some of us The Transnational is a thousand times more effective than therapy. Thanks to Pascal Lottaz too for your multiple appearances with Neutrality Studies.
From one who remembers telephone trees of the human kind, networking works. :-)
I remember reading "Nt.0" by Umberto Eco (2015)... some years ago. A group of people living in Italy, are planning to start a new newspaper.. 'Domani'. The idea is ,deceit and misinformation..quite amusing....packed inside this novel..is a bit of history... what really happened to Mussolini at the end of the war? Did he die... or what? After a dive on the net ... I found that the postulate in the novel actually did hold water....There you go... the truth always bubbles up to the surface, being so much lighter than the 'muck' below! Tom Waits in one of his songs states.." never trust a man in a blue trench-coat " ...my view is.. don't trust anyone until you've your research... period.
ps. Thank-you for a very civilized article... best regards
Thanks a lot, Jack Olsen... I am also in favour of dooiong research... :-) Best, JAN
Dr. Jan Oberg, I say you need more exposure! Thank you, what a relief to read this. Some bits if you can use them (and if they make sense) - the USA infection is so longstanding, where is a list of identifying symptoms to share? With antidotes? From another conversation, in haste, my own experience:
I'm (ashamed to say) finally contacting legislators. There are more of us than them. And political and media arguments are so over the top stupid, illegal, and immoral these days they're not hard to rebut, with humor. My state journalism association refused to respond to my question on their MIA support for Assange; 'independent' statewide media seem hooked on grants from apparently self-interested sources. All good info to expose and ask neighbors, is this what they want?
Ralph Nader confirmed my sprouting discomfort with NPR in his expose' of corporate board member conflicts of interest, too often revealed especially as reporting omissions. Another red flag was paging back up to check categories in WaPo and NYT articles labeled 'News' not 'Opinion' - articles with too many adjectives. 'Unprovoked' and 'full scale invasion' are laughable compared to facts yet who all swallowed them hook, line, sinker?
How many media follow this handy reference, https://www.spj.org/pdf/spj-code-of-ethics-bookmark.pdf ? Shouldn't we be asking why not? Reuters's 'principles' even helpfully admits it: serving many interests, no effort spared to maintain leading business position. Or how am I reading this wrong?
"4. That Thomson Reuters shall pay due regard to the many interests which it serves in addition to those of the media; and 5. That no effort shall be spared to expand, develop, and adapt the news and other services and products of Thomson Reuters so as to maintain its leading position in the international news and information business" https://reutersagency.com/about/our-trust-principles/
Von der Leyen isn't the only one with tools. And the more tools are used, the better the craftsmanship and higher quality product. My barometer is four close to me I've been sending factual (please gods) news since I realized MSNBC Maddow was all-Hillary/zero-Bernie and Taibbi explained it in Hate, Inc. When these four remove their news IVs to argue facts and issues not identities or just silence, I'll know the tide has turned and we can consider a better world for all.
Hi - many many thanks for your kind words and thoughts. I must say that I would not complain about the exposure and media interest I am experiencing - just not in the West, and I can live with that...
I agree/share your frustration with Western media. On the famous other hand, there are so many other possibilities today thanks to the internet, social media etc. that we have better chances to form a quality worldview than a couple of decades ago. Let's look at the positive sides of life... All my best, JAN
I'll do my best to share with my sliver of the west. And thank you for Edelman to see and share.
For some of us The Transnational is a thousand times more effective than therapy. Thanks to Pascal Lottaz too for your multiple appearances with Neutrality Studies.
From one who remembers telephone trees of the human kind, networking works. :-)
Terrible!
Dirty.
Small minded.
Uncivilized.
Underdevelopped.