So on Oslo and the Media...

[nadinbrzezinski]

Yesterday we had a perfect example of how to create a story line and what happens when it does not work.

When I woke up there was an attack at Oslo, a mass casualty incident... and every expert the media could get screamed "this has the markers of an Al Qaida attack." So far so good.

So the day moves on, as they inevitably do and what comes though the wire.... it was not a Muslim group... it was, surprise surprise, a RW loon... Norway's OKC event.

So CNN, the standard for news... and the place for news when it breaks... literally went from Norway, Al Qaida, and all that, to five minutes of covering heat wave and telling us why we need to feed our animals. The Oslo story, a story that could be argued is of world wide importance... disappeared. Now we all know that if this was Jihad... they'd remain on that story...

To anybody who's read 1984 the conversation from the war with East Asia to the other one was that fast. Think about it. We now have, for all intents and purposes, a ministry of truth.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. We do indeed have just that...nt

[handmade34]

2. yup n/t

[Arrowhead2k1]

3. The media failed hard on this one and owes us an apology.

Even late last night CNN and Fox were still humoring the possibility that this was the work of "jihadists", when it was already clear to everyone paying close enough attention online that this was infact domestic terrorism.

K&R.

[GoneOffShore]

4. Move on, nothing to see.

Just some dead left wing kids and broken glass.

:argh: :banghead: :mad:

[Dawson Leery]

5. Mainstream American media is not much better than

what is seen in the third world.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Actually and this is what is so embarrasing

Give me Mexican media any day of the week... and it used to be this controlled. It was a joke.

[TomCADem]

6. Corporate Censorship - Hiding the Radicalization of the Right Wing

So long as they show up at corporate astroturf, it is all good.

[defendandprotect]

7. I tuned in to BBC for a while to see the coverage --

why would anyone still be watching US news --

I mean BBC isn't even that great -- often looks like ESPN!!



Have they mentioned this guy is a nationalist and a "Christian" -- ???

[jpak]

9. White, Blond, Xtian & Aryan - does not translate to RW "ratings" in Murdock Sickfuck World

yup

[UrbScotty]

10. Ministry of Truth - except has nothing to do with the government and in fact HATES the President

But yeah, sickening how the media jumps to conclusions.

[spanone]

11. our media is broken, possibly beyond repair

[sylveste]

12. i had cnn

on last night for background noise, they covered norway for at least 3 striaght hours, had at least 2 different pressers, interviews with victims, the whole shebang. it was still on when i shut it off to go to sleep. i think they gave it it's due diligence.:shrug:

[JoeyT]

13. That's the point.

They gave it due diligence as long as they thought it was a Muslim. Once it turned out to not be, suddenly due diligence was dead silence.

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. Silly wabbit. CNN is for kids.

[marions ghost]

15. K&R

Also Current

[malaise]

16. If it were Al Qaeda we'd still be having live coverage 24/7

What's amazing is how effectively the Ministry of truth was able to find 'experts' with identical talking points across the globe and of course in every single Murdoch owned media.