All CFR Networks manufacture and create news.
This is well known to educated folks that deal in reality.
Propaganda by Edward Bernays (1928)
https://focalizalaatencion.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/herman-chomsky-2002-manufacturingconsent.pdf
Manufacturing Consent - Wikipedia
Fox is a member, so is NBC. They are NO different. Only folks with partisan blinders on, see them as different.
http://www.pennsylvaniacrier.com/filemgmt_data/files/Ruling%20Class%20Journalists.pdf
Brian Williams should have been fired. DAY ONE, End of story. Instead, the moved him from their more prestigious propaganda network, NBC, to their acknowledged shit shoveling, brainwashing network, MSNBC.
That's nice, and any reference to Bernays' Bullshit is always productive. But it's got nothing to do with mics being left on, or what that has to do with the network. Would have been more productive to end the post at the Bernays link, even if off-topic.
"Bernays' Bullshit"
You know, as well as I know, it isn't bullshit. It is the cornerstone of manipulating the thoughts and emotions of the public.
I was commenting on the fact that you think Fox is "faux news," yet somehow the other networks are any different.
It has everything to do with the topic.
You seem to think that Fox is somehow different than MSNBC or NBC. I agree with you, technical difficulties have nothing to do with the dissemination of propaganda, they all do it equally.
OTH, none of them is any better than the other.
You have this delusion that one is better than the other.
They aren't
I'm afraid you've completely misinterpreted "Bernays' Bullshit". It absolutely WAS the dark art of manipulating thought, and as such, Bullshit. I see no socially redeeming value in that whatsoever. Bernays' entire career was built on Bullshit. I fully agree with your citation there.
My comparison was not a value judgment between networks; I noted that (a) the Foxpologists manage to ignore the egregious overreaches of their chosen hypnotist and somehow pretend that an open mic constitutes a "disaster" (which begs the question, what then does "three Mexican countries" constitute), and (b) that open mics have nothing to do with NBC anyway, certainly not its content.
So this is a bust of the OP for
his bullshit in framing that canard. Which is just as insidious as Bernays but obviously done with far less dexterity..
My whole post was directed at the argument you were having with posters over the "Faux is deep in the "active/stupid" category."
If you think any differently of MSNBC or NBC, then you don't get the point of the Bernays reference and you do not understand NBC's relationship to GE or the war profiteers.
AGAIN, the thread is
not about network content, even if it wants to be, even if the OP wishes he could get away with it. Because sound tech failures have nothing to do with content, and arguably nothing to do with the network's structure (being stringers). Therefore there is no comparison of content in play here. I'm simply noting that the OP took an indirect technical issue (that has as just noted nothing to do with content) and calls it a "disaster", while simultaneously ignoring Fox Noise's commitment to far more direct fuckups that ARE related to content. In other words pointing out the OP for a Double Standard.
I'm well aware of questionable owner relationships, in fact if you peruse my past posts you'll note that NBC/GE is my poster child for why that's a bad idea, obviously because a corporation involved in both military contracts and nuclear power is not going to be expected to allow its network to cover either topic objectively. But again --- that's not the topic here, is it.
You'll also note that most of what I post about is tearing apart bad arguments. This is one of those times.
Usually you are smart, but I think you are being stuck on stupid.
I don't think you're grokking where I'm comin' from, man. You're trying to make it about a network comparison. That would be a whole 'nother thread. Again it's nice to wish the thread were about something else but it isn't.
As far as the technical aspects, and the OP? Yeah, we are in agreement. Dump thread, dumb discussion. Stupid reasons for playing partisan politics.
And that's what I noted in the first place. Maybe stop trying to make it about something else.