Wednesday, February 14, 2007

The MetaNews Game: MidEast Aflame


Be aware, Citizens, crank up those propaganda meters. High as they go. Gonna need 'em. For an indeterminate amount of Time.

Shit is happening. Right now.

Your best bet, or the way I play the MetaNews game is to assume everything but the very basics of the story is full of shit. Look, the one thing all of us seems to be able to agree upon is that there is bias in the Media. Some think it's Lefty, the others think it's Righty, so either way, we ALL know we're getting some bullshit here, even if we can't agree on the flavor. And when does the Media go into propaganda spin, where and when does propaganda flourish more than any other? War. Which we're in. So, the forecast calls for the heaviest of bullshit.

See if you can break down the incoming, tainted info to the most basic of non spun facts, that which is incontrovertible. Eliminate assumptions, guesses, analogies, the personal vignettes and angry editorializing, all that shit. Poke and prod what is the bare nugget from which all the spin originates and study it. Then take into account such MetaNews items as setting, interview choices, who is allowed to finish their sentences, who gets cut off, which side (if any) do we see only victims, which side (if any) do we see only as evil, and on and on and on...

Open your eyes. read from multiple sources. If you are a Righty, be aware and pissed of not only about the presence of Lefty spin but Righty spin also. Same with the Lefties. You see any spin and you're no longer reading Truth, which means, Righty or Lefty, you might as well be reading a comic book or chewing bubblegum or jerking off.

Move forward from all that and get, maybe, some inkling of what the Real Deal is. Cuz there's always a Real Deal out there somewhere, Citizens, you just have to look real hard for it these days. Reeeeaaaaal hard. Hey, omnipresent bullshit, what are you gonna do? We've been here for some time now.

You get what I'm saying here? Ask not who kidnapped the soldiers, but rather, ask if the soldiers ever even existed. Question EVERYTHING.

Get at the Truth, Citizens, as best you can.

That is all.

-iSenseChange. Don't you? Like, right now?

p.p. I did get one piece of pure Truth, and it was from CNN's Nick Robertson. What did he say? “All bets are off.” You got that right, Nick.

p.p.p. Wild Guess: Iran is about to get hit REALLY HARD. And not by Israel.

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