Marcus Johnstone
"LIES"
The 'news' (in the mainstream press) isn't as new or important as we're led to believe.
Mainstream media content is very misleading; yet, there aren't often actual "lies" in such slanted and distorted media material.
A lot of what people see and hear in the 'news' is true --though this journalism is only parts of a wider truth, given how some truths (about widespread poverty, for instance) tend to be left out of mainstream journalism. When accurate information actually is conveyed through the mainstream press, that journalism isn't simply a set of lies, but there still can be and there usually are major omissions.
The 'news'-makers also usually don't deliberately lie; instead, journalists and their sources often uncritically repeat myths that are circulated around their societies. In part, those myths are repeated because journalists don't want to lose their jobs; so they often try to produce media content that is in line with mainstream society -- to avoid reprisals from their bosses. Journalists also aren't all-knowing 'experts,' so (even though they adopt voices of authority) a journalist isn't in a position to critically assess everything that they repeat. A lie is a deliberate deception.
"LIES"
The 'news' (in the mainstream press) isn't as new or important as we're led to believe.
Mainstream media content is very misleading; yet, there aren't often actual "lies" in such slanted and distorted media material.
A lot of what people see and hear in the 'news' is true --though this journalism is only parts of a wider truth, given how some truths (about widespread poverty, for instance) tend to be left out of mainstream journalism. When accurate information actually is conveyed through the mainstream press, that journalism isn't simply a set of lies, but there still can be and there usually are major omissions.
The 'news'-makers also usually don't deliberately lie; instead, journalists and their sources often uncritically repeat myths that are circulated around their societies. In part, those myths are repeated because journalists don't want to lose their jobs; so they often try to produce media content that is in line with mainstream society -- to avoid reprisals from their bosses. Journalists also aren't all-knowing 'experts,' so (even though they adopt voices of authority) a journalist isn't in a position to critically assess everything that they repeat. A lie is a deliberate deception.