Last Night In Sweden

"'Last Night in Sweden'? Trump's Remark Baffles a Nation": http://nyti.ms/2l9ekIg

What else are we being told that is wrong? Especially that which is less important than national security.

Kinda like Facebook reporting false numbers re advertising. I know you hate ads, and so do I, but Madison Avenue is up in arms. Because if you can't trust Facebook...

You certainly cannot trust the "Wall Street Journal."

In case you haven't been paying attention, and who could, with so many stories flying around, the WSJ reporters pushed back against the editor, saying he was going soft on Trump. The editor blew back, but when reporting upon the shenanigans in Sweden, of which there were none, the WSJ did not make the link to the also Murdoch controlled Fox News, which other outlets did. You see Tucker Carlson interviewed a filmmaker who spread the Swedish falsehood, which is probably where Trump got it, which is scary on two levels, that the WSJ is self-editing and Trump believes everything he sees and reads, when they tell you in second grade not to.

But then we've got the Grammys. Am I the only one who was flummoxed by Beyonce's performance? I'm reading everywhere how stellar it was and how the Grammy organization is racist but is the truth no one in the media was willing to say it was self-indulgent and incomprehensible and having her introduced by her mother was a bridge too far? Never mind reading her thank yous off a gold card as if there was any doubt she'd win.

Not that the Grammy organization is not racist, I believe it is. It's too many old white men voting, but the truth is I don't care who wins a Grammy and you shouldn't either, the awards have been out of touch since their inception, but Neil Portnow denied there was a problem and that was it. Huh? How about an excavation of the voter rolls. But that can't happen, because the media is short-handed, what entertainment reporters who are left can only print press releases.

And then there's the strange case of Katy Perry's Grammy performance.

Compare the original with the auto-tuned version now sitting on the Grammy site:

http://uproxx.com/music/katy-perry-grammys-2017-performance/

https://www.grammy.com/videos/katy-perry-grammy-performance-chained-to-the-rhythm

Used to be you had to know how to sing, or suffer the consequences. But now no-talents who can't hold a tune are paraded as worthy superstars and you wonder why the older generation is flummoxed and kids today believe in themselves as opposed to the fakes.

It's our whole society that's fake.

It's just that the mainstream has gone show biz. And now everyone can see the duplicity.

And the truth is everyone's just getting the news they want and it doesn't matter if it's right somewhere else. The ring wing has denigrated the "New York Times" to the point of irrelevancy. It's been a thirty year plan.

Akin to the multi-year plans employed in the music industry.

You know why your indie band can't win, can't get heard over the pop noise? Because the usual suspect companies control the media and are force-feeding this crap to the public. Radio stations are beholden to major labels and there's no independence, no chances are taken.

So, if this weren't an issue of national security, no media outlet of significance would be questioning Trump's falsehoods. So think of what else you're exposed to that is also false.

When you read how big an act is, what the grosses are, should you believe them?

In many cases, no.


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