From Honest Deceit to Lies of Omission In August 2019, I took my debut comedy special, Orwell That Ends Well, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Edinburgh, the biggest arts festival in the world, can be a daunting task for a relatively new comic - with thousands of other shows to compete against getting bums on seats is notoriously difficult.
Great article. I have been a fan of yours and Triggernometry for over a year and just upgraded today. MSM have outed themselves in full ideological regalia with their non-coverage. In a NY Post editorial column today the writer noted a beautiful German word "totscwheigetaktik," meaning "death by silence." Hopefully, it may finally be true that it's their own death these "newsrooms" cause by their silence. I wonder if there is a beautiful word in a foreign language that means something like "unintended suicide by self reverential, anti-enlightenment nincompoops through lying by omission"? It's a wordy concept in English.
This article reminds of your recent interview of Ariel Pink.
I've been a fan of his music for many years, and it's sad to learn why I haven't seen any new releases from him recently.
One of the contentious back-and-forth's in the interview focused on Ariel's belief that much of the cancellation and character assassinations by corporate media over the past several years was intentional and planned. You and Francis disagreed and proposed that the origin of these efforts were more due to groupthink than orchestrated action.
I can completely understand why Ariel feels like the cancellation of his career and social circles in L.A. and the music industry was intentional. The misreporting of his attendance at the Jan. 06 capitol riot was never corrected. That correction could've been confirmed and reported on as early as the next day. Yet, it never was. Now, two years later, the damage is done and irreversible. You cannot remedy reputation destruction, and the corporate press knows that. These outlets actively chose to not correct their own misinformation. I don't blame Ariel for seeing this as planned execution.
Choosing not to report a story IS as an active form of narrative creation. It is as much propaganda as reporting of a false news story with no proper vetting or sourcing is. We can talk all day about the need for media outlets to stick to traditional journalistic standards. But no amount of political or market pressure can FORCE an outlet to give something headlines or airtime. And therein lies the truth of the power dynamic. In America, you have the right to remain silent. For better and for worse.
As long as the press exercises this right, it will always be in the power position.
Great article. I have been a fan of yours and Triggernometry for over a year and just upgraded today. MSM have outed themselves in full ideological regalia with their non-coverage. In a NY Post editorial column today the writer noted a beautiful German word "totscwheigetaktik," meaning "death by silence." Hopefully, it may finally be true that it's their own death these "newsrooms" cause by their silence. I wonder if there is a beautiful word in a foreign language that means something like "unintended suicide by self reverential, anti-enlightenment nincompoops through lying by omission"? It's a wordy concept in English.
This article reminds of your recent interview of Ariel Pink.
I've been a fan of his music for many years, and it's sad to learn why I haven't seen any new releases from him recently.
One of the contentious back-and-forth's in the interview focused on Ariel's belief that much of the cancellation and character assassinations by corporate media over the past several years was intentional and planned. You and Francis disagreed and proposed that the origin of these efforts were more due to groupthink than orchestrated action.
I can completely understand why Ariel feels like the cancellation of his career and social circles in L.A. and the music industry was intentional. The misreporting of his attendance at the Jan. 06 capitol riot was never corrected. That correction could've been confirmed and reported on as early as the next day. Yet, it never was. Now, two years later, the damage is done and irreversible. You cannot remedy reputation destruction, and the corporate press knows that. These outlets actively chose to not correct their own misinformation. I don't blame Ariel for seeing this as planned execution.
Choosing not to report a story IS as an active form of narrative creation. It is as much propaganda as reporting of a false news story with no proper vetting or sourcing is. We can talk all day about the need for media outlets to stick to traditional journalistic standards. But no amount of political or market pressure can FORCE an outlet to give something headlines or airtime. And therein lies the truth of the power dynamic. In America, you have the right to remain silent. For better and for worse.
As long as the press exercises this right, it will always be in the power position.