I would like to start a new service here. It appears to me that the MSM is now writing in an entirely new dialect of English, one that depends entirely on elision and doublethink.
Triplethink really.
Triplethink.
1-There is what is REALLY happening. Things DO really happen, you know. People die, bribes are given and taken, secretive forces pull strings and puppets do their little dances...
2-There is what the various corporate interests that run the MSM want us to THINK is happening. That the puppets are real creatures, that their puppet lives are the real thing.
And
3-There are the means that they use...language and images...to animate their puppet show into a believable production. An ALMOST believable production, anyway...we all see through it once in a while, laborers and professors alike. But then we are lulled back to sleep by the sheer volume of false information, and the show continues unabated.
Read on.
As
an unnamed senior BushCo advisor informed the NY Times writer Ron Suskind way back in the summer of 2002:
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The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'
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How do they do this?
How do they create new realities?
They have so far maintained almost complete control of the news process. They create diversions when news outlets that are out of their direct control...the internet particularly...shine a light on #1 above. What is REALLY happening. The more destructive that information promises to be for them, the greater the diversions.
WMDs.
Weapons of Mass Diversion.
So I am going to start deconstructing and then REconstructing the news. And I am going to use the headlines at Google News...the CNN/USA Today of the internet...to do so.
We here are continually chasing OLD realities. THAT is the real story of the left blogoshpere. From the 2000 election theft right on through the current Rove thing. But...by the time we get any traction whatsoever on what is happening, it is not happening anymore. Not in the media, anyway, and if it does not happen in the media...then it IS NOT REAL. It is not real to a large enough number of people to make a difference, anyway.
We must start to create our OWN realities....another political party perhaps, or a revolution within the Democratic Party. But we cannot and will not do this if we still believe that the reality we are being fed...whether it is John Kerry as the only viable candidate in 2003, Howard Dean as a wild eyed revolutionary fool who cannot win or John Roberts as a harmless suburban Mommy/Daddy blue-eyed kinda guy ...is even a SHRED of what is really happening.
So...on with the show.
First you have to REconstruct "reality" before you can DO anything about it.
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GOOGLE NEWS HEADLINES: 1PM, EST 7/30/2005
Now the FIRST thing you must understand is that placement matters. Above the fold in dKos parlance, we have these thrillers.
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NEW RAIDS AS BRITISH POLICE AWAIT EXTRADITION FROM ITALY
New York Times - 1 hour ago
LONDON, July 30 - With all four suspected bombers in the failed London attacks of nine days ago now in custody, Britain pressed on Saturday for one of the men, who was captured in Rome, to be returned for interrogation while the police in Italy continued ...
Italy: Bombing Suspect Talking FOX News
Osman to face extradition Channel 4 News
CBC News - Telegraph.co.uk - Scotsman - Los Angeles Times - all 1,262 related »
US, NORTH KOREA TO HOLD SIXTH DAY OF NUCLEAR TALKS SUNDAY
Bloomberg - 59 minutes ago
July 30 (Bloomberg) -- The US, North Korea and four other nations will hold a sixth day of talks Sunday to establish an agreement that may put an end to North Korea's nuclear arms program. ``Tomorrow we'll ...
North Korea nuclear talks enter uncharted territory Boston Globe
Envoys positive on Chinese draft at N. Korea talks Reuters.uk
CNN International - Reuters - Guardian Unlimited - New York Times - all 894 related »
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And on the right side of the page...some teasers.
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Murdoch resignation sparks debate
Shuttle damage 'not fatal'
Woods fires 61 at Buick Open to equal career best score
Lohan skips premiere for parents' divorce
2 suburban men diagnosed with West Nile Virus
In The News
Rupert Murdoch
Department Stores
Manny Ramirez
Larry Brown
John Roberts
Michelle Wie
Jenson Button
Michael Phelps
Michael Schumacher
White Sox
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What are we being told? We are being told that THIS is what is important today.
The British are going to solve the "terrorist" bombings even MORE. And they have already solved them, anyway, those brilliant Brit Scotland Yard Sherlocks. (No word on that little error...the dead Brazilian with the 7 holes in his head. No word of the MANY peculiarities that are rife within this story. Not the least being its timing. It has COMPLETELY blown Rovegate off of the front pages. Off of ANY pages, actually.)
The U.S and N. Korea are "talking". About ending the N. Korean nuclear effort. We are supposed to believe this. How many decades have these nuclear palavers been going on now? And how many nuclear powers are there now? Non-proliferation my ass. But here it is...hottest thing ever. Big news.
The rest above the fold?
Eight...count `em...EIGHT sports stories.
A teen aged bad actress skips the premiere of her totally empty movie to go home and watch her parents get divorced.
Booga booga...gonna get W. Nile virus. How many years has this been going on? Are we all dead yet?
Rupert Mudoch's spoiled son quits his ceremonial position as editor of possibly the worst newspaper ever to exist in America.
The shuttle is/isn't...no one seems to know...completely fucked up. This is NEWS? That America is now almost totally incompetent? A dysfunctional technological society run by graduates of a decontented educational system?
And...oh yes. John Roberts. Just a little afterthought. I mean...who here thinks that he is not going to be appointed? I mean...he takes a good picture, right? And he was involved in Iran-Contra and the 2000 (s)election fraud in Florida. Those things are apparently now part of the necessary resume to work in this government.
And now below the fold.
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LET'S TALK, SINN FEIN NEGOTIATOR TELLS N. IRISH FOE
Right. This has been over since Ireland began to make money.
MUSHARRAF WANTS OBSCURANTISTS REJECTED "President Pervez Musharraf called upon the people on Saturday to reject obscurantist and support progressive and enlightened forces to take the country forward on the path of development and prosperity."
Who writes this shit? Sounds like Pravda, circa 1961.
What is an "obscurantist" again?
Merriam Webster Online: Obscurantist- 1 : opposition to the spread of knowledge : a policy of withholding knowledge from the general public
2 a: a style (as in literature or art) characterized by deliberate vagueness or abstruseness b : an act or instance of obscurantism
Oh.
Like Donald Rumsfeld.
Nevermind...
REBEL LEADER PLOTTING NEW ATTACKS
More Muslims opposing another kleptocracy. This time Chechnya vs. RussiaCorp. Same war, different front.
SENATOR NOW OPPOSES BUSH ON STEM CELLS
Frist is running for President.
LIGHTNING KILLS SCOUT, TROOP LEADER IN SEQUOIA
Now THERE's some news. People outdoors get hit by lightning. News at 11.
And then WAAAAY down at the bottom of the "news'= section...
REPORT: BUSH TO APPOINT BOLTON NEXT WEEK. "President Bush plans to take advantage of the congressional summer vacation by installing John Bolton -- his controversial choice to be US ambassador to the United Nations -- in the job next week, according to a report in the Associated Press..."
If you click the link, you THEN get:
"The move, known as a recess appointment, would bypass Bolton's critics in the Senate and would allow him to serve as the American voice before the United Nations until the next session of Congress begins in January 2007. Bush is expected to announce that he will be making the recess appointment next week."
Ohhh well...there goes the NEXT two years.
SAY!!! He has the same references as Roberts does!!! (Doesn't take as good a picture, though.)
The story goes on to say how a group of Dem Senators are writing a letter to Bush begging him not to do this. Groveling, whipped curs that they are. May as well write some letters to the editor, too, for all the good it will do them.
BWAAAaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
MURDOCH RESIGNATION SPARKS DEBATE
Duh. Fox News.
A BITTER DIVORCE "Already in a downward spiral, the American union movement emerged this week from a pivotal confrontation with its future even more in doubt."
Labor is finished. We win.
CHEVRON REPORTS DROP IN SECOND-QUARTER PROFIT
Better get that war back into high gear, folks. We're leaking MONEY here!!!
SHUTTLE DAMAGE 'NOT FATAL' "THE space shuttle Discovery was hit 25 times during its launch but the impacts caused small dings and no substantial damage, NASA said. Most of the collisions were with popcorn-sized pieces of foam that broke from the fuel tank".
HMMMM...I hade trouble with my Ford fuel tank. But I didn't cancel the whole automobile program. What's the story, here?
ASTRONOMERS CLAIM 10TH PLANET
THAT'S gonna impact the current situation, eh?
HEWLETT-PACKARD UNPLUGS ITS IPOD DEAL
Business as usual.
Plus a bunch of corporate sports news
WOODS FIRES 61 AT BUICK OPEN TO EQUAL CAREER BEST SCORE
MINNESOTA TWINS (54-48) AT BOSTON RED SOX (57-45), 7:05 PM
SLAM! SPORTS
Plus a bunch of corporate "entertainment" news.
LOHAN SKIPS PREMIERE FOR PARENTS' DIVORCE
PAULA GETS AN "IDOL" TIMELINE
JULIA ROBERTS TO MAKE HER BROADWAY DEBUT IN `THREE DAYS OF RAIN'
Roberts' eating disorders have gotten so bad that if she stands sideways on the stage she will disappear. Won't even throw a shadow. Guaranteed.
Plus a bunch of corporate Big Medicine/Big Pharma/Big Insurance booga booga we are all going to die so take these meds and SHUT UP news.
2 SUBURBAN MEN DIAGNOSED WITH WEST NILE VIRUS
HRT CANCER CAUSING, SAYS WHO
No...not THOSE meds. THESE meds. They're NEW!!! They're BETTER!!! They're new AND better!!! Says WHO? Says ME!!! Doctor Big Brother. And let's kill all those damned mosquitoes, too.
CHINA EDUCATES FARMERS ON PIG-BORNE DISEASE
MAN those Chinese are primitive and dirty!!!
Plus:
ASIA-PACIFIC COUNTRIES JOIN US, AUSTRALIA TO CONTROL CLIMATE
Just so long as we don't have to stop burning things to produce energy...
UZBEKISTAN EVICTS US FROM AIR BASE
SHIT!!! Now only have 776 bases!!! Guess we'll have to use them subs.
CAN ANTITERROR FATWA HAVE IMPACT ON MILITANTS
Some tame mullahs weigh in. THAT'S gonna work, right!!!???
So...what's missing?
1-NOT A WORD ABOUT IRAQ. The dog that did not bark. Must have been HELLISH over there yesterday.
2- NOT A WORD ABOUT ROVE. Nothing. No Fitzgerald, no Plame, no Scooter, no Cheney, no Bush, no NUTHIN' A non-story. Didn't happen . ISN'T happening. And it ain't GONNA happen.
Forget about it.
What story?
And who is this Rove fella again?
Too many other REALLY important stories.
Like Lindsey Lohan.
RIIIGHT.
I get yer Weapons of Mass Distraction, right HERE!!!
Saaaay...does she know the Bush girls?
SSS.
Some Sad Shit
How do we break free of this mess?
Damned if I know.
But understanding what is up is as good a start as I can figure out so far.
We have to create our OWN reality.
One that is as powerful as theirs.
Take off the mindcuffs.
And until we do...we don't.
So far...BushCo +178, US -17.
I got yer reality, right HERE!!!
Charles