6 Subtle Ways The News Media Disguises BS As Fact

6 Subtle Ways The News Media Disguises BS (censored) As Fact

Came across this article on one of my favorite comedy websites and thought it might be of interest to some of my fellow MSM haters here at ATS. While it is a comedy/satire site, don't let that diminish the truth behind their words. You can pick out almost any article in any newspaper, online source, magazine... you name it, and you'll see these tactics used.

As anybody who has ever wistfully imagined Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly fighting to the death over a pit of lava knows, most media outlets are biased. Usually it's not part of anybody's grand scheme to brainwash you, but rather just the result of newsrooms being staffed by fallible, opinionated humans.

The problem is they're generally not allowed to come right out and say they think the subject of their news story is a flaming douchebag, so they have to rely on subtle and sometimes downright dishonest methods to gently sway you one way or the other.

www.cracked.com (Note: had to use TinyURL since the original URL uses profanity. Damn censors! haha)

Love this site... always great for a good laugh.

Thanks for the link.

This is a very good article from Cracked actually.

Maybe one of the best they have ever made, when it comes to spreading good common sense.

And they still got some good jokes in, nice.

I liked the section where the author points out the Implying without saying tactic so many media outlets use.

And burying the facts where few will find them. So true.