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What I Learned Today About Stenography Media

by: Dean Barker

Tue Dec 28, 2010 at 20:37:00 PM EST
What I learned today is that moving into 2011 it is even easier for shady operatives to send phony stories up the stovepipe of stenography media than it was two years ago, or even a year ago.  Linkbait is increasingly trumping basic journalistic standards such as fact checking. Drudge still rules their world.

I also learned that a strong pushback works.  

But this is not a remedy.  Getting corrections after the fact doesn't mitigate the damage that was already done to the truth.

What does work is the marginalization that comes with the absence of credibility. It's a big internet, and the beauty of it is that anyone can set up shop and write whatever; it's only when others give it credence that it matters.

For example, after today, media outlets here and nationally who take anything NHJournal says seriously deserve to be laughed at.
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Doubtless, we will get more chances to laugh at the media outlets.  The odd thing about the Shea-Porter smears is that most of them (virtually all of them, really) don't stand up to even the most trivial fact-checking--- or even to simple logic.  But the teabaggers keep repeating these smears anyway.
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If my hypothesis is correct and it takes three exposures for (0.00 / 0)
information to even register, then rapid debunking will be effective.

On the other hand, autocrats target people for any number of reason having nothing to do with the target herself.  Most just like to get public notice and orchestrate any kerfuffle to do so.  Lots of insecure people think that just getting noticed in the press, for whatever reason, makes them important and they'd just as soon not wait until their obituary is published.

Why do public persons get harassed?  Because they're in the public eye and because the instinct-driven are jealous.

I used to wonder what the role of envy is to get it manifest as one of the seven deadly sins.  Now I think that in its benign form, envy leads to imitation (a good thing) and adulation (a harmless thing), and it's not until envy is frustrated (imitation produces bad results?) that it turns into jealousy and wrath.

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