Tango01 | 14 Aug 2018 1:00 p.m. PST |
"Is fake news a new phenomenon? Not at all. It turns out, the more things change, the more they stay the same, or as the French say, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Thresher01 | 14 Aug 2018 1:53 p.m. PST |
Well, the Iraqi Defense Minister was rather infamous for initially denying we'd taken their main airport in Baghdad, back in the 1990a, and then later, freaked out and eventually exclaimed that "….the Americans were everywhere, even on the moon…", so that video clip was rather entertaining to watch. |
robert piepenbrink | 14 Aug 2018 2:56 p.m. PST |
The "War of the Worlds" hysteria the author cites is not fake news, but fake history--well, bad history, anyway. Track the stories of panic backward, and they mostly come from Orson Wells himself. But there is no shortage of United States newspapers in 1814 reporting non-existent or exagerated Napoleonic victories in Europe. In some US newspapers, he captured the Tsar, the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia. And despite that, there is a historian out there with an account of slave revolts in the United States based entirely on accounts published in Europe with no American evidence whatever. All hushed up here, you see. |
whitejamest | 14 Aug 2018 3:10 p.m. PST |
Yes, fake stories have been spread since time immemorial, and politicians have lied about true ones for about as long. |
Thresher01 | 14 Aug 2018 6:17 p.m. PST |
Ooops, looks like Baghdad Bob was the Information Minister, and not the Defense Minister. I miss him. He was always good for a laugh, or three. |
3AcresAndATau | 14 Aug 2018 8:39 p.m. PST |
What about the yellow journalism and media outrage mob surrounding the Spanish Americans War, including the sinking of the Maine. The papers whipped a lot of people into a frenzy so we could go fight that "splendid little war". |
Cacique Caribe | 15 Aug 2018 2:49 a.m. PST |
One word … Greenland. Seriously, how else could Eric the Red have gotten his people to colonize there. :) Dan |
Bismarck | 15 Aug 2018 6:37 a.m. PST |
the "Dewey Wins" newspaper headline shown in the famous picture with Harry Truman holding up a copy of the paper after his election. |
Old Wolfman | 15 Aug 2018 7:06 a.m. PST |
And before Orson Welles,in the 1920's,even the BBC had listeners believing what was really only a radio play,that an anarchist insurrection was taking place in London ."Broadcasting the Barricades" |
rmaker | 15 Aug 2018 10:00 a.m. PST |
Under Napoleon, the phrase "To lie like a bulletin" passed into the French language. |
Tango01 | 15 Aug 2018 11:11 a.m. PST |
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Oberlindes Sol LIC | 15 Aug 2018 11:17 a.m. PST |
I was in China during the invasion of Iraq, and we saw a lot of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, the Iraqi Minister of Information. He was hilarious. "No, those are not American tanks that you see out there behind me. Those are tanks that we captured from the Americans!" I was thinking that after the war, he'd get a job advertising the health benefits of cigarettes or something like that, but apparently he just retired quietly to the United Arab Emirates. link |
Cacique Caribe | 15 Aug 2018 11:45 a.m. PST |
Oberlindes Whenever I hear the phrase "retired quietly" I always imagine a pillow over the person's face. It must be my Latin side coming out. :) Dan |