Negative Space: media mischief
- Always get tape
- As Val Kilmer said in Thunderheart, Always get tape. The more your interviewer fears tape, the more important it is that you get it. And the mainstream media fears tape more than corrupt cops do.
- Showboat media and showboat killers
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Showboat killers share a very important trait with the news media: they both want to become the top news story, and neither really care why they’re talked about.
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- Coronavirus and the pernicious effect of the media’s lies about Donald Trump
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“This is what the media lies do. What Trump actually says is ‘Some people are unaware they’re ill, so they go to work.’ What the media reports is ‘Trump tells people to go to work if they’re sick.’ Sadly (as I’m sure the media knows), there are credulous people out there who take those deliberately wrong reports at face value, unnecessarily spreading the virus.”