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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- Full Court Media Press: We’re Not Inciting Our Political Allies to Shoot Trump
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“…what motivates most assassins is the feeling that their actions will one day be praised as heroic and courageous. And the New York Times and Dallas Morning News are telling all potential assassins that they don’t need to wait for history to vindicate them: They are ready to vindicate them right now, and praise them as heroes for taking that glorious shot.”
- 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.”
