The credible reality of fake news

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

4 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

11/21/2008

Category :

Arts & media

Sub category :

Journalism

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Summary :

Introduction.
1. The burning Twin Towers toppling down on September 11th, 2001.
2. Bin Laden - hiding in exile under the protection of the corrupt Taliban regime.
We could get on with our lives.
1. Sop crying about 9/11 and see Ben Stiller's 'Zoolander'.
2. 'Axis of Evil'.
The Fake News.
1. The duty of the Fake News.
2. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
3. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death.
The Onion.
1. Undermining the medium of Real Newspapers.
2. The Onion filling in gaps with a humorous edge.
Conclusion.

Abstract

Everybody remembers the moment they first saw footage of the burning Twin Towers toppling down on September 11th, 2001. Everybody remembers the panic that ensued, the news tickers running constantly on all the major television stations giving updates on nothing in particular, the finger-pointing and pundit pontificating, the pictures of grief-stricken families holding up pictures of missing loved ones in vain, the re-viewing of the burning Twin Towers toppling down, maybe from a slightly different angle or in a more exaggerated slow-motion. Everybody remembers how Osama bin Laden, a footnote in the American collective consciousness for masterminding multiple embassy bombings in 1998 and the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, and his Al-Qaeda terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the attacks on 9/11, igniting U.S. military action in Afghanistan, where bin Laden was hiding out in exile under the protection of the corrupt Taliban regime. But what most people don't recall is the media coverage of bin Laden's intentions, or his reasoning for these various terrorist assaults. After 9/11, America became a nation obsessed with asking the wrong questions, and the media was more than willing to answer those wrong questions with the gusto reserved for important information.