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The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions Kindle Edition
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What are the real world effects of fake news stories that go viral? Did it affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? Or is ‘fake news’ a fake problem, designed to justify tighter control over the mechanisms of sharing information online to drive audiences back to brand name media outlets because their audiences and influence are dwindling?
Media analyst Mark Dice takes a close look at the fake news phenomenon and the implications of mega-corporations like Facebook, Google, and Twitter becoming the ultimate gatekeepers and distributors of news and information.
You will see the powerful and deceptive methods of manipulation that affect us all, as numerous organizations and political activists cunningly plot to have their stories seen, heard, and believed by as many people as possible.
The depths of lies, distortions, and omissions from traditional mainstream media will shock you; and now they’re colluding with the top tech companies trying to maintain their information monopolies. This is The True Story of Fake News.
About the Author
Mark's YouTube channel has over 1 million subscribers and more than 300 million views, and his viral videos have been mentioned on the Fox News Channel, CNN, the Drudge Report, TMZ, the New York Daily News, the Washington Times, and other media outlets around the world.
He has been featured on various television shows including the History Channel's Decoded and America's Book of Secrets; Secret Societies of Hollywood on E! Channel, America Declassified on the Travel Channel, and more.
He has a bachelor's degree in communication from California State University, and is the author of 12 books.
--This text refers to the paperback edition.- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 2, 2017
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- ASIN : B0774LKXW9
- Publisher : The Resistance Manifesto (November 2, 2017)
- Publication date : November 2, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 3102 KB
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About the author
Mark Dice is a media analyst and author who, in an entertaining and educational way, exposes our celebrity-obsessed culture and the role mainstream media plays in shaping our lives.
Mark's YouTube channel has over 1.8 million subscribers and more than 500 million views, and his viral videos have been mentioned on the Fox News Channel, the Drudge Report, the Washington Times, and other media outlets around the world.
He has been featured on various television shows including the History Channel's Decoded and America’s Book of Secrets; Secret Societies of Hollywood on E! Channel, America Declassified on the Travel Channel, and more.
He has a bachelor's degree in communication from California State University, and is the author of 14 books.
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I stopped watching channels like Mike Dice and Alex Jones. Years passed.
Then I find myself in 2021, wondering why people are trying to force other people to receive an experimental medication. Even the president of thew United States is trying to force it. Something is wrong!
The bubble I'd been living in since 1996...the bubble devoid of politics, political affiliation, or even the daily news...popped. I turned to the internet to look into things that I'd been avoiding for so long. I learned that the "left" and the "right" pretty much hate each other. That there are "Conservative" and "Liberal" news channels on television. (I haven't owned a television in 15 years.) That they may have gone a long way to deceptively paint the guy who gave Kevin McCallister directions to the lobby in beginning of Home Alone 2 as a racist and criminal.
In my searches, I found my way back to Mark Dice. For the first time since his "You're At A Bookstore Instead of Watching The Superbowl?!" video. Why did I find my way back to Dice? How? That's simple...because he was one of the few people actually talking about the important things going on, one of the few people willing to question these things, and one of the few people who seemed like he knew what he was talking about.
So I bought this book because I'd been hearing about "fake news" since I pulled my head out of the sand and I wanted Mark Dice's opinion on it. This book is great, the only caveat is that it's 2017, so now 5 years old. A lot has happened in those 5 years. Still a great book if you don't mind footnotes instead of endnotes!
Mark Dice (formerly known as John Conner) is a brilliant man, and although I don't ALWAYS agree with him, I'd love to read more of his books. He has several interesting titles with a high level of great reviews...so head on over to Amazon aaaand check 'em out!
In this book, Mark Dice attacks mainstream media. By that is meant not only the standard media channels like CNN, ABC, MSNBC, CBC, etc., but also the internet social media and reference sites, such as Wikipedia.
Dice first goes after social media. I would have thought that social media would have been fairly free of bias, but the contrary is mostly true. Google has the ability to manipulate how searches are performed in order to favor a liberal bias. Facebook tends to have a horrid bias in how it censures conservative vs. liberal media. Dice’s complaint about U-tube is in how it manipulates advertising revenues based on the “offensiveness” of content, and offensive is often deemed as anything of a conservative nature. Since Dice depended heavily on revenues acquired with U-tube, it has affected him most heavily.
The attack then rages against the standard media channels. Step-wise through the various media channels, Dice documents many incidents where the media either created the news or manipulated the recording of the news (for instance, editing out segments of comments to make them say exactly the opposite of what was said) in order to provide a strong liberal bias. Sadly, he does not include Fox News, which has also manipulated how it reports the news in order to force a bias in the direction that Fox News wished. I am sure that the examples provided by Dice are just the tip of the iceberg in how our news is manipulated to heavily biased ends.
The book is slightly tedious to read. His short last chapter provides a brief overview summary of the problems in fake news. This is where I know Mark Dice could have used his book as a springboard to discuss the problem of news bias and what to do about it. 1. What alternatives do we have in attempting to gain news without a distorted slant? 2. How do we live with the news swamp that is currently given to us? 3. What other sources of news are available? 4. What ways can we protest social media in an effective fashion? Is boycotting social media the best action? 5. What grass-roots efforts are available that seem to be effective at forcing more responsibility with the news media?
Since news will always be biased, we cannot simply demand news without “bias”. The reporter holding a world view similar to our own would be helpful. The only effort that I am aware of to provide more conservative newsagents has been the World Journalism Institute, though even it has had somewhat of a neo-conservative bias reflected by the parent news magazine, World Magazine. Reporters of a conservative bent have found it overwhelmingly challenging to live in the liberal shark tanks of the liberal press. Too often, like Ross Douthat, they have caved and showed themselves mostly as liberals in sheep’s clothing, perhaps having a pro-life stance, but otherwise being rottenly liberal to the core. Hopefully, Mark Dice will think through and provide a better scheme that conservatives could use to confront the liberal (and lying) press.