I rarely watch the news anymore. I mean, sometimes I do for a short while when they happen to be on, but with a completely different perspective than, let's say, 10 years ago, but probably more.
Now I can see clearly all the broken old recipes they keep using thinking they are smart, most of their manipulation attempts seem focused to either captive audiences, literally brainwashed over time, or to really dumb people.
I don't want to focus on concrete examples right now but I can find them basically at any news bulletin, or whatever they call them nowadays.
I wanted to get somewhere with this, but I got a little sidetracked.
I don't particularly look for general news online either, unless something interests me. My father has told me about the terrible floods from Valencia, in Spain. I wasn't aware of that, and in a way, despite that being a tragedy for those involved directly or indirectly, is for the better, because news feed off anything negative and rarely present positive news.
The image above is not real, fortunately. But seems consistent with what a field reporter would do - going live from the middle of the water, after a flood.
My father was affected by those news even if they had no direct impact on him or us as a family. He is not at an age or health when he needs more negativity surrounding him. Compared to the past, he reduced news consumption considerably, because he saw by himself they aren't healthy.
But he watched this one. And today he described to me with details what the news was about. He caught many details, which is one way I understood the news got to him, other than what he told me.
One of the images he described was a technique news reporters use until they sicken you: to climb on top of the highest pile of garbage and go live from there.
In this case, it was a reporter climbed on top of "a mountain" of cars and dirt, to say exactly that, that below him it's a montain of cars and dirt. There were also dead people there, in many of those cars. Some maybe had already been pulled out, I don't know. But surely others weren't. So, basically, he climbed on top of corpses, in or out of their cars, to do his live session... Says a lot about what they are capable of...
I haven't seen any recording from there, so maybe my imagination works overtime based on what my father told me... I didn't tell him that, of course.
I hope those people rest in peace wherever they are, because they certainly left this world unexpectedly...
