Disclaimer and Terms of Service for “Fake News”
Nothing stated in “Fake News” has been has been discovered,
checked, researched, or verified in any way. All “facts” listed here are
products of the author’s imagination, and the author is completely indifferent
about whether or not these facts are a representation of reality.
If you’re too lazy to read about, or to question, the source
of the data that you rely on, and you wind up quoting one of these facts for
journalistic work or an academic publication, well, gee, sorry, I guess…
Especially if you live in a Western culture, every day you
hear many thousands of cited “facts”, “figures”, and “statistics”. A great deal
of the “information” you hear is an agenda-driven, semi-clever, mathematical
and semantic marketing manipulation, an outright misstatement, or just pure
unadulterated horseshit, as fresh and filthy as the day is long. Normally it’s
intended to create a sense of dread, fascination, or urgency. Producing information
as an entertainment commodity has become one of the highest-profiting industries
in the history of our galaxy.
Don’t you think that, maybe once in a while, you ought to
take a step back from it all, try to figure out who’s really saying what, and
why? Maybe take a breath, calm down a little? Let the nature of the thing swirl around in your head for a while? Then think about who the stakeholders and who the advertisers are, and what they really care about? And who among them might be
trying to sell you snake oil?
I know that at least some of you do.... I sometimes can't help but think the world might
be a nicer place if more of us did.
