Social media users accuse CNN of ‘fake news’ over ‘staged’ London attack pro

Can't really make enough out from the video. Camera crew sets up, sees group who are legitimately having a protest, want to get a film of them but would prefer to stay with the camera trained down the road as it's more recognizable for viewers, ask them to come and rearrange themselves over here in front of the camera - you stand here, you're taller, so stand at the back, etcetera.

Or maybe they kidnapped a few people, forced them into headscarves, shoved placards into their hands and have guns trained on them offscreen to make sure they protest adequately.

Or maybe they organised it well in advance, bring your own placard.

Tbh, I think the first is the most likely in which case I really don't care.

CNN and fake news? Surely not...

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/social-media-users-accuse-cnn-of-fake-news-over-staged-london-attack-protest/news-story/48d9966b71d72a26149b9f9ebae75465

This is like a pantomime rehearsal! And a real eye opener into how the mainstream media operates in this day and age. It's 90% outright lies and propaganda now.


The old saying is true; don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see.

Would you call this fake news?

But if you highlight the bias and controlled manipulation of the mainstream media then your labeled a conspiracy theorist by those that would rather not understand how the world operates. Not the first time fake news CNN were caught manipulating a live event, they did the same with a black lifes matter protest a year ago when they filmed Cops pushing protesters that was staged for CNN.

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

This is like a pantomime rehearsal! And a real eye opener into how the mainstream media operates in this day and age. It's 90% outright lies and propaganda now.

What exactly is the allegation of fake news. Are you saying that CNN instigated the protest? Were they CNN employees / paid by CNN?

conditioned games wrote: »

But if you highlight the bias and controlled manipulation of the mainstream media then your labeled a conspiracy theorist by those that would rather not understand how the world operates. Not the first time fake news CNN were caught manipulating a live event, they did the same with a black lifes matter protest a year ago when they filmed Cops pushing protesters that was staged for CNN.

If the cops were happy to be organised into being filmed shoving protesters for the sake of CNN, then said cops are bloody idiots that deserve all the bad press they got from it. Why would you even put yourself into that position of deliberately showing your police force in a bad light for the sake of a media institution? In short, what?

silverharp wrote: »

saw this on twatter same group in a different location :cool: they seem to be doing a tour of London :pac:

That makes them committed, but it doesn't make them fake.

This looks like a group of genuine people out with their placards and the media and police facilitating them. And, obviously with the demand for 24 hour rolling news coverage, this is going to get airtime (if it was a bunch of people with ISIS flags, it'd be world news).

I wish that when people call this 'fake', they'd spell out exactly what they mean by that.

Collie D wrote: »

Arranged? Quite likely

Fake? Less so

So it is staged but not fake?

Persephone kindness wrote: »

ok we are all friends here. Cool?

You prefer fox ok. I prefer CNN or BBC or RTE. I am a leftie I suppose.

But I think we can all get along

You prefer CNN while I neither prefer CNN or Fox. I prefer to look at the bigger picture and understand what are they trying to achieve.

arayess wrote: »

can you explain why?
cnn are equally as biased as fox .

If you fancy your news as misleading with a dash of progressive liberal...don't be shy say so.

but don't bull**** that CNN in any more newsworthy than fox

I find CNN less inclined to rewrite reality than Fox, but yes, I am on the liberal side of the spectrum. CNN certainly has its flaws (lots) but I've lost all respect for Fox by now, despite having tried to give them a fair shot.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news/

It's a good source for a generally informed fact-check on the general approach of most media sources*. It's worth bearing in mind that a bias is not itself inherently -wrong-; where the problem arises is if that bias is allowed to influence the facts that get stated (and of course noting the -interpretation- given to the facts which is usually the most influenced by bias). The further left or right, the more likely that it might filter in because it's more important to those writing/producing it. I've got it on Fox there, but CNN is also Mixed and its bias is just left of centre-left.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/tv/cnn/
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/tv/fox/

Fox comes out worse most of the time and that is a -terrible- politifact score by anyone's standards. But that's definitely not reason to believe that CNN is a paragon of anything, including sense.

Still though, I think people are jumping the gun and onto the shark assuming that the video above means anything.

*Believe me, I had fun researching this on a car journey a while back. Okay, how do I know that mediabiasfactcheck is unbiased? Overall, I measured based on Politifact and snopes as background sources as I have regularly found them reliable. So far, I have not found anything to indicate that mediabiasfactcheck is anything but intentionally unbiased and factual.