One nice thing about PDF documents is the pretty pictures.
Granted: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this image shows the extreme disconnect between reported facts and actual reality like no other (in my not so humble opinion 😉 ). Anyone who believes that the advertising industry is all about honesty has a few things to learn about misinformation. Nonetheless, this graphic depicts “Wirtschaftsunternehmen” (roughly: “business concerns”) as the least prone to practice misinformation — at only 30%, compared to the “average Joe” you might meet on any street corner (listed at 50%).
I became aware of this so-called “study” published last week because it was drilled over and over into every household paying attention to German so-called “public” (and also “mainstream”) news media, hammered home hour upon hour so that even the average Joes passed-out drunk on the couch would be mesmerized by this state support system for the German publishing industry, of which Bertelsmann is a rather large example.
And therein lies the rub, of course. Do you think one of the largest publishers is prone to tell you that the publishing industry is full of shit? No! Of course not!
According to Bertelsmann, what is full of shit, lies, misinformation, propaganda and all sorts of evil things is “social media” — or rather Bertelsmann determined that the average Joes (whether standing around on street corners or comatose on couches) become aware of misinformation predominantly via “social media“. Yet of course “social media” still remains a term which cannot be defined. “Social media” is simply couched as “the bullshit that other people create”. Bertelsmann bullshit comes across as clean, healthy, respectable and such.
LMFAO! 😀
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