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You can now look at someone else's imagination.
How often do you? How often, say, do you think you are looking at a news event? How much actual do they need to stick in on the scene to make it fly?
I used to live, as I mentioned, in Asia, and we would get CNN out there. I don’t want to single out CNN particularly for opprobrium, but they are sort of an international news organization that you can pick up on cable channels all over the world.Or what else might be happening and you're shown horse shit to cover for it?
There was one particular instance where I’m in Kuala Lumpur and there was a riot going on on CNN, on television, in a restaurant. It was being carried live. And we’re looking at the television screen, and we’re at the site where this riot is supposed to be taking place. And there’s no riot there! [Kerry laughs]
We’re watching and we’re all looking at each other. We’re watching the screen and we’re saying: What is this?
It turns out there were three or four people in a corner somewhere and a camera was on them. And the way it looked, it looked as if there were all of these really angry people rioting.
I was getting a phone call from friends of mine saying: Go away! Get out! There’s a riot taking place. We can see it on television. And we’re all sitting in the restaurant saying: Well, where’s the riot?
You know, there is no riot. I mean, it was manufactured news, essentially. And if that happened that one time, how many other times has this happened? How much of our news is being manipulated or controlled or created, you know, as we watch it?
I keep telling you there's only one way to turn this around and I don't think anyone's taking me seriously.
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Unfortunately does exist... I think.
always and any time....
