WTF, CNN?

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WTF, CNN?

Postby Et in Arcadia ego » Sat Jul 15, 2006 4:24 am

Not that I'm very surprised, but I just found this to be totally surreal..<br><br>I'm looking on CNN every once in a while now keeping track on how long we have till Armageddon starts, and I notice an advertisement for CNN's online videos. In the pic I see a burning *something* and the text says 'Explosives found' with something that looks like LA as the location. I have no recolection of this, of course, so I decide to use the macromedia function of zooming in on the pic.<br><br>I was very surprised at what I found.<br><br>When you zoom into pics that are screen resolution(72 dpi), you come closer to the bare pixels with each zoom, and eventually find yourself confronted with individual pixels.<br><br>This was not the case in this image; instead, I found myself looking at a clever vector illustration that very effectively passed for flames when zoomed out to the original size.<br><br>This is FAKE FUCKING MEDIA..<br><br>Look for yourself:<br><br>Not that I'm very surprised, but I just found this to be totally surreal..<br><br>I'm looking on CNN every once in a while now keeping track on how long we have till Armageddon starts, and I notice an advertisement for CNN's online videos. In the pic I see a burning *something* and the text says 'Explosives found' with something that looks like LA as the location. I have no recolection of this, of course, so I decide to use the macromedia function of zooming in on the pic.<br><br>I was very surprised at what I found.<br><br>When you zoom into pics that are screen resolution(72 dpi), you come closer to the bare pixels with each zoom, and eventually find yourself confronted with individual pixels.<br><br>This was not the case in this image; instead, I found myself looking at a clever vector illustration that very effectively passed for flames when zoomed out to the original size.<br><br>This is FAKE FUCKING MEDIA..<br><br>Look for yourself:<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.sickle666.com/images/wtf-cnn.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><br>As if things aren't bad enough already with the REAL fake news, they have to make Orwellian Mega-Fake shit to entrap viewers.<br><br>This is absolutely fucking disgusting. I encourage people to raise fucking hell about it. Exploiting Terror is the Administration's job, not the Media's.<br><br>As if things aren't bad enough already with the REAL fake news, they have to make Orwellian Mega-Fake shit to entrap viewers.<br><br>This is absolutely fucking disgusting. I encourage people to raise fucking hell about it. Exploiting Terror is the Administration's job, not the Media's. <p>____________________<br>Oderint, dum metuant</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=etinarcadiaego@rigorousintuition>et in Arcadia ego</A>  <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://www.sickle666.com/images/Arcadia.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 7/15/06 2:28 am<br></i>
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Re: WTF, CNN?

Postby orz » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:24 am

haha that's amazing...<br><br>to be fair though, it's not really fake news... it's an advert for fake news...!!! :-O<br><br>It's a Macromedia Flash banner ad for whatever subscription nonsense they're peddling... I guess the idea is to make a generic image that implies 'news' ie something exploding <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rolleyes --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> avoiding using anything too specific so they don't have to change the ad too often.... after all, stuff's not gonna stop exploding any time soon, right!?! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br> + flash rather than a real bit of video to make download time faster...<br><br>but yeah its pretty ludicrous. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: WTF, CNN?

Postby NewKid » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:37 am

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Re: WTF, CNN?

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:53 am

The vocabulary word you need is NESTING.<br>As in, a psy-op theme nested in a shell to stroke your sub-conscious.<br><br>The ads on Air America Radio are bizarre and full of mind viruses, probably Clear Channel's doing.<br><br>One is for the Search Dogs of America foundation which is a real entity. But the ad starts out with a dog barking 'in the first person' to tell his story while the narrator translates for the dog giving a description of a mock disaster.<br><br>And the narrative starts out "Three buildings collapsed. Two little girls were missing."<br><br>Well, where do we know that three buildings colllapsed? Ground Zero.<br><br>The media is chock full of nested concepts. More like a nest of vipers. <p></p><i></i>
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