Yeah Netflix does that more than you’d think. I watched a doc on China once on there that I THINK was a Netflix original (I can’t remember quite) and I’ve read a lot of books on China in my world politics and economics reading club. That doc was a combination of misleading to PURE FICTION at times that was branded as a straight dry documentary about Chinese economics. It’s annoying to watch these because I KNOW that you could just have the same effect if you wanted to by just telling the story with all the failures China has seen and just ignoring the successes, but I guess the half truths mixed in with lies strategy just must be more effective, especially when you have the capital and influence to put out whole documentaries like that. Lord knows 99.99 percent of North Americans aren’t gonna read about that shit.
What I don’t understand with many people that I’ve talked to is that I can show them a blatant lie mixed in with the truths and instead of being like “well I will no longer trust this media source” they instead turn around and make excuses for that lie and then keep using that source. I don’t get it. I’ve always been deeply offended when I’ve been lead to believe a lie by any news source. I’ve totally changed my entire political stance from my twenties (as a hard line economic conservative) all the way to now, being 35 and about as economically left as they come. This has come almost unilaterally from being pissed off at being lied to by media sources and books Ive read and turned onto sources that I can at some level verify they aren’t lying. And it really isn’t that hard if you just cut out every source that lies even a little bit to you.
Yeah Netflix does that more than you’d think. I watched a doc on China once on there that I THINK was a Netflix original (I can’t remember quite) and I’ve read a lot of books on China in my world politics and economics reading club. That doc was a combination of misleading to PURE FICTION at times that was branded as a straight dry documentary about Chinese economics. It’s annoying to watch these because I KNOW that you could just have the same effect if you wanted to by just telling the story with all the failures China has seen and just ignoring the successes, but I guess the half truths mixed in with lies strategy just must be more effective, especially when you have the capital and influence to put out whole documentaries like that. Lord knows 99.99 percent of North Americans aren’t gonna read about that shit.
That doesn’t surprise me that it’s common on Netflix. I’m going to be even more vigilant now with everything going on in the world.
That technique of mixing half truths in is pretty effective. Our news media enjoys that technique often, if not exclusively.
What I don’t understand with many people that I’ve talked to is that I can show them a blatant lie mixed in with the truths and instead of being like “well I will no longer trust this media source” they instead turn around and make excuses for that lie and then keep using that source. I don’t get it. I’ve always been deeply offended when I’ve been lead to believe a lie by any news source. I’ve totally changed my entire political stance from my twenties (as a hard line economic conservative) all the way to now, being 35 and about as economically left as they come. This has come almost unilaterally from being pissed off at being lied to by media sources and books Ive read and turned onto sources that I can at some level verify they aren’t lying. And it really isn’t that hard if you just cut out every source that lies even a little bit to you.