Sure, the media hates Trump, Republicans or anyone who doesn’t want their kids to change genders overnight, but it’s also a money machine and it’s driven by the need to generate clicks and subscriptions.
Journalism wasn’t so much corrupted by politics, as it was always corrupt and that corruption clicks neatly with its politics.
The media has always created news at least as often as it reported on it. Politics is a good disguise for the basic corruption in the system. Much like celebrities virtue signal to seem more important than they are, the media virtue signals because “exploiting pain and making up stuff for money” sounds like less of a justifiable career.
Daniel Greenfield's take ion the OceanGate tragedy and the media's reaction to it.
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The nearly universal howls for regulation/safety etc.....did not seem apolitical to me.
The Gabby Pettito thing was also a media game to distract from the Afghanistan withdrawl.
Lol, everything’s political now.
Only benefit of the doubt I can see - there is some chance the Navy didn’t want the world to know we could hear an anomaly that size two mile down in the Atlantic?
The we have sonar and listening nets seems obvious, but perhaps this reveals something of the capability?
I spent one summer disassembling sonobouys in the 80’s which had been mothballed since the Vietnam war. Whack one on the bottom with a hammer simulating landing and it would mechanically deploy. Pour saltwater on the batter and the would come to life. We separated aluminum, batteries, dyes and electronics. Had a train car to pitch in.
The primary deception of all media is the pretense that they know what is going on.
“Most of it consists of editorializing or clickbait.”
you mean when foxnews has headline articles such as
“Shootings up over 83% in this democrat run major city”
?
The talk about the victims tapping on the shell of the “submarine” every half hour reminded me of that old One Step Beyond episode “The Haunted U-Boat”.
As I understand, the Navy didn’t hear the sound that implied an implosion in the general area of where the Ocean Gate was last communicated with in real time. It wasn’t until after the Ocean Gate was reported missing that the Navy went back over their recordings. FWIW, there are a lot of sounds in the ocean, some natural, some manmade but not necessarily nefarious or indicating an implosion.
While the sound picked up was consistent with what would sound like an implosion, it wasn’t 100% conclusive, “not definitive” per a US Navy spokesperson.
Sounds travel great distances underwater and IIUC, without triangulation, can’t be pinpointed with a 100% degree of certainty and it takes a while to do this. The US Navy thought the sound came from the general area where the sub was supposed to be, but again, couldn’t say with a 100% degree of certainty, at least not right away.
And the sound, while consistent with an implosion, could have also been any number of other things including but not limited to seismic activity or deep-sea drilling operations. Just as the banging sounds turned out not to be from the doomed sub.
So, what should have happened on Sunday once the US Navy found the sound detected in their recordings and reported this to the Coast Guard? Call off all search and rescue efforts, declare all on board dead and call it a day?
What if the sound that sounded like an implosion wasn’t, was misinterpreted and the Ocean Gate was later found midway to the Titanic or bobbing on the surface fully intact but having run out of oxygen?
I would take an educated guess that people like Greenfield and the conspiracy theorists who claim this was some sort of coordinated diversion would still be complaining but for different reasons.
The Navy had detected an explosion around the time the sub lost contact.
Who told the Navy not to report their evidence?