by Jim Ball | Sep 22, 2018 | ABC, Blog, Fake News, Random Notes |
Most professional media organisations having been caught out confecting then peddling a totally bogus story, which, having been denied by those central to it, would be shame faced, go quiet and move on. Not so the ABC. There’s was Geraldine Doogue doubling down on... by Jim Ball | Feb 3, 2018 | Blog, Fake News, Media |
“….For far too long, I was convinced that the media were, on the whole, reliable purveyors of the news. For nearly three years I freelanced happily at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Music and Public Affairs, never suspecting that the Mothercorp was a... by Jim Ball | Dec 31, 2017 | Blog, Fake News, Fox News |
This is instructive as to fake news and how its spun and although you’ll need to read the entire thing to understand how this “story” grew legs and developed, the tell-tale is in the fact that the authority cited (so as to lend weight and gravitas to the... by Jim Ball | May 19, 2017 | Blog, Fake News, Trump |
In the next year or so Jeff Bezos and Amazon are going to be setting up in Australia and I suspect seeking to influence our politics through proxies and front organisations. “..Jeffrey P. Bezos formally took over as the owner of The Washington Post in 2013,... 
by Jim Ball | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Fake News, Random Notes |
Random Note #195,732 “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Joseph Goebbels. … Goebbels philosophy would seem to be the guiding principle underlying the Russian hacking hysteria as well as a host of other... by Jim Ball | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Environment, Fake News |
There’s nothing new under the sun. There’s been a lot said and written about “fake news” in recent weeks since the US election, but of course it is not a new phenomenon. Fake news has been around forever and is simply repackaged and rebranded...