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Valden
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by Valden » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:02 pm
Outrage in Georgia over fake Russian invasion report
TBILISI (AFP) – Outraged Georgians on Sunday slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's president was dead.
The Georgian opposition condemned the newscast as a state-sponsored stunt aimed at smearing President Mikheil Saakashvili's critics while the president himself added to the furore by appearing to defend the broadcast.
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The simple fact that they thought it would be a good idea amazes me.
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JimC
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by JimC » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:34 pm
"Little boys", "crying" and "wolf" spring to mind...
There will be tears before bedtime, mark my words...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
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The Red Fox
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by The Red Fox » Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:53 pm
Grossly irresponsible. It would serve them right if, during the next Russian invasion, their building gets shelled.
Still, I think a more important lesson can be learnt from this story. Namely, news is very easy to manufacture. You only know what they tell you.
MacIver wrote:Now I want to see a pterodactyl rape the Pope.
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Gawdzilla Sama
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:56 pm
The Red Fox wrote:Grossly irresponsible. It would serve them right if, during the next Russian invasion, their building gets shelled.
Still, I think a more important lesson can be learnt from this story. Namely, news is very easy to manufacture. You only know what they tell you.
"There is no
news. There is only me and the
puppet show."
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Ameri Boi
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by Ameri Boi » Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:54 am
report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's president was dead.
If only...
"Another aspect of the particulateness of the gene is that is does not grow senile; it is no more likely to die when it is a million years old than when it is only a hundred. It leaps from body to body in it's own way and for its own ends, abandoning a succession of mortal bodies before they sink in senility and death" -Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene p.34
