Right-wing U.S. media covered fiction as fact: A non-existent terrorist attack from Canada at Rainbow Bridge
(www.cbc.ca)
from TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 2023 15:11
https://lemmy.world/post/8737896
from TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 2023 15:11
https://lemmy.world/post/8737896
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
That didn’t stop a candidate for president of the United States from appearing on Fox News to promote an aspect of his platform: Building a border wall with Canada.
“I have been sounding the alarm bell about the northern border for a long time,” said Vivek Ramaswamy during a lengthy interview about an incident he did not witness, was not a subject-matter expert on, and had no insight into.
The afternoon of speculation rekindled rough memories for Canada from the 9/11 era, where American fears of cross-border terrorism resulted in a long-term tightening of the border.
Canadian diplomats in Washington spent years trying to dispel that canard, as it had created a real-world impact on Canada’s economy and its major international border.
Meanwhile, on social media, Republican Arizona politician Kari Lake called this a terrorist attack caused by Joe Biden’s open border policies.
One terrorism expert, a Canadian living in the U.S., told CBC News that, given events in the Middle East, she’s been worrying a lot about domestic incidents, and originally thought this might be one.
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I watched these articles appear in real time streaming Angry Cops live on Yt. There should be some way to prevent such speculative, incendiary, exploitative, under-produced garbage reporting. There was no way that anyone, especially the press had any idea what was going on and just chose to use fear to scare people into clicks. Why can’t we have a truth in reporting legislation where this national enquirer level crap cannot happen without the larger company thinking about their bottom line? Just make them give all their money they made from ads on that bad journalism plus extra to the families they hurt with it.
You know the answer. Because the lawmakers rising to power are beholden to the propaganda machine that got them there (and probably can blackmail them)
It’s simpler than that.
Media companies are for-profit. Their boards and executive leadership are out to make money first, and be a media company second. These days, that means leaning into dopamine-generating sensationalist headlines that elicit strong emotional reactions from readers and viewers. It’s designed, like many other things in our hyper-consumerist society, to be addictive. The truth is often a causality in that dynamic.
The answer is that the 1st amendment makes any such legislation nearly impossible. It’s unfortunate, but there are no easy fixes and that’s probably for the best. We want it to be very difficult to regulate a free press.
Free speech has significant limitations so this is kind of ridiculous. False information under the guise of news is a threat to the safety of citizens and is not a first amendment issue at all.
This pretending a document written by wealthy misogynist slaveholders hundreds of years ago trumps everything is bullocks. We have got to shut this line of thought down or we are going to be stuck with charlatans and 2nd amendment gun nutters forever.
Same for haters of the 2A. The Constitution is, at this time, written in stone, with no chance of changing it.
And a Constitutional Convention, the easiest path, would be a fucking nightmare in this political climate.
I got no answers. And if anyone tells you they got a simple answer? They’re an idiot, an asshole, or likely both.
I can speak for all Canadians. If you want to pay for the wall then we accept.
If we build such a wall you’ll be sorry. It will change nothing!
They’re Canadians. They’re already sorry. Even though we’re the problem.
Whoosh!
That’s the joke 🤣
I’m sorry.
Can I move to Canada now, please?
Don’t.
The environmental destruction is almost without parallel.
Walls don’t stop humans, but they do stop migratory animals.
From what I gather, the car was headed to Canada. But the news doesn’t say that, they just say “at the border crossing”.
This is the Bowling Green Massacre all over again!
There’s a time to think, and a time to act. And this, gentlemen, is no time to think.