{"id":57634,"date":"2025-06-18T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=57634"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:31:29","slug":"qotd-the-doctrine-of-media-untruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/06\/18\/qotd-the-doctrine-of-media-untruth\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The &#8220;doctrine of media untruth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>As a general rule, when the <em>New York Times<\/em>, the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, the media&#8217;s &#8220;truth&#8221; is a good guide to what is abjectly false. Perhaps we can call the lesson of this valuable service, the media&#8217;s inadvertent ability to convey truth by disguising it with transparent bias and falsehood, the &#8220;Doctrine of Media Untruth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson, <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/05\/24\/the-doctrine-of-media-untruth\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Doctrine of Media Untruth&#8221;, <em>American Greatness<\/em><\/a>, 2020-05-24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite. Put another way, the media&#8217;s &#8220;truth&#8221; is a good guide to what is abjectly false. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[1085,213,1020,101],"class_list":["post-57634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-fakenews","tag-newspapers","tag-progressives","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eZA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96149,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57634\/revisions\/96149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}