I was going to bash John Oliver for some asides he made back in July, but in doing so I visited the Wikipedia page for the conspiracy propaganda flick Plandemic and ran across this quote:
"the video 'has been extremely successful at promoting misinformation for three reasons':
[...]
#2: It 'is packaged very professionally and uses common conventions people already associate with factual documentaries'"
Now, I may be a simple compound man-wolf from a backwoods platform of self-expression, but it strikes me we're missing the forest for the toilets.
Should those conventions be so common in the first place?
Maybe those other, more professional purveyors of factual documentaries should present facts instead of abusing emotionally manipulative gimmicks:
shakycam Cops-style "real-world" footage
breathy, gripping narration
music scores too dramatic for even soap operas
amateur theater grade re-enactments
computer-generated simulations of glossy, utopian futures or world-shaking disasters
long-perspective, narrated sequences of protagonists walking toward their locus operandi
having protagonists in the first place! in a documentary!
lowering the audience's defenses by feigned bonhommie like claiming to be just a simple country lawy----
...
hey, how 'bout we cut this post short
*whistles innocently*
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