Saturday question #6: Do you REALLY believe in everything you read?
Welcome to the sixth edition of Saturday questions. The more or less absurd discussion from the last two days was a direct inspiration for this week's question.
Back in November 2008, the very subject of this website said:
I’ll just write whatever I feel like saying whenever I feel like doing it. I don’t like the old media channels and this is a way of communicating to people without the filter of magazines and their bullshit that has nothing to do with music.
Long ago, a friend of this website, an anti-panda superbrainsupermom, explained something in the lines of:
When a press release, a magazine release, or even a book are prepared for print; editors run through it and change things. Sometimes there isn't much left of what the text originally used to be; portions of text may be edited out if considered boring...
So, given all this...
Do you really believe in everything you read? Do you trust direct media, such as blogs, zines and websites edited by smaller groups of people more than powerful media machines, where dozens of people edit information in a desk? Do you use your common sense to determine if something could be right or not?
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If this is possible, well, EVERYTHING is possible. Don't you think so?
Since I’ve joined the forum and until 1 month ago, my signature there was “it’s hard to believe everything you read” [inspired by Cobain's statement]. Unfortunately, so many people tend to stick for everything they read, and believe it’s true. The same goes for audio/video interviews. You can hear people speaking ‘John said this, John said that’..c’mon, people change all the time. If you don’t change and don’t progress in any way, then it is sad. You shouldn’t believe evrything you read, there are so many “journalists” writing what somebody has NOT said..it’s the matter of marketing and attention grabbing. Listen to the music, it speaks for itself.
As a journalist you tend to exaggerate to make the item or article more attractive, but you are never to change the truth into something it is not. So never believe exactly what you read or see but try to see through the exaggeration. Blogs and other stuff made or written by non-journalist are evenso not reliable because they are not trained to do good reasearch and ask the right questions or be enough criticle. A professional journalist with proper education has more access to the truth, though that doesn’t mean he necessarely represents it. And there is a good saying:
The truth is rarely pure and never simple!
Now, this video is so funny !
And the media are so unreliable…
Though, it seems important to me to clarify these article’s lines which have led to a vivid discussion. The article did not highlight at all what we have been focusing on and possibly misunderstood. The rest of this article really deals with John’s record, the way he made it, his feelings about it… This small part may only mean that John would not form an other band apart from the RHCP and there seems to be no sign of his leaving the RHCP or whatever…
So, now let’s be careful both regarding the media but also as far as our own way to consider things is concerned.
Everyone can lie about anything and everything (even John, remember “The Past Recedes” :p), no matter the filters created by media. The important thing may be to trust what really matters to us and think of what we hear and see without taking it for granted, just let it come to us, think about it, and if we happen to care for what we hear and see, then ask ourselves more questions about it, widen our vision, talk about it with others. Wondering is sometimes better than finding an answer because it keeps us thinking, going back to square one, broading our mind. Besides, a lie may just be another truth. And reality can also prove different from a person to another. Right and wrong are tightly knit as well…
Now, we may have to keep wondering and sharing opinions, discussing them all the time so as to learn and to get closer to some kind of a “truth”.
Welcome to the Matrice (!!!) and let the music play !
To answer the question: “No.”
But Jesus, Gollum, Jennifer Aniston and Giant seem very focused in the interview. I think it’s one of their best.
Yes, and Jennifer is soo positive. I mean, THAT’S GREAT!
You can’t, sooner or later you’ll read the opposite somewhere else
No, I don’t believe everything I read. Like Baro said, you will soon after read a contradiction somewhere and how are you meant to know the truth? I say, if you’re going to read everything published, keep an open mind at all times
That video actually cracked me up when I saw it for the first time, because it is same/similar footage to an Australian interview I had seen (same setting, same day – I haven’t watched the 2 side by side).
Regarding the latest interview with JF, while it’s a good read, I can’t find anything ‘new’ really
that video was harsh
he wouldent realy say that to the chili peppers face
he’s a low life
rhcp rock
stadium arcadium rocked my world
flea is sexy!
The video is an amusing joke – a satire of the misuse of media
From my own experience, even though I think I have a background that makes me critical about what I watch or read, i have to admit I kinda used to somehow follow the directions medias gave me before I really got on the internet. There, (here?), i went across so many versions of the same information, everything was wrong and true in the same time… , so I sort of entered into a new way of ‘reading’ and rely on nothing exclusively but the things i knew before.
What I’m trying to say is everyone know they can’t believe what they read, but sometimes, medias tend to be a whole, and give you kind of the same information, different enough from each other to make you feel the core is true, but, they still have that filter of ’sensational’ and ‘attractive’, as Novalise said it so well, and they mislead you. All the articles tended to have the same analysis on John’s album, but none of them were true to me! Truth actually never is simple.
The internet is therefore, a good example to teach you cannot believe what you read. I believe even John writing on his blog, creates a filter, to make his thoughts understandable…
I don’t know if anyone gets this.
I don’t believe in everything I read. One has to take things with a grain of salt. People are cruel and funny. I’m sure some people know Wikipedia. Remember the topic about John being dead? With the whole internet reaching to the corners of the earth and everything in between, one is bound to find something that isn’t real. Anyone who’s out there is capable of having their side of the story presented, which may mean reporting the feelings instead of truths. It’s one thing that we covered in my Intro to Animal Sciences class. There are people that will go above and beyond to make sure that their story will reach the “hearts” of others (for example, PETA). We’re all given common sense to use to determine the “rightness” or “wrongness” of stories.
I used to believe everything I read, word for word…now, after living on this earth for 45 years, I have finally learned to chew what I read before totally digesting it and making it a part of my makeup… have learned that there are a distinct few, who have hidden agendas and wish to make what they write or say fit their opinions, rather than state total facts….as George harrison once sang, “Think For Yourself!”