Check out the clip below from an Iraq veteran asking a question of John Bolton regarding "blowback". The original questioner posted the clip on You Tube and also provides an editorial about how the audience actually responded to Bolton (booed) as opposed to how Fox edited it (applause).
It is not just Fox but many media outlets who can selectively edit, clip and frame what you see and thereby shape a narrative and a sense of reality that is different from that which is experienced, in this instance, in the studio itself.
I am reminded of the famous saying in Russia during the Soviet period. There were two main organs for news run by the state; Pravda and Izvestia. Pravda meant "truth" and Izvestia meant "news". The Russians had a pithy running joke that is lost in translation but ran along the lines of there is no truth (pravda) in news (isvestia) and no news (isvestia) in truth (pravda).
It is not just Fox but many media outlets who can selectively edit, clip and frame what you see and thereby shape a narrative and a sense of reality that is different from that which is experienced, in this instance, in the studio itself.
I am reminded of the famous saying in Russia during the Soviet period. There were two main organs for news run by the state; Pravda and Izvestia. Pravda meant "truth" and Izvestia meant "news". The Russians had a pithy running joke that is lost in translation but ran along the lines of there is no truth (pravda) in news (isvestia) and no news (isvestia) in truth (pravda).
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