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Not all "news" is fit to print
29/09/2006
With news bureaus and online papers picking up the same stories and transmitting them worldwide, misinformation can get around fast -- as some Serbian bloggers discovered.
By Balkanblogs for Southeast European Times – 29/09/06
An outdoor café in downtown Belgrade. A hoax story about a café supposedly named for the world's most-wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, was reported as true by several media outlets. [Photo for SETimes by Robert Herschbach]
The internet is a vast conduit for news and information. It's also uncommonly good at conveying rumor, innuendo, false alarms and hoaxes. Perhaps the allure of fingertip access to world events makes us more gullible, or perhaps there just aren't enough fact-checkers to keep up with the torrents of data.
Anxious to test how easy it is to roil cyberspace with sensational news, a pair of Serbian blogs this month intentionally posted false reports, just to see what would happen.
Ilegalni poslasticari started things off by discussing an alleged "Café Osama" in Belgrade. The (fictitious) establishment was supposedly pressured to change its name by authorities and offended diplomats. Media around the world circulated this news nugget, each offering their own perspective. Alas, few bothered to check if the story was actually true.
A few days later Mirror B92 posted another fabrication, about a Belgrade tinsmith engaged in the lucrative business of manufacturing fake Croatian car registration plates -- for Serbs planning holidays in the neighbouring country.
Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian media carried the story, which prompted legislators to call for safer registration plates that would not be so easily forged.
In interviews with Vreme and TV B92, the hoaxers at Ilegalni poslasticari said they were just trying to make a point: media organisations, no matter how reputable or serious, will publish just about anything if it seems interesting and provocative enough.
Although the "Café Osama" story was frivolous, it demonstrates the power that media have to influence perceptions about more serious issues, they argued.
From imaginary news, we turn to televised reality. Another hot topic this week in the Serbian blogosphere was "Veliki Brat", the local version of the internationally popular show, "Big Brother".
"Big Brother has occupied Serbia!" writes lonelyrider. "This is just a simple psychological experiment -- confine 13 people for three months, make them live together and love or hate each other! When you see monkeys at the zoo, they behave exactly the same, but I don't see them enjoying it!"
Armagedon is miffed. "Big Brother teaches us to become voyeurs and exhibitionists -- people for whom nothing is holy -- and to sell everything for money… this is sociological and psychological pornography," he objects.
"Come on Big Brother, show us what else you know. We want to recognise this masochism of ours, we want to watch it, to laugh at how low we can go and how we can crawl, how cheaply we sell ourselves and how we show our weaknesses. We will applaud to any wish of yours, because you are paying us and then screwing with our heads, and we're not complaining because we became zombies who sold their souls for 100,000 euros."
http://setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/blogreview/2006/09/29/blog-03
Not all "news" is fit to print
29/09/2006
With news bureaus and online papers picking up the same stories and transmitting them worldwide, misinformation can get around fast -- as some Serbian bloggers discovered.
By Balkanblogs for Southeast European Times – 29/09/06
An outdoor café in downtown Belgrade. A hoax story about a café supposedly named for the world's most-wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, was reported as true by several media outlets. [Photo for SETimes by Robert Herschbach]
The internet is a vast conduit for news and information. It's also uncommonly good at conveying rumor, innuendo, false alarms and hoaxes. Perhaps the allure of fingertip access to world events makes us more gullible, or perhaps there just aren't enough fact-checkers to keep up with the torrents of data.
Anxious to test how easy it is to roil cyberspace with sensational news, a pair of Serbian blogs this month intentionally posted false reports, just to see what would happen.
Ilegalni poslasticari started things off by discussing an alleged "Café Osama" in Belgrade. The (fictitious) establishment was supposedly pressured to change its name by authorities and offended diplomats. Media around the world circulated this news nugget, each offering their own perspective. Alas, few bothered to check if the story was actually true.
A few days later Mirror B92 posted another fabrication, about a Belgrade tinsmith engaged in the lucrative business of manufacturing fake Croatian car registration plates -- for Serbs planning holidays in the neighbouring country.
Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian media carried the story, which prompted legislators to call for safer registration plates that would not be so easily forged.
In interviews with Vreme and TV B92, the hoaxers at Ilegalni poslasticari said they were just trying to make a point: media organisations, no matter how reputable or serious, will publish just about anything if it seems interesting and provocative enough.
Although the "Café Osama" story was frivolous, it demonstrates the power that media have to influence perceptions about more serious issues, they argued.
From imaginary news, we turn to televised reality. Another hot topic this week in the Serbian blogosphere was "Veliki Brat", the local version of the internationally popular show, "Big Brother".
"Big Brother has occupied Serbia!" writes lonelyrider. "This is just a simple psychological experiment -- confine 13 people for three months, make them live together and love or hate each other! When you see monkeys at the zoo, they behave exactly the same, but I don't see them enjoying it!"
Armagedon is miffed. "Big Brother teaches us to become voyeurs and exhibitionists -- people for whom nothing is holy -- and to sell everything for money… this is sociological and psychological pornography," he objects.
"Come on Big Brother, show us what else you know. We want to recognise this masochism of ours, we want to watch it, to laugh at how low we can go and how we can crawl, how cheaply we sell ourselves and how we show our weaknesses. We will applaud to any wish of yours, because you are paying us and then screwing with our heads, and we're not complaining because we became zombies who sold their souls for 100,000 euros."
http://setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/blogreview/2006/09/29/blog-03
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