{"id":3068,"date":"2020-03-02T01:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2020-02-15T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T14:40:55","slug":"misinformation-disinformation-entertainment-and-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/03\/misinformation-disinformation-entertainment-and-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Misinformation, Disinformation, Entertainment, and Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We seem to have confused ourselves once again. Perhaps simply asking a few questions would quell all the hyperventilating.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it misinformation or disinformation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I confuse the two. Is either a real word or something a word inventor invented last week because he couldn\u2019t find his dictionary and an appropriate word among the tens of thousands available?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider (if you can remember) Orson Welles&#8217; radio broadcast of H.G. Wells&#8217; &#8220;War of the Worlds.&#8221; I guess that would be banned by one of those not-real-information censors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entertainers want fiction to be taken as non-fiction. That was the genius of Hitchcock\u2014that the horror could happen to just about anyone on just about any day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever happened to, \u201cIs this real? It couldn\u2019t be, could it?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose we ran out of question askers in today\u2019s post-post-modern world Oh wait, did I put enough \u201cposts\u201c in that? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We seem to have confused ourselves once again. Perhaps simply asking a few questions would quell all the hyperventilating. Is it misinformation or disinformation? I confuse the two. Is either a real word or something a word inventor invented last week because he couldn\u2019t find his dictionary and an appropriate word among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,310,247,50],"tags":[120,311,248,172],"class_list":["post-3068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-information","category-questions","category-thinking","tag-adults","tag-information","tag-questions","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}