Let me preference what I going to post with a quote and a statement:<\/p>\n
Some time ago, Commentator Dennis Prager said about TV news is the news is not reporting the facts but commentary with pictures. Second, I always thought about the modern news media is that the narrative is already written, the media is just looking for the actors.<\/p>\n
With above in mind, this is Life with Lisa Ling “Furry Nation”, billed as inside a misunderstood culture. The story is a touching human-interest story that falls short of its main goal because of CNN\u2019s bias reporting by injecting old stereotypes of furries are people who dress up in animal costumes and have mental health issues.\u00a0 Not all have fursuits or struggle with mental health issues and only about 20% of furries own fursuits. \u00a0For many the fandom is not a crutch but a means of expressing creativity.<\/p>\n
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The documentary focuses on the lives of three fursuiters in the fandom and their struggles.\u00a0 The beef I have is how CNN displays media bias and manipulation of the narrative at Anthro Northwest by focusing on fursuiter by crop shots and digitally blurring non \u2013suiters. It should be noticed that antedates have signed waivers to be shown in CNN’s piece or opt out thus some were blurred out.\u00a0 \u00a0 CNN\u2019s\u00a0 biased they \u00a0gives the illusion that\u00a0 Fursuiteres is all the convention is about, even through the fact at\u00a0 Anthro Northwest, or any furry convention, the number of\u00a0 suiters does not\u00a0 surpass 20%. \u00a0\u00a0Furthermore, why Lisa Lang focus mainly on fursuiters, except a small section on Uncle Kage?\u00a0 She could have interview a furry musician such as Fox and Pepper who was at the con or a writer or a furry artist to get their angle on the fandom.<\/p>\n
In spite of my objections, Lisa Lang did a very good and professional \u00a0\u00a0job, compared to Dominic Rodriguez\u2019s documentary Fursonas. \u00a0Lisa know when\u00a0 to step back and let the\u00a0 fursuiters tell they own story\u00a0 compared how\u00a0 Dominic injects himself\u00a0 too often in\u00a0 Fursonas.<\/p>\n
Overall, I see Lisa Ling squandered any potential by concentration on fursuiters rather than the fandom overall. A better treatment of Furry Fandom is CNN\u2019s accompanied written<\/a> piece.<\/p>\n Update- In a nod to Captain Boons I need to make a few corrections. First, many of those blurred out were to protect their privacy.\u00a0 Second, my confusion about the reprot revolves around CNN as a new organization, whether this is a documentary or investigative news piece. Finally, I referenced my own experiences of the media when I was involved with the Republican Party. \u00a0I have seen CNN and other mainstream Journalist use the same tactic by focusing on the most provocative example of a tea party member, Pro-life advocate, or Christian Fundamentalist and claim that outlier represents the entire movement. \u00a0I also referenced, contrasted, and compare Lisa Lang\u2019s price to NBC news treatment of the fandom<\/a> in a piece on Antrhocon. Unlike CNN, NBC News shown a more balanced story by featuring both suiters and non-suiters and, other attendees in and out of suit \u00a0in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let me preference what I going to post with a quote and a statement: Some time ago, Commentator Dennis Prager said about TV news is the news is not reporting the facts but commentary with pictures. Second, I always thought about the modern news media is that the narrative is already written, the media is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,6,7],"tags":[266,265,22,264],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-furry","category-media","category-news","tag-anthro-northwest","tag-anthro-nw","tag-cnn","tag-life-with-lisa-ling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}