"Survivor"

It's sensationalism, the corporate fake news media are ultimately no different to the rest of the entertainment channels scrambling for viewership and advertising revenue. Stories like Russia collusion and sexual assault with zero evidence doesn't matter if it's good for ratings, quiet period? just make up a ridiculous story citing anonymous sources.
 
StriderX said:
a person who survives a crash or domestic abuse, kinda deserves the word survivor....
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The term is grammatically correct, yes, but it's not often something they "deserve"... it's not like they 'earned' it, or anything. In many cases they were kept from dying by technology, circumstances, legislation, or other people rescuing them.
I'm a 'survivor' of many things, from motorcycle crashes to small arms fire, to explosives, to electricity, to extreme weather. But many such things are pretty common, so it's not at all unusual or deserving of any particular special attention.

Unfortunately, the term is simply being bandied about by people whose lives are otherwise quite boring, and need something by which to define their entire being.
 
Skunkworks said:
Propaganda isn’t necessarily fake, just one-sided.

As for the survivor thing, it’s just empowering language.
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idk I'd agree with how wikipedia has it covered.

propaganda in the digital age

ropaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.[1] Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.
In the twentieth century, the term propaganda has often been associated with a manipulative approach, but propaganda historically was a neutral descriptive term.[1][2]
A wide range of materials and media are used for conveying propaganda messages, which changed as new technologies were invented, including paintings, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, films, radio shows, TV shows, and websites. Propaganda is now moving into a digital age utillizing bots, algorithms, to create computational propaganda and spread online fake or biased news using social media.
In a 1929 literary debate with Edward Bernays, Everett Dean Martin argues that, “Propaganda is making puppets of us. We are moved by hidden strings which the propagandist manipulates.”[3][4]
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sounds legit but fake news is a better buzz word for the masses
 
A colleague of mine recently took part in some BBC 3 documentary on living with burn scars, due to him being in a boat explosion as a child, he got properly wound up that the production crew kept calling him a burns survivor. As far as he's concerned the burns are a consequence and just part of his life, if anything he wanted to be called an explosion survivor as he thought it sounded more manly. :D
 
gitbags said:
A colleague of mine recently took part in some BBC 3 documentary on living with burn scars, due to him being in a boat explosion as a child, he got properly wound up that the production crew kept calling him a burns survivor. As far as he's concerned the burns are a consequence and just part of his life, if anything he wanted to be called an explosion survivor as he thought it sounded more manly. :D
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in hospitals they used to say burns victim right? do they now say burns survivor ?
 
I honestly don't know, but I'd imagine it's still victim as survivor makes it sound like they don't require treatment to me. I always thought to survive something meant you'd gone through it and come out the other side unscathed.
 
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