Watching old JFK footage vs today's news feels like different planets

I was comparing the Zapruder film from 63 to some modern protests I saw on YouTube last night, and the difference in what we actually get to see is wild. Back then you had one guy with a camera showing a single angle, now there's 50 phones and the story still gets twisted into something else. What do you think made the public trust fall apart more - the coverups themselves or just how fast lies spread now?

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taylor.mary11h ago

Wait, you're comparing the Zapruder film to modern protests? That's apples and oranges though. The Zapruder film was never meant to be news coverage, it was just a guy filming a parade. What really broke trust wasn't the lies spreading faster, it was finding out later the official story didn't match what that one grainy film showed. We had one angle and it still proved the Warren Report was full of holes. Now we got fifty angles and people still pick the one that fits what they already believe, so it's not really about speed of lies anymore.

spencer1994h ago

Right, "apples and oranges," sure, except we're eating both and getting the same stomachache. Funny how back then one shaky 8mm film could blow a hole in the official story, and now we've got 4K from every angle and people just scream "fake news" at whichever one doesn't fit their team's narrative. It's like we traded one frustrating mystery for a hundred frustrating mysteries, just with better lighting and more ads. Honestly, feels like we'd still be arguing about the grassy knoll even if Zapruder had a drone swarm following the motorcade. So yeah, the speed of lies isn't the problem - it's that everyone's already decided which lie they're willing to believe.