Ray's Ruminations: Military Misinformation
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Ray Christian
5 • 625 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Ray talks with Tiffany about the nature of military stories he hears on various shows and the degree of mis-information he perceives from them, and the possible reasons for why the general public and producers may seem less interested in factual details than him.
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| 0:00.0 | What's Ray saying? |
| 0:06.0 | What's Ray saying? |
| 0:12.0 | Hi, this is Ray, the source of all black knowledge. |
| 0:17.0 | While we're working on new episodes for the next seasons, |
| 0:20.0 | I have something I want to ruminate about. |
| 0:24.0 | I served in the Army from the age of 17 until I was 38 years old. |
| 0:29.8 | And I listened to podcasts, lots of podcasts, national podcast, international podcasts. |
| 0:36.6 | And one of the things that I noticed is when it comes to |
| 0:40.6 | military stories, American military stories, I hear a lot of errors. Now, what's strange about this |
| 0:50.0 | is even when it comes down to really journalistic pieces, there are a lot of things that I hear in these stories. |
| 0:57.1 | And I'm talking about probably just about every major show out there. |
| 1:02.0 | I hear things that are just from a military perspective, they just seem really ridiculous in that some phrases are misused, dates are off. |
| 1:15.2 | And you would think that these big time shows would do more in terms of vetting these stories. |
| 1:27.0 | I don't understand why it is that these shows don't seem like they really focus on vetting some of those details. |
| 1:35.2 | Why do you think that is? |
| 1:36.8 | Well, I got a couple of thoughts on that. |
| 1:39.7 | I think the first thing is we live in a different era when the news isn't always accurate. |
| 1:49.1 | So things that we expect to be factually true and accurate are not. |
| 1:54.3 | When you mix in personal narrative and personal experience and memory with that, |
| 2:00.2 | you're going to get a little skewed, |
| 2:06.1 | a little fuzzy, a little gray, and add on top of all that. So you've got the bar for accuracy |
| 2:15.7 | is really low in our culture. You've got personal memory and |
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