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USA TODAY PUBLICATION USES SUBTLE CENSORSHIP TO SUPPRESS STORY WITH FAKE NEWS HEADLINE. How USA Today Editors Justify Feeding False Narrative To Global Online Audience.

On March 1, 2017 the USA Today Network published an article titled,Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. creates ‘a diary of the world on canvas’”.  Five days later, boosting the decline of public trust in news media, as noted in a recent Gallup Poll, editors at a USA Today publication used subtle-censorship to openly corrupt a factual header, in favor of a glaringly fake-news headline, to downplay a unique story about modern-art-gonzo-journalism and the Modern Art Music Movement (MAMM). The trending internet article, by journalist Lisa Conley, about the curious career of the Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo, was printed in the Sunday March 5, 2017, Naples Daily Newspaper, under the headline, “Artist creates, ‘a diary of the world on canvas'”, after premiering globally on the USA Today Network, on the same day that Democratic Congressman, Cedric Richmond, uttered a crude, gang-rape, sex-joke about the Counselor to President Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, at The Washington Press Club Foundation’s Annual Congressional Dinner.

Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network
Impactful USA Today Network News Headline

“Between the famous name, the Naval Academy, “Crackhead Jesus” and Pink Floyd, Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr.’s story has everything.: The caption read, as the article quickly caught public interest and was picked up over the next five days by several mainstream media news outlets across America including: The Tennessean, The Naples Daily News and The Marco Eagle.

Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr USA Today Network
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network

As Lisa Conley’s article gained readers and  momentum in shares, on social media networks, like Facebook and LinkedIn, the real news headline was abruptly changed, to a fake-news internet headline, by USA Today editors, without explanation.

Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network
USA Today Network: Subtle-censorship.

The nonsensical caption negatively impacts search algorithms and serves to stunt the stories reach. Students of art movements and human history, are left confused, rather than informed, when using Google, Bing and other information gathering resources on the internet, to research the United States Naval Academy trained, New York born, Hispanic, multi-media artist, Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr., who is better known by his stage name, Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo, when performing as part of the Modern Art Music Movement (MAMM), to raise money for charity and education scholarships, as well as elevate awareness about under-reported social issues, such as waning public trust in news media, at public events, like, Wet Paint Live, in Marco Island, Florida, as reported, in the USA Today Network article by Lisa Conley.

Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr USA Today Network
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network

Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. is listed in The Library Of Congress amongst some of the most influential artists in modern history, including The Beastie Boys, Shepard Fairey and The Wu Tang Clan, in the University/College reference book, by D.B. Burkeman, titled, “Stickers: From Punk Rock To Contemporary Art”. The Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo is known to no one in the entertainment industry or in his private life as, Vaca.

STICKERBOOK DB BURKEMAN MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR HUGO VACA JR

The headline “Marco visitor Vaca paints to create ‘diary of the world on canvas'” begs the questions: “If a USA Today journalist goes to Syria on assignment, would USA Today editors say the reporters are visiting or working to gather useful news and information for public consumption and if the artist Willie Nelson performs in Naples, will the Naples News headline read, “Nelson Visits Naples”?

Willie Nelson Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr USA Today Network
Artist Willie Nelson USA Today Network

The same week, USA Today Editors, corrupted truth with false narrative, a story headlined, “Willie Nelson at Artis-Naples” was published in The Naples Daily News. The Naples News editors, who inexplicably chose to burden Conley’s work with a fake news headline, were then asked: “Would the headline for a performance by Lady Gaga, Sting or Cher in Marco Island read;  “Marco Visitor [Whatever Lady Gaga, Sting, or Cher’s Last Name is] Sings Songs About Life”?

 According to USA Today Network editors, when asked to provide an explanation for this betrayal of public trust and answer why they chose to surreptitiously alter a fact based headline in favor of heralding a grossly misleading caption as truth for subscribers, the following statement was provided:

“We used the phrase Marco visitor because we try to emphasize local angles in headlines to distinguish our local stories from all of the state, nation and world stories available on our website and others. We used just his last name in the headline because that is standard practice in American journalism to keep headlines shorter and thus more readable. It’s not standard practice to put Jr. in a headline unless necessary to distinguish someone from his father. In this case, that wasn’t necessary because few of our readers would think of his father.

Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr USA Today Network
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network

It is curious, to say the least, that the USA Today Network would choose to bury a story about modern-art-gonzo-journalism, by purposefully changing the title to mislead algorithms and search engines, at the height of public interest. USA Today editors, using archaic, truth-defying-standards, appear to rationalize the perpetuation of false narratives, through fake news headlines, as a way of dumbing down the public. It is no wonder that smart readers have fled, in hordes, from subscribing to the poetic-misinformation peddled by newspapers.

The Palm Beach Post censors film title.

On October 29, 2010, The Palm Beach Post used subtle-censorship in the form of nine question marks, ?????????, to corrupt the title of the award-winning film, “Crackhead Jesus: The Movie”; a film written, produced and directed by Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr., as part of the 2010 Delray Beach Film Festival 72-Hour Movie-Making Competition.

CRACKHEAD JESUS: THE MOVIE MARQUEE
“Crackhead Jesus: The Movie” Marquee.

When the 72-Hour Film Competition winner was screened alongside cult classic films, “Pink Floyd’s: The Wall” and Stanley Kubrick’s, “A Clockwork Orange”, in Lake Worth, Florida, as part of the Halloween Modern Art Music Movement Midnight Cult Movie MAMM Jam, the fake Palm Beach Post movie listing caused needless confusion for subscribers in the surrounding community and realized lost revenue for the theater owner and event producers.

CRACKHEAD JESUS THE MOVIE CENSORED PALM BEACH POST MOVIE LISTING OCTOBER 29 2010
Subtle-censorship by The Palm Beach Post.

To the credit of USA Today publications, though editors chose to stifle proliferation of the story of modern-art-gonzo-journalism on the internet, with a fake news headline, they did not censor, in print newspaper or on the internet, the contentious name of the title character, Crackhead Jesus, from the controversial, award-winning film, inspired by court documented events.

Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr USA Today Network
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network

To credit USA Today publication editors at the Naples Daily News, which claims an audience of 70,995 Sunday and 60,232 daily,  they did not use a fake news headline in the print newspaper version of Lisa Conley’s article, published on March 5th, 2010.

Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr USA Today Network
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network

Modern-art-gonzo-journalism serves as a bridge between art and journalism, to help people understand the other side of the story, by seeing past the truth, through the Modern Art Music Movement (MAMM).

Modern Art Gonzo Journalism Victor Hugo
Modern Art Gonzo Journalism.

As newspapers struggle to stay relevant, it is only a matter of time before fake news headlines on websites perpetuated in big, bold letters and words, that ultimately mean nothing and only serve to confuse facts, will consume public trust and further alienate a growing skeptical internet audience.

CULT FILMS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE CRACKHEAD JESUS THE MOVIE PINK FLOYD THE WALL

The question for editors at USA Today remains the same: “Will the headline, ‘Willie Nelson at Artis-Naples’ eventually be changed to read, “Nelson Visits Naples” and will a performance by Lady Gaga, Sting or Cher in Marco Island receive the headlines, “Marco Visitor [Whatever Lady Gaga, Sting, or Cher’s Last Name Is] Sings Songs About Life”?

Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network

“Subtle censorship is a slippery slope, filled with false narratives that create fake news and collapse public trust in news media outlets.” -Maverick Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr.

Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr
Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr.

 

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SUFFOLK TIMES COVERS CRACKHEAD JESUS AS CBS REPORTS FAKE NEWS BALLOON BOY

BALLOON BOY EXPOSES FAKE NEWS WHILE CBS NEW YORK SUPPRESSES WARNING OF ATTACKS ON FIRST AMENDMENT THAT LEAD TO LOVE GRAFFITI. How The Maverick Artist Victor Hugo And President Barack Hussein Obama Mutual Admiration Of Rat Dog Manifested A Modern Art Music Movement.

Love Graffiti
“Love Graffiti” By Victor-Hugo Vaca II.

On the day Balloon Boy exposed fake U.S. news , for what it is worth, Victor-Hugo Vaca II was interviewed by a CBS New York reporter, for a segment on the CBS Evening News, questioning why police issued the artist a citation for displaying a bumper sticker on his BMW that proclaimed, “Crackhead Jesus is coming”.

Victor Hugo Bumper Sticker

As Victor-Hugo Vaca II headed to the Rat Dog concert afterwards, police and Secret Servicemen swarmed the artist and corralled him along with everyone on the block into a corner, behind barricades, for over an hour.

News crews surrounded Victor-Hugo Vaca II as he stood next to a man holding a cardboard sign that introduced him as RocOpera. The WPIX Newscaster at the scene, informed Victor-Hugo that his “1st Amendment story on CBS evening news never aired”. According to Wanda, a CBS New York producer, the fake news of Balloon Boy had pre-empted the canary-in-the-coal-mine of free speech in America documented in a Suffolk Times article by Erin Schultz titled, “Pulled Over In The Name Of Crackhead Jesus?“. The  newspaper article records the following:

Victor Hugo News

Traveling artist says Southold police officer profiled him.

A bumper sticker bearing the phrase “Crackhead Jesus is coming” got an author pulled over in Southold last month, the man told The Suffolk Times.

Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr., a multimedia artist formerly of Brooklyn who now calls the road home, said that Southold Town Police Officer Frank Lyburt violated his First Amendment rights by pulling him over Oct. 11, simply because the officer was offended by the bumper sticker on Mr. Vaca’s rear windshield.

“I wasn’t speeding and I knew there was nothing wrong with my car,” said Mr. Vaca, 39, noting that the sticker is a promotional tool for his graphic novel, “Crackhead Jesus.”

The bumper sticker in question, which Mr. Vaca described as a ‘promotional tool’ for his upcoming graphic novel ‘Crackhead Jesus.’

“[The officer] said he was doing me a favor by handing me that ticket, the same way someone knocks on your door on a Sunday morning, saying you’re wicked for not going to church.”

The wandering author, who claims to have traveled across the country raising awareness of issues not typically covered in mainstream media, said he was ticketed while driving to the Hampton International Film Festival to promote “Crackhead Jesus,” the story of a man who went to work one day high on crack and told his co-workers that they were his disciples.

“[The sticker] has nothing to do with Jesus Christ,” Mr. Vaca said. “It has to do with the modern devils out there.”

Southold Town Capt. Martin Flatley said the ticket issued to Mr. Vaca is a valid summons, adding that there is a section in vehicle and traffic law that prohibits “the placing of posters or stickers on windshields or rear windows of motor vehicles.”

“I believe Officer Lyburt might have stopped the driver for another violation but ended up writing him this summons,” Capt. Flatley said. “This section of law may not be written often, but it is a valid section. This is part of the officer’s discretion when performing a traffic stop.”

Mr. Vaca said Officer Lyburt appeared very upset with the bumper sticker after he scanned his Florida license.

“He came back to my car and asked me, ‘What’s the deal with the Crackhead Jesus sticker?'” Mr. Vaca said. “Here I am, a white guy in a BMW with all this fancy artwork in the back, and for the first time, I felt what it was like to be profiled.”

Mr. Vaca made an appearance in September at Rock the Harvest, a concert held in Southold to benefit The Retreat of East Hampton.

“So I’m in town to help raise money for battered women, and I get mistaken for a guy spitting in the face of God,” he said. “I went to Southold to do good work, and I leave getting punished.”

Mr. Vaca said he plans to drive back to Southold from Florida — where he is attending a music festival in Miami — to fight the ticket.

“So many people are apathetic — they’ll just pay the ticket and get it over with, but that’s the problem,” he said. “I’m not just going to pay this ticket. I’m going to take a chance to look deeper into this.”

HILLARY CLINTON DONALD TRUMP BARACK OBAMA

Reporters informed Victor-Hugo Vaca II that because President Barrack Hussein Obama is a fan of Rat Dog, everyone on the New York City Street next to the concert venue, were detained against their will, in zones, by Police and Secret Service agents, to protect President Obama, while he attended the first half of the Rat Dog concert.

Victor-Hugo Vaca II missed the first-half of the Rat Dog show because of President Obama. However, as a result of their mutual appreciation of Rat Dog and The Grateful Dead, this Modern Art Music Movement™ work of art was born.

Victor Hugo Art

As seen being manifested in the Modern Art Music Movement™ MAMM Music Video, “Crackhead Jesus: Shake The City”, Produced, Directed and featuring the Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo  with music By RocOpera.

Victor Hugo Rock Opera Joanne Togati

Behind The Scenes: On set with the Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo, RocOpera, Joanne Togati and Paparazzi.

Portions of the music video were filmed inside the Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino in Hallandale Beach, Florida.

RocOpera on set with the Maverick Artist Victor Hugo

Behind The Scenes: RocOpera on MI-VI set with the Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo.

Portions of the music video were filmed inside the legendary MI-VI Nightclub, as seen on tv news and in print newspapers.

Maverick Artist Victor Hugo RocOpera Chris Alonso

Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo, RocOpera and filmmaker, Chris Alonso, inside, “The Labyrinth Of Creativity Miami”.

Portions of the music video were filmed inside Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr.’s production studio in Miami known as, The Labyrinth of Creativity Miami.

Behind The scenes Victor Hugo
Behind the scenes, with filmmaker Victor-Hugo.
Behind the scenes, with filmmaker Victor-Hugo.
Behind the scenes, with RocOpera and director Victor-Hugo Vaca II.
Behind the scenes, with filmmaker Victor-Hugo.
Behind the scenes with filmmakers Victor-Hugo Vaca II, Chris Alonso, Mike McGill and Paparazzi.

 

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