Brain inflammation, mine

I've been reading a book about renaissance Italian painting, Caravaggio, and gossip, while trying to pay attention to the Republican National Convention. I do not recommend this pairing to friends.

Apparently, in the 16th Century, Vincenzo Giustiniani published a "Discorso sopra la Pittura" on the 12 levels of painting where landscapes are superior to architectural paintings, which are superior to still lifes, which are better than portraiture...you get the idea.

Somehow this got bound up in my mind with cable news coverage of the convention and chiarascura and rotting fruit. As a caution to anyone considering similar unwise drug combinations, I provide the following "Disposizione sulle notizie" along with my apologies.

Story is:
1. factually accurate and in placed in context
2. factually accurate but with no context
3. factually accurate but not in correct context
4. not particularly accurate or informative
5. error ridden and out of context
6. really more about the reporter than anything else
7. primarily focused on the reporter’s opinions about poorly supported facts without context
8. mostly discusses reporter’s opinions about specious “facts” taken out of context
9. all about reporter using lies to attack unprepared guest
10. mostly about setting up a false dichotomy between bizarrely extreme ends of the political spectrum
11. all about a false dichotomy, based on false allegations presented as facts, between a straw man and revealed "divine" truth
12. on Fox News