#narrativecontrol
giving Jake Tapper and Dana Bash the job of being lead anchors on the Gaza genocide is like giving Joseph Goebbels the task of reporting on the goings on in Auschwitz concentration camp. But the Western media class thinks it's perfectly normal. Muslims get pulled off air though
--- @zei_squirrel on x/twitter, Jan 21
#Gaza #genocide #JosephGoebbels #Goebbels #media #propaganda #NarrativeControl
Further arrests as police use the Terrorism Act to crack down on pro-Palestinian protestors
#NarrativeControl #censorship #HardLensMedia
https://twitter.com/HardLensMedia/status/1746562652891980250
PS: I've added this incident to this list: https://codeberg.org/tord/orwell/wiki/Home
Many Palestinian journalists in Gaza have received death threats from officers in the Israeli army precisely due to their status as journalists. And many of those threatened have subsequently been killed, along with family members, when Israeli airstrikes targeted their homes or places of shelter.
We also have the precedent in prior wars (in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021) of Israel bombing Gazan media buildings (including one I was in in 2009) with varying severity, damaging and finally destroying two major media buildings in 2021. This is clearly intended to stop the flow of reports from Gaza under Israeli bombs, and so is the killing of journalists.
--- Eva K Bartlett, in her article Reporters without shame: Top ‘media rights’ organization ignores rampant killings of Gaza journalists
Glenn Diesen interviewed about propaganda and geopolitics
Some key points:
* To the ruling class a benefit of good-vs-evil in propaganda is that it mobilizes the public to support war, but a downside is that it makes it difficult to make peace (even when it's beneficial for the ruling class to do so)
* Academic censorship: We're effectively saying that people in academia have to reach the "right" conclusion. The way to reach the conclusion is not the priority. (Example given: Former students demanded that John Mersheimer chance his conclusions on the war in Ukraine, if he was going to be allowed to continue working at his univerity)
* Soviet propaganda was not as strong as western propaganda because our propaganda was/is filtered through various organizations, like corporate media and NGOs, while with Soviet propaganda it was clear who the source was (the government).
https://youtu.be/UIcxNn22kHg?si=cqZ55B39gvHbvQmi
#GleenDiesen #propaganda #geopolitics #NarrativeControl #censorship
CrossTalk | Fake news as a norm
(First half is the most interesting and relevant for the topic, i recommend skipping the last half)
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/CT_1112:f?r=8fGMofvxii2ZPGaB6Wo3Q1i5oeM9PKKJ
