
Manufacturing Consent Series:
Thread about how media fabricates a fake news... today's example is the lie that the MSM is spreading these days:
"Russians have payed Taliban to kill american soldiers in Afghanistan."
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#TalibanGate
As always it starts with some news "planted" in a big newspaper... in this case NYT.
There are no proofs... just the classic anonymous intelligence community sources say!
2/9 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html
There are no proofs... just the classic anonymous intelligence community sources say!
2/9 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html
The old CIA operations director John Stockwell explains how THEY do the planting!
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Right after other newspapers, TV channels and media figures give the news as a fact... and it spreads all over the world.
Here Charlie Savage writes as if it is confirmed when the article says... "If confirmed"!
4/9 https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1276918670099349504?s=20
Here Charlie Savage writes as if it is confirmed when the article says... "If confirmed"!
4/9 https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1276918670099349504?s=20
Here John Hudson (Washington Post) says he has confirmed the story... when the only source he has is the NYT article!
5/9 https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1276735865008656386?s=20
5/9 https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1276735865008656386?s=20
Rachel Maddow doesn't loses time and spreads the news... already with an elaborated conspiracy theory!
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Excellent article from Caitlin Johnstone that shows how this repeating process is done... exactly like we saw in the escalation to the Iraq invasion!
7/9 https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/this-russia-afghanistan-story-is-western-propaganda-at-its-most-vile-abe6084845f2
7/9 https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/this-russia-afghanistan-story-is-western-propaganda-at-its-most-vile-abe6084845f2
The NYT is already known for supporting every war that Washington wants to wage and spread the "necessary" lies!
Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran...
8/9 https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1277055919893831681?s=20
Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran...
8/9 https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1277055919893831681?s=20
Manufacturing Consent series are examples of how the media changes people's perception of reality... to advance elites goals!
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demonstrated it in a magnificent book and film... ONE OF THEM IS MANDATORY!
9/9 https://u.nu/61sd0
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demonstrated it in a magnificent book and film... ONE OF THEM IS MANDATORY!
9/9 https://u.nu/61sd0