Saturday, September 13, 2014
There's the Whoopsie.......
Last week Polistra analyzed the mechanism of modern propaganda:
....The Memory Hole, as seen in stories like the MH17 crash or Unarmed African-American Teenager or Bashar Assad's supposed use of chemical weapons. All paid news sources on "all" "sides" blindly and rigidly follow the official line. Their overmodulated copy-pasted roaring grows and grows .... until some unpaid report brings out the Whoopsie. There's evidence that the Kiev forces shot down MH17; or it turns out that Unarmed African-American Teenager was a hardass thug with a long criminal record, as all sane people knew to begin with; or it looks like the anti-Assad forces were using the chem weapons AND Assad was perfectly willing to give up his chem weapons.
After the Whoopsie, there is still no paid news source opposing the official line. And of course there is no admission of error. Instead, the story just fades out, drops through the Hole, to be replaced by the next lethal lie.
Okay. Now we have a Whoopsie right in the middle of the buildup. Will it stop anything?
This isn't exactly unprecedented; the Tonkin Gulf was exposed as fake the day after LBJ used it to start the Vietnam war. But the coverage by CNN and ABC is interesting and a little encouraging. It shows that even with Our Lord And Savior Obama in the president's office, some media are still capable of questioning the official line.
¶ 1:44 AM
Last week Polistra analyzed the mechanism of modern propaganda:
....The Memory Hole, as seen in stories like the MH17 crash or Unarmed African-American Teenager or Bashar Assad's supposed use of chemical weapons. All paid news sources on "all" "sides" blindly and rigidly follow the official line. Their overmodulated copy-pasted roaring grows and grows .... until some unpaid report brings out the Whoopsie. There's evidence that the Kiev forces shot down MH17; or it turns out that Unarmed African-American Teenager was a hardass thug with a long criminal record, as all sane people knew to begin with; or it looks like the anti-Assad forces were using the chem weapons AND Assad was perfectly willing to give up his chem weapons.
After the Whoopsie, there is still no paid news source opposing the official line. And of course there is no admission of error. Instead, the story just fades out, drops through the Hole, to be replaced by the next lethal lie.
Okay. Now we have a Whoopsie right in the middle of the buildup. Will it stop anything?
Obama administration officials repeatedly warned the family of murdered journalist James Foley that they might face criminal charges for supporting terrorism if they paid a ransom to the Islamic State jihadists who were holding and, ultimately, beheaded their son, his mother and brother said this week. “We were told that several times and we took it as a threat and it was appalling,” Foley's mother Diane said in an interview with ABC News. “I think our efforts to get Jim freed were an annoyance,” she elaborated in another interview with CNN. “It didn't seem to be in [US] strategic interest, if you will.”In plain words, the government NEEDED a dead Foley. He had to be the Lusitania or the Maine or the Tonkin Gulf for the latest unnecessary and aggressive war.
This isn't exactly unprecedented; the Tonkin Gulf was exposed as fake the day after LBJ used it to start the Vietnam war. But the coverage by CNN and ABC is interesting and a little encouraging. It shows that even with Our Lord And Savior Obama in the president's office, some media are still capable of questioning the official line.
¶ 1:44 AM
