Lies of the Media Pt. 2

(cont…)

On 3/22, as FOX TV showed the hundreds of thousands of protestors in NYC that that filled all of Broadway south of Times Square, across the bottom, the banner headline said “protests for and against the war across the country.”

On NBC (Nazi Broadcasting Corporation) 3/23 Nightly News, the footage was so slanted it was stomach-turning. The New York protests – over 200,000 people of all ages, colors, and backbrounds, was juxtaposed in a 50-50 way with a tiny protest in an ultra-rightwing, very white community in California.

Then the protest in London – over 500,000 strong! – was (can you believe it?!) downplayed as being not as big as expected…HUH? Then heavily-edited clips (edited to slant) of protests elsewhere were shown.

A Beirut anti-war protest was billed as “Pro-Saddam Hussein” by the NBC commentator – even though the signs shown in the sea of protestors all read “NO WAR.” Then, at the close of this farce, Tom Brokaw says what proof this is of a “world deeply divided.” Since when is 6 billion people in several hundred nations united against a few million rightwingers in, essentially, two countries, a “DIVIDED WORLD.” It isn’t – and that is the truth Brokaw and his pals in the Bush Corporate Empire do not want people to see.

Another 50-50 technique is to present an equal number of pro and con statements on an issue – even if the cons (or pros, depending on the case) represent a tiny minority. In truly unbiased, accurate reporting, the number of statements presented reflect the reality of your sample. If your sampling of “men on the street” includes 10 pros and one con, then you present several pros and one con, without spin or judgement. That accurately reflects reality. You do not select the weakest or flakiest pro statement and pair it with the only con – which is what the media now does.

DISINFORMATION BRIEFS 3/23

FOX Ad: Running over and over, and always (from witness reports) directly after footage of protests. This slick package of an ad shows five scrubbed looking college students saying… “We speak..we listen..we unite…support our troops….” At the end of the ad, no attribution is given at all, which is suspicious, to say the least. Afterall, even Phillip Morris has to stick on an attribution at the end of its “anti-smoking public service ads). So, who paid for the FOX ad? The Charitable Rumsfeld Foundation?

Just before 2:00 pm, TV news reports journalists being fired on. Suddenly, the networks cut back to regular programming.” I.e., a blackout. I learn online later that at least 6 journalists have been killed in a “secured town.” In times gone by, a disaster such as this would have triggered an intensive round of coverage…minute to minute. Now, because it works against propaganda, it is scrubbed until an appropriate spin can be constructed.

Meanwhile, AOL is running headlines (throughout the afternoon of 3/23) straight out of fantasy land: “Franks says fight is “on our terms.” Do those terms include the slaughter of journalists? I wonder…. Another AOL headline: “U.S. Won’t Use Turkish Bases.” This wording, of course, implies that we have CHOSEN not to use the bases. The fact is, their use has been denied by the Turkish parliament. Here’s the real story: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.asp?id=90C727C7-29D3-4AFB-8F9B-CCDBCAD4263B

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