'As with Iraq, there seems to be a coordinated mainstream media effort to drag America into a new war. Don’t let them.'
for the new order took place just six months ago in Afghanistan as the last American troops clambered aboard their transports — with Washington seeming to abandon American citizens, a multi-million dollar embassy, and the Afghan people to their fates. The Afghan War did not begin under false pretenses as much as it began under no pretenses. Americans in 2001 would have supported carpet bombing Santa’s Workshop.
That this was completely untrue mattered not at all. The American MSM took up the story with great energy, first as stenographers for the Bush Administration fed by public statements, and then as amplifiers of the message fed by leaks by senior officials. At the same time, dissenting voices were stifled, including a number ofwho had been working inside Iraq and knew the weapons claims were a hoax. In an age before social media, the clampdown on other ideas was near total.
The NYT also said “Articles based on dire claims tended to get prominent display, while follow-up articles that called the original ones into question were sometimes buried. In some cases, there was no follow-up at all.” The memory hole. The big change is that while in its previous abetting of propaganda, many in the media including the Times, took the side of the U.S. government in supporting war, in Ukraine they appear to be supporting the Ukrainian government. Much of the video and imagery out of Ukraine comes from the government and those anonymous sources of 2003 have been replaced by no real sourcing at all.
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