Mosaic of facts
from RT
Can you tell truth from lies in mass media? RTD’s Miguel Francis-Santiago delves deep to try to understand the intricacies of information war. He meets media experts and puts together the Mosaic of Facts, showing how public opinion is manipulated, not just over the Ukrainian Crisis but throughout the world.
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As a long time student and observer of the effects of propaganda, I have assembled some very interesting links on this subject over the years. Following are some of the better ones beginning with the “prove a negative” trap. The “prove-a-negative” trap has its roots in the Big Lie technique of both Hitler and Goebbels. How this works is that target nations are put into a position by Western Leaders, as trumpeted in the Western Media, in which a country or a leader must prove a negative. When they can’t, sanctions are imposed and in some cases this is the first step to war. For example: Saddam had to prove he had no WMD’s, but he couldn’t prove the lack of something and when the inspectors never found anything, that became evidence that the WMD’s were there and were well hidden. Similarly, Iran is now being asked to prove that… Read more »
Excellent work – thankyou.