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 they don’t seek to build a nuclear bomb, even though there has never been any evidence to prove that they are. Finally, in the Ukraine, estimates of Russian Troops there have ranged from 10,000-40,000 and Putin has to prove that they are not there—even though there has been no proof offered in the West of anywhere near those numbers, if any. This is an excellent article, which covers this technique in more detail. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42116.htm Here’s more “prove a negative” garbage from the “intelligence” community in the form of the recent accusations by unnamed British Officials that China and Russian have hacked Snowden’s Files and that he has “blood on his hands”. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/ This article contains some wonderful links and examples of how the mainstream media in Britain propagandizes its interviews. There’s one outstanding examples of Glenn Greenwald eating the BBC’s Lunch. The story also addresses the absurd “moral equivalence” argument… Read more »
Excellent work – thankyou.