medialens | The goal of a mass media propaganda campaign is to create the
impression that 'everybody knows' that Saddam is a 'threat', Gaddafi is
'about to commit mass murder', Assad 'has to go', Corbyn is 'destroying
the Labour party', and so on. The picture of the world presented must be
clear-cut. The public must be made to feel certain that the 'good guys'
are basically benevolent, and the 'bad guys' are absolutely appalling
and must be removed.
This is achieved by relentless repetition of the theme over days,
weeks, months and even years. Numerous individuals and organisations are
used to give the impression of an informed consensus – there is no doubt! Once
this 'truth' has been established, anyone contradicting or even
questioning it is typically portrayed as a shameful 'apologist' in order
to deter further dissent and enforce conformity.
A key to countering this propaganda is to ask some simple questions:
Why are US-UK governments and corporate media much more concerned about
suffering in Venezuela than the far worse horrors afflicting war-torn,
famine-stricken Yemen? Why do UK MPs rail against Maduro while rejecting
a parliamentary motion
to suspend UK arms supplies to their Saudi Arabian allies attacking
Yemen? Why is the imperfect state of democracy in Venezuela a source of
far greater outrage than outright tyranny in Saudi Arabia? The answers
could hardly be more obvious.
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