Date: Tuesday, 15 October 2024
https://theduran.com/how-to-tell-if-youre-getting-news-or-instead-lying-propaganda/
How to tell if you’re getting news, or instead lying propaganda:
15 October 2024, by Eric Zuesse
Lying propaganda is in favor of the Government but not necessarily of the political Party that happens to be running it at the time. The standard way of running a multi-Party dictatorship is by all of the major Parties being controlled (funded) by the nation’s super-rich or “Deep State” — something that in former eras was called “the aristocracy.” They determine whom each one of the Parties’ nominees will be, to run against each other, so that, in any case, the contest will be between various factions of the aristocracy, no authentic democracy at all. A typical example of this is today’s United States, which will be discussed here.
The ‘news’-media in such a dictatorship are likewise funded and controlled (such as by billionaires’ corporations advertising in them) by the billionaires — the same category of people who determine whom the Parties’ nominees will be.
Thus, lying propaganda is in favor of the Government, but not necessarily of the political Party that happens to be running it at the time. This way it can pretend to be ‘objective’ or even ‘non-partisan’ even while being a propaganda-vehicle (regardless of whether owned by the Government or by the media-corporations).
A good example of this is shown by the New Yorker magazine, which is a puff-sheet for America’s Democratic Party, and is designed to appeal to (reinforce the prejudices of) upper-income and highly educated urban voters. On September 24th, it headlined “The New Yorker Interview: Volodymyr Zelensky Has a Plan for Ukraine’s Victory”, but Zelensky didn’t tell the interviewer what it was, and the interviewer didn’t even ask him what it was. Obviously, therefore, the magazine’s managers and editors don’t actually have much respect for their readers’ intelligence-level. Also, on October 3rd, it headlined “Q. & A. How the U.S.-Israel Relationship Actually Works”, and ignored that question. What that question really concerns, and about which there is much public speculation (and so this headline was teasing its readers about it), is whether Israel’s billionaires and Government control America’s, or instead America’s billionaires and Government control Israel’s. I’m not going to take any position on that here, but this Democratic Party puff-sheet avoided the issue altogether; and, so, yet again, the magazine’s managers and editors don’t actually have much respect for their readers’ intelligence-level. (If I were to take any position on that question today, then I might headline “Finally, the U.S. Government Is Demanding Israel’s to Halt Its Effort to Starve All Surviving Gazans to Death”; and, of course, no U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-medium would run such a headline.)
What this model of dictatorship shows us (and which holds true throughout all of at least the countries that are in the U.S. empire — the U.S. and its ‘allies’ or colonies), but perhaps also pertains in some of the independent nations, is that an aristocracy rules by treating its subjects (‘citizens’) as being fools who are willing to be deceived time and again forever and yet still retain their trust in — their faith in — their Government, believing that it is a democracy, no dictatorship.
The way to tell whether you are getting news, or instead lying propaganda (such as in the build-up to America’s 20 March 2003 invasion of Iraq, and to Russia’s 24 February 2002 invasion of Ukraine) is whether or not the given news-medium has been feeding you falsehoods in the past (such as all mainstream ‘news’-media throughout the U.S. empire do routinely). It is really just that simple. The test of whether it is news or instead propaganda is not “like rocket science,” at all. It is instead obvious, when you look at the record. Tragically few people do.
PS: If you like this article, please email it to all your friends or otherwise let others know about it. None of the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media will likely publish it (nor link to it, since doing that might also hurt them with Google or etc.). I am not asking for money, but I am asking my readers to spread my articles far and wide, because I specialize in documenting what the Deep State is constantly hiding. This is, in fact, today’s samizdat.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
