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warrprayer

(4,734 posts)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 03:34 PM Mar 2014

Catapulting the Propaganda

Perhaps I was half asleep... perhaps it was having too much fun in the '70's...

Last night I was watching CNN. It was a report from on the scene at Ukraine airfield, the one that "Russian soldiers" had taken over. The reporter was shown trying to talk to the "Russian soldiers" and I think it was Wolf Blitzer asking him questions. Blitzer was like "How do you know they are Russian soldiers"? And the reporter - His name I can't remember, but he appeared to be a Ukrainian - said "we saw Russian license plates on their cars, it is well known by people here they are Russian" or something like that.

Now it gets freaky - later the same night, I'm watching Chris Hayes. The same exact footage of the same reporter in Ukraine, running alongside "Russian soldiers", asking them questions, making exactly the same remarks about "license plates", except Chris Hayes appeared to be asking questions framed for these same answers.

This technique is used on radio where a local d.j. sounds like they are "interviewing" a nationally syndicated "guest", the d.j. is given the "questions" to ask for the prerecorded "answers".

I hope to God I am mistaken, perhaps CNN and MSNBC just happened to interview the same reporter at the same airfield in Ukraine within an hour or so of each other, and just sounded remarkably similar.

Otherwise, we are being fed a total line of blatant bullshit by a completely taken over corporate media.

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Catapulting the Propaganda (Original Post) warrprayer Mar 2014 OP
Don't worry be happy jakeXT Mar 2014 #1
Propaganda on news networks warrprayer Mar 2014 #3
how can I watch this warrprayer Mar 2014 #4
Or both networks made use of same pool reporter based in region Pretzel_Warrior Mar 2014 #2
Here is a piece of advise, when we have an international crisis nadinbrzezinski Mar 2014 #5
Quite cleary, Dear Friend warrprayer Mar 2014 #6

warrprayer

(4,734 posts)
3. Propaganda on news networks
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 05:34 PM
Mar 2014

used to be against the law in this country.

They won't legalize pot, but....

"NDAA and Overturning of Smith-Mundt Act[edit]

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA) allows for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be released within U.S. borders and strikes down a long-time ban on the dissemination of such material in the country.[14][15][16
"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_United_States#NDAA_and_Overturning_of_Smith-Mundt_Act



Crazy Miranda
Lives on propaganda she believes anything she reads
It could be one side or the other
Free Press or Time Life covers
She follows newsprint anywhere it leads
But still she can't seem to read and nobody
Knows nobody knows what she needs it could be gloves
All the pretty ladies textbooks
Tell her how to have the "next look"
The Bible tells her stay as plain as you are
She wants all the pretty boys beside her
To write some pretty words to guide her
To tell her they love her body as well as her mind
She wants some kind of sign--a sign of gloves
Oh never mind--she's not your kind.
 

Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)
2. Or both networks made use of same pool reporter based in region
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 03:48 PM
Mar 2014

With U.S. media's fixation on the bottom line it would not surprise me if they have no journalists anywhere near the area.

One woman in Crimea who was interviewed by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said People of her town could tell the soldiers were from Russia based on their accents as well.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
5. Here is a piece of advise, when we have an international crisis
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 05:39 PM
Mar 2014

take everything anybody in media says, national, international, known propaganda networks... all of it with a grain of salt.. sometimes local stations seem better at it, but because they are not at the center of power.

The law might say something, but when countries seem to be slipping towards war... it is catapulted. See Judith Miller and the NYT for a textbook example, and that was before that law was no longer in the books.

Here is how cynical I am. The reporter on RT (which is directed outwards, no Russian saw it) questioning the invasion WAS a propaganda ploy. see how free we truly are?

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