Operation Mockingbird continues.
Stronger than ever
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Yep, nothing's changed
Submitted by Centaurea on Thu, 01/17/2019 - 4:25am
Exactly what I was thinking
@Roy Blakeley @Roy Blakeley
I remember how scary that time was, in the early 2000s. Our civil liberties were being demolished, the Patriot Act, TSA, Homeland Security. What a dystopic term, "Homeland". Do you recall hearing that term applied to the USA before 9/11? I don't. It still gives me the creeps.
Anti-war protestors were herded into "First Amendment zones" blocks away from where Dubya was appearing. The American public was openly and directly admonished not to criticize or question, but to keep our mouths shut, support the president, and spend money shopping.
What did the MSM do? It acted as cheerleader-in-chief and water carrier for the Bush administration and the MIC.
News reporters (so-called "journalists") consistently allowed their interview subjects to control the interview and turn it into pro-MIC PR. No in-depth, critical questioning, no follow-up to BS statements.
Instead of providing independent, truly journalistic coverage of the military action in Afghanistan, they allowed themselves to be "embedded" in military units.
I recall the actions of the MSM as one of the scariest parts of that time. In retrospect, I can see that it was gaslighting of the highest order. Something terrible was being foisted upon us, and the MSM not only failed to acknowledge it, but actively promoted it.
So yeah, it was not mere laziness on the part of the news media when they propagated the "weapons of mass destruction" nonsense. |
