When Propaganda Masquarades as News
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They load the clip in omnicolour
Said they pack the 9, they fire at their prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And motherfuckers lost their minds
No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
And then play it again and again and again
Until your mind is locked in
Believin' all the lies that they're tellin' you
Buyin' all the products that they're sellin' you
RATM - BULLET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Ney...eature=related
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The week-long Israeli onslaught against largely defenseless Palestinians in Gaza that began on November 14 provides a basis for assessing how Western corporate media whitewash the war crimes of America’s foremost ally in the Middle East. There are three often intertwined techniques consciously applied to such news coverage—historical context, sourcing, and objectification of the enemy to be targeted. Such practices can readily transform journalism into propaganda that acts to abet such crimes while at the same time allowing journalistic institutions to still claim the mantle of “objectivity.”
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article37703.html
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Such methods are on full display in the reportage of Israel’s most recent operation in Gaza. The use of such propaganda fits within a broader campaign of media disinformation that subdues potential outrage—particularly in the US—over Israel’s overwhelming use of force against an oppressed and vulnerable people, most of whom are civilians.
Meaningful historical context for understanding Israel’s aggression is almost entirely absent from most Western news coverage of the event. If present, such context would illuminate Israeli government officials’ true motivations for a military venture that involved 750 airstrikes in four days alone. “’Operation Pillar of Defense,’” Nile Bowie observes,
launched just months away from Israel’s elections, is a calculated component of the Netanyahu government’s strategy to topple Hamas and continue absorbing Palestinian territory. Decades of occupation and apartheid have shaped the current scenario; Israel has dehumanized an entire people by seizing their land and forcing them into prison-like ghettoes. Adherents to political Zionism have shown contempt for a genuine political solution to the Palestinian conflict, and the Netanyahu administration is poised to crush all opposition to the Jewish state.
The fact that much of the American public especially is misinformed or unaware of the profuse atrocities and injustices committed with its tax dollars and tacitly in its name attests to the continued centrality of propaganda, made all the more effective in its thoroughgoing attempt to masquerade as news.
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YOU'VE GOTTA BULLET IN YA FUCKIN' HEAD
Israel 'Media Bunker' Peppers Internet With Propaganda Tweets And Facebook Posts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2171168.html
Israel Has Turned Propaganda Into a Game, And It’s Pretty Gross
http://kotaku.com/5962698/israel-has...s-pretty-gross
NBC Uses Dubious Propaganda Images from Gaza War
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wi...mages-gaza-war
Propaganda images by pro-Israel groups show mock attack on Dublin
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...327010033.html
Israel launches unprecedented social media online propaganda war
http://fsrn.org/audio/israel-launche...anda-war/11189
US Lawmakers Take Up Call to *** Ban Hamas from Twitter ***
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Ne...0#.ULIxjK0hh6g
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Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, *** you say how high ***
A little pro palestinian music video to help balance things out:
Intifada - Doc Jazz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnc5IfyGTeE
I give a shout out to the living dead,
presence
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