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Mark Steyn walks us through exactly HOW the media transmutes a news report into outright propaganda – step by step -- in his "Taqiyya for Easter." He starts off:
Let's say a fire breaks out at
Notre Dame cathedral in Paris at the start of Holy Week, and just after two of
the city's other most prominent houses of worship - St Sulpice and the Basilica
of St Denis - have been attacked and vandalized.
Well, I think we can all
confidently say as the first flames are beginning to lick the ceiling that it's
undoubtedly an accident. Cigarette butt. Or maybe computer glitch. Probably just an overheated smart phone.
We don't need to get in there and sift through the debris. We can just announce
it.
On the other hand, when there are
coordinated attacks on Easter services at several churches in Sri Lanka, it
becomes a little more challenging to pass off multiple suicide-bombings killing
nearly three hundred people as an electrical malfunction.
So, in contrast to the confident
declarations of a week ago, on Sunday morning the media opted for a subtler
narrative. Lead sentence from The Economist:
IT
HAS BEEN nearly ten years since the guns fell silent in Sri Lanka's civil war.
But bloodshed returned with a vengeance...
So it's something to do with the
Tamil Tigers? Their guns fell silent, but now they've returned with a
vengeance, eh?
Well, er, no, er, not, ah,
precisely... But it's useful for "context", lots and lots of context.
And, if you pile up enough context, you can bury the actual story.
Do read the rest of the how-to analysis here.
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