"Buried in the messages between National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other cabinet members is a horrible demonstration of narrative engineering.

"While the legacy media fixates on ‘classified information’, the real story is actually not the incompetence of these people but instead how they casually discussed spinning the bombing of Yemen—an already battered and famine-ravaged nation—into a palatable story for the American and global public. Let’s have a look":
https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/how-to-sell-a-massacre by Deaglan O'Mulrooney 🧶

#storyTelling #counterterrorism #victimBlaming #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #Signal #postFactual #bias #news #media #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #war #Yemen #Houthis #warCrimes #allies #PeteHegseth #Hegseth #MikeWaltz #Waltz #OMulrooney #mediaStudy #bombing #narrative

Between 2023, October 7 and November 24, the New York Times had described Israeli deaths as a “massacre” on 53 occasions and those of Palestinians just once.
In November 2023, the journalists were distributed directives to avoid the terms “genocide”, “ethnic cleansing”, “occupied territory”. The memo instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/

#mediaStudy #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #postFactual #bias #news #media #israel #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #OngoingNakba #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #Hamas #allies

'It takes a critical eye to understand how reporting can be used to frame events, especially in the Middle East. As most pieces of journalism don’t receive as much scrutiny as “Screams Without Words,” it is our hope that the detailed analysis here offers the reader some tools they can apply to any media they consume.'

Feminist Solidarity Network for Palestine, 2023: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-helps-israel-weaponize-rape-allegations-against-palestinians @palestine

#mediaStudy #deflection #credibility #authority #manipulation #whiteness #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #AnatSchwartz #October7 #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #Gettleman #warRape #israel #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #israelism #foreignCorrespondents #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #Hamas #allies

Ben Smith writes about journalism and NYT:
"The Times turned over crucial elements of its reporting on one of the most difficult and sensitive stories it has ever published to amateurs, one of whose social media posts would make reasonable people question her ability to be fair.
"That sounds insane when you say it out loud. Why would you do that?"

"Institutions of all sorts are struggling to win trust in this kaleidoscopic, networked world. If you can’t do the painstaking work of presenting an incontestable truth with absolute confidence, the alternative is humility and an openness to multiple points of view."

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/03/2024/how-the-times-stumbled-on-a-sensitive-israel-story

#NYT #confusion #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #integrity #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #AnatSchwartz #October7 #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Gettleman #warRape #israel #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #foreignCorrespondents

"We must confess that our adversaries have a marked advantage over us in the discussion. In very few words they can announce a half-truth; and in order to demonstrate that it is incomplete, we are obliged to have recourse to long and dry dissertations."

— Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms, First Series (1845)

@socialpsych

#halfTruth #quotes #sophisms #truth #postFactual #fakeNews #propaganda #Hasbara #complotism #reality #populism #socialMedia #antisemitism #judeoPhobia #Paris #liberalism #optimistSchool #Bastiat

Ben Norton wrote: 'Instead of investigating how it published a fake story on supposed Hamas "mass rapes", the NY Times is investigating... employees who leaked info about how its editors hired a racist Israeli propagandist to write the fake story to justify Israel's genocide.'

A union leader said the leak probe has singled out employees ‘for their national origin, ethnicity and race’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/01/nytimes-leak-investigation-guild-intercept-hamas/

#racialProfiling #integrity #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #AnatSchwartz #October7 #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #warRape #israel #doubt #press

"New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians."

James North: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/extraordinary-charges-of-bias-emerge-against-nytimes-reporter-anat-schwartz/

#institutionsLie #sexualViolence #Zaka #AnatSchwartz #NYT #October7 #propaganda #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #warRape #israel #ethics #doubt #FUD #press

"The Biden administration plan for the “day after” in Gaza is rooted in American hubris and ignorance, and therefore doomed to failure."

"The United States has a long history of misunderstanding the Mideast, but this level of ignorance and willful blindness far surpass anything we’ve seen before."

Mitchell Plitnick: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/bidens-day-after-plan-for-gaza-reflects-ignorance-and-incompetence/

#Biden #normalization #AbrahamAccords #complicated #postFactual #dillusion #stateBuilding #governance #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #USPol

In a #postfactual society, what differentiates a distrust in the #majorconsensusnarrative from being a conspiracy theorist?

If peaceful protesters and journalists are condemned as ”#terrorists“ by regime & opposition politicians and #oligarch media, when they are incarcerated -
Should society conform or revolt?

When the general populus reports activists to authorities, when #warcriminals are never trialed, when #whistleblowing is rewarded with a #carbomb -

To which measures are we obliged?

"It appears that the New York Times manipulated a working-class Mizrahi family in the service of Israeli hasbara in order to score a journalistic achievement, which in reality is nothing more than a repetition of fake news and government propaganda."

#Mondoweiss: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/family-of-key-case-in-new-york-times-october-7-sexual-violence-report-renounces-story-says-reporters-manipulated-them/ @israel

#NYT #hasbara #scoop #fakeNews #propaganda #postFactual #lies #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #terrorism #October7 #GalAbdush #systematicRape #sexualViolence #warRape #Mizrahi #ethnicity #Jewry #israel #Gettleman

The masses' flight from reality is a condemnation of the world in which they are forced to live. […] The main disadvantage of reality is that it is not logical, coherent or organised.
~ Hannah Arendt, in "Totalitarianism"

@sociology @socialpsych

#Arendt #quotes #truth #postFactual #complotism #reality #Russia #Putin #supremacism #Netanyahu #nazism #Germany #totalitarianism #media #antisemitism #HannahArendt #agnotology #Trumpism #fragility #believe

@subtype yes and I think it should be banned!

Next worst is #EUgunban and all the other #postfactual #facist shite and #frontex aka. Fortress Europe's "Wall Gunners"...

@troglodyt @rafa_font @edri exactly.

See #postfactual #cyberfacism like #ITAR / #USML & #WassejaarArrangement, which do diddly piss and are pointless at best if not even more harmful than unenforceable bs gun legislation in the post-#Luty & post-#FGC9 era.

Make it true:
Hannah #Arendt observed that men gaining #power in Germany did not lie because they believed what they were saying, or even because they expected YOU to believe it. They were lying to state out what had to become #true in order to justify what they intended to do.
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#communism #nazism #postFactual #war #Russia #performance #FRPol #Macron #politics #communication #propaganda #commOdon #media #truth #agnotology

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced #Nazi or the convinced #Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the #reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
#communism #nazism #postFactual #totalitarianism #war #propaganda #Russia #quotes #commOdon #truth #agnotology #history 🧶

ChatGPT and other LLMs are the industrialization of post-factual society, the cheap mass-production of plausibly sounding disinformation.

#ChatGPT #LLM #PostFactual #disinformation

@kkomaitis because #EU #Comission is pushing #postfactual #cyberfacism as usual?