Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Producing "reality"
I think it's very clear now that our adversaries devote a lot of time and effort to creating scenes and impressions that they hope will be shown in the world's media.
Events are "produced" just like "reality" TV.
And sadly, for many, it is blindly accepted as the truth.
And the bad guys know it!...
Trivia - In Pakistan they actually call them "fully managed episodes" (but our media does not).
Events are "produced" just like "reality" TV.
And sadly, for many, it is blindly accepted as the truth.
And the bad guys know it!...
Trivia - In Pakistan they actually call them "fully managed episodes" (but our media does not).
Reuters reports in Bagdad:
"U.S. commanders in Iraq on Monday accused powerful Shi'ite groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in battle to encourage accusations that U.S.-led troops massacred unarmed worshippers in a mosque."
"'After the fact, someone went in and made the scene look different from what it was. There's been huge misinformation,' Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli, the second-ranking U.S. commander in Iraq, said."The quoted paragraph(s) from the linked web page go here."