A Few Words on Mainstream Media Double-Standards (and what's behind it all...)

in #propaganda7 years ago

>"At least 300 people were killed and hundreds seriously injured in attack..."

The Guardian

...In Mogadishu, Somalia. No front-page outrage, your grandmother didn't hear about it on CNN, tonight's show host won't comment on it. Hundreds of dead bodies laying in blood somewhere in Africa are not that relevant.

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But he commented on the terror attack that took place a couple of months ago in La Rambla, Barcelona, where a handful of Westerners were killed, so what changed? What is exactly the difference?

People and un-people, the "worthy and the unworthy", to quote Edward Herman.

The enemy's victims are worthy, they deserve extensive, emotional, condemnatory coverage and the promise of justice. Usually the culprit is clearly pointed out and named. Our victims are unworthy of attention, perhaps a footnote in history books, a small page 27 article, not to be considered or remembered when talking about the overall subject. That is, not introduced in the narrative interpreting reality, as it never happened.

This isn't exactly the case. Al-Shabab did it. They are not our victims, no Western force killed them. They remain unworthy just the same.

It´s "agenda-friendly" to show worldwide outrage and condemnation when a handful of Westerners are attacked in Europe, because it means more surveillance, more control, more militarization of the local police, more profits selling "defense". And more fear on a citizenry meant to be "managed".

On the other hand, making the African people worthy of our attention and care is deeply threatening. The poor, the exploited must not be seen as human. Those who make profits by the billions from that poverty and exploitation find it dangerous that the masses would see the un-people as people, so let's not make too much noise about hundreds brutally killed in the peripheries of the great Empire.

Explaining the victims of MSM how this abhorrent attack is somehow linked to that same Empire "security concerns" is obviously not "agenda-friendly" either.

Security, "defense", control... that will be imposed in the peripheries too, eventually. But for now, the masters of the Universe need that region of the world for its cheap, slave labor and untapped resources. After all, giving them "worthy" status would go against the "protection of our raw materials", as George Kennan once said.

Now imagine our fearful and disoriented Western masses empathizing with the "un-people" sitting on our resources.

Or worse, imagine them taking it to the streets se we stop bombing them.

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Relevance:Detailing the severity of Islamic terrorism in the Islamic world

What do you think of them showing the drowned refugee child on the front page while never showing the dead children from Islamic truck attacks?

I think using dead or wounded children for propagandistic purposes is terrible, no matter who does it.
I think the worldwide exposition of a dead child picture (refugee or not) is never an accident, there's an agenda behind and those who promote it know how to affect people by using children.

Maybe the agenda could be to promote acceptance for refugees in European countries, but even as they show the world how these refugees are victimized by war and different conflicts, msm won't tell us what's behind those same conflicts, the information shared is always superficial and seeks a specific purpose of causing certain emotions, they are not an invitation to reason or reflection.
But why wouldn't they show the victims of Islamic-oriented terrorists? If they need support for intervention in areas held by ismalic terrorism, or more surveillance at home, they will show everything they have at hand to arouse public opinion to support military invasion and more surveillance.
If they want to topple Assad they show the drowned boy and say he is a victim of that tyranny... If they need cheaper workers in Europe then they will send them from the Middle East and tell people to support immigration. I'm speculating... what do you think?

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