Begin with Sunday, April 15th, 2018.
“Mission Accomplished! But What is the Mission in Syria?” asks Peter Baker at the New York Times.
Read Mr. Baker’s “News Analysis” feature story closely, as it is a powerful illustration of how the “Propaganda Model of News” works in the Digital Age.
Baker’s article quickly works to “frame” an “official narrative” – the “surgical strike” against “chemical facilities in Syria” was “executed perfectly” (channeling Trump’s own words without question), then moving on to Mr. Trump’s alleged stated foreign policy goal: “defeat the Islamic State and then get out.”
Baker then compares Mr. Trump’s actions to the Obama administration’s Syrian policy (“no easier answers”), flagging the POTUS’s “competing impulses when it comes to Syria” – being “the toughest one on the international block” versus “his [DJT’s] deep conviction that American involvement in the Middle East since the attacks of September 11, 2001, has been a waste of blood and treasure.”
We could go on, but this “news analysis” gives us enough to work with.
Mr. Baker’s unspoken assumptions re: said “mission”:
All of these assumptions ought to be contested.
To whit, what Mr. Baker does NOT say on the front page of the New York Times is equally revealing:
Surely, Baker must be aware of all of these realities?
Meanwhile, on Tee Vee? Howard Dean, Bernie Sanders, Tucker Carlson – oh my!
Just, wow. The Jimmy Dore Show breaks it down here on Dean and Carlson.
And here is JD on MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.
And another NEWS FLASH – POTUS DJT does NOT always run his own TWITTER account.
Our new VCMLEP Propaganda Model Of News 2.0 – learn, live, love it.
Finally, here’s The Truth Factory showing us how independent critical media literacy education is done.
Free media, free Vermont!
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