{"id":133446,"date":"2014-07-25T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=133446"},"modified":"2014-07-25T18:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:14:46","slug":"beyond-propaganda-discourse-war-doublethink-lie-becomes-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/beyond-propaganda-discourse-war-doublethink-lie-becomes-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Propaganda: Discourse of War and Doublethink. \u201cWhen the Lie Becomes the Truth\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the attacks of September 11, we are witnessing a transformation of the way the media report the news. They lock us in the unreal. They base truth not on the coherence of a presentation, but on its shocking character. Thus, the observer remains petrified and cannot establish a relation to reality.<\/em><\/p>\n

The media are lying to us, but at the same time, they show us that they are lying. It is no longer a matter of changing our perception of facts in order to get our support, but to lock us in the spectacle of the omnipotence of power. Showing the annihilation of reason is based on images that serve to replace facts. Information no longer focuses on the ability to perceive and represent a thing, but the need to experience it, or rather to experience oneself through it.<\/p>\n

From Bin Laden to Merah, through the \u201ctyrant\u201d Bashar al-Assad, media discourse has become the permanent production of fetishes, ordering surrender to what is \u201cgiven to see.\u201d The injunction does not aim, as propaganda, to convince. It simply directs the subject to give flesh to the image of the \u201cwar of civilizations\u201d. The discursive device of \u201cWar of Good against Evil,\u201d updating the Orwellian doublethink process must become a new reality that de-structures our entire existence, of everyday life in global political relations.<\/p>\n

Such an approch has become ubiquitous, especially regarding the war in Syria. It consists of cancelling a statement at the same time as it is pronounced, while maintaining what has been previously given to see and hear. The individual must have the ability to accept opposing elements, without raising the existing contradiction. Language is thus reduced to communication and cannot fulfill its function of representation. The deconstruction of the faculty to symbolize prevents any protection vis-\u00c3\u00a0-vis the real to which we are in submission.<\/p>\n

Enunciating a Statement And its Opposite at the Same Time<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the reports on the conflict in Syria, the double think procedure is omnipresent. Stating at the same time a thing and its opposite produces a decay of consciousness. It is no longer possible to perceive and analyze reality. Unable to put emotion at a distance, we cannot but feel the real and thus be submitted to it.<\/p>\n

Opponents of the regime of Bashar al-Assad are dubbed \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d and Islamic fundamentalist enemies of democracy at the same time. It is the same with regard to the use of chemical weapons by belligerents. The media, in the absence of evidence, express certainty as to the Syrian regime\u2019s responsability, although they mention the use of such weapons by the \u201crebels\u201d. In particular, they relayed the statements of magistrate Carla Del Ponte, a member of the UN independent commission of inquiry into violence in Syria, who said, on May 5, 2013 on Swiss television, \u201cAccording to the testimonies we have gathered, the rebels have used chemical weapons, making use of sarin gas.\u201d This magistrate, who is also the former prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia can hardly be called indulgent toward the \u201cregime of Bashar Assad.\u201d \u201cOur investigations should be further developed, verified and confirmed through new evidence, but according to what we have established so far, it is the opponents who used sarin,\u201d she added. [1]<\/p>\n

The White House, for its part, did not want to consider this evidence and has always expressed an opposite position. Thus, as regards the August 21 Ghouta massacre, it released a statement explaining that there is \u201clittle doubt\u201d of the use by Syria of chemical weapons against its opposition. The statement added that the Syrian agreement to allow the UN inspectors in the area is \u201ctoo late to be credible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Since the attacks of September 11, we are witnessing a transformation of the way the media report the news. They lock us in the unreal. They base truth not on the coherence of a presentation, but on its shocking character. Thus, the observer remains petrified and cannot establish a relation to reality. The media are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-media-news","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}