{"id":156897,"date":"2015-06-04T22:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=156897"},"modified":"2015-06-04T22:58:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:58:05","slug":"western-news-media-as-tyrannys-propagandists-hiding-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/western-news-media-as-tyrannys-propagandists-hiding-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Western ‘News’ Media as Tyranny’s Propagandists Hiding Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

1: The ugly realities are covered up, not covered; here\u2019s an example of what you don\u2019t see in the regime\u2019s media about the people whom Americans’ tax dollars are bombing and killing:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YgB2bhFfEtM&app=desktop<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2: The great investigative journalist John Pilger discusses the systematic truth-suppression:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/johnpilger.com\/articles\/war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3: The great investigative journalist Robert Parry\u2019s latest take-down of America\u2019s press is here:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/06\/02\/neocon-fugitive-given-ukraine-province\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

4: As usual, a great journalist gets fired for being too honest:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/cnn-journalist-governments-pay-us-to-fake-stories-shocking-expose\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CONCLUSION:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A shared feature of all of those news-reports, about news-suppression in the United States, is: they all concern foreign affairs; not a one of them concerns domestic matters, such as, for example, the Wall Street bailouts \u2013 even though those issues are also highly sanitized in the U.S. press. What the U.S. regime is doing abroad is even more horrible than that. As you can see from the above few examples: it\u2019s not reportable (except by a very few of the small American news-media and on some foreign news-media that are independent of U.S. control). <\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media are actually propaganda-media. Because of this, the only poll that was ever published regarding the question of what country is\u00a0“the greatest threat to peace in the world today,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0found that, in all 65 countries surveyed (except the U.S. and a few others), the United States was identified as that, and not just by a small margin, but by an overwhelmingly high margin, which was three times higher a percentage than that of the #2-mentioned nation. The U.S. is famous for invading countries that never threatened it, and for perpetrating coups to overthrow leaders (many of whom were democratically elected) who also never threated the American people.\u00a0If this doesn\u2019t fit the definition of a \u201ctyranny,\u201d what does?<\/span><\/p>\n

When Dwight Eisenhower became the U.S. President, his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen Dulles (Ike\u2019s chief of the CIA), overthrew Iran\u2019s democratically elected President in 1953 and imposed a tyranny there; then, Allen Dulles enormously expanded the CIA\u2019s existing\u00a0Operation Mockingbird<\/span><\/a>\u00a0so as to hire the U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media to deceive the American people about foreign affairs, and this program continued even after the 1976 U.S. Senate\u2019s Church Committee hearings, though in slightly modified form. On 3 October 2014, Russian Television headlined\u00a0\u201cTop German Editor: CIA Bribing Journalists,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and interviewed Udo Ulfkotte, formerly of the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung<\/i>, who came to feel so ashamed of what he was doing (and had to do in order to be successful in \u2018journalism\u2019), that he quit, and he was now trying to carve out an honest career for himself. What he reported there, about his own former career, clearly disgusted him, and he even acknowledged: \u201cI\u2019ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. I have … helped them [intelligence agencies] in several situations, and I feel ashamed for that, too.\u201d But even when he wasn\u2019t in the CIA\u2019s direct pay, he was doing the bidding of Germany\u2019s own aristocrats. Europe\u2019s aristocracies work together with America\u2019s in the CIA, the bagmen for America\u2019s aristocracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Columbia Journalism Review<\/i> bannered on 6 October 2014,\u00a0\u201cPBS pulls ads from Harper\u2019s Magazine after critical essay,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0That \u201ccritical essay\u201d had PBS\u2019s own Bill Moyers say, “Our Washington coverage, by design or not, serves up \u2018news\u2019 the way the butler serves tea on Downton Abbey, so as not to disturb the master class.\u201d He knows well the master class; it\u2019s as small as Downton Abbey, but vastly more powerful: he\u00a0used to be on the central Steering Committee of the Bilderberg group,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which is the organization of U.S. and European aristocrats and their consiglieres, who, in 1954, began, with key guidance from Wall Streeters George Ball and David Rockefeller, and the \u2018former\u2019 Nazi Prince Bernhard (whose brainchild this was), to organize for an ultimate mega-corporate takeover of \u201cthe free world\u201d so as to control the individual nations within \u201cthe West\u201d by making international corporations themselves the determinants of what is legal and what is not. The latest version of the plan is U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s foreign policies, such as his\u00a0war<\/span><\/a>\u00a0against\u00a0Russia,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and his\u00a0using Ukraine\u2019s nazis as the means to threaten Russia next door,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and his\u00a0\u2018trade\u2019 deals to grant international corporations the power to dictate what is legal and what is not in participating nations\u2019 laws and rules regarding consumer protection, product safety, finance and investments, and the environment.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Instead, the U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media\u00a0\u2018report\u2019 the \u2018news\u2019 that Russia\u2019s leader, Vladimir Putin, started the Ukrainian war<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by invading Ukraine (when Russia actually allowed the people of Crimea to rejoin Russia, of which Crimea had been a part during 1783-1954 and always the port base of Russia\u2019s navy), and they don\u2019t report that Obama started that war by his\u00a0violent coup overthrowing Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected President<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 22 February 2014 \u2013 which residents in Crimea and Donbass overwhelmingly rejected, and to which Russia responded by re-absorbing Crimea and by sending weapons to the residents in Donbass. Crimeans didn\u2019t separate from Ukraine until after Obama took over Ukraine. Obama not Putin was the aggressor there.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Americans don\u2019t know all these things, then they\u2019ve been deceived by \u2019their\u2019 \u2019news\u2019 media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the biggest deception by the U.S. propaganda media is that they\u2019re \u201cnews media.\u201d Certainly regarding international relations, they are solely propaganda media, and most people outside the United States aready know this.<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0of \u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse 1: The ugly realities are covered up, not covered; here\u2019s an example of what you don\u2019t see in the regime\u2019s media about the people whom Americans’ tax dollars are bombing and killing: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YgB2bhFfEtM&app=desktop 2: The great investigative journalist John Pilger discusses the systematic truth-suppression: http:\/\/johnpilger.com\/articles\/war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda 3: The great investigative journalist Robert Parry\u2019s latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":156898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,529,535,59,526,524,523,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-156897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-fascism","14":"tag-global-news","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-propaganda","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-warfare","20":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156897","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\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}