Western Mass Media Channels Orwell's 1984 - International Prose

Western Mass Media Channels Orwell's 1984
by Jonathan Cook via shirl - ICH Tuesday, Oct 18 2016, 9:08pm
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Reading the “free” press has become a truly Orwellian experience. What was true yesterday is a lie today. What was black today will be white tomorrow. Two reports on today’s front page of the Guardian could easily be savage satire straight from the pages of the novel 1984.

Report one: The Guardian provides supportive coverage of the beginning of a full-throttle assault by Iraqi forces, backed by the US and UK, on Mosul to win it back from the jihadists of ISIS – an assault that will inevitably lead to massive casualties and humanitarian suffering among the civilian population.

Report two: The Guardian provides supportive coverage of the US and UK for considering increased sanctions against Syria and Russia. On what grounds? Because Syrian forces, backed by Russia, have been waging a full-throttle assault on Aleppo to win it back from the jihadists of ISIS and Al-Qaeda – an assault that has led to massive casualties and humanitarian suffering among the civilian population.

Remember, as was prophesied: “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.”

[Here's another variation of how the propaganda apparatus, which is today's mass media, functions:]

Now consider the non-coverage of US/NATO crimes that ruined nations, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan and the fact that no-one has been held accountable. What coverage? It's called selective 'omission' today. Yet the moronic masses continue to tune in -- well, good luck you exploited, enslaved and expendable, mindless morons!