Fake
News and Propaganda: Shaping Our Reality
by
Dana Gabriel
http://stoplying.ca/articles/07/nov/112707_dana_fake_news_propaganda.php
The mainstream media is dominated by a
handful of mega corporations who control what many of us hear, read, and
believe. The propaganda masters are censoring and suppressing the truth from the
American people. There are many reporters who know the truth but dare not talk
or write about it, and what some report they don't even believe themselves.
Those who are courageous enough to stand up to the establishment are often
ridiculed, intimidated, and blocked by editors and producers who are acting as
gatekeepers to the truth. There have been calls for the arrests and even death
of those who criticize the government. You know you have slipped into a fascist
dictatorship when those who dissent are treated like traitors, terrorists, and
enemies of the state. We are being brainwashed with all the propaganda that we
are subjected to in our everyday lives in an effort to control our minds and
shift us into massive groupthink. We are being told that we are spreading
democracy around the world while our own freedoms are being systematically
taken away.
There
is a war on the truth, and we are partly to blame as we have lost our respect
for genuine news. Dissent is an important ingredient in any free society, yet
there is an effort to silence those who criticize the government. Through
propaganda, the global elite wish to control our thoughts and perceptions. Just
as there is an assault on our personnel freedoms, there is war on the freedom
of the press. When journalists are threatened for doing their jobs, the big
loser is the free flow of information and ultimately the truth. The Founding
Fathers envisioned the press as being independent, reporting the facts and
uncovering the truth. Instead, it has become a circus of entertainment and
theater mixed in with spin, lies, and disinformation. The Bush administration
has been caught paying actors and journalists to appear in and write propaganda
pieces. Television stations are using prepackaged news releases produced by
corporate and governmental groups without such facts being disclosed. It is
clear that we can no longer trust the mainstream media to hold the government
accountable.
The Bush administration is spending
millions, paying off journalists and producing fake news spots to promote their
agenda. Some $10 million was spent in a propaganda-like advertising campaign to
push President BushÕs Social Security plan. Fake news reports were also put out
to promote his Medicare prescription drug program, with production company
employees masquerading as reporters. These mock prepackaged reports are
distributed to broadcast outlets across the country and inserted into local
news casts. They look so authentic that most would mistake it for a real piece
of independent journalism, not partisan propaganda politics. They are paying
journalists and reporters to further advance the government's agenda. One of
the best examples is commentator Armstrong Williams who was paid $240,000 by
the Department of Education to help promote BushÕs No Child Left Behind. Maggie
Gallagher also received tens of thousands of dollars from the Department of
Health and Human Services to promote Bush's marriage initiative. The list goes
on with the likes of Jeff Gannon, Michael McManus, and Karen Ryan, and these
are only a few who were caught. This is not unique to the Bush administration
as such practices were also common under President Clinton.
A
very recent example of fake news occurred during a FEMA-orchestrated news
conference which took place during the recent fires that ravaged Southern
California. By all accounts, it had the makings of a real news conference, but
the only thing missing was real reporters. Some of FEMA's employees posed as
reporters, asking softball questions that were carried live by some news
stations. It turned into a FEMA love fest, an event to showcase the great job
they were doing in regards to the fires. It represented a miscarriage of information,
and further legitimized the fact that there is a war on the truth. The only
reason there was an apology was because FEMA was caught. It turned out to be a
big mistake, an error in judgment, and we were told that this was an isolated
incident. It has been reported that both the White House and Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff were aware of the fake news conference, and would
have more than likely given it the green light. This fake news conference can
be best described as government-sponsored propaganda. If the intentions were
not to deceive, why wasn't there a disclaimer announced beforehand? We would
probably all be amazed by how much propaganda is being passed off as news.
It is through propaganda that our minds
are being shaped and molded. A mass conditioning is taking place through the
media, television shows, commercials, and video games. It is being used as a
tool to control, program, and manipulate our minds through the power of
suggestion and repetition. Our values are constantly being shaped and
re-shaped, and at times our subconscious minds are unable to distinguish
between fact and fiction. Ideas and premises are stored in our memory banks,
and when they do become reality, we will have already accepted or at least
warmed up to such scenarios. Television, radio and print media dictate to us
what is important, what is in fashion, what are the latest trends, what to eat,
read, and watch. To many, what they see on TV becomes their reality. There is
definitely a correlation between the dumbing down of the population, the moral
meltdown, and the amount of television being watched. One need not look any
further than reality TV, where we are being desensitized to endless degrading
acts on shows like Big Brother. These shows are inundated with sexual content,
vulgarity, and humiliating, conniving, and backstabbing acts. TodayÕs
television is destroying our very moral fiber and what is left of our values.
When we are subjected to the true reality TV like the Iraqi prisoner abuse at
Abu Ghraib, where is the outrage? We have become a decadent society and are on
the decline, being made to accept things like torture. Many television shows,
such as 24, openly advocate torture and it seems as if art is imitating
reality. America is the new Rome, and we arenÕt that far away from so-called
terrorist and other enemies of the state being abused and even killed for our
viewing pleasure.
The
propaganda masters are experts in the art of building favorable public opinion
with their spin, double speak, and talking points. David Rockefeller is quoted
as saying, ÒWe are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time
Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our
meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It
would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had
been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.Ó Nevertheless,
many are now conscious to the fact that the mainstream media is spreading lies
and disinformation, and as a result, television news viewership and newspaper
circulations are on the decline. Many are turning to the web for their news and
entertainment, abandoning television and print altogether. As a result there is
a greater effort to further control the Internet and regulate online speech.
Nazi Germany and their Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels used many
different techniques including ad nauseam, which is the repeating of an idea
until it is taken to be the truth. President Bush has said, Òsee in my line of
work you got to keep repeating things over and over again for the truth to sink
in, to catapult the propaganda.ÓIt is quite obvious that those at the top of
the power structure and their puppets wish to shape our reality.
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