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Fake News and Propaganda:
Shaping Our Reality
Dana Gabriel
Stop
Lying.ca
Tuesday November 27, 2007
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.
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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 Bush’s 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
Bush’s 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.
Today’s 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 aren’t
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, “We 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.” 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, “see 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.”It is
quite obvious that those at the top of the power structure and
their puppets wish to shape our reality.
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