{"id":33672,"date":"2018-04-23T08:12:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33672"},"modified":"2018-04-23T08:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:12:31","slug":"msm-is-frantically-attacking-dissenting-syria-narratives-and-it-looks-really-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33672","title":{"rendered":"MSM Is Frantically Attacking Dissenting Syria Narratives, And It Looks Really\u00a0Bad\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/04\/23\/msm-is-frantically-attacking-dissenting-syria-narratives-and-it-looks-really-bad\/\">MSM Is Frantically Attacking Dissenting Syria Narratives, And It Looks Really\u00a0Bad<span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-4474\" class=\"post-4474 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-journalism tag-media tag-msm tag-propaganda tag-syria tag-war\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/medium-3.png?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/medium-3.png 800w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/medium-3-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/medium-3-768x396.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"413\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>I write a lot about how, in a political environment that is saturated in disinformation and propaganda, it\u2019s important to ignore people\u2019s words and watch their actions instead to get a clear picture of what\u2019s really happening. You could not ask for a better illustration of this than the recent behavior of the mass media with regard to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The always excellent <em>Moon of Alabama<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2018\/04\/the-media-war-on-truthful-reporting-and-legitimate-opinions-a-documentary.html#more\">put out a piece yesterday<\/a> detailing the immense deluge of attack editorials disguised as information that have been churned out recently about anyone who questions the establishment Syria narrative, including a single day in which no less than seven smear pieces were issued by prominent publications. <em>Seven<\/em>. In <em>one<\/em> day.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the words within these smear pieces, you will gather that there has been a sudden disturbing emergence of evil bloggers, tweeters and activists who are hell bent on deceiving you into falling in love with Bashar al-Assad and pledging allegiance to the Russian flag. If you look at what these outlets are actually <em>doing<\/em>, however, you see a very different picture indeed: an aggressive, spurious campaign to inoculate the English-speaking world against the influence of anyone who disagrees with yet another war against yet another Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>And people are noticing. It\u2019s getting too blatantly obvious, like a stranger coming up to you and talking about climate change while openly masturbating; what he is <em>doing<\/em> would eclipse interest in whatever he is <em>saying<\/em>. The frenetic publication of hit pieces against anyone who fails to fall in line with the establishment Syria narrative is fast becoming the real story here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSM Is Frantically Attacking Dissenting Syria Narratives, And It Looks Really\u00a0Bad\u00a0 I write a lot about how, in a political environment that is saturated in disinformation and propaganda, it\u2019s important to ignore people\u2019s words and watch their actions instead to get a clear picture of what\u2019s really happening. You could not ask for a better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[19904,17039,3484,496,19903,655,776],"class_list":["post-33672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-attack-editorials","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-dissent","tag-mainstream-media","tag-moon-of-alabama","tag-propaganda","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33673,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33672\/revisions\/33673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}