{"id":37577,"date":"2018-09-10T06:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37577"},"modified":"2018-09-10T06:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:37:59","slug":"that-time-cnn-staged-a-fake-interview-with-a-syrian-child-for-war-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37577","title":{"rendered":"That Time CNN Staged A Fake Interview With A Syrian Child For War Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

That Time CNN Staged A Fake Interview With A Syrian Child For War Propaganda<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Imagine if you and some friends wandered into a completely dark room together for some reason. You\u2019ve never been in this room before, and you can\u2019t see a thing.<\/p>\n

Now imagine one of your friends says he can see everything in the room perfectly, and starts describing the different things that he sees in a confident, assertive tone of voice. You know for a fact that there\u2019s no light in the room, so you are doubtful that your friend is able to see any better than you are, but one by one your other friends start talking about the objects in the room as though what he is saying is true. After a while your group starts telling you you\u2019re crazy and evil because you remain skeptical of your first friend\u2019s ability to see the room in pitch darkness, despite his assertive tone of voice and despite the fact that everyone else believes it.<\/p>\n

Western public discourse about Syria is very much the same. All the time I get people coming up yelling at me about what a butcher Bashar al-Assad is, how he loves gassing children because he\u2019s an evil monster, how he\u2019s killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in his own country out of sheer sadism, and all I can say to them is, you don\u2019t know that. You don\u2019t know any of those things, you\u2019re just pretending you do because that\u2019s what everyone else is doing. I know you don\u2019t know any of those things because you\u2019re looking at the same information landscape as I am, and it\u2019s chock full of war propaganda. The media matrix<\/a> is too full of obvious psyops meant to manufacture public consent for military interventionism in Syria for any westerner to have a clear idea of what\u2019s actually happening in that country.<\/p>\n

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That Time CNN Staged A Fake Interview With A Syrian Child For War Propaganda Imagine if you and some friends wandered into a completely dark room together for some reason. You\u2019ve never been in this room before, and you can\u2019t see a thing. Now imagine one of your friends says he can see everything in […]<\/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":[17039,10180,145,2779,496,512,570,5438,655,1740,776],"class_list":["post-37577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-chemical-attack","tag-cnn","tag-fake-news","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-news","tag-news-media","tag-propaganda","tag-psyops","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37577","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=37577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37578,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37577\/revisions\/37578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}