{"id":38323,"date":"2018-09-26T08:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38323"},"modified":"2018-09-26T08:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:18:52","slug":"the-battle-for-our-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38323","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for Our Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Battle for Our Minds<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but given the state of corporate media, perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds, says Patrick Lawrence.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>After reading The New York Times<\/i> piece \u201cThe Plot to Subvert an Election\u201d<\/a> I put the paper down with a single question.<\/p>\n

Why, after two years of allegations, indictments, and claims to proof of this, that, and the other did the newspaper of record\u2014well, once the newspaper of record\u2014see any need to publish such a piece? My answer is simple: The orthodox account of Russia-gate has not taken hold: It has failed in its effort to establish a consensus of certainty among Americans. My conclusion matches this observation: The orthodox narrative is never going to achieve this objective. There are too many holes in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe information age is actually a media age,\u201d John Pilger, the noted British\u2013Australian journalist, remarked<\/a> during a symposium four years ago, when the Ukraine crisis was at its peak. \u201cWe have war by media; censorship by media; demonology by media; retribution by media; diversion by media\u2014a surreal assembly line of obedient clich\u00e9s and false assumptions.\u201d Pilger revisited the theme in a piece<\/a> last week on Consortium News, arguing that once-tolerated, dissenting opinion has in recent years \u201cregressed into a metaphoric underground.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds.<\/p>\n

Those who dispense with honest intellectual inquiry, healthy skepticism of all<\/i> media, and an insistence that assertions require supporting evidence should not win this war. The Times<\/i> piece by Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti\u2014two of the paper\u2019s top-tier reporters\u2014is a case in point: If the Russia-gate narrative were so widely accepted as their report purports, there would have been no need to publish such a piece at this late date.<\/p>\n

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The Battle for Our Minds There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but given the state of corporate media, perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds, says Patrick Lawrence. After reading The New York Times piece \u201cThe Plot to Subvert an Election\u201d I put the paper down with […]<\/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":[6963,169,18724,21914,1921,21211,21913,776,821,827,901],"class_list":["post-38323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-corporate-media","tag-election-meddling","tag-mark-mazzetti","tag-new-york-times","tag-patrick-lawrence","tag-scott-shane","tag-syria","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323","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=38323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38324,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38323\/revisions\/38324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}