- 27 Sep 2022 13:58
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The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the crisis of media censorship
https://rumble.com/v1ih527-the-chris-he ... rship.html
(The video is also on YouTube with half a million watches, if the low view count bothers you)
Theres a lot talked about in this video, but if you dont want to watch it, a very reduced summary would be:
In Vietnam, the press could go anywhere, and the result was good reporting (relatively, anyway). This created problems for the elites who wanted to keep the war running. Merely to save face, as we know nowadays.
In the Iraq war, embedded journalism was invented. Thus the military controlled what the press was allowed to see. Only very few reporters managed to evade this. Chris Hedge managed because he speaks arabic. In fact the US government wanted to throw him out of Iraq, but simply couldnt find him.
The reporting of Hedges and others who opposed embedded journalism clashed with what regular reporters wrote because the later just wrote what the elites wanted to see in the news, instead of the truth.
Today, in Ukraine, many reporters simply stay in Kiev most of the time, and only go on short sightseeing tours with the ukrainian military. They simply want the credibility of being a war reporter, but not the risk. They report a hundred percent just ukrainian propaganda.
Which explains for example why the mainstream press reported that the russians would bomb a nuclear plant they had under control for months, or that the russians would bomb their own war prisoners camp, despite something like this never have happened before in any war ever and the russians literally having no motivation at all to do such a thing. If you wanted to get rid of a prisoner of war, you could just murder them. Without destroying the building and killing the guards as well.
As I've recently mentioned on this site, there many other examples. It has gotten so bad that Col Douglas MacGregor recently said: "Anything you hear in this war about Russia - is actually true about Ukraine".
https://rumble.com/v1ih527-the-chris-he ... rship.html
(The video is also on YouTube with half a million watches, if the low view count bothers you)
Theres a lot talked about in this video, but if you dont want to watch it, a very reduced summary would be:
In Vietnam, the press could go anywhere, and the result was good reporting (relatively, anyway). This created problems for the elites who wanted to keep the war running. Merely to save face, as we know nowadays.
In the Iraq war, embedded journalism was invented. Thus the military controlled what the press was allowed to see. Only very few reporters managed to evade this. Chris Hedge managed because he speaks arabic. In fact the US government wanted to throw him out of Iraq, but simply couldnt find him.
The reporting of Hedges and others who opposed embedded journalism clashed with what regular reporters wrote because the later just wrote what the elites wanted to see in the news, instead of the truth.
Today, in Ukraine, many reporters simply stay in Kiev most of the time, and only go on short sightseeing tours with the ukrainian military. They simply want the credibility of being a war reporter, but not the risk. They report a hundred percent just ukrainian propaganda.
Which explains for example why the mainstream press reported that the russians would bomb a nuclear plant they had under control for months, or that the russians would bomb their own war prisoners camp, despite something like this never have happened before in any war ever and the russians literally having no motivation at all to do such a thing. If you wanted to get rid of a prisoner of war, you could just murder them. Without destroying the building and killing the guards as well.
As I've recently mentioned on this site, there many other examples. It has gotten so bad that Col Douglas MacGregor recently said: "Anything you hear in this war about Russia - is actually true about Ukraine".
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