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Propaganda Blitz shows that the corporate media does not just 'spin' the news - it fundamentally distorts everything it touches, hiding the real issues from public view, and often completely reversing the truth. This book uncovers a storm of top-down campaigns behind war reporting from Iraq, Syria and Palestine, as well as the destruction of the credibility of figures on the left, including Jeremy Corbyn and Hugo Chavez.
Exposing propagandists at the top levels of the BBC, as well as their reporting on the Scottish independence referendum, the dismantling of the NHS and looming climate chaos, Propaganda Blitz explains the real meaning of 'objective' journalism, exposes the fake news about 'fake news' and outlines a model for anti-business media activism.
- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPluto Press
- Publication dateNovember 15, 2018
- Dimensions5 x 1.1 x 7.75 inches
- ISBN-100745338119
- ISBN-13978-0745338118
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This book should get a Nobel Peace Prize as well as a Purlitzer Prize. What they present gives you a clue as to what is going on and why it's going on. Not since Sharon Beder has there been authors so much in-the-know with actual truth one can use to truly understand what's happening. So once reading, the question becomes, what are WE going to do about it?
A must read!
I only made it through the first 4 chapters, but what I read was very detailed and thorough!
I only made it through the first 4 chapters, but what I read was very detailed and thorough!
My rating is just based on how interesting it sounds. If I ever get to read the ebook or audiobook, I'll try to remember to come back to give a final rating and comments on the content.
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The media, the book argues, are ‘global systems designed and evolved to highlight a certain type of news to impose a certain kind of view’. Far from being pluralistic the commercial media suppresses alternative perspectives, reproducing a narrow vision of the world which echoes the agenda of powerful elites. Corporate journalists are exposed as possessing a herd mentality - craven in their deference to power but fearlessly hostile to ‘official’ enemies.
The authors make their case by citing numerous examples drawn from the work of contemporary journalists, offering a snapshot of media bias and distortion over recent years.
They focus particularly on what they define as a ‘propaganda blitz’ in which the corporate media collectively identifies an ‘enemy’ and produces ‘evidence’ which demands immediate action. This can range from the collective ridicule of individuals (from the comedian Russell Brand to the politician Jeremy Corbyn) to emotional appeals for military intervention in foreign states.
About half of the focus of the book is on foreign policy matters (mainly Israel, Libya, Syria and Yemen), and the other half is on issues of British domestic politics (particularly Jeremy Corbyn, the National Health Service and Scottish independence).
This book is particularly valuable as a record of all those moments in recent years where the façade of media objectivity cracked open to reveal what lay beneath. For example, there was the moment in 2016 when Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was heckled by a man who was filmed shouting that he was failing traditional Labour voters. The incident was treated as a national television news story and made the front pages of the national press. In fact the whole incident was staged by a public relations professional employed by an agency.
A particularly illuminating chapter concerns the BBC’s downplaying of the privatisation of the National Health Service. The authors point out the links between BBC bosses and private healthcare companies and the fact that hundreds of senior BBC employees, including journalists, enjoy lavishly subsidised private health care. In short: ‘Ther BBC habitually protects power, not least the state’.
They conclude by observing how what is surely the biggest single issue of our time - climate change - is marginalised in news coverage, along with the urgent radical action needed to apply the brakes. Commercial media are in thrall to advertising revenue but advertising itself promotes consumption and lifestyles which suggest that ‘nothing is terribly wrong, and much right, with the way we are living.’
The book concludes by critically scrutinising the term ‘fake news’ and the uses to which it is put, along with the power of social media and current attempts to restrict access to the radical wing of internet commentary.
The problem with today’s journalism is perfectly summed up by the remark of a senior BBC correspondent, who defines his job as being limited to reporting ‘what those in power are doing or thinking’.
This is a very meaty and thought-provoking book, packed with interesting quotations, examples and arguments.
Their simpering gratitude expressed to John Pilger for endorsing their efforts spoke volumes. Seeking the approval from others for your work, if serious, is unnecessary.
What I find concerning is the idea that mainstream media is bad and alternative media is good. I would certainly agree that, for example, the public is deceived by the mainstream over Syria, but then so would Peter Hitchens who writes for a mainstream media publication, the Mail on Sunday. Tucker Carlson, a high profile journalist in the United States regularly has alternative media guests to discuss issues. He often agrees with them.
Also, on the climate change debate. Not everyone in the alternative media is united on this issue. I have seen people on a blog smeared as paid employees of fossil fuel companies for expressing doubts about climate change. It's not an issue that the mainstream is necessarily lying about.
And the toe curling credulity of the authors over the issue of Scottish independence. Professional activists themselves have an agenda. And Scottish nationalists have a clear political agenda that they wish to promote. Naturally they claim mainstream media bias when they lose!
So overall, a thumbs up for their attempt to highlight an important issue, but please, don't give everyone that criticises the mainstream a free pass!
if you dont believe me read this book


