In our first series, Propaganda prepares Russia for war, we use Kseniya Kirillova's classification of strategies of Russian propaganda for Russians, and illustrate it with disinformation episodes gathered by EU Stratcom's Disinformation Review (we would like to thank Oleksandr Nykonorov, Pavlo Spirin, East StratCom Network, StopFake, and others for their excellent work in monitoring Kremlin…
Part 1 of a fascinating series on how Russians are manipulated into supporting the catastrophic folly, greed, and cruelty of their government. It works usually by setting up a bogey man (the West, of course) who is preparing to fight Russia.
Backed by invoking sympathy through showing the devastating effects of war, the ordinary Russian is deceived into believing that the entire West wants war against the country, and that Putin is the only man to stop this impending catastrophe. In reality, many Westerners do not hate Russia and have no interest in invading. (The same cannot be said of Putin, who annexed Crimea.)
EuroMaidanPress has some thorough articles-- the kind I love, and I hope it remains online during these difficult times.
Past administrations have had favored press members, says New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer, "but nothing where someone is so close in that they are coordinating on a daily basis with the president."
Rupert Murdoch and Bill Shine created the Fox Shadow Cabinet #DarkState #ShadowGovernment
Listen to Terry Gross’s interview with Jane Mayer. Mayer wrote the New Yorker article, "The Making of the Fox News White House,"
"Some of the people who are still hosting shows on Fox are seen by many of the people who are in and around the White House — including some of the White House staff — as basically being a 'shadow cabinet.' ", Jane Mayer
Interview Highlights
Trump tried to order the Justice Department to file a lawsuit to stop AT&T from acquiring Time Warner
Trump: "Block that deal. I want it blocked. I've told you 50 times. We need to get that suit filed."
Gary Cohn told John Kelly: "Don't you dare do that. This is not how we're going to do business."
On how White House communication has changed under Bill Shine #Orwellian #TrumpStateTV
In July 2018, former Fox News co-President Bill Shine joined the White House staff as deputy chief of staff for communications and assistant to President Trump.
Sarah "Goebbels“ Sanders #FakeNews
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has pretty much shut down most of the daily briefings for the press, and that instead, she started appearing quite frequently on Fox News, where she gets softball questions. So a number of Trump administration officials, including Sanders, have started popping up on Fox News rather than being available to the press corps at large .
Hannity the Trump Whisper #HouseOfLies
“Sean Hannity has now had something like 44 interviews with President Trump himself. That's in comparison with just 10 combined for all the other television networks. And CNN, which President Trump doesn't like, has been given no interviews.”
Other Highlights
On what that story shows about the Trump White House's relationship to Fox News
On how Fox News had the Stormy Daniels story before the election — and killed it
On reporting that Trump was tipped off about Fox News host Megyn Kelly's question before the Republican presidential debate in August 2015
On the origin of Trump and Murdoch's relationship
On how Murdoch has disparaged Trump behind his back in the past, seeing him as a "real estate huckster and a shady casino operator"
Alexei Navalny exposes the parasites behind Russia’s state-owned channel, Russia Today (amusingly called “Russia Today” in Russian). I was torn between laughter and sheer disbelief at the fraudulence of the couple shown above, who own Russia’s state TV and several companies pretending to offer “services” for which they receive substantial sums. They are also responsible for promoting fake news stories and paid advertisements masquerading as news stories. Unbelievable. Will be watching this again.
No wonder #StateTv #FauxNews #FoxNews viewers are so angry. This bissh has done nothing but act like #kellyannconway and spew lie after lie. Claiming #TraitorTrump #ConmanTrump was dealing with #covid at the State Of The Union. And per her, #TrumpsFailure are all The Democrats. This #cangaroo #Administration got to geaux #ReadyForPotus46 End the #tyranny Nov 3 (at Marigny, New Orleans) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_DsEL3jGCK/?igshid=18ezy4zpifna3
#anthonyscaramucci says #Trump will turn on this country NO HE HAS TURNED ON THIS COUNTRY smh, he just turned on #Mooch trump is a backstabber sht his ass didn't know this Trump turned on Manafort at one point Trump turned on cohen Trump turned on omarosa Etc Every now n then he even turns on #StateTv #FoxNews Who he hasn't turn on is #Putin n #DavidPecker https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/11/politics/anthony-scaramucci-donald-trump-twitter/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/trump-affiliated-national-enquirer-turns-on-paul-manafort.html https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attacks-cohen-over-testimony-calls-him-totally-discredited-n978076 https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2159334/donald-trump-attacks-former-aide-omarosa-calling-her https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/trump-attacks-fox-news-network-tends-stay-silent-1222933 https://www.instagram.com/p/B1CUeOGnZx6/?igshid=1slsfrh9gcth5
Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
Appalling raised to the power of ten.
‘“Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of Presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, says of Fox, “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV.”’
