RESHARED POST FROM MATT UEBEL
RESHARED POST FROM PBS NEWSHOUR
May 25, 2012RESHARED POST FROM GIDEON ROSENBLATT
May 25, 2012Matt Uebel originally shared this post:
“How is it possible to have any informed democratic debate over a policy about which the U.S. media relentlessly propagandizes this way? If drone strikes kill nobody other than “militants,” then very few people will even think about opposing them (and that’s independent of the fact that the word “militant” is a wildly ambiguous term — militant about what? — though it is clearly designed (when combined with “Pakistan”) to evoke images of those who attacked the World Trade Center). Debate-suppression is not just the effect but the intent of this propaganda: like all propaganda, it is designed to deceive the citizenry in order to compel acquiescence to government conduct.”
The media now knows that “militant” is a term of official propaganda, yet still use it for America’s drone victims
