(Thread) Support the tropes: My @FAIRmediawatch investigation into how media use progressive rhetoric and human rights discourse to get liberals into supporting war, regime change and sanctions.
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"Think of the women"
In Afghanistan, media tried to convince us intervention was desireable to save women from oppression(left). When that liberation never came, 10 years later they tug on our heartstrings again, claiming we can't leave, else women will be even worse off(right)
In Afghanistan, media tried to convince us intervention was desireable to save women from oppression(left). When that liberation never came, 10 years later they tug on our heartstrings again, claiming we can't leave, else women will be even worse off(right)
"He's attacking his own people"
Whenever 🇺🇸 wants to intervene somewhere, DC pundits begin bleating about the brutality of its leader and its terrible human rights
eg. interest in Libyan human rights: a huge spike in interest 3/11 (just b4 the intervention).After that? Silence
Whenever 🇺🇸 wants to intervene somewhere, DC pundits begin bleating about the brutality of its leader and its terrible human rights
eg. interest in Libyan human rights: a huge spike in interest 3/11 (just b4 the intervention).After that? Silence
"We have to save demcoracy"
Corporate media has spent years claiming elections in Lat. Am. states like Venezuela are rigged and that Maduro is a dictator.
It doesn't matter that it is based on very little. What matters is building the case for coups, sanctions or war.
Corporate media has spent years claiming elections in Lat. Am. states like Venezuela are rigged and that Maduro is a dictator.
It doesn't matter that it is based on very little. What matters is building the case for coups, sanctions or war.
"Stop hitting yourself"
When reporting on the economic devastation in a US-sanctioned country, media will ignore or downplay the effect of the sanctions, shifting the blame to the enemy itself, thus suggesting that "something must be done" - that something likely involving f35s
When reporting on the economic devastation in a US-sanctioned country, media will ignore or downplay the effect of the sanctions, shifting the blame to the enemy itself, thus suggesting that "something must be done" - that something likely involving f35s
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