This BBC report, that portrays US occupying soldiers in Iraq as the good guys threatened by the evil Iranians, should be studied as a textbook example of imperialist propaganda - wildly disingenuous framing, omission of crucial context, emotional manipulation, it’s got everything
https://twitter.com/sommervilletv/status/1402487275355844610
No mention at all of the US invasion in 2003, no mention either of its killing of Soleimani last year, completely uncritical endorsement of the lie that US troops are in Syria & Iraq altruistically to “fight ISIS”, just pure propaganda from start to finish.
It does contain the interesting fact that the Louisiana National Guard are currently stationed in NE Syria. It’s incredible how little the US invasion & occupation of Syria is actually discussed, it’s just mentioned in passing in reports like this & is always justified of course.
The FT’s Middle East Correspondent wholeheartedly approves of course and adds her own little propagandistic touch.
https://twitter.com/chloencornish/status/1402540192884473863
Wall Street Journal’s Middle East Correspondent is also a fan of this offensive propaganda. Western journalists continually legitimise and boost each other’s crap like this, as if we aren’t supposed to see it for what it is.
https://twitter.com/stephenkalin/status/1402887231703031808
The report and its framing epitomises this:
https://twitter.com/louis_allday/status/1318931030812839937
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