[Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News.
1. The BBC - “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
2. CBS News
"This isn't Iraq or Afghanistan...This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city" - CBS foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata
3. Al-Jazeera
"What's compelling is looking at them, the way they are dressed. These are prosperous, middle-class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from the Middle East...or North Africa. They look like any European family that you'd live next door to."
4. BFM TV (France)
"We are in the 21st century, we are in a European city and we have cruise missile fire as though we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, can you imagine!?”
5. The Daily Telegraph
This time, war is wrong because the people look like us and have Instagram and Netflix accounts. It's not in a poor, remote country any more. - Daniel Hannan
6. ITV (UK)
"The unthinkable has happened...This is not a developing, third world nation; this is Europe!"
7. BFM TV (France) (again)
"It's an important question. We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing...We're talking about Europeans."
8. If you speak French, sample from the racism buffet on offer.
"These aren't like the other children that we've become accustomed to see suffer on TV, these children are blond with blue eyes, [so] this is very important"
10. Star UK media personality Matthew Wright on ITV's flagship show, "This Morning":
"The US has used [a thermobaric bomb] before in Afghanistan. But the idea of it being used in Europe is stomach-churning."
11. The New York Times.
On US veterans going to Ukraine, it not-so-subtly suggests that Middle Easterners love dictatorships.
"After years of serving in smoldering operations, trying to spread democracy IN PLACES THAT ONLY HAD A TEPID INTEREST IN IT".
12. CNN
“It’s one thing for sarin gas to be used on people in far away Syria who are Muslim and of a different culture. What is Europe going to do when it is on European soil, done to Europeans?” - Julia Ioffe
E.M. owes his success and fortune to Mike Griffin, the head of the CIA's investment division, who took him under his wing and gave SpaceX massive government contracts, keeping his business empire afloat.
[Thread] There is an orchestrated media war being carried out against Venezuela🇻🇪.
Its goal is regime change, and it is being led by liberal outlets like the Guardian.
In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, so you can understand how they pass propaganda off as reporting.
What is the "evidence" of electoral fraud the Guardian presents?
Oh, it is an "analysis" carried out by the opposition itself, as well as hearsay from sympatheirc academics.
Let's not inform readers that the opposition has pulled this trick in every election since 2000 (except the ones they won), where they cry fraud, and have never presented any credible evidence whatsoever.
Let's also not inform readers that there were actually nine opposition candidates running against Maduro, and that only Gonzalez refused to say he would accept the results.
That "number" is four countries -- all of them right-wing Latin American nations.
Even the United States 🇺🇸 has walked back its Gonzalez claims, the Biden Administration clarifying that it has NOT recognized Gonzalez as the victor.
Last time I checked last week, more than 40 countries had endorsed the elections and recognized Maduro -- over ten times as many nations as have recognized Gonzalez.
Yet, through verbal slight-of-hand, the Guardian is presenting Maduro as isolated, and the extremist, denialist position as mainstream.
An extremely timely article, given that the US is supporting a coup attempt there:
I spoke to dozens of US observers of the Venezuelan election, and they told me they saw nothing suspicious, and they reject the US govt's fraud narrative.
[Thread] Western media's finest propagandists are pulling out all the stops, trying to delegitimize the elections in Venezuela 🇻🇪.
In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, line by line, using this BBC article as an example, so you can understand how they do it.
First sentence in, and they have already poisoned the well, directly asserting that Nicolas Maduro "controls" the election, and that the whole process is "carefully curated."
Second: They breathlessly repeat opposition claims of fraud, without informing readers that the opposition has claimed they have won literally every single election since 2000, have produced zero evidence for this, and have, every time, been proven to be lying.
Not telling readers this is a crime against journalism and tantamount to incitement.
This is absollutely ludicrous. There are plenty of opposition-aligned media here.
And the idea that a single person in Venezuela doesn't know that the opposition claims they won is ridiculous.
I ran into the amazing @RaniaKhalek, who told me that the United States is trying to destroy the Venezuelan government, and is already crying fraud in the upcoming elections. 🇻🇪
"There is no comparison" between US and Venezuelan elections, @GloriaLaRiva, former presidential candidate for the @pslnational told me.
In Venezuela fraud is "not possible", while in the US, the Dems and Republicans are fighting to keep 3rd parties off the ballot.
@GloriaLaRiva @pslnational The final pro-government rally was massive.
More than one million people poured I to central Caracas to hear President Maduro talk, sing and dance.