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The first amendment of the mainstream: I swear to tell all the untruth, nothing but the untruth

Now that the Supreme Court seems to have said an end to Trump's appeals (but as that guy said: the last laugh laughs) let's analyze how the Great Press told us what happened after the November 3 elections. The outgoing President of the United States of America gave a speech in early December in which he not only denounced (he had already done so), but also documents, complete with supporting graphs, the disconcerting anomalies that occurred during the ballot operations in some key states: hundreds of thousands of votes credited all together, within a few minutes, to the challenger Biden and such as to subvert an absolutely favorable trend for Trump.

Well, the fact has simply "not reached" the radar of the broadcasters of maximum circulation in our country and has also escaped the proverbial attention of "serious" journalists. Traces of it remain only on some youtube platforms. No correspondent was "sent" to investigate, no commentator was asked to express an "opinion", no director considered it appropriate to "direct" the focus of his editorial staff on Trump's " j'accuse" . That is to say about a matter that – if verified – would end up even de-listing the mythical “Watergate” of the seventies to the rank of a chicken coop theft.

In short, what could prove to be the most monumental political fraud in the history of the United States, and therefore in the history of Western democracies, does not deserve to be investigated and told. Not even if the "plaintiff" is the incumbent US President. In the same way, a sepulchral silence falls on other very uncomfortable facts of reality. Except that these data, every now and then, leak out, even in newspapers above any (terrible) suspicion of conspiracy, populism, sovereignty. Like the Huffington Post where, on 2 December, the journalist Mauro Suttora writes a piece entitled: "Trump has achieved the first egalitarian boom of recent decades".

In the article, the chronicler deserves space for an investigation of the progressive monthly "The New Republic" by Christopher Caldwell. You can read about the sensational and sensationally "left" results achieved by the Trump presidency in 2019: unemployment almost eliminated (to 3.7%) and a 4.7% increase in wages for the poorest quarter of the population. But the vague feeling of living in an upside-down world where the left is the true right and the right makes leftist politics is enhanced by other surprising findings: in nine of America's ten wealthiest states, Biden has prevailed; in fourteen of the poorest fifteen, Trump.

If we then "link" this information to the American foreign policy of the last four years, marked by zero-wars-zero (but Obama took the Nobel Peace Prize) one wonders why The Donald is so disliked by the "left" and to his heralded "pacifist" soul. But that's not even the real point. The point is that large sections of public opinion – those who are still limited to a superficial information obtained from "traditional" channels – are systematically prevented from knowing the truth of things.

There is a reason. If the famous independent journalism is dead and dead, his corpse is more "alive" than ever: a zombie "possessed" (and kept on a leash) by the powers that, instead, should fear him. We are all victims of the domination of sprawling financial and media agglomerations which do not tell the world, they create it; and then they shape it as well. They represent the quintessence of an elitist, oligarchic, conservative, anti-democratic, unpopular and fundamentally (as well as brutally) classist agenda and priorities. Nonetheless, or perhaps precisely for this reason, these "editors" adopt the most classic of manipulative shortcuts: that of the wolf in sheep's clothing. In fact, they manifest and propagate their ideas through a dense network of channels, broadcasts, opinion leaders, "democratic", "liberal" and "left" intellectuals. Highly paid to paint as "free", "fair" and, it goes without saying, "without alternatives" the bleak present in which we are immersed. And, above all, as "smart", "green", "easy", the future to come. But only if interpreted by the carefully pre-selected protagonists "actors", each time, behind the scenes of the official political stage.

Perhaps to understand how far we have gone “further” on the path of manipulating the truth, we need to take a step back in time. We can help a film from the distant 1997, “Sex & Power ( Wag the Dog )” directed by Barry Levinson, with a pair of mouth-watering matadors: Robert de Niro and Dustin Hoffman. The first plays the spin doctor of the President of the United States of America; the second, however, a Hollywood producer. The latter is hired to divert the attention of public opinion from a sexual scandal that risks overwhelming the image, and therefore the political career, of the President a few days before the elections. At this point the imperative becomes: distract public opinion, whatever the cost. Therefore, the ingenious "news" of a conflict against Albania, a rogue state accused of hosting and feeding terrorists, is invented from scratch and on the spot.

At the time, the idea seemed so absurd that the film was dismissed as a black "comedy": a laugh. So "silly" that it cannot deceive even the most naïve of spectators. It is therefore impossible to categorize the plot as a detective thriller or as a spy story or as a dystopian film or as a political drama. Instead, reality has made such gigantic strides – in merging the surreal with the real, the comic with the tragic, the improbable with the real – that it has outclassed, from all points of view, even the plot of "Wag the Dog ".

Today, what might have seemed a bizarre, American comedy stunt has turned into the canonical rule of thumb of the mass media. What do you mean? In the sense that we are bombarded every day by the equivalent of ten, one hundred, one thousand "wars in Albania". And that is, from news systematically "adjusted" to mislead attention (and the awareness of the general public) from the truth. Or carefully hidden with the same ignoble intention.

In other words, the problem of fake news is more than founded, but not in the sense commonly told by the mainstream media, but in the opposite one. Translated: it is not the small "exchanges" of counter-information that peddle lies. Rather (and serially) the big so-called “official” and self-styled “reliable” mass media circuits do this. They, from "watchdogs of democracy" – which they should be according to the deontological canons of "neutral" journalism of the Anglo-Saxon brand – have turned into "hounds of lies" or, if you prefer, into "dobermanns of cover-up".

We have only one self-defense against Global Big Brother. And it is a counter-intuitive strategy compared to what we would naturally believe (that is, that everything they tell us is, until proven otherwise, true). These days, it is much more "hygienic" to start from the reverse: much of what they tell us is, most likely, a "war on Albania". And much of what the lords recommend us is, with equal probability, useful for those who fund them by keeping them alive; and harmful to us. That is why we must care, nurture and support, as never before, the little shoots of (truly) independent information.

Francesco Carraro

www.francescocarraro.com


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The article The first amendment of the mainstream: I swear to tell all the falsehood, nothing but the falsehood comes from ScenariEconomici.it .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/il-primo-emendamento-del-mainstream-giuro-di-dire-tutta-la-falsita-nientaltro-che-la-falsita/ on Sun, 13 Dec 2020 12:52:26 +0000.