This is not surprising since the so-called “fourth power in the United States”, with few exceptions, became part of the gear in its unipolar policy to control the world, international commentators estimate.
In Washington recently there were protests from some media outlets that were not allowed to travel with the forces that the Pentagon moved to Europe.
A perhaps fair protest that apparently left out the large and committed media team that accompanied the war against Iraq for allegedly having weapons of mass destruction. It was never tested.
In his approach to the subject, the British writer stated that journalists applaud the arming of the militias and the civilians who manufacture improvised explosives, acts that are usually treated as terrorism. Not now, because those nationalist groups respond to the designed plan.
It’s suddenly sexy to make IEDs, at least if you’re seen as white, European, and “civilized” by the media, but, Cook added, other resistance movements, especially in the Middle East, are always being branded as terrorists for doing the same thing. .
Ukraine shows the double standards of information policy. In some cases, when it suits the interests of Washington and allies, those who defend their sovereign rights are branded as terrorists and presented to the world as the worst of the human species. They are the “bad guys”.
Meanwhile, nationalist, pro-Nazi, xenophobic and racist groups are champions of freedom despite the fact that they kill children, women and the elderly to support Western expansionism.
Examples abound in occupied Palestine, in Kosovo, in Yemen, in Syria, and in multiple places that are victims of US security policy. Those are the “good guys”.
Cook exemplified that the Western media freaks out from time to time over the lives lost or legs amputated of those targeted by snipers.
But none of them cheer this Palestinian “resistance” as they do the Ukrainian one. Rather, the protesters are treated as suckers or Hamas provocateurs.
Gaza, unlike Ukraine, has no army, and its fighters, unlike Ukraine’s, are not being armed by the West, he said.
Double standards are evident and everywhere. It is impossible to claim that journalists who do this ignore reporting conventions elsewhere.
They are mostly veterans of Middle East war zones, well used to covering Gaza, Baghdad, Nablus, Aleppo and Tripoli, he added.
What is happening today in Ukraine is a clear example of media manipulation and how a well-oiled disinformation machine achieves what the West is unable to achieve on the battlefield.
For them, the dead matter as long as they are Americans or other NATO member countries. The other side is collateral damage.
It’s common these days for the so-called “Fourth Estate” to pride themselves on publishing hoaxes and fabrications making headlines when they’re useful as propaganda, only to be quietly removed long after, Cook said.
On the other hand, it is not surprising that new fictitious stories emerge blaming Russian troops for massacres. Disinformation is being shared even more aggressively on Western social media accounts, with most of it designed to evoke sympathy for Ukraine and hostility towards Russia.
If there are proposals to judge Russia for its policies, the “Fourth Estate” should also be held accountable for its senseless jingoism, its exaggerations, its credulity, its double standards and its deceptions, Cook stressed.
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