Bon, l'article est assez nul, c'est un vague «l'Ouest est faible on devrait directement déclarer la guerre à la Russie» plein de contradiction et de trucs carrément faux (ex: “Several weeks ago Germany made a big noise about promising RHC-155 self-propelled howitzers but then went very quiet when someone pointed out there was no ammunition to load into them…” mec ça utilise des munition 155 mm OTAN classique, les même que le CAESAR, le PzH200, le AHS Krab, etc.).
Par contre dans l'ensemble cette citation est assez vraie:
We tend to forget that the “news” is merely a sub-category of the entertainment industry and as such its job it to attract our attention for a few monetizable moments. The job of the news is not to provide us with a reliable and accurate view of the world beyond our doorstep. Aside from propaganda-producing organizations such as the Russian media and Fox News, all legitimate news organizations are in the business of competing with every form of entertainment for precious eyeballs. This is why even supposedly “serious” news outlets such as the BBC are nowadays nearly worthless. Today, a dynamic exists in which Western news organizations cluster around an agreed narrative (so as not to confuse audiences with potentially conflicting opinions and thereby alienate them) and then simply repeat that narrative until such time as this no longer works. Any awkward facts are simply omitted. Western news organizations don’t need to invent infantile lies but instead simply omit anything that would risk disturbing the simplistic tale being told to Western audiences. There’s no master plan; simply a desire to remain competitive and thereby keep the paychecks coming in.
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This situation pertains to everything we see in the news, whether it’s war, natural disasters, climate, change, aircraft accidents, or infectious diseases. And few people ever wonder to ask themselves why key information simply disappears; it’s much easier just to accept whatever narrative is being presented next. But if we stop to think, we can see that our much-vaunted “independent” news organizations are in reality simply entertaining us with fictions.
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Stepping back just a few years, the news media contributed greatly to the successes of Brexit and Trump. Because both these absurdities were built on a foundation of infantile lies that were grotesque and therefore sensational, the news media amplified the effectiveness of these lies by repeating them uncritically. In the UK, news organizations gave huge amounts of airtime to known liars and incompetents, thus providing a credibility that resulted in the UK voting for national suicide. In the USA, news organizations gave Trump 85% of their coverage, thus helping to sway the election in his favor. In neither case did any news organization anywhere own up to their culpability; they simply switched to reporting the inevitable horror stories that Brexit and Trump went on to generate.