What Is The Difference Between Propaganda And News?

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A White House insider explains how news agencies receive their talking points out of the White House while noting that many reporters don’t have any experience and are basically idiots.

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.”  The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp “Why?” the scorpion replies: “It’s my nature…”

Now, if you are wondering if this story is about modern day politicians, you might just be right.
A former high-ranking White House staffer has openly admitted that he not only manipulated the media, he also said that they were pretty much too dumb to know what was going on, and by default, the public at large was as well. The New York Times quoted Ben Rhodes when he said, “…all these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus, now they don’t. They call us (at the White House) to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter [the White House] talks to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea of change. They literally know nothing.”

Get that? The talking points that drive the daily news cycle and in turn are repeated ad nauseam are created by people that should know what they are talking about, but do not! But it gets better!

The article in the New York Times goes on to note that  “Even where the particulars of that story are true, the implications that readers and viewers are encouraged to take away from those particulars are often misleading or false.” Did you catch that? Manufactured! As in created out of thin air! Or even false! Scary, right? Although there has always been a thin line that politicians walk on between truth and untruth, in this case, the line seems razor thin.

Orwell was a prophet. Washington DC has its own “Ministry Of Truth” with “Big Brother” dictating the “news” for consumption.

The Washington Examiner recently noted that apparently there aren’t enough government agencies in Washington DC. So much for smaller government, because as everyone knows, bigger is better. The article pointed out that “The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, would create a Center for Information Analysis and Response in the State Department.” That’s right. This new government agency apparently will read foreign newspapers, watch foreign TV, and surf foreign news websites, all in a bid to counter and spin it for domestic American consumption or maybe even just disappear it. So much for truth these days — or anything resembling it.

So, what do you think  — “What is the difference between propaganda and news?”

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