Here's How They are Selling The New Fall War Line. Who's Buying It This Time?

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/spocko/58299/heres-how-they-are-selling-the-new-fall-war-line-whos-buying-it-this-time

Here's How They are Selling The New Fall War Line. Who's Buying It This Time?
Broadcast Media | Fox News | Iraq | Media Criticism | Syria | War
by Spocko | September 13, 2014 - 9:44pm

They sold the 2003 Iraq War to us using 9/11, 9/11 and 9/11!. But they also used clever catch phrases, mind-changing visuals, serious authority figures and big money support. Spot the tricks this time! Look for:

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PEOPLE
Selling war involves authority figures explaining what they want. Keep an eye out for those retired generals. Who pays them? Do they work for people selling drones?

Could someone please check their affiliations this time? Call the TV producers and demand they mention their affiliations. Also, what about the think tank people? Foreign government funding? Defense contractors? (Who do we demand disclosure from? Lee Fang gives us a list in this article. Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?

You've all noted the media already has brought on tired old "experts" to make the case for war, but who is new in the media opposing war?

If our "boots on the ground" aren't in danger, can we get some accountants on to talk about the cost of these drone strikes? How about representatives of the innocent dead in the countries we bomb? Someone from a Big 8 Peace firm? Who do you suggest? What would they have to do to get on TV and talk?

[KurtNYC]

1. if we can't effectively say "no" then it isn't a "sale" so much as a story,

a story about why we just went to war again. Americans have the kind of choice on Syria that you give a 3 year-old: which story do you want Daddy to read you as you go to sleep?

No one is presenting the "I don't want to go to war/sleep now" side because that is not the choice. TV networks are not public assets or public servants, they aren't there to inform us. They simply sell audiences to advertisers and we should remember that before asking the media to "do its job." TV encourages us to feel more than think -- feel like we are hungry for Big Mac, feel like it's time for a new car and feel like dropping daisy cutters on the other side of planet.

The only choice the MSM will give us on this war is which over-simplified or outright lie will make us feel a little more like it was/is the right thing to do.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Are most people as distrustful of Cheney and McCain as DU folks are?

Hard for me to get perspective beyond DU.....I don't listen to/watch network tv or MSM.

What are folks hearing on the ground level, what are neighbors saying?