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The only antidote to propaganda is to stop reading newspapers and watching television and to search for alternative sources of news, and to always verify what you read and observe.
Never trust a media organisation that pushes its own claims of being an independent trustworthy source. Such words are cheap and seldom reflect the goals and reality of these organisations. It is just a slimy way to get past one’s defence mechanism.
One thing no one considers when buying a newspaper is: Who are the owners of the newspapers we read? What political line is set by the owners for editors to follow? Why do newspapers never report both sides of a conflict? Why do newspapers perpetually misrepresent and distort one side? Why does the media immediately set out to discredit good researchers with different understandings of a conflict?
He also talks about the many things the Western media do not report on such as the true conditions in Ukraine, or pushing narratives aimed at escalating the war while cynically ignoring the millions already killed and likely to be killed by their media driven actions. Why don’t these Western media warriors put down their pens and go to Ukraine and fight the Russians themselves, rather than using Ukrainians? They would die within a few weeks.
The moment any writer uses phrases like “Russia’s legitimate security concerns” or “the war in Ukraine did not start in 2022, but in 2014”, this vast Western propaganda machine will falsely label such commentators as “Russian propagandists”. In other words, in Western terms, Russia doesn’t have legitimate security concerns or is forbidden to have such concerns. Only the West have “the legitimate right to claim security concerns”.
Getting into journalism as a profession requires one to go through an unpaid internship which is so costly that only those coming from very wealthy elite families have such opportunities. Thus, these internees bring the perspectives and views of the upper classes into their articles for the newspapers. It is not real journalism. These elites often have connections with military industrial complex and are profiteering from the war.
He also talks about the huge NATO propaganda apparatus.
Baab is author of the 2024 book Propaganda-Presse: Wie uns Medien und Lohnschreiber in Kriege treiben [Propaganda Press: How media and paid writers drive us into wars]. Frankfurt: Westend Verlag, 2024.
