Re:A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way
by dragonwriter on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:35PM
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> this part of the story is well documented but thanks anyway.
Its not only not well-documented, its inaccurate self-justification that has been constructed after people realized how they had been deluded in their bloodthirst (or, at least, for people like Matt Yglesias who had rocketed from a college blogger to a major media figure largely through his pro-Iraq War blogging, as means of protecting their reputation once public opinion turned.)
It wasn't a major media stranglehold; while, yes, things like Judith Miller’s war pimping occurred, so did extensive major media debunkings of the lies and exposes of the methods being used to manufacture them. People will tell you they watched the UNSC meeting live and remember how chilled they were when Powell presented the fake evidence, but they don't seem to recall as prominently their feeling when many of those claims were debunked by UN inspectors in that same meeting.
A major media failing would have been easier to deal with, to accept: we were lied to, the truth wasn't avaialable, and naturally the public made the sensible stand based on what was available to them. Horrifying in its result, but not at all damaging to one’s fellow humans, but for a small cadre of evil warmongering propagabdists.
But when the whole narrative was debunked and that debunking was widely reported in major media, etc., abd yet the mass of the public still cheerleads for death and destruction that is being sold with the debunked narrative, living through that as someone who didn’t buy into was horrifying on a level that is hard to describe (as has been witnessing the retroactive denial narrative after the bloodthirst subsided a bit0, since not facing what actually happened, makes it a lot more likely to happen again.)
Its not only not well-documented, its inaccurate self-justification that has been constructed after people realized how they had been deluded in their bloodthirst (or, at least, for people like Matt Yglesias who had rocketed from a college blogger to a major media figure largely through his pro-Iraq War blogging, as means of protecting their reputation once public opinion turned.)
It wasn't a major media stranglehold; while, yes, things like Judith Miller’s war pimping occurred, so did extensive major media debunkings of the lies and exposes of the methods being used to manufacture them. People will tell you they watched the UNSC meeting live and remember how chilled they were when Powell presented the fake evidence, but they don't seem to recall as prominently their feeling when many of those claims were debunked by UN inspectors in that same meeting.
A major media failing would have been easier to deal with, to accept: we were lied to, the truth wasn't avaialable, and naturally the public made the sensible stand based on what was available to them. Horrifying in its result, but not at all damaging to one’s fellow humans, but for a small cadre of evil warmongering propagabdists.
But when the whole narrative was debunked and that debunking was widely reported in major media, etc., abd yet the mass of the public still cheerleads for death and destruction that is being sold with the debunked narrative, living through that as someone who didn’t buy into was horrifying on a level that is hard to describe (as has been witnessing the retroactive denial narrative after the bloodthirst subsided a bit0, since not facing what actually happened, makes it a lot more likely to happen again.)