The Gall! The Pot Calling the Kettle Black! CBS “expert” claims Russian government controls the way people see reality!

PATRICE GREANVILLE
TGP Superstation | Media Studies

[I]n  an example for the ages of the pot calling the kettle black, the American media are now accusing the Russians of being manipulated by their media.

The expert: Beth Knobel

In any case, after many months of increasing invective directed at the Russians over the Ukraine fiasco, a mess the US government initiated, and one of the most misreported and under-reported stories in the shameful history of Western media disinformation, on 23 July (2014) CBS ran a segment that directly impugned the professional fides of their Russian counterparts, accusing them of being a propaganda box, of rolling over like a lapdog whenever Putin commanded. They must have been looking in the mirror. 

The ultimate Big Lie—Accusing the Russkies of propagandizing their own people…Of course, we don’t do that.

But while media tampering may exist in Russia, we still find that more often than not these days it is Russian-origin dispatches that come far closer to the truth of critical events than those produced by their Western rivals. Not to mention that the actions of the Russian government today, with its general reluctance to act like an imperial bully (they saved our ass from an even greater war in Syria and the Mideast not too long ago) are a lot healthier for humanity than the power-mad agenda followed by the hypocritical, warmongering cliques in Washington.

But something else needs stating in this regard: the biggest, smoothest and by far the most effective propaganda machine that history has ever seen, a veritable Orwellian Ministry of Truth, is the American corporate media itself.  Nothing else comes close. Anyone who doubts that is a member of that foul structure or has not been paying attention for the last 100 years.

Guardians of ideological purity

In case you just climbed out from under a rock, the US media role is to keep the American mind ignorant and loyal to global US imperialism. And to pacify the masses at home. The objective proof of this, something that even Dr. Beth Knobel, the august expert trotted out by CBS to lecture the Russkies on what constitutes true good journalism, might know even if she will never admit, is that Americans themselves are by far the most politically confused, propagandized and ignorant people on earth. Many surveys by unimpeachable institutions, including Ivy League universities, have confirmed this sorry fact. This the central reason why American democracy is now a fiction. How does that simple truth square with the supposed wonderfulness of the media which CBS and Dr Knobel are so proud of?

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The sheer sanctimoniousness of it all—

Russian perspective on airliner shoot down / (CBS News)