Reuters Forgets the Lyrics
With the classic propaganda technique of card stacking, the propagandist carefully reports or “cherry picks” only the information he/she wishes to disclose to the audience, omitting entirely essential facts and details which provide a more complete and balanced understanding of events and therefore interfere with the propagandist’s effort to compel the audience to adopt a particular view. Reuters has elevated card stacking to a rarefied art form.
In a story about a statement issued by Hamas kingpin Khaled Meshaal at yesterday’s Palestinian shindig celebrating the reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah, Reuters correspondent Sami Aboudi wants his audience to believe that Hamas really, really wants Israel to (in the immortal words of John Lennon) “give peace a chance”… cont’d