How The Media Controls The Masses
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Hope you all enjoy the video! A few commenters have pointed out that The Grayzone actually debunked the NYT story before The Intercept. Great catch! Their link has been added to the description.
Awesome that you added it!! Thank you for such a informative video.
I was hoping to see this as a pinned comment!
Also that 🐿
JT-Thanks for crediting The Grayzone. I came here to mention it. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate have spoken in detail about how even some independent-left news outlets have been refusing to credit them and others like The Electronic Intifada and Mondoweiss for their work, despite these outlets being the ones who broke the story. ruclips.net/video/EcwibfF4lWI/видео.htmlsi=f_egcTY8xryX2rie
Great video
As a child, I used to ask myself in history class, "How did anyone let the Holocaust get so bad? Why did no one call it out earlier?"
Now I know the answers to those questions.
Yup, and what is really sad, the same people who endured that horror are now perpetuating it onto another group they can ‘other’.
I know a lot of Israeli citizens and Jewish people around the world see this, and are speaking up about it, but they’re being cast aside and drowned out. This world is fucked.
Hitler went to prison for fomenting a failed insurrection against a weak, moderate regime. He didn’t become a true threat until his book got published. I think Trump will be martyred and more intelligent, dangerous men will lead a jihad.
Faith is everything sir, they belived so hard nothing could stop them from commiting, also, tragic irony, it was an Italian Jewish scientist that first made the rascist theories that later led to the holocaust, and his theory was rascist towards the moors, unsurprising that now it's the Palestinians taking the hit
@@uspockdad6429Yeah, many Jews in the US are like, "WTF, Israel?" But somehow we don't hear much about them.
@@patpowers9210 1. they largely get silenced/alienated/it's generational 2. a lot of them have been more successfully gripped by the self-serving prop a gander than some yt liberals like to let on.
"No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment that nobody else would tolerate?"
-Bertrand Russell
No one of sound mind does not feel for the jews, gays, gypsies,.. and all the victims of the Nazis. But being a Jewish state is no excuse for doing the same thing the Nazis did. In my mind, Isreal is equivalent to the Nazis. If they could get away with invading of countries they would. Both the Jews and the Nazis believe God supports their atrocities and they are the chosen people. It is indefensible.
Great quote from one of my heroes.
@@josephbelisle5792 Palestine shouldnt be punished for Germany's crimes
NaZioN. Two sides of the same coin. Heads or tails, it always lands on Jenna side...
Only reason people compare Israel to the Nazis is because they're the only group in the west who ever faced serious consequences for genocide. Both were inspired by the USA.
Russell didn't mince words bro
I once read that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the state of Israel.
Telling the truth is anti-semitic for them
I believe the original quote is from Joesph Goebbels, the NAZI Propaganda Minister, with Chancellor A. Hitler later using it in a speech. President J.F. Kennedy stated the quote at a Washington Press Dinner when talking about Republicans. "A lie, regardless of how large, told often enough and loud enough will be believed as truth by the masses."
@@dizzy_jumpBecause when you're writing, a piece of fiction is easy to edit.
Bingo
Lol 😂
It's important to remember that the people who said that Saddam had WMD's and that the war on terror was about democracy are the same people in charge of our media today
They can get away for anything, that's why keep lying to its people. If people would demand that the evil clowns be held accountable and jailed for life if they are caught lying, just to go to wars... millions of people would be saved. Instead, they get promoted to high positions in corporations, big pharma, the MIC etc.
The sad part about the use of the terms, "WMD" is they chose it because in the event someone tried to hold them liable, they could argue that RPGs, dushkas, grenades, etc. can be classified as weapons of mass destruction. They're such disingenuous snakes.
Yup. The Atlantic seems to collect them. Citations Needed did a whole episode recently about it.
As someone studying journalism. It really sucks to see how people in this field are bought out to spread a false narrative.
Out of interest, is Manufacturing Consent a set text on your course?
Maybe in the future. I’m only in my first class for journalism bcuz im a double major and focused on polisci this semester. I should read that book anyways. It would depend on my future professors. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in future course load considering my college but IDK.
you give them too much credit. They were born elite and pursued a career where they can advocate for their group's interests. As someone who graduated 3 years ago and worked in the science field, you'd be surprised how different are some of those that took the same career path as you
@@OVEZ623 yeah it's brilliant
There is a documentary of the same name about Chomsky and those ideas free here on YT.
I rewatched it the other day. Its awesome.
Also, Necessary Illusions. That's a lecture series that Chomsky did in the late 80s. Also brilliant.
I didn't even hear of manufacturing consent until I was in my 40s. It completely changed my view of the world. It was like suddenly seeing the machinery behind the media and politics. Suddenly everything made sense. It's not a happy situation but it's vital to understand it clearly asap.
You have a point. I don’t expect it to play out that way because of what you’ve mentioned. It really depends on my professors and their interests/perspectives. I will be fighting the uphill battle if so but I’m prepared
The Gaza genocide is one of the most disgusting things I've seen in my lifetime. The fact that the US continues to support Israel is baffling to me.
Aipac has donated money to a majority of our congressional representatives.
@@grmpEqweer nah Aipac is more for other stuff. In this area. US as a state has interests in Israel being the colonial state it is. What Israel IS doing though is straying from the script US wrote because they know the US can't cut them off for now.
It happens to almost every group the US funds. They eventually get their own ideas and then later down the road US has to label them terrorists and replace them with someone else. Netanyahu will probably get this treatment sometime down the road and someone else will run Israel.
@@grmpEqweer like, I understand that there are reasons, but I meant more that the complete moral bankruptcy and lack of empathy on the part of so many people boggles my mind. I just have a hard time believing people are so callous even when the evidence is staring me in the face because my mind rebels at it.
It shouldn’t really baffle you if you have even cursory understanding of the United States.
It is a shit pit country built on genocide and sustained on successive war economies. It’s not a Country. It’s a few dozen incredibly racists corporations in a trench coat that can’t stop murdering millions and destabilizing region after region.
@@nfzeta128 Nah I don’t think that explanation works in this case. “US controls Israel” makes less sense than “Israel controls US”.
I think the best explanation is that those who control the US control Israel, but they emotionally care more about the latter, even though the former is more useful to them. That’s the only way you can explain the US harming itself for Israel
The fact that you refuse to call the resistence terrorists is really brave and eye opening for me, as a Palestinian even I was coerced to say they're terrorists just before I can have any conversation about the genocide. I will never do that again. I was a coward.
They are terrorists by definition, but that isnt a bad thing. Read the definition of terrorist and think about which military force DOESNT fit the definition.
@@lt8400 It helps if you have a standard definition, so you can tell how BS the imperialist designations of same are, and how much they just confessed all over themselves.
We all fall short of the mark. I myself am working on a better white woman. I can see how my conditioning has caused me to placate the system to survive in it. Silence is definitely my biggest character defect
@@lt8400 Doesn't the UN not consider them terrorists?
@@sentientnataliethey are literally terrorists…
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Please collab to force your country to invoke article 6 of the UN! To kick the US out of the UN!!!!
Any pressure is a good pressure!
This. Right. Here. The fact that this continues is so sick
F*ck Nationalism, F*ck Religions.
“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of Civilization.”
George Clemenceau
🤔 good point
Great quote.👍
Dumb progressive/Marxist quote. Civilization was from 1900-1980, then the decline began.
@@williambobson3369Because of course Jim Crow laws were so civilised…
Lmao, savage
(pun intended)
What i found personally frustrating is how, as a weekend news anchor for a small-midsize radio station in Canada, I got reprimanded for altering the AP News Copy regarding Israel and Palestine. I corrected the word “conflict” to genocide and some one called my manager, and quoted the exact time and sentence i said on Air to complain. So i can’t even alter the propaganda news copy i air to this small Canadian community because someone is literally waiting to timestamp the next time i call it a genocide
Hire lawyers? Do it anyway? Truth shouldn't be illegal.
That's horrifying. You should NOT be reprimanded for calling a duck a duck.
Can you even define what a "genocide" is? LOL
@@technokicksyourassMassacring millions trapped in a concentration camp worse than industrial cattlesheds? I would say that defines genocide pretty well.
@@nonine09 OK, let's talk "genocide," which is a word that's been weaponized across the world. Let's talk facts, not trigger words. How is it that the population of Palestinians grew from 1.98 million to 5.04 million from 1990 to 2022, if "genocide" has been done by Israel against the Palestinians?
I'm not a fan of the US foreign policy, but I'm not going to label anything I don't like a "genocide," when the facts don't add up. The number of innocent local Gazans caught up in this conflict is terrible, (one-sided reporting by the way), but it's a war that Hamas started. I can't see how Israel can get rid of Hamas cancer without damaging the healthy cells, i.e., the civilians, who did vote in Hamas to power in the first place about two decades ago. There is no easy answer in geopolitics. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, anyone accusing the US of "genocide?"
I just realized that in a system where journalism keeps governments in check, the US is truly f’ed.
Thank you for staying true to your profession’s principles.
Perhaps the Telecommunications Act of 1996 played a role.
The Brits and Germans are neck deep in this Genocide as well.
The cynicism from the German side is appalling. Hasan said it best when he said Germany’s thinking was “sure the holocaust was bad. But you know what’s even worse? Arabs doing a holocaust!”
Of course. Israel is an outpost for their interests as well.
@@AdrianCarroll-fj5ce Nah they are outposts for Israeli interests
Yeah, the British because they're the ones who started this mess (and 50 other ones too) and Germany is to "purify" themselfs from their nationalism
Germ ans exporting their guilt and reparations onto PaI via uncompromising support for this msscr of brwn ppl & performative philosemtsm (as they aggressively silence anti zio jws)
In the wake of the Iraq war I remember seeing clearly how every news organisation and politician was just saying open racism and islamophobia without challenge, you could see the consent being manufactured before your eyes
'merica needed that oil
Shortly after 9/11 I found myself crying for hours. Partly for the loss of life on 9/11 but mostly for the millions of innocent people who would die in the response. The oligarchs had their new evil to fight and millions of innocent men, women and children were going to and have paid that price. All for money. As the Muslim fundies put it, the great Satan. I am an atheist and don't believe in Satan. But the oligarchs are a great and terrible evil to everyone. Islam does not offer an answer but it does point out a great problem to peaceful planet. Besides theism.
Islamophobia just means blasphemy against Islam.
It’s wild looking back and how Arabs and Muslims were subjected to after 9/11 in America and frankly the world.
@@SeptillionSevenOperation Iraqi Liberation.
This is why they want to ban tiktok
Exactly
the video published afterword
THANK YOU. I'm only halfway through the video but the whole "obfuscating what happened through news headlines" has been driving me insane for so long now. And I'm not from the US. I mainly get my news from our, supposedly, neutral public broadcaster - but they seem to be getting their news from the US or other pro-Israeli sources and I can't stand it.
Here are some things I've noticed in their reporting (all of which could be found in a single headline and preamble, too, might I add):
- H*mas is always mentioned as a terror organization, while Israel is just Israel
- October 7th was an "attack", what Israel has been doing since is an "operation"
- "30,000 have been killed" - not 30,000 civilians, and certainly not 30,000 civilian Palestinians
- "Difficult to report from Gaza" - not "Israel has created a hostile and potentially lethal environment for journalists"
- "Journalists have become targets" - ....yes, FOR ISRAEL
The most egregious example of obfuscation I've seen so far was when Reporters Without Borders published a report with the title, "Israel Suffocating Journalism in Gaza". Two days later, our public broadcaster published their own segment on journalism in Gaza, featuring the chairman of Reporters Without Borders. Their headline? "Difficult Situation for Journalists in Gaza". And the only quote they used from the chairman was, "There is a sort of propaganda war from both sides, and that's why it's so important for reports by independent journalists to be allowed out". Who isn't allowing independent journalism? Because I'm fairly confident it isn't both sides~
Yeah, the pro Israeli propaganda has more reach to more powerfull hands, while pro Palestinian one is a mix of Islamic State propaganda, general news coverage of Israeli atrocities, not even that political, and general clandestine demands for support like online, which sounds like the Soviet union supporting your revolution against the frensh, notnlke two equal powers
Your falling into a false equivalence. You are assigning events prior to Oct 7th the same value as events after. Operation Al'aksa flood (Hamas name for the attack) was a military operation designed to start a war. Prior to Oct 7th there was no war between Israel and Gaza. After Oct 7th a state of war started. During a war, people die in large numbers. This was expected by Hamas, it was part of the plan. You have to think from the point of view of the families murdered on Oct 7th. Do they have a right to be protected and safe inside Israel? If so.. how would YOU keep them safe? It's not as simple as you believe it is.
@@technokicksyourassLIES. You need to stop yapping and spreading lies in every comment section.
@@technokicksyourass You keep them safe by killing everyone?
@@technokicksyourass"in state of war many people die" well yeah but wouldnt the number of injured/deaths lower if zionists didnt bomb hospitals? Using hamas to hide your bombings is disgusting, even if they are right is killing hundreds of children and women on the price of some hamas members worth it? Not to mention that this would probably increase hamas members not decrease, why did they bomb 4 people on sight, why do they imprison children for no reason. Why should we trust them when they literally pointed to an arabic calendar and said it has hamas names on them. And they read it from left to right. Why do you support all this? All these are things you should answer.
I get so f****** pissed anymore when I hear about what has happened to the Palestinians, especially the children, just because of my dad. What makes me even angrier is the sense of utter helplessness that I feel is unable to provide any assistance whatsoever. It is a truly maddening sensation.
That is exactly how I feel.
revolution 101 - utter despair will help you release the fear of what you may lose should you act
you have a chance to rebel in 8 months, vote third party, I don't care which one, but a vote for either Trump or Biden will result in more of the same. And a non-vote is not a protest.
@@rustyoak8860yeah, I want to vote 3rd party so bad. But to me, the threat of Trump regaining power is too unthinkable to me.
Biden is not a good president, but I am afraid if Trump regains power the chance of seeing another election might go out the window.
I’ve read the 2025 project papers the conservatives are pushing for if Trump wins. If they can do everything they want, democracy in this country is completely dead and a theocracy will take its place.
With Biden, at least democracy stands a chance to survive.
I hate that our country is a 2 party system, and want to vote to change that, but this November I will be voting democrats.
Maybe I am stupid and just playing into their games, but I can’t shake the fear that people like us will be hunted down if the GOP and Trump can regain control.
your sense of hopelessness, I feel it the same way. Just know your not alone. :)
Someone needs to being DEMOCRACY to the US regime
Join Revolutionary Communists of America
Why would we need democracy when we already have (Managed) Democracy
@@asagoldsmith3328 American democracy is undemocratic by design, to prevent "the tyrany of the masses", which means defending interests
@@asagoldsmith3328 You guys have managed imperialism, not democracy.
@@DimuthuYapa He is referring to a satire lol
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So he is Communist?
Indeed, he is a marxist-leninist.
Any information that is dependent on making money to reach people will be manipulative
second thought is manipulative
@@lerpog4509let me guess, the ones that you are watching it isn't
@@lerpog4509 Manipulation is not inherently unjust. The Civil Rights Movement was a manipulation using peaceful protests to publicize racial violence against African Americans.
@@lerpog4509true... I accept JT's manipulation though
@@lerpog4509 No matter how many arguments and factual evidence are presented, some people simply prefer what corroborates their own beliefs and prejudices. This is known as confirmation bias, a psychological phenomenon where people tend to seek out and interpret information that confirms their preexisting ideas, while ignoring or undervaluing information that contradicts them.
To make you understand how did the American media often spin and twist their headline to sugar coat everything. Lets just describe the purpose of Unmarked Police car and the Police in civilian clothing:
"In the U.S you often see the Police using an unmarked vehicles that resembles a civillian vehicle or a public vehicle such as a Taxi or even a school bus to catch the criminals off guard. Inside the vehicle is a police in civilian clothing serving to watch community of interest areas to protect the people of New York."
Now if it was the bogeyman (such as China) that does the same thing, I imagine that this will be language they'll use to describe it:
"In the U.S sometimes you can catch a glimpse of the Police using an unmarked vehicles that resembles a civillian vehicle or a public vehicle such as a Taxi or even a school bus, the people are often unaware of their presence and that they are being monitored by the state. Inside the vehicle is a secret police whose sole purpose is to conduct discriminatory surveillance on ethnic minority areas to uphold the state's control on the people of New York."
I actually find it funny how much the average American fails to perceive authoritarian elements. We have literal secret police, mass government surveillance, oppression of political and social movements and groups, make school student pledge themselves to the country every day of the week, and actively re-writing history to paint them in a positive light. Not even mentioning all the foreign interference the u.s engages it, our massive military, and the coups and dictatorships we support abroad. The u.s is everything they say they aren’t and projects every single flaw away from itself.
Yep. Oligarchs vs entrepreneurs, secret police vs undercover cops, corruption/bribery vs lobbying, etc.
Sounds like two-way projection.
Eh
Wasnt there a website that did this very exercise on multiple articles, rewriting it in that style, I should find it again because it would be as hilarious as this that you gave us sir
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I can't explain how this broke me, but it did.
That's kinda painful, not gonna lie, I hope she doesn't die, or at least, she gets to heaven
It's very, very tough, but absolutely everyone needs to prepare. When you're about to cross beyond the void veil... Reflect carefully.
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i cry every time
Truth will prevail.
InsAllah .
From River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.
At the end of the day, the American "left" and right, the parties and their corresponding media, are like sports teams. Sure, they compete against each other, and people who support one team may hate another, but at the end of the day both teams want to maintain and support the game they are playing.
Well Said!!
You are not correctly attributing the "left". The Democratic Party are conservatives, the Republican Party are fascists. There is no major leftist political entity
so they can make money
I choose left Twix, the owner of right Twix factory creates a lot of crime and people get poorer. I will vote salad if given the opportunity, but I don't see salad on the menu. Nor anyone with a plan to get it there. Just lots of bitching about Twix. Hahahaha. Better to laugh about it and improve the world around you, best I have come up with.
Sorry, that is a false dichotomy. What people refer to as left in America is center at best. Right of center at worst. The lefty media is still corporate owned media that lies. The real left in America has little voice and does not lie. The Democratic party at the federal level is right of center. They are seen as left by the extreme right. Only when you get down to state levels in blue states do you see some significant shift to what can be seen as a little left of center. But not left. You have to leave this country and hemisphere to see anything that starts to get close to left.
I appreciate your views and analogy on the false dichotomy at the federal level. I just needed to state that what is considered left at their level isn't even on the same planet with leftists. The left wants everyone to home at the end of the day happy and healthy. Everyone. There is no party in affect in American politics that want this. There are some parties but they rarely get on any ballots. Socialism is a bad word in America despite it being how most of America operates. Not controlled by but how our country actually works. Government. Military. Police. Fire department. DPW. SS. Medicare. Some utilities. Much water. In average times well over 1/3 of every dollar spent is socialist spending. In times of crises, especially after capitalism blows up the economy, over 1/2 of dollars spend is socialist. The oligarchs know this and love this. They like us paying for most everything they need and when they get into trouble using our socialist systems to bail them out. The left is alive and well but dramatically under represented and made to look like the bad guy while it keeps the country afloat.
This reminds me of a situation I experienced last year; where my English professor, two weeks after October 7th, decided to address what was going on in Palestine. She said that she held off on talking about it for this long, because she felt like she didn't understand the full situation. So after spending weeks "researching" (by that she meant looking through multiple different news outlets) she came to a very passive, two-sided conclusion. She essentially said everyone is suffering, and no one's really in the wrong, and the history is just so so complicated.
I later went to go speak to her in her office. We were writing a research essay and I decided to chose media analysis and how it reports on global events, which I needed to get a green light from her to do. She gave me the go ahead and we ended up talking about different events which led us to talking about Israel-Palestine again, and she said one of the craziest things I've ever heard in my life. "I don't think western media is doing a good enough job at condemning Hamas." What???????????? I honestly didn't know how to respond to that. I genuinely thought she was joking, but she was dead serious. The conversation pretty much died after that and I left her office feeling just so betrayed. I already knew I probably wasn't going to see eye to eye with her, because of how two sided she was being earlier, but I just genuinely wasn't expecting her to say that. All these strong words for Hamas but nothing for Israel? How could someone of her education and her standing end up with a belief like that? Is she not aware of the biases that exist in the media? Could she not have used ANY OTHER source than just western news outlets? It made me so mad and so disappointed.
And that’s all that “peace for both sides” talk is fake - the person has a bias for “!srail” or against Palestinians but wants to appear fair and/or “good”. They already know they side with “!srail”; be it bc of personal connections, religious affiliation, and/or anti-Arab bias/racism (or Islamophobia). Siding with “!srail” outright means that “nice/good/fair” mask falls off bc they’d be exposing their true colors and no amount of research and seeing horrors committed by the people they stand with will change that in most cases. These are the types that can point out corruption and lies of the government/media in other cases but when when it comes to certain people, they happily accept what’s fed to them. I know people like this and it’s so frustrating 😡
*sorry for the wall of text, btw
@blep4544... unfortunately, it's verification that so-called professors are no different from most other humans. Additionally, people often take information at face-value and fail to X-ref nearly anything. 😕 It's just the way it is.
It's not the eyes which are blind, but the hearts.
- Holy Qur'an
Ask yourself the following questions. Did you watch any of the raw footage of the Oct 7th attack? I mean the stuff Hamas fighters put out, not the media. Have you read Hama's founding documents? Do you know the story of how Hamas became the dominant force on the Gaza strip? Do you understand Islam in any meaningful way? Do you know what a Jihad is and what that entails? Have you spoken to any Palestinians about how they feel about attacks? If 200 kids were killed in a rave by automatic fire, is that a moral thing to do? If you say yes to that question, what does that say about you?
@@technokicksyourassthe second you asked "do you know what jihad /islam is" i know you're just some guy who knows nothing about islam. Let me explain jihad(جهاد) comes from the word (جهد) johd which means "effort" jihad is taking care of parents praying and other good things you can do, the second meaning is what you all islamphobes always prefer to when speaking about jihad. Its fighting for the religion, and has rules like not attacking women/children/people running away/people who arent fighting and you can search about it(which you probably won't ). Also i advise you to not say to a muslim "do you know anything about islam" in a debate because we have to be religious we know about it, we pray 5 times a day, we Follow what quran says, if anything the average muslim knows more than most islamphobes.
Thanks!
Oh my GOD. It's my first video of yours I'm watching and was genuinely curious about this topic, bc my eyes have been opened to the grand lie of the left (as a formerly lifetime Democrat/leftist/etc) since I learned about this GENOCIDE forced upon millions of innocent Palestinians for over 75+ years. So when you brought up Palestine in your intro, I was SO GRATEFUL bc of how Palestine has really forced me to reexamine how I (previously) viewed EVERYTHING until October 7th, when I learned the TRUTH about Palestine, this genocide, Zionists, etc.
Also, seeing you're a socialist is beautiful bc I realized that I'm no longer a Democrat, but a "revolutionary" socialist. (It's wild I'm deemed "revolutionary" simply for recognizing the manipulation of Establishment politics, the media, our "political leaders," etc. I can't wait to finish this video and watch your others. So glad I found this channel! ❤
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
Edit: And you brought up Aaron Bushnell?! THANK YOU!!! 👏🏽 Rest in peace to Aaron Bushnell and all martyred Palestinians! 💔
@lilswhit6677Ameen, but I can never go to a country that has been stolen. I will only go when it’s back to being called Palestine and when the occupation and apartheid are over.
It warms my heart to see some Americans still have their brains and hearts at the right place. It terrifies me to realise, that the absolute most of them are actively trying to stay as oblivious to the wrongdoings of their government as possible. I guess the media's work is nearly complete. They raised the population, most of whom prefer not to know.
I really wish I didn't relate to your statements so much. It breaks my heart how the vast majority of my American friends actively push me away if I so much as mention the stuff we are involved in in the past in Nicaragua or currently in the middle east. Americans are some of the most heavily propagandized people in the world, one could argue that the biggest threat to the Earth is out of control US propaganda.
This is what happens when one's childhood is defined by Captain America and other very propagandistic media.
@@JackPitmanNicaI would daresay the North Koreans and the Americans are on the same boat in this case. The difference is one believes their leader is god while starving and the other believes they are the gods while starving.
@@nonine09 😂
Manufacturing consent should be taught at every school. If you don't understand how and why the media operates you are very unlikely to realise how you are being manipulated.
So much this. This seems like it should be a requisite class in secondary/high school, then maybe another elective on it in college that goes a bit deeper and shows more specific examples using current day issues.
thats why its not taught at all
Exactly why they won’t.
@@MoonLaden but in theory it could be. The media doesn't run our schools (yet). Teaching genuine media literacy is something that parents could demand via their school boards. It would take a while but it's worth fighting for I think.
The schools are part of this brainwashing tool, pledge allegiance everyday etc
"You retain plausible deniability as you obfuscate reality"
Haven't heard it summed up that succinctly before. Nice.
When you called the NY Times the most respected newspaper on Earth I nearly sprayed a mouthful of coffee all over my screen!
I know I'm just one person, but not once in my life have I ever considered the NY Times respected.
@@iPlayOnSpica It's respected in certain extremist circles.
“Paper of record of the most influential country on the planet” should be a respected title if that country was a democracy.
@@zachfenton608Here you are bigot.
In my native country, NYT and many other private American and European news organizations are banned for their promotion of Western genocide in Palestine.
How does ANYONE excuse the Flour Massacre!?
You're one of my favorite journalist.. Good job my dear sir 🎉👏
The false story about mass SA was actually exposed by the Grayzone
Thank you for pointing this out! The Intercept is very often garbage, and they're billionaire owned. That's not a coincidence. When they initially covered this story they didn't mention GZ AT ALL. Max had to call them out for them to sheepishly barely mention their reporting and EI's reporting.
GrayZone broke the story long before The Intercept, please give them their due
yeah destiny deserves a nobel peace prize
@@President_NotSurewtf does Destiny have to do with this?
@@skipsterz idk i just thought it was funny
They did a great podcast about this a week or two ago.
I believe it was The Grayzone, Electronic Intifada, and Mondoweiss
Thank you for this video. What is happening is absolutely horrific. The way that they're getting away with it is terrifying. The world is just sitting back and watching this happen.
America ... The best Democracy you can BUY !!!!????!!!!
Yeah, American democracy is legal to buy, you just need money
Well done sir. EVERYONE, PLEASE SHARE THIS VIDEO FAR AND WIDE. ISREAL NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
Isn'treal
@@zachfenton608 Isn’treal
@@zachfenton608 Calling out the atrocities is biased?
@@nonine09held accountable for atrocities committed by hamas and their negligence towards the people that they represent you mean?
@@natanelverisotsky9791Hamas were formed in 1987 and Israel has been committing genocide against and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1948. I'll say that again, SINCE 1948.
Shall we discuss that and the disparity in kill ratios Israel V Palestine.
I'll wait, I'm sure you'll have a perfectly good excuse.
Greed really is mutually exclusive to just about everything that a human naturally values, isn't it?
Not humans in general. Most people I would describe as being pro-social. They value community, have empathy, and have sets of morals and ethics. If people broadly were only ever greedy and self interested, we would never have banded together to form communities and civilizations. The core advantage humans have over other animals is our ability to coordinate, communicate complex ideas, and to pass on our knowledge to future generations.
Unfortunately, it just turns out that if you don't value any of that, it's pretty easy to exploit the structure of society to gain advantages and the nature of advantages is that they are a positive feedback loop. The more power you have, the easier it becomes to gain more and maintain it and the more incentive you have to protect what you've gained.
Now sometimes people do anti-social things out of desperation. But that isn't the same thing as greed.
Don't give in to misanthropy. You can't build a better world if you don't believe we deserve it.
@@darthelmet1 Even if we don't deserve it (which I think is the case). We are obligated to do it for the rest of life on earth. It stopped being just about us centuries ago.
@@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters we're the only intelligent species we know of in the universe and we're the prodigy of our mother earth. also, "merit" is a concept completely invented by us. so I'd say, not only do we deserve our planet, we have the obligation to protect it and ourselves.
the thing about "greed" is that it's a natural human emotion. don't let that steer your opinion away from the real culprit: capitalism. indigenous peoples of the americas lived in equilibrium with the planet for thousands of years, and there was greed and violence. capitalism is not natural. it doesn't grow from a tree. it is the product of very specific historical circumstances, and can be overthrown.
@@darthelmet1Funny how comments sections seem to be riddled with monkeys nodding their heads in agreement these days. Insightful and logical comments like yours that buck the flow are rare. Keep it up man.
Absolutely absolutely love this guy and my respect for him is through the roofs. More power to you my man all the support and appreciation.
من فلسطين ... نشكرك على موقفك الانساني تجاهنا
I see Second Thought i click.
"ancient decrepit old ghouls" how perfect! Well stated.
Great, fucking video. This was truly powerful. I hope this video won't get buried by RUclips, more people need to see it. Please keep at it, channels like this is what gives me a little bit of hope for the future.
This video should be first on everyone's recommendations for 5 straight years, or until we fix it. Another absolute banger JT
"Выбор, стоящий перед человечеством - социализм или варварство!" (С) Роза Люксембург.
In the late 80s, barbarism was chosen.
The working class has betrayed mankind and themselves. And now, they reap what they sowed...
@@BanBootlicking Выбор делал не класс, а его лидеры, и это именно что они облажались. Ну а класс не останется в нынешнем состоянии, он безусловно выйдет из него. Кроме него некому вытаскивать человечество из нынешнего состояния варварства.
When I was younger I would watch the news and think I must be missing something because I never truly understood what was going on. I learned later that is not a bug. Its intended to be that way.
big shout-out to this amazing channel! discovered it back in 2022, and it's been an absolute game-changer for me. hands down one of the best channels out there for educating folks like myself.❤️
It pains me that most of the ignorant people will not watch this vedio. Instead they will go on any news outlet and believe whatever they say without verifying the truth 😢. Keep doing the good work bro ❤
I Be Communizing
Good.
what do you do?
Cumunissm 🤤
@@maxonmendel5757 Be communizing, obviously.
@@HandyDandy6 no but like, where at? can I join? lol
Doing the lords work in a godless world JT. I fuck with you heavy.
You what with him?
gay
And they were comrades
🤨
@@superbeltman6197 surprisingly communist friendly, because of old soviet propaganda looking like that
The NYT is NOT the most respected newspaper on earth, which I believe you know. Also, cable news began in the 1980s as the nation switched from antennas. I remember CNN being on 24/7 back then. Your coverage of Gaza is excellent & factual.
thanks again JT for being such a great journalist
Please stay safe. I’m not saying the US would try to silence this, but for an election year….
The CIA already visited bro's house
This is RUclips, the worst it will do is demonatise, which isn't that bad considering bro here has patreon
@@redlion45wait actually?
@@DirranProductions He told the story on The Deprogram.
@@DirranProductions Not the first time that claim has been made here, but so far none of the claimants answered my query as to how they know.
I dont think its impossible he publicized a vid about it, but at least YTs search algorythm doesnt give me anything.
2001 was an absolutely historical sea change in TV news. Thank you for acknowledging that period. I'm old enough to remember pre-24 hour news cycle and I think what was even more important in leading us to our current state is post-2001. News channels now had been on a 24-hour reporting binge for months seeing record high viewership. Once the events of 2001 became distant, they needed to fill that void. And fill it they did with sensationalized stories, ticker-tape style sourcing, and demagogues. Prior to the 24-hour news cycle, I remember feeling less informed, but also less anxiety about being informed. Now it just seems like a constant battle of one-upmanship.
agreed except i think that 2001 was engineered to be the start of a new form of broadcasting and they had a basic idea where to go from there prior, rather than them filling a void later. Knowing what that propaganda resulted in, it's difficult for me not to see the intentions now as a lot of the outcomes all ended up serving a similar interest
So now we know what pulls your chain.
Don't nod your head man.. think! The news was always biased, and the news cycle was always a thing, back to the days of cable. The reason there was a change when the internet came out is obvious and well documented. People started using the internet to get their news, so the amount of money the networks made dropped a lot, which caused the quality to drop a lot. The key metric went from "trust" to "clicks". These guys are driving an agenda. "We are the trusted source".... they even put propaganda in at the end LOL. "Palestinians are victims and Israel is bad". Pretty sure it's more complicated than that.
Great video as always, thank you!
Oooh checking out Means TV now!❤
13:06 it was the gray zone that debunked that story...
As well as Mondoweiss and Electronic Intifada!
11:45 US and Israel but dont forget the EU! Our leaders truly showed who they are during this whole mess. And also somewhat china for being so inert and silent. no powerful country seems to want to support the palestinians...
Yeah, macron wants to pull a Napoleon on Russia, but literally no one in the eu cares enough to fix Britain's messes
Having heard the roundabout ways in which the media talks about this subject, it was startling to hear you talk about in such a direct way. Thank you for this video.
Have been watching yout channel since 2020, this is one of the best videos in a while great job
This is such an incredible video. This needs to be shown to every single person in North America, at minimum.
As PragerU once said:"Socialism is based!"
That PragerU said it just inherently makes me doubt that it's true. Just kidding, of course. In what context was that said, because I'd be surprised that Dennis Prager knew how to use "based" correctly.
@@supremefenix974 words got left out of that sentence, you know, to make fun of them. in one of their hack anti-socialist vids. they got half-quoted to make them more correct and to make it funny. i know this because i am online too much.
@@octavianprime3124 Well I appreciate your service.
Oh Yeah, mx prager in a ytp is just as hilarious as ever
Please move to a socialist country
The gray zone wrote what the intercept wrote a month before the intercept
And Electronic Intifada a few weeks before Grayzone, so what? Do you always repeat what they tell you in their butthurt videos?
@Banelion001 I read the report didn't watch a video. Sorry bringing up Grayzone made you lash out. Hope you've had time to get through that.
This video needs to be seen by everyone
Thank you for making this video specifically! It explains so much I have been able to explain to people. I have shared this with so many!
I recommend reading "Understanding Power" by Noam Chomsky. There is a good amount of info on how media operates in the US and manipulate information/propaganda to match interest of big corporations.
Noam Chomsky was on the Epstein List so no
Problem is, Chomsky is a more libertarian socialist than an authoritarian socialist.
"Manufacturing Consent" is another good read (by Chomsky & Herman).
@@bootstraphan6204yes, it's fantastic. I think more relevant to this topic.
Also the lecture series Necessary Illusions which is available on YT.
@@PL45VYR I think he identifies as an..."anarcho-syndicalist"? Which I think is basically the same thing.
But being against "imperialsim" AND a centrally planned economy where the means of production are controlled and managed for the benefit of the many... are a contradiction in ideologies where the refutation / negation of the second one leads to the first one's inevitable occurrence.
Everything happens as Antonio Gramsci described in Prisons Notes.
Thank you for the information. I will have to do research on him. While I am not a Marxist myself I deeply appreciate the Marxist viewpoint and consider them essential reading.
@@josephbelisle5792
I didn't read his book,but only some reviews which describe his idea of Hegemony.
Good work brother.
Ur message is powerful…love from Texas !
Thank you for this video
One of the many reasons I don’t watch the news, but not the main one.
Mental health is more important than ‘staying informed’
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn't hear, doesn't speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn't know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. (Bertold Brecht)
Yeah. Being constantly overwhelmed by bad news, horror news can get us mental breakdance. It's out of our control
@@freepalestine7687One who doesn't watch the news is uninformed. One who does watch the news is misinformed. The former is, I think, the lesser evil.
Many familymembers of mine (I live in a christian household) are uncritically pro-Isreal. I tried explaining many times that Isreal is commiting war-crimes but they just say that I have been ‘indoctrinated’ (the irony, I know). Does anyone have advise on how to convince them? PS: great video as always JT!
Palestinian Christians. Look up Munther Isaac. He’s a Palestinian Evangelical Lutheran pastor in the West Bank (Bethlehem) who has some great content on RUclips and a some really good books. He definitely challenges the pro Israel Evangelicals and I’m all for it :)
Show them video of palestinian christians
It's not the eyes which are blind, but the hearts.
- Qur'an
Qur'an also mentions how Christians fight each other as bitter enemies until the day of judgement. Could this explain why many Christians of the core have no care about what is happening to Christians in the periphery?
I'm so grateful to have found your channel. All my life, I haven't been surrounded by like-minded individuals in my family & you always nail the information down.
Thank you thank you thank you for breaking down these headlines. Wording and language matters SO much more than I think a lot of people realize.
Thank you for doing this service of real journalism , don't ever stop. Humanity needs this to survive.
The truth is relentless,keep fighting the good fight .thank you jt
I almost gave up hope and felt useless, thanks for the constructive optimism, I am checking out the org links right now! God bless you and look forward to supporting you as often as I can
Well put. Thank you for this video you guys put together. You guys gotta get more Patreons. I hope this grows into something the rest of the world gets to see
Waking up to a JT video is the best. Only downside is I have to wait to watch it on company time. Love you so much my man!
More like an upside🗿
I’m gonna send this video to my highschool journalism class!!! love you dearly jt
Just tell your HS journalism class to do extensive research and credit the right sources.
Tell the students that in this video, The Intercept is credited for debunking the Oct 7th rape narrative instead of The Grayzone who debunked the story a month before The Intercept.
Thank you for spreading the truth ❤
Beautiful work ❤
This is a fantastic and valuable video. I’m semi-media literate but could never have broken down the media bias/obfuscation to this level without your guiding steps. Thank you!!
Ronnie Raygun helped to consolidate media, but as most things that are horrible can be tracked back to the clown.
I love this nickname 🙏
Keep in mind that raygun was the salesman they hired to sell these ideas to the public. The goals and system had already been established over the previous ~30 years.
Clinton went full scale on consolidating the media.
Clinton went full scale on consolidating the media.
Great Man garbage...@@rickb3650
Uber is about completley consuming YOUR car in 2 years, while they pay YOU minimum wage
This is quite an eye-opening video. Corporate media has always manipulated you. They generate a narrative for their stockholders and investors. Business as usual, no matter the immense amount of death and destruction involved.
This means TV initiative is great! Shout-out from a Comrade of the PCB-RR in Brazil!
Hey comrade, are there any efforts to reunite both communist parties in Brazil? I’m curious
To coin a phrase... "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
Excellent work! Thank you! Sharing and sharing and sharing!
Appreciate the consistent tie-ins to the current Palestinian genocide in your recent content - thank you for making these videos
No one is free until we are all free, history is rhyming before our very eyes.
Another great job, JT! I'm so happy to see you on Sabby Sabs' show, I've been sending her your videos for months. :) It was awesome to learn more about you there.
Great work, Hello from Greece !
Omfg this is the best way to start my Fridayyyyy
The worst for me.
Really? I love this channel for opening people’s eyes, but not sure how any of this cannot give people the feeling the world is crumbling to pieces.
I’ve been predicting the headlines from Gaza ever since Oct 7, just because channels like this taught me exactly how things shake out.
But the only way any of this changes is if the majority stand up and say enough is enough. But as of right now, I doubt 0.01% of the population of world has any idea how badly they are being manipulated. At this rate, the world will be a smoldering cinder before enough people wake up to what reality is.
If you aren’t paying attention you’ll allow anyone to tell you anything and you’ll make it your duty to believe it.
there's a guy i went to high school with, he was a immigrant from congo. one day at res his housemates "pranked" him by waking him up flashing a flashlight to his face & let me tell you if you've never seen someone with ptsd from war ten you won't understand the terror he had at that moment. i shudder to think what the children of gaza will carry with them for the rest of their lives. and their not alone in this, congo, ethiopia, are undergoing an unseen war as we speak ...
Thanks as always, JT ❤❤❤
Fantastic video
I haven't heard anything at all about the Flour massacre. Hopefully YT doesn't demonitize or shadow ban this video