"The mainstream outlets report that Trump ordered the attack on Iran because Iran was an 'imminent threat to U.S. interests in the region.' Then he said Iran was an imminent threat to the United States itself. Then we are told that within a year, Iran would have had 11 nuclear weapons if Trump had not attacked with missiles and bombs and drones.
There is no proof of any of this, because proof does not matter anymore."
"According to a Zeteo analysis, the New York Times underrepresented Iranian victims in its early coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran. The Times published over 100 articles on the Iran war in its Middle East section in the first four days. Only 18 of the 103 stories Zeteo analyzed mentioned Iranian victims, compared to 29 that mentioned casualties for the US, Israel, or Gulf countries."
~ Minnah Arshad and Andrew Perez
#Trump #Iran #war #media #NewYorkTimes
/3
https://zeteo.com/p/how-media-manufactures-war-consent-iran-new-york-times-first-draft
"And most of the Times’s initial coverage also avoided noting that Trump’s war is illegal to begin with."
"One of the most disturbing aspects of all of this is how casual the media is about what is, again, a new breed of warfare. ...
This unprecedented public skepticism that I’ve called a quiet revolution has received virtually no attention in the mainstream media despite its role in fomenting the Epstein battle," (continued in /6)
~ Ken Klippenstein
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-declares-iran-war-over
"Doesn’t the fact that he is bombing the hell out of a country for no particular reason, endangering the region, and destabilizing the world make it incumbent upon you to be blunt about the problem, rather than dancing around it? Isn’t it time for clarity instead of euphemism?"
~ Dan Froomkin
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-war-makes-it-more-urgent-for
