"They should realize that a Government which has decided on embarking on the hazardous and terrible enterprise of war must at the outset present a one-sided case in justification of its action, and cannot afford to admit in any particular whatever the smallest degree of right or reason on the part of the people it has made up its mind to fight. Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed and a picture presented which by its crude colouring will persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question. A moment's reflection would tell any reasonable person that such obvious bias cannot possibly represent the truth. But the moment's. reflection is not allowed; lies are circulated with great rapidity. The unthinking mass accept them and by their excitement sway the rest. The amount of rubbish and humbug that pass under the name of patriotism in war-time in all countries is sufficient to make decent people blush when they are subsequently disillusioned." - Ponsonby
This was penned in 1929, almost a century ago.
"Plus ├зa change, plus c'est la m├кme chose" - The more things change, the more they stay the same eh?
Every utterance regarding Ukraine has been a lie from the legacy press. Not one bit of truth to be had.
Check out, "Falsehood In Wartime" by a British MP named Arthur Ponsonby where he details the many lies told, and believed by most, during WWI.
Link is here: http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t050824i/ponsonby.pdf
"They should realize that a Government which has decided on embarking on the hazardous and terrible enterprise of war must at the outset present a one-sided case in justification of its action, and cannot afford to admit in any particular whatever the smallest degree of right or reason on the part of the people it has made up its mind to fight. Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed and a picture presented which by its crude colouring will persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question. A moment's reflection would tell any reasonable person that such obvious bias cannot possibly represent the truth. But the moment's. reflection is not allowed; lies are circulated with great rapidity. The unthinking mass accept them and by their excitement sway the rest. The amount of rubbish and humbug that pass under the name of patriotism in war-time in all countries is sufficient to make decent people blush when they are subsequently disillusioned." - Ponsonby
This was penned in 1929, almost a century ago.
"Plus ├зa change, plus c'est la m├кme chose" - The more things change, the more they stay the same eh?
тАЬ Wag The DogтАЭ.
Yes, thanks, I make that point often.