{"id":2071713,"date":"2023-10-18T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corporate-media-are-waging-an-information-war-regurgitating-hamas-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T13:11:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:11:08","slug":"corporate-media-are-waging-an-information-war-regurgitating-hamas-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corporate-media-are-waging-an-information-war-regurgitating-hamas-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate media propagate Hamas propaganda in an information war."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcorporate-media-are-waging-an-information-war-regurgitating-hamas-propaganda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2071713&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Media Manipulation: The Dangerous Consequences<\/h2>\n<p>It all happened rather quickly on Tuesday \u2014 a matter of minutes, not hours. There was an\u200b explosion at\u200c a hospital in Gaza, the Hamas-run health\u200c ministry immediately \u200d(and incredibly) claimed that some 500 people\u200b were killed and that the blast was caused by an Israeli missile, and every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-he-guilty-of-sexual-misconduct-depends-on-his-political-party\/\" title=\"Is He Guilty Of Sexual Misconduct? Depends On His Political Party.\">major media outlet<\/a> took Hamas officials at their word and ran with\u2064 that headline\u200c despite any corroborating evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Before changing the\u2062 headline (twice) The New York Times declared, &#8220;Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds\u2062 in Hospital, Palestinians Say.&#8221; The\u200c Wall Street Journal also \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestinians\/card\/israeli-airstrike-on-gaza-hospital-kills-more-than-500-palestinian-officials-say-DKc9c0h29kJ8ymqK30EV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> it\u2063 a\u2064 &#8220;strike,&#8221; without any \u2063evidence beyond the say-so of a terrorist regime that 10 days earlier had \u2063butchered more than 1,000\u200d civilians, raping women and \u200ddecapitating babies. Nearly every\u200c major \u2062news organization did something similar.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Spreading Falsehoods: The Power of Misinformation<\/h3>\n<p>By nightfall in the\u2064 Middle \u200bEast, angry mobs assaulted the embassies and \u200bmilitary bases of Israel, the United \u2063States, and other Western powers.\u200c The streets of Baghdad,\u2063 Istanbul, Beirut, \u2064Amman, Doha, Tehran, Cairo, Rabat,\u2064 and\u2063 even some European\u200c cities like Berlin and \u200cBarcelona were <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/robbystarbuck\/status\/1714464572025749999?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filled with hordes of enraged Hamas sympathizers<\/a> who believed (and now will always believe) \u200cthat Israel struck \u2064the hospital. The fake \u2064news cycle\u2064 even derailed President Biden\u2019s trip to the region. \u200dJordan abruptly canceled a planned summit with the United States, Egypt, and \u200cPalestinian \u2063leaders while Biden was en route. It also placed American lives \u200bin real danger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By Wednesday morning, it was clear that nothing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-j-d-vance-make-the-left-suffer-real-consequences\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 J.D. Vance: Make the Left Suffer \u2019Real Consequences\u2019\">media initially reported<\/a> \u200bwas true. \u200bIsrael didn\u2019t fire a\u2063 missile at the \u2063hospital, and\u200c hundreds of people weren\u2019t killed. Instead, it appears that\u200b a Palestinian rocket misfired and landed in the parking lot of the hospital complex. In the\u2062 light of day, video \u2062footage of the site \u200dshowed <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1714660115012637080?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no impact crater \u200dconsistent with an airstrike<\/a>, and most of the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corporate-media-are-waging-an-information-war-regurgitating-hamas-propaganda\/\" title=\"Corporate media propagate Hamas propaganda in an information war.\">nearby\u200c hospital buildings\u200c intact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what happened\u2064 here? This was an info\u2063 op, a \u2062deliberate\u200d campaign to\u200d alter the narrative of the Israel-Hamas war and inflame \u2063the Muslim \u200bworld. Perhaps a billion people or more are now convinced beyond\u200c all doubt that\u2064 Israel bombed \u200ba hospital and killed\u200c hundreds of Palestinian civilians.<\/p>\n<p>We \u2062have seen this \u2063kind of op before, many\u2062 times. In every case, it\u2019s designed to \u200bserve \u200dthe domestic interests\u200c of\u200b the\u2064 progressive left. In this case,\u2064 the purpose \u200bwas \u200bto constrain Israel\u2019s \u2064response to last weekend\u2019s horrific Hamas \u200cattacks on\u200b innocent Israeli\u200b civilians. \u2064That,\u200c by the way, is the actual purpose of Biden\u2019s \u200btrip to the Middle East, where he\u2019ll \u200cbe\u200d &#8220;asking tough questions as a friend\u2063 of Israel,&#8221;\u200d according to the administration. \u2062Translation: Israel \u2064is to stand\u2064 down now. The\u200d credible\u2063 threat of unconstrained \u2062mob\u200c violence across the Middle East, directed at\u2062 Western\u2064 targets, will\u2064 do much to advance this goal. Indeed \u2063it already has.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Manipulation Continues: A Pattern of Deception<\/h3>\n<p>We saw a similar media info op in the Ukraine-Russia war last \u2064November when a missile\u200d struck a\u2063 grain silo in Poland, killing two \u200ccivilians. The missile strike was\u200c immediately blamed on Russia,\u200d stoking outrage across the\u2064 West and bolstering\u200c calls for more \u2064military assistance to Ukraine. It\u200d wasn\u2019t until last month that \u200bPolish\u2063 experts finally confirmed\u2062 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/polish-experts-confirm-missile-that-hit-grain-facility-was-ukrainian-media-2023-09-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the missile\u2063 was Ukrainian, not Russian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u200dsame thing routinely happens here in America. During \u2063the \u2062Black Lives Matter riots\u200c in \u200dthe \u2064summer of 2020, hysteria and outrage preceded\u2064 the collection of facts or the verification of claims. In episode after episode \u2062that\u200c summer, we saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cook-county-states-attorney-kim-foxx-releases-do-not-call-list-of-unreliable-police-officers\/\" title=\"Kim Foxx, Cook County State's Attorney, shares 'Do Not Call' list of untrustworthy cops.\">law\u200b enforcement officers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beaten-black-and-blue-being-a-black-cop-in-an-america-under-siege\/\" title=\"Beaten Black And Blue: Being A Black Cop In An America Under Siege\">including black officers<\/a>, use justified force in the \u200cline of duty \u2014 often amid chaotic \u2063and violent rioting. Such\u200d force was then instantly \u200dused as a pretext for more rioting. Then as now, it didn\u2019t matter what \u200bthe facts were, and no one cared\u200c or even noticed when they were corrected.\u2064 The misreporting by then had served\u200d its purpose of\u200c providing \u200bcover for a fresh cycle of street violence and rioting.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to understand that \u2063these\u2062 media\u200c info ops \u200donly \u200bhappen on\u2064 issues where the\u2062 reporting \u2064biases\u2064 serve the domestic \u200dpolitical priorities of the left. From Ukraine to Gaza to the streets of American cities, the reporting bias works in the same direction and serves the\u200b same set\u200c of interests. The connections and affinity between BLM activists and the pro-Palestinian\u200b crowd\u200c in the U.S. should be fairly \u2063obvious by now,\u200c and we should understand these\u200b media\u200c ops in that light.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the stakes of\u200b such ops \u2063are rather high.\u200d Instead \u2062of mere outrage on social media, \u2062or even mere riots in \u200cthe streets, corporate media\u2064 misreporting about the hospital fueled violent \u200cmobs across\u200d the entire Middle East, and the\u2063 Israel-Hamas conflict now appears to be on the brink\u200c of triggering a\u200b wider regional \u2062war.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Truth Behind the Manipulation<\/h3>\n<p>For \u2064those on the right, it\u2019s long past time\u2064 to understand and admit \u2063what corporate media are and how they operate. These outlets\u2064 are not interested in\u200d reporting the news of what actually happened, or in shedding light on real events, and \u2063certainly not in exposing the\u200b truth and informing the public. By repeating \u2064Hamas \u2062propaganda they are effectively \u200dwaging war against Israel, but they are doing so as part of a larger information war to advance their agenda in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And \u200bif you\u2063 think there\u2063 will\u2063 be a reckoning \u200bor any accountability for the lies they \u200cspread and the damage they cause, think again.\u200d There\u200d never has been, and there won\u2019t be this time either.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Why is media \u200bmanipulation \u2064a global issue that affects societies worldwide, and how does it exploit people&#8217;s emotions and biases<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2064Idst violent and chaotic encounters. However, the media\u200d narrative consistently presented these incidents as instances of unwarranted police brutality against innocent black\u200d individuals. This deliberate\u2063 misrepresentation fueled further \u2063unrest and division in the country, leading \u2062to widespread protests and calls \u2063for defunding \u2063the police.<\/p>\n<p>Media\u200c manipulation, whether intentional or not, has dangerous consequences. It \u2064has the power to shape\u200d public opinion, incite violence, and undermine trust in institutions. In the case \u200bof the Gaza hospital \u2063explosion, the media&#8217;s rush to report without verifying the facts led to widespread anger and anti-Israel sentiments. Innocent lives were put at risk, and diplomatic relations were strained.<\/p>\n<p>This pattern of deception is not unique to a particular country \u200bor conflict. It\u200d is a global\u2063 issue that affects societies around the\u200d world. The manipulation of information for political purposes is a tactic employed by various factions to advance\u200b their agendas. It exploits people&#8217;s emotions and biases, often\u2064 leading\u200c to unintended \u200dconsequences.<\/p>\n<p>The media plays a crucial\u200d role in informing the public and holding those in\u2064 power accountable.\u200d However, when it\u2064 succumbs to sensationalism, bias, and\u200b misinformation, it becomes a dangerous tool that perpetuates division and \u200dmistrust.<\/p>\n<p>As consumers of news, it\u200c is\u200d vital for\u2064 us to be critical and discerning. We must seek out multiple sources, cross-reference information, and question the \u2064narratives presented to us. It is\u200c only \u200cthrough an informed and vigilant citizenry that we can resist the manipulation of\u200b information.<\/p>\n<p>The responsibility also lies with media organizations and journalists to uphold the principles of integrity and accuracy in reporting. Fact-checking, impartiality, and ethical \u2063journalism are crucial\u200c in maintaining public trust and ensuring that the news\u2063 remains a reliable source of information.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, media manipulation has far-reaching and dangerous consequences. It can incite violence, distort\u200c truth, and erode trust in institutions. As consumers\u200b of news, we \u2062must be vigilant in evaluating the information\u2062 we receive, and as journalists, we must prioritize integrity and accuracy in our \u2062reporting. \u200bOnly through these collective efforts can we counteract the\u200d dangerous influence of media manipulation and preserve the integrity of information in our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>their word without verifying the information. The rush to report without fact-checking highlights the biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, perpetuating a narrative that favors one side over the other. The incident serves as a reminder of the importance of responsible journalism and the need for unbiased reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2071714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}