With the internet rife with “Fake News” –
Fake Profiles, fake comments, and fake just about everything; let’s do what an
intelligence analyst should do (that is, analyze and not just do whatever his
client pays him to do). And, the first step before collecting current
information is to understand the history. In our case, the history of
“Fake News” in USA at least, goes back to the days of WW1 (that’s World War 1)
and became mainstream, during WW2. Fake News as they are calling it, has
since then been part of an information arsenal in any ground based propaganda
campaign, even before the days of Edward Bernays. Taking the most basic first step,
let’s look at Wikipedia under the entry “Propaganda”:
The first large-scale use of propaganda by
the U.S. government came during World War I. The government enlisted the help
of citizens and children to help promote war bonds and stamps to help stimulate
the economy. To keep the prices of war supplies down (guns, gunpowder, cannons,
steel, etc.), the U.S. government produced posters that encouraged people to
reduce waste and grow their own vegetables in “victory gardens”. The public
skepticism that was generated by the heavy-handed tactics of the Committee
on Public Information would lead the postwar government to officially
abandon the use of propaganda.[1]
While they ‘abandoned’ the use of
‘Propaganda’ this later became ‘marketing’ – geniuses like Edward Bernays would
then come into play, with their understanding of psychological nuances that can
split hairs on fleas. Use of the English language in particular, combined
with hidden images in photography, and other dirty tricks, can lull any average
IQ citizen into believing whatever the campaign says. Take a look at what
“Propaganda” used to look like:
OK, it was WW1 but still, they’ve come a
long way, baby!
Today’s Propaganda is 3d in real time.
The CIA has video technology by the way, rumored to be used to make Bin
Laden videos when they knew he was dead, that could create a lifelike “Bin
Laden” or whatever character to speak and say what they type in real time in 3d
(but actually it’s broadcast on 2d, making it look all that more realistic).
This article is about Propaganda you say?
What are some “Fake News” events of the day, back in the day?
Fake News started World War 1
– “Zimmerman Telegram”
The real “Fake News” industry however,
began in Hollywood, California.. around the time of WW2 and continues to this
day. It was the epic creation of creative producers, filmed at the big
studios. One secret agreement it’s rumored:
“If you can help us fake the moon landing,
we’ll put one of yours in the White House [Ronald Reagan]” – unknown CIA agent.
The amount of Propaganda and Fake News
created by Hollywood in that time is so large, there’s an entire topic on the subject here, with many
films listed on a list “Allied Propaganda Films”. You see,
during that time, Propaganda was considered a good thing, because it was ‘good
for the country’ to ‘help people realize’ how important it was to go to war!
It wasn’t until the 60’s when the youth started to ‘tune in, drop out’
that the dark side of Propaganda was exposed for what it was. And with
all the Nazi scientists now living and working in the USA, there wasn’t any
‘evil empire’ anymore, so it was soon realized that ‘our good propaganda’ was
not much different than Hitler’s ‘evil’ propaganda except that of course, it
was in English.
Hollywood’s connection to Washington is
explained well in films
like “Wag the Dog” and we elaborated on that in this article here on Zero Hedge.
But it goes MUCH DEEPER than that. Where to begin?
In every major newsroom in America, major
meaning like the biggies like CNN not your local weather channel – there’s a
paid CIA/NSA employee sitting near the editor keeping an eye on the content.
They send out daily ‘talking points’ to journalists to include certain
‘keywords’ in their speech. This was used during the election in full
force.
In films, especially those about business,
war, the government, or rights issues – there’s always a ‘military consultant’
who is again, part of the same department, at CIA/NSA.
Have you noted recently, in Hollywood
films, and TV series – over the last few years there’s been a large amount of
“Russian/Ukrainian” villians and they’re always bad people? As 10 years
ago it was always Mussamad Bin Galafi Turban? That’s because the
Terrorist script has run it’s course, now that Bin Laden was ‘killed’ in spirit
anyway, new enemies needed to foment, and the new enemies are Russians.
Hollywood contributed more to the anti-Russian sentiment in America now
than the current ‘Fake News’ about the Russian hacking.
How it works. 90% of Americans have a
TV and watch it, even if they don’t (it’s on in the house). Maybe the
kids watch a show, or movie – there’s a Russian character who is evil,
horrible, person. He speaks with a deep, rough, raspy voice as if he just
finished his third pack of smokes for the day, hasn’t shaven, and uses foul
language. It’s a character anyone would hate! And truely, the
character is portrayed as a terrible person, people should hate him. That’s
how Television “Programming” works. So then weeks later, on CNN they
broadcast “Russia Hacks the DNC” and the unsuspecting parent, not consciously
knowing what is going on in their subconscious mind, thinks “Oh, I know the
type, like in this film. Dirty Scoundrels!”
US animosity directed at Russia is
misdirected anger, said Larry Johnson, retired CIA and State Department
official. The propaganda plays upon the ignorance of US people, who know little
of Russia and the history of its relations with the US, he added.
From a sadistic former KGB operative in The
Avengers to the Russian evildoers in A Good Day to Die Hard, there’s certainly
been no shortage of Russian villains on screen recently. Russian politicians
and filmmakers have now made clear their displeasure with the US movie
industry’s ongoing depictions of Russian characters as villains. There has even
been the threat of a Russian boycott of Hollywood movies, highlighting the risk
studios take when they demonise a nationality.
Since 2010 alone, Russian bad guys have
appeared in such action flicks as John Wick, The Equalizer, The Amazing
Spider-Man 2, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, The November Man, A Good Day to Die
Hard, Jack Reacher, Limitless, Salt, The Drop, and The Tourist. Hell, even The
Muppets piled on with Tina Fey’s gulag guard in Muppets Most Wanted. And this
month we have two more: the Casey Affleck vehicle Triple 9, featuring the
Russian mob, and Zoolander 2, featuring what appears to be a Russian Kristen
Wiig.
It’s one year before the official ‘capture’
Fake News event regarding Bin Laden. You see, Bin Laden was like the
Villian of a big comic book story, so the Hollywood script writers knew that
there would be no replacing Bin Laden. He was just bigger than life.
So they needed to plant the seeds while they planned operation capture
& kill Bin Laden.
Connect the dots – it’s not so hard!
Hollywood, or should we call it FakeWood, has been the Prime Mover of the
“Fake News” movement.
