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The War We're Finally Allowed to See

Lawrence, Patrick
http://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/01/patrick-lawrence-the-war-were-finally-allowed-to-see/

Publisher:  Consortium News
Resource Type:  Unclassified

A look at the war in Ukraine that the propaganda machine has been concealing.

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As astute readers will already know, apart from a few staged forays near the front lines -- officially controlled and monitored, never at the front lines -- correspondents from The New York Times, the other big dailies, the wire services, and the broadcast networks have accepted without protest the Kiev regime’s refusal to allow them to see the war as it is.

Content these professional slovens have been to sit in Kiev hotel rooms and file stories based on the regime’s transparently unreliable accounts of events, all the while pretending their stories are properly reported and factual.

The exceptions here are Times correspondents such as Carlotta Gall, whose Russophobia seems reliably unbalanced enough to satisfy the Kyiv regime, and the two Andrews, Higgins and Kramer, who have an exquisite talent for stories that make absolutely no sense.

It was the two Andrews, you may recall, who had the Russians shelling the nuclear power plant they occupied and, later on, bombing their own prisoner-of-war camp in eastern Ukraine.

If correspondents cannot see the war and it makes no matter to them, we will not see it either. The result, as your columnist noted a while ago, has been two wars: There is the presented, the mythical war, and the real war.

"Our current brainwashing for war is similar to that preceding other wars," John Pilger, the journalist and filmmaker, wrote in a Tweet the other day, "but never, in my experience as a war correspondent, as unrelenting or bereft of honest journalism."

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