Agreed. Its actually quite firghtening to see how much of the manioulation is purely semantic, i.e. the kind of stuff that should get analysed by a competent media organisation, but which is not.
Thus the Us talks about "spreading democracy" and this goes unchallenged; how the violent conquest of a state by force majeur in any way constitutes "the export of democracy" remains unexplained. The viewer is left a space in to which to interpolate what this actually means.
They used to say that journalism was the first draft of history, recordings of impressions before analysis. But now there is no first draft, merely repetition, on the basis that the viewer is to be left to make theiur own choice. As such, journalism no longer plays an investigative, socially valuable role.
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