Clipper Media Watch: Today: Media coverage of the war, Ukraine Propaganda, Stonehenge, Team Penske, Pickleball, Shanghai Disneyland
Photo: The National Trust cares for more than 800 hectares of the landscape surrounding the Stonehenge monument. Photograph: James Dobson/National Trust
21 March 2022 | James Porteous |
Today: Media coverage of the war, Ukraine Propaganda, Stonehenge, Team Penske, Pickleball, Shanghai Disneyland
1. ‘People were barefoot and running over dead bodies’
Sky News Video |20 March 2022
There is something quite unsettling about the sort of National Enquirer style news-gathering we are seeing played out in Ukraine.
I don’t mean the people involved, but the way their very-human emotions are being manipulated. Day after day.
The process has been around for ages, but using it so blatantly in daily ‘Western’ war coverage is new, I think.
These items are tightly edited in such a way to make it appear to be ‘as-live,’ as though these moments are playing out before our eyes in real time.
But of course they aren’t. They are like a house of emotional cards, each shot, each question leading to the ‘money-shot,’ meant to finally bring the subject to tears.
Along the lines of: ‘So how does it make you feel to think about your home being utterly destroyed by the bombing? Will you ever be able to go home again?’
The trust, having been built ever-so slowly with each emotional brick upon brick, finally pays off.
Tears flow now, causing distraught babies to cry even louder, while passive onlookers can only watch in horror.
It is like a human zoo, yes? Look at this suffering? Of people just like us.
Of course they are suffering. They have every right to suffer.
But they will suffer whether we see them or not. But there really is no reason for us to see such private moments played out in this way.
James Porteous | Clipper Media News
2. Propaganda 101: Ukraine 2022
Dissent | Colin Todhunter | March 19th, 2022
During 2011, NATO bombed a path to Tripoli to help its proxy forces on the ground oust Gaddafi. Tens of thousands lost their lives and much of Libya’s social fabric and infrastructure lay in ruins.
The 2016 article appearing in Foreign Policy Journal ‘Hillary Emails Reveal True Motive for Libyan Intervention’ exposed why Libya was targeted. Gaddafi was murdered and his plans to assert African independence and undermine Western hegemony on that continent were rendered obsolete.
A March 2013 Daily Telegraph article “US and Europe in ‘major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels through Zagreb’’’ reported that 3,000 tons …
3. UK Covid case numbers ‘no particular cause for concern’, says Javid
CMW: So after two years, the very people who caused everyone daily hysteria are now saying there is no ‘particular’ cause for concern. So did they lie about the severity for two years or they are lying now about the lack thereof now? No problem. Just tell everyone.
The Guardian
4. Part of the way to Stonehenge to be restored to how ancient pilgrims saw it
National Trust acquires two areas of land near monument that it will turn back into chalk grassland
Mon 21 Mar 2022 06.01 GMT
Part of a ceremonial approach to the great circle of Stonehenge and a spot nearby where ancient hunter-gatherers shared feasts with the first British farmers have been saved from the threat of modern agriculture.
The areas are to be restored as chalk grassland, which will benefit flora and fauna, including wild flowers, butterflies and hares, with the aim that they will eventually be opened to the public.
One of the areas includes a stretch of the Avenue, a route that runs 1.5 miles from the banks of the River Avon to the main Stonehenge circle.
5. Team Penske celebrates 600 wins
Marshall Pruett | March 20, 2022 | Racer
Roger Penske was alight with joy after Josef Newgarden earned the 600th win for Team Penske by claiming victory at Texas Motor Speedway’s XPEL 375. Considering all of the success spread across open-wheel, sports cars, and stock cars his teams have secured since the program was established in the late 1960s, it’s a number that will likely go unmatched.
“I’ll tell you a quick story. At the last big crew meeting we had two weeks ago at the shop, I told everybody in the shop $1,000 if we win the 600th, but only the driver that gets it gets $600 in cash, so I peeled out six $100 bills for Newgarden in the winner’s circle.”
6. The Hot New Amenity in Real Estate Developments Today
02 March 2022 | Shivani Vora | Architectural Digest
Pickleball has replaced golf as the most coveted sports amenity in luxury residential developments.
7. Shanghai Disneyland Shuts Down Amid Omicron Wave in China
20 March 2022 | Patrick Brzeski | Hollywood Reporter
Disney’s flagship theme park in China has joined thousands of local cinemas and schools in shutting its doors amid the COVID wave.
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