Calling for an “American Ministry of Truth”. The US Media’s Dystopian “2021”
Stephen Lendman
3 February, 2021
The Times never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity for truth-telling as it should be.
It’s a notion long ago abandoned in deference to providing press agent services for powerful interests.
At the same time, the Times finds new ways to disgrace itself.
Calling for a US Ministry of Truth headed by a “reality czar” sounds ominously like what Orwell described in his dystopian “1984” novel that’s no longer fiction, saying:
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.”
“These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy.”
“They are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
Along with Big Brother mass surveillance and newspeak, Orwell’s Ministry of Truth was all about controlling the message, eliminating whatever conflicts with it, memory holes used for this purpose.
The Times and other US major media operate this way now — a collective ministry of truth as described above.
Featuring the official narrative exclusively, alternative views are filtered out and suppressed, free and open expression banned in their reports.
In “1984,” unnwanted material went down memory holes to “be whirled away (in) enormous furnaces…devoured by the flames,” said Orwell, adding:
“(T)here were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.”
In the US and West, no Orwell-style memory hole is needed, no furnaces, no ceremonial book-burnings.
Big Media in cahoots with diabolical government officials censor and eliminate truth-telling on what’s vital for everyone to know.
What Times fake news called a US “reality crisis” amounts to urging greater state-sponsored censorship than already.
What it called “the scourge of hoaxes, lies and delusions” are hard truths about US imperial wars, hazardous covid vaccines to be shunned, stolen Election 2020, unelected/cognitively impaired Biden unable to serve in any public capacity, the anti-Trump Jan. 6 Capitol Hill false flag, and other cutting-edge issues.
What the self-styled newspaper of record calls “misguided beliefs” are indisputable facts important for everyone to know.
A real “national reality crisis” exists because of Big Government in cahoots with Big Media – like the Times — serving privileged interests exclusively at the expense of most others.
It’s because of US police state totalitarian rule on a fast track toward full-blown tyranny.
It’s because the US no longer is open, free, and fair.
It’s because hardline government is the mortal enemy of ordinary people — their health, well-being, safety, and fundamental freedoms being eliminated in real time.
It’s because of US war OF terrorism, not on it, rages against ordinary people, wanting them exploited to serve privileged interests.
It’s because America is no longer safe and fit to live in for most of its people.
It’s because of the largely ignored greatest ever US Main Street Great Depression while wealth, power, and privileged interests never had things better.
It’s because media like the Times suppress what’s crucial for everyone to know.
What the Times called “violent extremism” is state-sponsored.
What it calls a “truth commission” reflects shades of “1984.”
What it calls “domestic terrorists” are FBI, CIA, DHS, local police, and other elements of oppression to cow ordinary people into submission to a diabolical higher power in Washington.
Truth-telling as it should be is polar opposite how the Times and other establishment media operate.
As a collective lying machine, truth-telling is their moral enemy, what they’re hellbent for eliminating in whatever form it shows up.
In today’s America, Big Brother mass surveillance, police state control, and ministry of truth Big Lies are part of the national fabric.
That’s the ugly reality suppressed by the Times and other Big Media.
The nation I grew up in long ago no longer exists.
Growing tyranny heading toward becoming full-blown replaced it.
That’s the ugly reality establishment media like the Times suppress — to their disgrace.
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Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
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NY Times Calls For Biden To Appoint "Reality Czar" To Fight "Misinformation"
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
In an article entitled ‘How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis’, the NYT’s Kevin Roose cites “experts” who are calling on “the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a “reality czar.”
The job of this “reality czar” would be to head up “a centralized task force could coordinate a single, strategic response” to things like COVID-related and election fraud “conspiracy theories.”
“This task force could also meet regularly with tech platforms, and push for structural changes that could help those companies tackle their own extremism and misinformation problems. (For example, it could formulate “safe harbor” exemptions that would allow platforms to share data about QAnon and other conspiracy theory communities with researchers and government agencies without running afoul of privacy laws.) And it could become the tip of the spear for the federal government’s response to the reality crisis,” states the article.
“Ah, the Ministry of Truth. I’ve been waiting for this one,” responded Raheem Kassam.
While the Orwell comparison has become something of a cliché, in this instance its the best available.
In the book, the Ministry of Truth decides what is “truth” in Oceania no matter what the actual truth may be, and exercises this monopoly over reality by falsifying the nature of historical events.
The Ministry of Truth also uses this power monopoly to redefine the very word “truth” under the rubric of Newspeak, so “truth” becomes whatever the government-approved version of events is in that moment.
What the “experts” cited by the New York Times are calling far and what Orwell portrayed in his book are so similar, even Kevin Roose admits, “It sounds a little dystopian.”
But if “conspiracy theories” really do pose a deadly threat to society, who is responsible for pushing the most egregious disinformation?
As we have exhaustively documented – the most harmful “conspiracy theories,” – such as Saddam Hussein’s non-existent WMD’s and supporting “freedom fighters” who were actually jihadists in Libya and Syria – are always exclusively peddled by the mainstream media.
The corporate press pushing these two whoppers created the consensus for war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and an international migrant crisis.
The New York Times was one of the most prominent outlets that amplified both these damaging deceptions and yet they faced no consequences whatsoever.
Such lies are also far more harmful to society because mainstream media networks have the biggest platforms, they are amplified by rigged social media platforms, and they share a common consensus narrative with each other, meaning there is almost no room for questioning or debate.
If there really was a truly independent “reality czar,” the media would be big trouble because its entire raison d’être is predicated around distorting reality.
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