Archäologie (CCCIII): Western double standards
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Ukraine: Western double standards hit a new low
Media coverage of the Ukraine crisis isn’t journalism – it’s script-writing.
Mit ihrer Berichterstattung ueber die Ukraine-Krise habe die westliche Presse den Begriff "Doppelstandard" neu definiert, meint Brendan O'Neill (spiked vom 07.05.2014). Die Unterschiede bei der Beschreibung der Proteste im Westen und im Osten der Ukraine seien so offensichtlich, dass nicht laenger von Journalismus, sondern vom Bemuehen, ein Narrativ der Ereignisse zu konstruieren, die Rede sein koenne. "(...) why is the Western media being so conformist about Ukraine, unquestioningly buying Washington's and Brussels' moral script and accepting that the Kiev government is Good and all those obstinate local rulers in the east of Ukraine are Bad? They aren't being paid to parrot propaganda; government officials aren't exerting political pressure on them; yet still the Western media are remarkably samey and uncritical on Ukraine. This points to a problem that is possibly even worse than old-style official propaganda - it speaks to an organic cult of conformity in much of the Western media, where critical thinking is voluntarily sacrificed at the altar of getting a cheap thrill from being part of a mythical clash between good guys and bad guys, of a new Cold War."
Ukraine: Western double standards hit a new low
Media coverage of the Ukraine crisis isn’t journalism – it’s script-writing.
Mit ihrer Berichterstattung ueber die Ukraine-Krise habe die westliche Presse den Begriff "Doppelstandard" neu definiert, meint Brendan O'Neill (spiked vom 07.05.2014). Die Unterschiede bei der Beschreibung der Proteste im Westen und im Osten der Ukraine seien so offensichtlich, dass nicht laenger von Journalismus, sondern vom Bemuehen, ein Narrativ der Ereignisse zu konstruieren, die Rede sein koenne. "(...) why is the Western media being so conformist about Ukraine, unquestioningly buying Washington's and Brussels' moral script and accepting that the Kiev government is Good and all those obstinate local rulers in the east of Ukraine are Bad? They aren't being paid to parrot propaganda; government officials aren't exerting political pressure on them; yet still the Western media are remarkably samey and uncritical on Ukraine. This points to a problem that is possibly even worse than old-style official propaganda - it speaks to an organic cult of conformity in much of the Western media, where critical thinking is voluntarily sacrificed at the altar of getting a cheap thrill from being part of a mythical clash between good guys and bad guys, of a new Cold War."
gebattmer - 2014/05/11 17:46
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