CNN ‘War Correspondent’ Clarissa Ward accidentally explained why the public is confused about what the corporate media are saying about the Ukraine war with Russia, compared to what is actually visible about the Ukraine war with Russia.
During a segment with Brian Stelter, Ms Ward explained how CNN war corresponding in Ukraine consists of talking about material provided to her by CNN production crews who sit and scour through YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and social media posts to find the input material for their stories.
Clarissa Ward didn’t mean to expose how the propaganda of modern warfare is created, but she did.
Ward was thanking the people in the background of CNN who search social media for their Ukraine content; however, in talking about what they do, she affirmed what we already knew was taking place.
People wondering why there is no visible ‘fight’ in this war, now find the baseline which Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh was talking about last week. The State Department, intelligence community and political participants in the U.S. government are constructing the “war” against Vladimir Putin through the prism of social likeability as a cultural weapon.
When the goal is to produce content that tells the “better story,” social media becomes the battlefield. War corresponding is reduced to using the corporate media platform to enhance the social media battlefield. Essentially you might call this “World War Reddit.”
The CNN war correspondent doesn’t even need to be in Ukraine, except for the fact they need some form of geographical context to create the credibility. The actual content of Ukraine material for the broadcast can just as easily be assembled in New York, California or mom’s basement in Illinois.
The social media content extracted by CNN workers, stationed anywhere, is then transmitted to the network producers who assemble the material, and a “war correspondent’ puts on a helmet and appears live on camera in Ukraine to discuss it.
This is modern journalism, aka propaganda creation, aka narrative engineering, and why there’s a lack of actual evidence for anything being attributed to the narrative surrounding the war between Ukraine and Russia. WATCH:
>> @ClarissaWard describes how CNN staffers have been "combing exhaustively through all of the social media footage" from Ukraine and Russia, working to geolocate it and "place it in its appropriate context…" pic.twitter.com/IMv4DIGs6t
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 27, 2022
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“meta” media..
yes, this is where “reporting” and the experience of “news” is headed.
put on your virtual reality googles.
and sit back and enjoy the show.
This has also been happening for years on the local news broadcasts. Unless an event happens that will be big enough to draw a lot of attention to the tube or clicks, they use FakeBook and social media posts to generate stories instead of investigative journalism on local topics. If nothing is happening big in the social media realm locally they run national wire or Entertainment Tonight type stories to fill air time. The people calling the shots found an entertainment model that works instead of real news. They condition the public frogs in the slowly simmering pot, then fake and propagandize the delivery of what their slave masters want them to sell to the public. They use low cost news readers and personalities with no values or morals to complete the sale for a paycheck and the local fame they receive from fawning fans. It’s all BS.
The only things worth watching on local news channels are the weather chicks. I can usually forecast what happens next – a 100% chance of a cold shower.
There’s an app for that.
Too many of the “reporters” who do the work never leave their cubicles.
They just surf the net and the social media posts to find their material.
This is what they must be teaching in journalism schools now days.
No reporters go out and talk to any one any more.
Maybe because they are so disliked they are afraid to go out and talk to people.
Dirty Laundry by the Eagles.
The #1 reason I cancelled my local newspaper subscription. They stopped reporting most local stories and when they did report a local story it was brief, bland, and lacking in detail. There were lots of national stories that were cut-and-paste from online and most of which I had already read.
And I rarely watch the local tv news either, for the reasons you mention.
It’s sad because we used to have a pretty vibrant community news system. In some ways the current situation seems purposeful. We aren’t supposed to have strong local communities and real human connections anymore.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wCpPYnAQZ74R/
Ukrainian investigators announce today the Biden family corruption related to Burisma with receipts.
Is this new? I thought Biden was indicted there awhile ago?
At the bottom of the clip is this: First published at 14:22 UTC on February 27th, 2022.
I remember seeing this news conference some while ago. No one has yet to be held accountable for the theft of Ukraine money and the graft by outside people. The Big Guy got huge payoffs and walks free,
“Be vewy, vewy quiet–I’m Wah Cowesponding ovah here!”
This person is a traitor. Everyone knows it.
Thats a PERSON? You sure?
Looks more like a corpse
U.S. Embassy Tells Americans in Russia to Leave Immediately
“while outbound flights remain available”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/27/u-s-embassy-tells-americans-russia-leave-immediately/
Typically, wartime news reporters are to be found in one of two places: (1) at larger, main combatant headquarters where groups of newsmen are briefed by uniformed military as to what is going on, and (2) accompanying the forward deployed forces who are fighting or about to fight.
Anytime you see or hear reports from so-called war correspondents who are reporting from some place other than (1) or (2) above – be very skeptical of their spiel.
No one has yet produced a photo or video showing any Russian aircraft being shot down – despite the fact that high performance fighters have gunsight cameras and that every other soldier deploys with his personal cell phone with camera and, sometimes, video capability. Incredible that there aren’t hundreds of authentic, live-action images flooding the web!
I point this out to people who seem to think they know what is going on in Ukraine. So plainly obvious to me. This “war” is not being covered by anyone.
If it is being covered – then the kinds of news one would expect to see coming out of Ukraine is being suppressed. Example: sources are crediting the Ukraine military with knocking out somewhere between 30 – 100 Russian tanks. I’ve seen one photo of a tank on fire – and I couldn’t tell if that tank was Russian or Ukrainian. The U.S. has got military boots on the ground in one shape, form, or another to actually see what is going on. I haven’t heard one bit from any official source that would buttress the narrative the western media is pushing.
The Reality War
Welcome to the Metaverse!
“Journalists” in search of a war. Dont they embed themselves anymore? The only thing Ive seen of anything warlike, were the flashes on the evening horizon from somewhere at the outset of this, which could have been anywhere. One things for certain: there are no good guys here.
Didn’t work out so well for Girardo, that embedding thing,…lol.
“We’re 3 cliks NE of the small village of gobsmacked, in NE Iraq.”
“You idiot,..you just broadcast our positiin to the enemy. No problem, we’re moving out, but no room for you. See ya later, a-hole!”
Lol.
Is she standing in front of a green screen?
Weapon-Of-Mass-Distraction :
Do not look at the following — USA Border invasion , inflation/ economy , gas – food price hikes , and the big one…… The Peoples CONVOY to end the Vaxx Mandate Madness.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6299099588001
THIS ^^^
OMG, at about the 1:36 or so mark that leads into his sigh made me laugh so hard. I watched it 5 times. Just hilarious. Bless his heart for having to deal w/the Rooster Head. That was just great!
Notice how Putin is always “Former KGB Putin”?
But Poppa Bush wasn’t “Former CIA Director Bush”.
McGregor just lost his Fox contract, for sure. And he knew he would, surprised he managed to get two spots.
Andrew Fox : “Quite understandable that Ukraine is getting the media coverage.
But it’s really taking a turn for worse in Kabul this weekend. The Taliban are sealing off the city district by district and methodically searching every house. Those they seize are being tortured and ransomed. 1/”
They crossed Obama by helping America.
So they’re … telling the story? They’re imitating the native Americans who had no written alphabet, and no written history … but told stories … handed down with perfect clarity of detail (right?) from generation to generation … because that’s now considered superior to Western civilization…
No, now the story changes on a dime, like Covid.
“World War Reddit”
Exactly. Go over to Reddit and see how everything is so over the top with #WeAreUkraine that there are now memes making fun of the volume of the BS on their front page.
Propaganda has been a critical part of warfare since the first battle ever fought. Do you imagine it is any less intensely pursued by the Russians? Despite all the confusion, one thing is clear — NO decent person could support Vladimir Putin. He is a mass murderer and the aspiring Hitler of our age.
Nope. As an AI Computer is self programming, which is equated with self LEARNING, really need to work more on picking screen names.
So, go back and try it, AGAIN.
So, CNN is nothing more, no different from, the re-streamers on Twitch, and the twitch streamers do it with a n old laptop and an iphone. The live streamers and restreamers invented citizen journalism during the riots in the summer of 2020. CNN, unable to compete, has come up with a pale imitation of the real thing. No wonder no one watches CNN, when my favorite re-streamers each have 4 – 6 live feeds from Ukraine going at the same time in a split screen.
citizenfreepress appears to have more video clips than there’s time to watch.
Actual video clips of what’s on the ground, too. Kane, who runs it, seems particular about what he posts – probably not as meticulous as sundance but very good.
Its the old fashioned principle of free market, as it USED to apply to media.
The restreamers know that they will only keep their viewership up, if they diligently and meticulously post truth.
Likewise the live streamers they are posting..
Otherwise, they lose viewership and monetisation; just the way its SUPPOSED to work, and USED to work.
Still amases me that you-boob doesn’t block these truth tellers, both with CanadaConvoy and now Ukraine.
Just turned off the WGN 9pm news in Chicago. All I wanted was this week’s weather forecast. Instead I got non stop bashing of Putin by every Demrat commissar in Illinois including Chicago Mayor Groot, Governor JB “freddie” Flintstone and not to be outdone, the Catholic Cardinal Stupic of Chicago plus (finally) Mitt Romney and more lies regarding Trump calling Putin “smart” at CPAC (I believe Trump actually said shrewd but what’s another lie to the MSM). Continuous non stop pushing the narrative of evil Putin and/or evil Trump. Endless Lies. I cannot help think that “the enemy (Putin) of my enemy (All dems & RINOs) is my ally.”
Isn’t Stupic part of the Velvet Mafia? Or is that Kupic?
His name is Cardinal Blase Cupich – I wrote Stupich as in stupid. He’s the wokest of the woke. No friend of Cardinal Pagano I’m sure. I hope he rescinds the ridiculous mandatory mask requirement tomorrow.
I always check Weather Nation on Twitter…I am lurker..
What have I been seeing since all this began in all the threads-tweets about Ukraine.
It’s beyond ridiculous!
and the saddest part is,
wgn is slightly less obnoxious than the rest of the chicago pravda.
just no where to turn – except off!
CNN “journalists” look like a bunch of bungling fools now. There just is no way back for this network.
That’s how we get stories about Ukrainian soldiers rescuing a freezing puppy.
Wow. Maybe the animal trainer in Wag the Dog finally got somebody to use the Lahsa Apso he kept pushing…
The problem with “pseudo-reality” is that at some point “reality” intrudes into focus and the narrative goes away.
They say, “Facts don’t matter”… but when the barrel of a gun is pointed you, “Facts DO matter”.
Give it a week and this will blow…. and Putin must be laughing.. think of all the weapons NATO wants to send his way.
“[T]hink of all the weapons NATO wants to send his way.”
It would equal or surpass what was left behind in Afghanistan.
If I may quote Ayn Rand,
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. “
Then again, it is kinda hard to embed American journalists with American troops when there are no American troops there.
Surely Col. Vindmam would courageously agree to escort some camera crew up to the front lines?
The “news” is fake & we here on CTH have known that for a long time. I feel for Ukrainian people ( my grandparents came to Ellis island from Ukraine early 1900’s.) But I hate to say this is a manufactured “war”.
They are still falling for the Nato to save them BS, when they actually align closer to Russia. All they had to do was not entertain Nato . They are brainwashed with our fake news though.
Sundance gets a nice reference over at Gates of Vienna. There are also a couple of interesting articles linked within this article that drive home the complexity of this whole mess on the ground there.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/02/a-tar-baby-for-political-commentators/
Also excellent: The Bad War | Gates of Vienna
The author said “He didn’t want to be used as a conduit for disinformation.” Now imagine those words coming from the totalitarian left. Not a chance in hell.
Sanjac posted this link earlier and it is intriguing –
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/02/24/us-bioweapons-labs-in-ukraine-what-will-russia-find-in-the-labs/
If the next bioweapon was to be unleashed and you had Intel where it was and you had the means….. And if you were the Country who was responsible for creating it and planning to unleash it, you’d probably mount a huge discredit psyop offense against the Country who was trying to derail your plan, maybe even suggest there could be nuclear war. Just things to wonder about.
Not unlike the time Hillary’s incompetent bumbling in Benghazi necessitated creating a narrative absolving her of culpability and they found some obscure video on UToob made by an idiot they could scapegoat.
I remember that!
I am beginning to think maybe when Hillary was in school she bumped her head on the bottom of her desk during Russian air raid drills too many times.
The hate for Russia was maybe literally pounded into her head.
Nah….she was probably born that way.
When HER reset button launched a dud … SHE became the sworn enemy of Russia …
May have been another behavior she was involved in, that had her bumping her head repeatedly on the bottom if desk tops,…jus sayin
I was just gonna’ say it myself…
Bengazi- State Dept/CIA
Ukraine- State Dept/CIA
Haiti- State Dept/CIA
Billions of dollars funneled thru dem connected NGO’s.
Billions missing without anybody looking for it.
It’s just gone!
All connected to the Hag.
the only good communist is a dea…..
That would pretty much wipe out all of the Dimwod party and nearly all of the rinos
Whats u mean ‘nearly’?
Only good RINO, is an extinct Rino.
dead communist
don’t be afraid to say the truth
What pompous buffoon this Bongino guy is!
Wow, that interview got cut off fast.
I didn’t think Bongino’s questions nor any comments he made were pompous or buffoonish.
He said at the outset that he understood Colonel MacGregor has a different POV and invited him to share it.
I’d like to hear and see more interviewers do the same…on all issues.
The CPP is winning coutesy of its US politician agents like Biden.
The near total isolation of Russia means the economic absorption of Russia has begun.
Billions routed through Hunter, Feinstein, Pelosi etc have been great investments.
Yeah, the China BS is completely out of the media. That is Biden and Hillary’s checkmate.
I’ve watched Wag the Dog twice this week now (the movie).
It appears that if I’d been watching Pravda media I’d have seen the sequel, now an extended TV series…
Try network, its closer to the current truth, in some ways.
I know I really AM “Mad as Hell, and not gonna take it any more”!
And I see the PEOPLES CONVOY is 40 miles long, in Oklahoma and getting a lot of assistance from State troopers.
Textbook Example : Feb 26 by Andy Ngo – @MrAndyNgo
Biased reporters of NY Times , Guardian Aus , and ANC news fell for a hoax that the Proud Boys were going in to help Putin. Their ‘ evidence ‘ was a 2018 you-tube video.
click.
Tell them Q-anon is parachuting into Eastern Ukraine, to run a psy-op operation, telling zelenskis people to “trust the plan”!
And Mike Lindell is dropping pillows in by little baby parachutes.
Col Doug MacGregor a treeper in disguise :)?
Anyone who holds to truth and is well informed could be mistaken for a treeper.
Remember how cnn was filming a.o. (pworko) Cortez showed her standing at the southern border making it looked like it was running endlessly when in fact it only ran 2 or 3 feet past where she andvher scummy swine buddies stood!!
How about when a cnn cameraman was filming black scum dies not matter burning a city and the cnn lying dog was lying about the coverage blaming innocent non scum!!
And there was also the time in London, England when cnn was staging muslum women lying about being verbally abused but as with all of the above they were exposed by other media showing their outright fraud!!
Also, let us not forget how when PresidentbTrump was busy keeping us safe and out of war- cnn, ms – dnc, abc, cbs, nbc got caught outright lying.
Also the ny slimes, wapo, lavtimes, boston globe, etc all radical lib lying, slanderous and libel generating spin generators of fake, phoney and fradulant “fake” news lies. So much so just as fast as they put out their total lies they had to print retraction after total lies!!
And then we have black racist scum like joy reid, the view and do forth and so on!! Also other rabble rousing liars, cheats, thieves and frauds such as brian williams, stephanopoulos (an epstein and clinton bff piece of filth). And the likes of dana bash and the other piece of slime females such as that one piece of crud who was g.w. bush’s female press secretary on nbc and cnn!!
Western media is already as culpable or more so than Putin. Ditto if things should escalate. At some point a price is going to be paid for all this dishonesty.
I have been trying to locate credible sites to find out what is really happening on the ground. – The fake crap is too much. I never thought I would say this, but for the first time in 6 years I actually changed the channel from Fox News to CNN.
I miss Baghdad Bob!
(/s)
In other words, they are reporting in the comfort of their hotel rooms. Waiting for their pay master’s instructions what is the narrative/ propaganda for today.
“Clarissa Ward didn’t mean to expose how the propaganda of modern warfare is created, but she did.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
As Jimmy Dore put it, in Washington DC, if you accidentally tell the truth, that’s called a gaffe.
Likable or not, I have way more respect for Putin.
7 FAKE NEWS stories coming out of Ukraine
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/27/7-fake-news-stories-coming-out-of-ukraine/
Today, anyone with a phone and a social media account can be journalist
Actually, it seems it is the ones that ONLY have a phone and acct. that are journalists; they need viewers to monetise, and integrity in order to get viewers.
Its the ones with networks logos and titles that are urinalists.
Meanwhile, instead of taking care of America in crisis, we are forced to watch over & over the same interviews with Ukrainians & reporters on FAUX News.
I’m not trying to be insensitive to the plight of Ukrainians or Americans who cannot get out of Ukraine. But FJB went to Delaware & he’s the ONLY guy who can do anything about changing the course of Russia or Ukraine or rescuing Americans & he don’t care.
Wherever the Ho is, she is useless, along with the rest of our very stupid Uniparty House & Senate members. Hildebeast wants to blame this mess on Pres. Trump. This is all we can expect from our “media” no matter the station.
So while DC finally got the war involving Russia they always wanted, what’s happening to our peaceful convoy protest?
In Oklahoma, reportedly 40 miles long and growing.
Getting excellent help from State Police,…understandable given the Governor fired the NG Commandant over mandates,…larger crowds continue at every rally stop, and overpasses.
🤡🤣🤣🤡 😭
This “Ukrainian” video of the Putin invasion is 10 year old Palestinian “production” and the girl is yelling in Arabic. In a desert. At a soldier wearing Israeli uniform.
i lost my last hope in humanity.
And in 2019, “ABC News apologizes for saying footage from Kentucky gun range was Syria bombing” ( https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article236233163.html )
That’s another example of inaccurate reporting. ABC News played a video of guns firing in a Kentucky gun show, and said it was footage of Turkish fighters firing on Kurds in Syria.
I remember that, lol.
#MeToo
What, that doesn’t look like Ukraine in February to you?
They’re trolling social media for gore.
The lack thereof is problematic for their cause.
This is nothing new, guaranteed. They are “narrative engineers”, that is the technical term for FAKE NEWS.
“so, what do you DO?”
“oh, I’m a narrative engineer for CNN!”
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Well maybe they could repurpose pics of the riots in Seattle or Portland.
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They stand behind a green screen, that will put in video of kiev, and then grip sets off a firecracker, and ‘correspondent’ ducks, and pretends their is shooting or bombing, “off in the distance”.
Not unlike the reporter, ‘covering’ a hurricane, and a passerby walked calmly behind, as they feigned horrific wind.
Its called FAKE news, because it IS fake.
In case anyone hasn’t seen it, Glenn Greenwald did an excellent piece on the War Propaganda Machine today:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/greenwald-war-propaganda-about-ukraine-becoming-more-militaristic-authoritarian-and
“a “war correspondent’ puts on a helmet”
I saw a guy like this earlier today and tho’t how ridiculous he looked. Kinda’ dumb, like wearing a mask.
The link to this article is being blocked from being sent as a text message from my T-Mobile phone. This happened with numerous articles about covid from conservative sources from mine and other’s phones a few months ago.
LOL!! All CNN needs is a green screen. In any event, we are seeing, first hand, the extent of propaganda in our western news systems. Actual footage on the ground, from Ukraine, shows an entirely different picture as to what is going on there. It is NOTHING like what you are hearing on MSM.
CNN is NO what nothing But Fake news channel’s.
CNN is NO matter what nothing But fake news channel.