Monday, May 16, 2011

CBC Searches Further Afield for Dreaded "Hidden Agenda"

Seriously. You can't make this stuff up.

Half-truths and hidden agendas in bin Laden narrative

"Narrative". That's one of leftydom's favourite code words. They speak the truth. Everyone else spins a "narrative", you know.
"When President Barack Obama gave the word to launch Operation Neptune Spear, the daring assault on Osama bin Laden's compound, there were actually two combined operations set in motion.

We've heard much about the first, the Navy SEALs' raid to eliminate bin Laden; almost nothing about the second.

The second was the use of what the White House and Pentagon call "Strategic Communications," a PR strategy to dominate the narrative of an event for broad political aims worldwide."
Oh, CBC. What would we do without you? We plebeians would never be able to figure that out. No siree.
"I'm not critical of the raid itself, which I believe was masterfully directed. But I do have concerns about the current trend toward what is being called the "operationalization of information."

As we saw when a number of false, or at best half-true, statements poured out of the White House in that first day of the bin Laden drama, we now must parse news statements from supposedly authoritative sources with ever greater care for hidden agendas.

Forget traditional government PR, this is a much more muscular doctrine to combine many pointed information flows into a very solid arm of U.S. policy."
Oh come on Brian. You're about the same age as I am. You know better than that. There's nothing new about governments putting spin on things, especially during times of war. What you're really upset about is that you have to work extra hard to get the evidence you need to support your "narrative". Too bad, so sad. The laugh is on you. CBC has become a joke.

For example:

Canada offered to aid Iraq invasion: WikiLeaks

This is news? I knew that years ago. Where were you, CBC? Maybe something like this would have been a better headline: "Wikileaks digs up old news: Yawn"

Or "Epic fail: CBC lets Wikileaks do their work for them".

Why are we giving CBC a billion+ $CDN a year?

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