3 Corporate Media Gimmicks About Ukraine That You Should Absolutely Ignore

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The Federalist

For much of the corrupt media, the situation in Ukraine is an opportunity to romanticize foreign conflict and signal their virtue.

Eddie Scarry

March 21, 2022

For much of the national news media, the situation in Ukraine isn’t about a deadly war involving a dangerous nuclear power so much as an opportunity to romanticize foreign conflict and signal their virtue.

That’s why it’s best to ignore a lot of what the media are saying, lest we find ourselves needlessly and irreversibly entangled in another costly, unwinnable struggle. Pro-war columnists and cable news people on the left and right are as excited as ever to push America to “do more” for Ukraine, even if it does nothing to advance our own national interests.

 

Avoiding that kind of manipulation isn’t hard if you simply ignore these three things:

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Actually I take everything I see on Corporate Media on this (like so many subjects) with a large Grain Of Salt.