BBC propaganda stunt on Syria massacre backfires.

Run_to_da_hills · 28-05-2012 04:38PM #1

Every now again again the mass media is so dishonest it gets caught out. BBC came a cropper only a few hours ago but there’s been no acknowledgement and I suspect BBC staff would like their ‘mistake’ flushed rapidly down the Memory Hole.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9293620/BBC-News-uses-Iraq-photo-to-illustrate-Syrian-massacre.html

AnamGlas · 28-05-2012 04:39PM

What, the media, lying?

christmas2012 · 28-05-2012 04:40PM

how could they confused a 2003 photo of dead iraqis with the current syria issue?

Manic Moran · 28-05-2012 04:42PM

christmas2012 wrote: »

how could they confused a 2003 photo of dead iraqis with the current syria issue?

I hadn't seen that photo before, have you?

That said, running unverified photos through image matching software probably should be considered.

Penn · 28-05-2012 04:42PM

Yeah, it's not like the BBC ever makes mistakes. It's not like they, oh... I don't know... mixed up the logo for the UN with a logo from Halo

Mistakes happen. Deal with it.

Biggins · 28-05-2012 04:42PM

christmas2012 wrote: »

how could they confused a 2003 photo of dead iraqis with the current syria issue?

For one brief moment they thought they were RTE?

They all make mistakes though really.

chin_grin · 28-05-2012 04:42PM

So the news is now about an incorrect picture of an event instead of being about the event itself? Madness.

Unavailable for Comment · 28-05-2012 04:45PM

So they used the a photo of a massacre of civilians to illustrate the wrong massacre of civilians while stating they could not verify this particular photo was of the correct massacre of civilians.

Who cares? The fact that a massacre of civilians occurred is surely what's important.

Morlar · 28-05-2012 04:46PM

Manic Moran wrote: »

I hadn't seen that photo before, have you?

That said, running unverified photos through image matching software probably should be considered.

I really would have thought they'd already do that in relation to photos submitted by so called activists. I can't help thinking that if it was in relation to British wrongdoing they'd be a little bit more careful.

Zebra3 · 28-05-2012 04:46PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Every now again again the mass media is so dishonest it gets caught out. BBC came a cropper only a few hours ago but there’s been no acknowledgement and I suspect BBC staff would like their ‘mistake’ flushed rapidly down the Memory Hole.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9293620/BBC-News-uses-Iraq-photo-to-illustrate-Syrian-massacre.html

Happened in Sept 2001 as well in the US when the shameless pro-Israeli media over there showed footage they claimed was of Palestinians celebrating the attacks in New York.

Of course the footage was old had nothing to do with what had just happened, but another way of pro-zionists trying to portray the victims of occupation as evil.

28-05-2012 04:47PM

I was listening to a radio show before christmas, i think November. It was one of those newstalk shows. They had some "expert" on from the states talking about the economy of the world etc ... He said the world is needing a war right now and dont be surprised if one is started intentionally. When asked were this war would be, he said Syria.
He mentioned the propaganda machine will start rolling, strategically placed influential people placed within the country will do their thing and eventually a war will happen.

I remember saying to my other half about putting money on this. Everything he said was correct. I think it was Moncrieff.

SeantheMan · 28-05-2012 04:51PM

Sure the BBC reported Building 7 collapsed during 9/11 before it even happened...twice !

hooradiation · 28-05-2012 04:53PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I was listening to a radio show before christmas, i think November. It was one of those newstalk shows. They had some "expert" on from the states talking about the economy of the world etc ... He said the world is needing a war right now and dont be surprised if one is started intentionally. When asked were this war would be, he said Syria.
He mentioned the propaganda machine will start rolling, strategically placed influential people placed within the country will do their thing and eventually a war will happen.

I remember saying to my other half about putting money on this. Everything he said was correct. I think it was Moncrieff.

Predict the same thing often enough and eventually you'll be 'right'.

28-05-2012 04:55PM

hooradiation wrote: »

Predict the same thing often enough and eventually you'll be 'right'.

Did he predict it before ?

RichieC · 28-05-2012 04:58PM

Nearly as bad as reporting WTC7 collapsing 20 minutes before it did.

Mr.Biscuits · 28-05-2012 05:01PM

Never mind all that, what I want to know why they pretend that there are jeans out there that can go from Blue to Black in a matter of strides??

A bloody fool I felt last week asking for pair in Guineys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dkbhorideY

hooradiation · 28-05-2012 05:27PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Did he predict it before ?

people have been making that kind of prediction since god knows when.

Redjeep! · 28-05-2012 05:44PM

Pretty bad mistake to make, but I'm not sure why it ranks as a propaganda stunt.

Chuck Stone · 28-05-2012 06:46PM

Deleted User wrote: »

He mentioned the propaganda machine will start rolling, strategically placed influential people placed within the country will do their thing and eventually a war will happen.

Standard. That's exactly what happened in the run up to Iraq 2. Watched a very interesting documentary on how the corporate media is little more than a tool of those pulling the levers behind the scenes.

Fratton Fred · 28-05-2012 07:18PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Every now again again the mass media is so dishonest it gets caught out. BBC came a cropper only a few hours ago but there’s been no acknowledgement and I suspect BBC staff would like their ‘mistake’ flushed rapidly down the Memory Hole.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9293620/BBC-News-uses-Iraq-photo-to-illustrate-Syrian-massacre.html

Deleted User wrote: »

I was listening to a radio show before christmas, i think November. It was one of those newstalk shows. They had some "expert" on from the states talking about the economy of the world etc ... He said the world is needing a war right now and dont be surprised if one is started intentionally. When asked were this war would be, he said Syria.
He mentioned the propaganda machine will start rolling, strategically placed influential people placed within the country will do their thing and eventually a war will happen.

I remember saying to my other half about putting money on this. Everything he said was correct. I think it was Moncrieff.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Standard. That's exactly what happened in the run up to Iraq 2. Watched a very interesting documentary on how the corporate media is little more than a tool of those pulling the levers behind the scenes.

so are the three of you claiming the massacre didn't take place and that the whole thing about 10,000 civilians killed by the Syrian authorities is just the west creating propaganda in the run up to an invasion?

seriously?

Lone Stone · 28-05-2012 07:32PM

Propaganda machine in full swing.

Run_to_da_hills · 28-05-2012 07:35PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

so are the three of you claiming the massacre didn't take place and that the whole thing about 10,000 civilians killed by the Syrian authorities is just the west creating propaganda in the run up to an invasion?

seriously?

Yes I do believe that this is a part of a well organised Zionist propaganda machine with a far greater agenda ahead of it.

Fratton Fred · 28-05-2012 07:37PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Yes I do believe that this is a part of a well organised Zionist propaganda machine with a far greater agenda ahead of it.

so who killed 56 people in Syria then? or did it simply not happen?

tiger55 · 28-05-2012 07:43PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Every now again again the mass media is so dishonest it gets caught out. BBC came a cropper only a few hours ago but there’s been no acknowledgement and I suspect BBC staff would like their ‘mistake’ flushed rapidly down the Memory Hole.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9293620/BBC-News-uses-Iraq-photo-to-illustrate-Syrian-massacre.html

Good stuff, was just about to link this story.

http://www.infowars.com/bbc-caught-in-syria-massacre-propaganda-hoax/

tiger55 · 28-05-2012 07:44PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

so who killed 56 people in Syria then? or did it simply not happen?

probably the radical muslims who are attacking assad.

tiger55 · 28-05-2012 07:46PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

so are the three of you claiming the massacre didn't take place and that the whole thing about 10,000 civilians killed by the Syrian authorities is just the west creating propaganda in the run up to an invasion?

seriously?

How much are you being paid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMvM1KJBlEE

Run_to_da_hills · 28-05-2012 07:47PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

so who killed 56 people in Syria then? or did it simply not happen?

There is a number of ways to look at this incident.

1/ It was a genuine atrocity carried out by the Syrian Government.

2/ It was a "false flag" carried out by NATO insurgents with the intention of putting blame on the Syrian Government.

3/ Did it even happen at all, IE staged event.

With big journalist blunders like this in main steam media I would tend to discredit the 1st option.

Tym · 28-05-2012 07:49PM

Meh, think it was more trying to get money from a story rather than propaganda.

Apparently anybody who disagrees with the propaganda bandwagon are called paid trolls, led on by "mass media", or (wondering if this will come up) being controlled by subliminal messaging.

PogMoThoin · 28-05-2012 07:49PM

The first casualty of any war is the truth

tigger123 · 28-05-2012 07:51PM

BBC probably were short of a visual but wanted to go ahead with the story, or could have just made a mistake.

Either that's what happened, OR!!!! The BBC are now a tool of a US propaganda machine (according to some posters). Hmmmmmmmm ...

tigger123 · 28-05-2012 07:53PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

There is a number of ways to look at this incident.

1/ It was a genuine atrocity carried out by the Syrian Government.

2/ It was a "false flag" carried out by NATO insurgents with the intention of putting blame on the Syrian Government.

3/ Did it even happen at all, IE staged event.

With big journalist blunders like this in main steam media I would tend to discredit the 1st option.

So, you don't think this massacre happened at all? I've just seen footage taken on mobile phones on the Channel 4 news ... you really believe this is a lie?

BBC propaganda stunt on Syria massacre backfires.

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