The ever-increasing frequency with which journalists, commentators and
analysts are called upon today to report and comment on wars has brought
to the fore the worst that a paid and heterodirected information
industry has been able to produce. After all, we are at war and, as
Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, said, during conflicts
information, news and their commentary are a very powerful weapon in the
hands of the contenders to fight and win.
On the other hand, those in progress are atypical wars in that the
entire West is at war, even if and where the war is not declared; the
war is fought with ferocity and without holds barred, especially in the
field of information, distorting, selecting, artfully commenting on the
news, providing forecasts, aimed at maintaining social control and
orienting public opinion. In our country this category of hacks
increasingly resembles the plague spreaders of Manzoni's memory who
"informed" about the plague, spreading the most incredible news about
the causes and effects, the person responsible for the disease.
Narrowing our vibrations to the two wars closest to us geographically
and culturally, we detect a first difference in dealing with the news,
spreading it and commenting on it: on the one hand there is the war in
Ukraine in relation to which the news is given in such a way as to
arouse greater anguish, greater apprehension, sometimes justifying this
necessity with the fact that it is a war closer to us. Yet Ukraine is
about 450 km further from Italy than the Gaza Strip, but while the dead
of the Ukrainian war, especially if Ukrainian, are children of a greater
God, the Palestinians of Gaza are children of a lesser God, even less
killed in the West Bank: a dead Ukrainian, compared to a Gazan is worth
10 times more, to be frugal and generous. Information on victims is just
the tip of the slides because all the news regarding conflicts are given
with extremely different techniques, words, drama: Ukraine is the
attacked country even though the civil war in the country had been going
on since 2014, Israel is the attacked country, but the conditions of
oppression in Gaza and the life of the Gazans before October 7 are never
remembered. The destruction of civilian targets in Ukraine mainly
concerns economic and military infrastructures while Gaza is reduced to
a total and absolute pile of rubble. Yet a finished bomb is still
understandable given that there could be tunnels underneath. And we
could go on forever!
Double standards and biased information
But where these disinformation specialists give their best are the
comments of the so-called experts and analysts, who handle the news with
the seasoning of false information induced to produce in those who read
or listen incorrect conclusions and expectations, but functional to the
interests they defend. Perhaps the most sensational case concerns
Crimea's membership in Ukraine: it is a fact that the peninsula was
administratively part of Ukraine from 1954 to 1991 (for only 37 years),
and from 1991 to 2014, or for another 23 years), while it was an
integral part of Russia since 1783. It follows that instead of claiming
the right of one or the other contender to possess it, we should support
the need for a free referendum that once again allows its inhabitants to
express the right to self-determination of peoples.
As for Gaza, aware of the mountain of UN pronouncements in favor of the
existence of the two Palestinian and Israeli states, they save their
consciences by continuing to repeat the refrain of two peoples, two
states, even if in fact they wink, apparently horrified, at Trump's
proposal to make it a gigantic real estate speculation.
But where all these people give their best is in distilling positive
news about the military conflict underway in Ukraine, producing the
illusion of an inevitable and possible Ukrainian victory, hushing up any
news relating to the illegality of the regime established in Kiev, the
great corruption that characterizes it, the denial of religious freedom
in the country, the existence of a civil war within Ukraine, news of
desertions and mass draft evasion, the existence in Ukraine of a
Russian-speaking component, which does not feel represented by the
government installed in Kiev and which believes it is an act of a coup
d'état. This one-sidedness of information is aimed at keeping the
internal front high with the result of requiring further sacrifices from
a population tired and exhausted by the war.
In the face of conflict, even if the professional ethics of those who do
the job of journalists would impose the duty to provide information as
objective as possible, biased opinions are understandable, provided they
are declared and not passed off as revealed truths or as objective
information. It is serious what is done by opinion makers, political
scientists, and political scientists, who are clearly and biasedly
oriented, who are most popular especially in our country, and who pass
themselves off as "experts or political scientists", covering their
statements with a patina of scientificity to incite war in search of a
"just peace." These people are rather zealous militants and fighters for
their political party who, by not revealing their real function, carry
out that of plague spreaders.
https://www.ucadi.org/2025/04/28/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-la-guerra-di-giornalisti-opinionisti-ed-analisti/
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analysts are called upon today to report and comment on wars has brought
to the fore the worst that a paid and heterodirected information
industry has been able to produce. After all, we are at war and, as
Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, said, during conflicts
information, news and their commentary are a very powerful weapon in the
hands of the contenders to fight and win.
On the other hand, those in progress are atypical wars in that the
entire West is at war, even if and where the war is not declared; the
war is fought with ferocity and without holds barred, especially in the
field of information, distorting, selecting, artfully commenting on the
news, providing forecasts, aimed at maintaining social control and
orienting public opinion. In our country this category of hacks
increasingly resembles the plague spreaders of Manzoni's memory who
"informed" about the plague, spreading the most incredible news about
the causes and effects, the person responsible for the disease.
Narrowing our vibrations to the two wars closest to us geographically
and culturally, we detect a first difference in dealing with the news,
spreading it and commenting on it: on the one hand there is the war in
Ukraine in relation to which the news is given in such a way as to
arouse greater anguish, greater apprehension, sometimes justifying this
necessity with the fact that it is a war closer to us. Yet Ukraine is
about 450 km further from Italy than the Gaza Strip, but while the dead
of the Ukrainian war, especially if Ukrainian, are children of a greater
God, the Palestinians of Gaza are children of a lesser God, even less
killed in the West Bank: a dead Ukrainian, compared to a Gazan is worth
10 times more, to be frugal and generous. Information on victims is just
the tip of the slides because all the news regarding conflicts are given
with extremely different techniques, words, drama: Ukraine is the
attacked country even though the civil war in the country had been going
on since 2014, Israel is the attacked country, but the conditions of
oppression in Gaza and the life of the Gazans before October 7 are never
remembered. The destruction of civilian targets in Ukraine mainly
concerns economic and military infrastructures while Gaza is reduced to
a total and absolute pile of rubble. Yet a finished bomb is still
understandable given that there could be tunnels underneath. And we
could go on forever!
Double standards and biased information
But where these disinformation specialists give their best are the
comments of the so-called experts and analysts, who handle the news with
the seasoning of false information induced to produce in those who read
or listen incorrect conclusions and expectations, but functional to the
interests they defend. Perhaps the most sensational case concerns
Crimea's membership in Ukraine: it is a fact that the peninsula was
administratively part of Ukraine from 1954 to 1991 (for only 37 years),
and from 1991 to 2014, or for another 23 years), while it was an
integral part of Russia since 1783. It follows that instead of claiming
the right of one or the other contender to possess it, we should support
the need for a free referendum that once again allows its inhabitants to
express the right to self-determination of peoples.
As for Gaza, aware of the mountain of UN pronouncements in favor of the
existence of the two Palestinian and Israeli states, they save their
consciences by continuing to repeat the refrain of two peoples, two
states, even if in fact they wink, apparently horrified, at Trump's
proposal to make it a gigantic real estate speculation.
But where all these people give their best is in distilling positive
news about the military conflict underway in Ukraine, producing the
illusion of an inevitable and possible Ukrainian victory, hushing up any
news relating to the illegality of the regime established in Kiev, the
great corruption that characterizes it, the denial of religious freedom
in the country, the existence of a civil war within Ukraine, news of
desertions and mass draft evasion, the existence in Ukraine of a
Russian-speaking component, which does not feel represented by the
government installed in Kiev and which believes it is an act of a coup
d'état. This one-sidedness of information is aimed at keeping the
internal front high with the result of requiring further sacrifices from
a population tired and exhausted by the war.
In the face of conflict, even if the professional ethics of those who do
the job of journalists would impose the duty to provide information as
objective as possible, biased opinions are understandable, provided they
are declared and not passed off as revealed truths or as objective
information. It is serious what is done by opinion makers, political
scientists, and political scientists, who are clearly and biasedly
oriented, who are most popular especially in our country, and who pass
themselves off as "experts or political scientists", covering their
statements with a patina of scientificity to incite war in search of a
"just peace." These people are rather zealous militants and fighters for
their political party who, by not revealing their real function, carry
out that of plague spreaders.
https://www.ucadi.org/2025/04/28/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-la-guerra-di-giornalisti-opinionisti-ed-analisti/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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