In spite of a deservedly unsavoury reputation as a consummate deceiver,Joseph Goebbelsseems to have been willing occasionally to make some slight, utilitarian concession to the truth.
Goebbels of course had no qualms about concocting massive lies, whose incessant repetition he believed would be sufficient to turn them into perceived “truths.” But he also insisted that “good” (meaning effective) propaganda should always contain a kernel of conventional truth in order to be believable.
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We now know fromthe testimony ofMelanie Phillips, who for decades worked in the belly of the beast as aBBCeditor andGuardiancolumnist, that in the media of the collective West even that tiny utilitarian kernel of truth has been discarded.
The deliberately engineered mass dumbing down that was successfully implemented in Western societies largelyeliminates the need to insert even a minimum of truthfulness into pre-packaged narratives.Who any longer has the capacity to independently research the facts or even to distinguish fact from fiction? That at least is the disturbing claim that Melanie Phillips makes and she illustrates it from her extensive journalistic experience.
A particularly striking illustration that she cites concerns reports filed by theGuardiancorrespondent from Bosnia in the 1990s, during the armed conflict in that country. In a heart-rending article which meticulously observes all political correctness directives that were in effect at the time, the unidentified correspondent wrote about “a pathetic convoy fleeing some terrible event”:
Phillips elaborates that “she described in detail how the back of the truck was filled with refugees. And she described how they looked and the women…were wearing their head scarves and were bowed. And the children were subdued. And there were no men because they’d been killed…
“It was very affecting and it was completely untrue. She hadn’t been there. She hadn’t seen it. She had made it up.”
Out of collegial solidarity, one supposes, Phillips does not publicly shame this mendaciousGuardiancorrespondent by disclosing her identity. But speculation has it that the person in question might beMaggie O’Kane, who reported for theGuardianduring the war in Bosnia. She won awards for her work including from Amnesty International UK.
Source: Global Research
