Originally Posted by
PukinDog
It's the same old song and dance they've always performed, playing the press like cheap fiddles in order to drive news of their own atrocities off the front pages and lead stories until it's a game of "proportional numbers". They'll soon be onto something new and bigger whether it be opportunistic or staged and the press they allow to operate in their territory will play along (or they won't be there). The more desperate Hamas and their ilk become to stave off an IDF ground operation the more inflated the uncorroborated claims of killed and wounded numbers from IAF airstrikes, real or imagined, will be. They will also claim an impossibly high ratio of young child casualties to the point you'd think the IAF's main target were kindergartens and birthday parties for 5 year olds. Lots of choreographed images of young males running into hospital entrances while carrying unbloodied-but-flopping children while other crowds of young males (who just happen to hang around hospital entrances) express lots of anguish will be shown . Others mugging for the cameras. All scenes that just happen to try and elicit the highest levels of sympathy and victimhood possible. They've been caught out in the past staging these types of scenes for willing media, and that wasn't even when their very existence was on the line.
The hospital explosion story will give way to something new just like the flatbed truck did to the hospital, the truck supplanting the story about an imaginary convoy of 23 ambulances that supposedly got destroyed. Hamas has 300,000 IDF troops filled with righteous anger at their doorstep, their backs against the wall, and a death sentence hanging over their heads. They will do and say anything to get the world's sympathy while "martyring" as many as their own as necessary to save their own skins, not unlike claims by certain Germans to the world press in Feb/Mar '45 of 200,000 dead in Dresden and the city having no military targets.
The media are willing accomplices in propagating staged narratives and blatant falsehoods.
Been seeing that for decades.
There was a great training film we got years ago about how the use of a narrow field of view is applied by a cameraman, to attempt to create a story that is at odds with how many people are present or are involved in a protest. Selective editing.
Always remember that a reporter is there to tell
a story.
The ratio of fact-to-filler-to-falsehood with vary with each reporter and each event.