[lbo-talk] Information warfare: Fake images of Green Square?

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 20:29:40 PDT 2011


http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=151805

"As NATO waged war in Libya, another, simultaneous war has been fought. A psychological war, a media conflict… a battle to manufacture our consent. Even last night, from the BBC to Al-Jazeera, the flow of misinformation was as rampant as it has been for weeks on end. Only Russia Today provided a drop of balance in a sea of propaganda. But something does not add up; I remember three days ago, seeing a BBC reporter claiming that “as we could see”, the rebels had taken full control of az-Zawiyah. Behind him, five men held guns in the air. On Sunday evening, Al Jazeera English broadcast fake images of rebels celebrating in Green Square… only, it wasn’t Green Square."

Video: http://youtu.be/yN1XYDNyZYY

The RT video claims actors were contracted and a replica of the Green Square was built in Qatar, and that Al Jazeera broadcasted the images of the rebels at Green Square celebrating before the rebels were able to make it for real to the Green Square.

It turns out the Russia Today video is only in Spanish, and I've read elsewhere reports that RT removed it from their site.

Thoughts? Comments?

FC



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