ALL THE VIEWS THAT FIT

When you have a corporate paymaster you learn to self-censor very fast. You know the deal. You are not a dumbo. You know the score.

You can have all the views you want. But you can only express those that fit.

The views that fit the corporate and state narrative that 999 times out of a 1000 make a match.

Views that mitigate against the accumulation of ever-more profits are a no-no and you know that.

Wars are good for business and the elites of the USA are noble men and women who are motivated only by an honest desire to bring freedom and democracy to everyone.

They are willing to lie, cheat, steal and murder to do that but even if you hold those views you must remain silent and NEVER express them, not even allude to them in the slightest way. No nuance that incorporates these realities can be allowed to exist.

Because the continuing self-awarded ability of U.S. elites to be judge, jury and executioner and to lie, cheat, rob and murder depends upon everyone treating them like virtual saints with no self-interest whatsoever. They are noble, kind, selfless warriors for freedom, truth and democracy. And no one must EVER even suggest otherwise within corporate news. No such views can be, no matter how many lies are exposed leading to no matter how many deaths. The subject is taboo.

This self-censorship exists across ALL western mass media. From the BBC to MSNBC, from ITV to CNN... all the way across from one end of it to the other. Western elites and their motivations are held within a perpetual bubble of eternal sanctity given special dispensation to do whatever they like, to whoever they like whenever they like with complete impunity because they are as pure as driven snow and woe betide anyone who questions it. End of story.

This is why the USA and to lesser, but still very high degree the UK and rest of Europe are the most pervasively and continually propagandized nations on earth. What we are speaking of here is propaganda in depth, not the type of thing defined by past communist governments. It is much more subtle and wall-to-wall than that. The underlying assumptions about the elites of the west and their innate goodness, respectability, honesty and benevolent intent is a given across every broadcast of a geopolitical nature.

Thus the fracturing, demolishing and rending apart of the Middle East with hundreds of thousands dead based on suppositions, conjectures, assertions, opinions and bare-faced lies is a matter hardly mentioned. A few inquiries took place and those who perpetrated these iniquities heard one or two mild criticisms and that was that. Move on. Nothing to see here.

Yet Russia and others are pointed at continually as the bad guys. Russia that stood against the decimation of Iraq and other nations along with China and, at that time, France.  Putin who warned of the consequences of these acts of illegality, breaking international law, is now public enemy number one apparently. Not the lords of war.

But none of this can be said on western mass media. The underlying memes which are promulgated through every respectful interview of elites within the warmongering nations, every report regarding what they say about Russia, or China, or Venezuela, or any other regime change target, whatever false narrative which suits western states is required... all are dutifully delivered to accepting ears across all the totally propagandized nations of the West.

This is the supposed “Free World” where free speech is universal.

This is the world of democracy where corporations not only control western states but also, through self-censorship, the required lies that keep their populations ignorant, docile and providing consent.

This is the world where broader realities and nuance are written out of history by men and women paid to remain silent.

The world where you hear only the news and views that fit.