The Narrative
Here is a story I've been following at Hot Air where you have an AFP photo and caption that are obviously fabricated to create a negative story on the war. Basically the MSM's strategy is to take their agenda seeking narrative and fill in the blanks around it with fiction. I like John Leo's take on this phenomenon:
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We now live in a docudrama world in which techniques of fiction and nonfiction are starting to blur. Many reporters think objectivity is a myth. They see journalism as inherently a subjective exercise in which the feelings and the will of the journalist function to reveal the truth of what has occurred. Two results |
The narrative in the case of the magic bullet photos is that US soldiers are murderous animals, terrorizing civilians at will. And this narrative is enforced by major politicians. When Barak Obama suggests our current strategy in Afghanistan is "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians", it just continues the cycle.