Corporate Framing
Corporate Framing
Headlines are important in crafting propaganda because most people only read the headlines
The corporate media does not report the news so that we can be an informed public on issues and events that are important around the world or in our own country; they craft a narrative that will benefit them and their sponsors in the Deep State and Military Industrial Complex with whom they have a symbiotic relationship with. How many ex-CIA directors and military generals and Biden or Obama regime officials act as on-air hosts or “contributors” to CNN and MSNBC, for example? This is the front page of CNN’s website as of 8:23 EST this morning:
Read that again, emphasis mine: IDF strikes Lebanon after Hezbollah fires missile at Tel Aviv.
How would the average person who is busy living their own life and not entirely keeping up with events occurring halfway around the world understand these headlines? That Hezbollah fired a missile at Israel, the missile failed, and Israel retaliated. Is that actually what happened though, or is there much more context? What about last week when pagers and walkie-talkies allegedly being used by Hezbollah fighters were detonated by Israel across Lebanon and Syria while these alleged Hezbollah fighters were simply going about their daily lives surrounded by innocent civilians with one video showing a detonation going off in the middle of a market while people are shopping for groceries. How many innocent civilians were killed or injured in these “targeted” strikes by Israel? What about two days ago when Israeli strikes allegedly killed over 500 people in Lebanon? The New York Times has a graph showing the daily death toll from the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah where around 400 people were killed in total compared to the single day of bombing that allegedly killed over 500 people.
Now Hezbollah has been firing missiles at Israel prior to these most recent strikes from Israel, supposedly in retaliation to Israel’s decimation of the Gaza Strip since the October 7th attacks by Hamas last year, but that’s also important context that’s missing from CNN’s framing. The point is that whether you support “Israel’s right to defend itself,” whether you think Israel is a “genocidal, apartheid state,” or whether, like me, you simply believe that, whatever the situation, the United States should not be funding or arming Israel, the corporate media’s role here is not to inform us about what’s going on, but is, rather, to propagandize us to believe what they want us to believe.