What we witnessed was not journalism but the choreography of propaganda.
CBS, in particular, offered thirty uninterrupted minutes of state-sanctioned fantasy,
anchored by a fawning interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
a man implicated in the killing of more than one hundred people at sea without evidence, accountability, or due process.
Rather than interrogating power, the networks shifted seamlessly into spectacle.
At no point did either network raise the most basic questions of legality, sovereignty, or international law.
Instead, both CBS and NBC trafficked in images of people dancing in the streets, staging public jubilation around what was, in fact,
a spectacularized violation of both international and domestic law.
Repressive imperial power has become visceral and ocular.
It now works through the eye as much as through the gun.
⚠️ State terrorism is no longer merely enforced by violence,
-- it is normalized and taught, rendered legitimate through a form of #pedagogical #terrorism produced and circulated by nearly the entire corporate media apparatus.
⭐️What is taking shape is a new apparatus of colonial terror,
where power, social media, and everyday life collapse into a single machinery of consent,
🔥training the public to see violence as spectacle and domination as normal.
There was no mention that the attack and abduction were #condemned by the presidents of Mexico and Brazil, by international legal scholars, and by a widening circle of global leaders alarmed by the precedent being set.
There was no scrutiny of the #fabricated #claims that Venezuela was plotting an invasion of the United States or serving as the epicenter of drug trafficking,
assertions long discredited but endlessly recycled to justify imperial violence.
Nor, crucially, was there any acknowledgment of Trump’s staggering #hypocrisy:
while declaring a war on drugs in the name of national security, he #pardoned one of the most notorious narcotics traffickers ever prosecuted in the United States, #Juan #Orlando #Hernández, described by prosecutors as a central figure in an eighteen-year operation that flooded the U.S. with more than 400 tons of cocaine
https://truthout.org/articles/as-trump-expands-imperial-aggression-in-venezuela-corporate-media-falls-in-line/
