Has the Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy Magazine become one with the highly coordinated US MSM?
The WSJ and Foreign Policy Magazine seemingly fall inline with the NYT and WAPO, etc..
In her May 28, 2023, FP article Ms. Edel focuses on the state of Russian media. Ms. Anastasia Edel of FP Magazine is an intelligent person. What's more, she is an expert on Russia, so she knows propaganda when she sees it and she (rightfully) sees a lot of it in Russia, but somehow fails to see it in Western media, even in her own publication. Do we have a free press in the US? That's a good question. We have a press that carries the US propaganda line almost word for word in all the major outlets. Often it is word for word the same, making one wonder where and how the coordination is carried out. I understand Ms. Edel wants to support her side and derogate the other, it's human nature, but let's call what she writes (and the MSM and FP publishes) what it is, one sided pro NATO, pro US propaganda. Anyone stepping out of line is crushed. Look what happened to Tucker Carlson and Kevin O’Keefe who dared to question our proxy war in Ukraine and US policy narratives. It’s OK if you disagree with what they say, but to silence major critics of US policy is to censor what people hear which leaves no clear way for citizens to judge the facts for themselves, but that’s the goal of propaganda. In short, how does FP really differ from Pravda?
The Ukrainian armed forces have been shelling the cities that make up the part of Ukraine that has been in rebellion since 2014. A quick glance at Telegram would show multiple images of dead civilians in the Donetsk Republic killed by Ukrainian artillery strikes. OK, this happens in war, but according to the carefully choreographed news in the US MSM it's invisible. What we do see is an huge image on the front page of the WSJ (for example) of Friday June 2, 2023, showing a woman morning over her dead daughter's body killed as a result of a missile attack on Kiev. We never see exact mirror photos of pro-Russian civilians morning over their loved ones and they do exist in large numbers. To drive home the WSJ's pro Ukrainian stance, the very next day there is a large front page picture of Zelensky stressing the strength and motivation of the Ukrainian military. Civilian deaths in war are an unfortunate reality. Showing only the deaths only on one side distorts that reality. This leads to bad decision making. I respect the WSJ and it saddens me to see it become an imitation of Pravda. Someday (I hope) the owners of the Journal will look back with regret on this era.