Yeah. When we start invading Iran. how many of our family members and co-workers are going to say “Well good. Those monsters made Jews wear yellow badges just like the Nazis.” Stories like this are big when people think they are true, but their retractions slip past our attention. Very useful for people or group with an agenda.
Some 15 hours ago, Google News had “all 22 related” about this spin.
Now it is "all 84 related"
The spin is on!
Henry
Didn’t really work this time, though. The item hasn’t reached any of the mainstream news outlet. If it had been planted by professional’s I’d expect a bit more traction.
Juan Cole thinks Conrad Black is behind it.
I expect it to become a widely ‘known’ ‘fact’, though - you don’t need the continuing support of major news outlets for that. A year ago or so there was a story unemployed women in Germany forced into prostitution by the unemployment office, and I still see this cited as fact in minor media and in blogs.
I do not know if hese all are “mainstream”, but it sem that the proffessionality of checking sources are quite low:
Globe and Mail
Los Angeles Times
Seattle Times
Jerusalem Post (3 stories, (of course)
New York Post
Kansas City Star
Washinton times
NewsMax (of course)
UPI
Forbes
All together, there is now about 100 stories spinning in Google News.
I agree that this is not the work of proffessionals, but it also shows that the media is not very professional.
With exceptions of course, but if it did not been so clumpsely done, the spin would orbit much wider and faster.
The result is the same: The neo-con believers will add this to their "Bible of truths that never will be forgotten". Directly after the WMDs and all the successful wars. :smack:
Henry
I forgot the linky:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/05/19/publiceye/entry1637037.shtml
Henry
It’s amazing how shit sticks, especially if it’s vaguely believable. Now the idea’s out there, this will persist. I’d lay money on this “fact” being used in argument on this very board at some time in the next year, or at least in a round-robin mailabout.
(On preview: I see tschild has already said the same thing. Oh well, I’ll post it anyway.)
Horrified - yes, surprised - only if you had your head in the sand.
That’s no surprise. The Kansas City “Scar” is one of the worst newspapers in all newspaperdom. Feature articles are filled with spelling and grammar errors, the paper has a clear and unashamed political bent, and the worst, most pushy, Ponzi-pyramid-like sales force I’ve seen.
And, let me guess, they sell well?
Just as our tabloids here in Finland.
Henry
Does Rupert Murdock own it? Because you just described The New York Post-- except for the sales force part.
I had been under the impression that in the past, it had been common practice in Muslim countries to require non-Muslims to wear distinctive clothing or badges. Looking around I found this:
http://www.dhimmi.com/dhimmi_overview.htm
"Jews and Christians had to walk around with badges or veils identifying them as Jews or Christians. The yellow star that Jews had wear in Nazi Germany did not originate in Europe. It was borrowed from the Muslim world where it was part of the apartheid system of Dhimmitude. "
Iranian Embassy in Canada denied it!
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6626a0fa-99de-4f1e-aebe-bb91af82abb3
This source is part of CanWest Media owned by Asper family, founded by Israel “Izzy” Asper (Canada’s most important media owner). Zionist never lies. Of course.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/asper/
Excuse me?
asimilar case
The story has been discredited and retracted. It was false.
OK, so the labels are a hoax. It was already clear to me that the American media are playing the same propaganda game with Iran that they did with Iraq a few years ago. It’s all too easy to take something out of context & demonize the whole country as a way to stir up pro-war sentiment.
As for the insistence on modest dress for nationalistic reasons. Anyone want to tell the Ayatollah that the full-body covering for women is Mesopotamian in origin, not Iranian?
Somehow I never counted Canadian media as a whole as insufferable propagandistic and pro-Bush leading up to the Iraq war, apparently I was mistaken. But do you always read big neo-con conspiracy theories into all goofed media-reports, or is it only those whose backlash plays into your hand? Anyway, when you have a soon to be nuclear armed president with apocalyptic leanings who on weekly basis goes public with promises to wipe Israel off the map and other such delightful things, there really aren’t that much need for a sinister neo-con demonization campaign as Ahmadinejad is managing that quite well by himself.
As in any thread about the supposed evils of Iran, it must be pointed out that good old allies Saudi Arabia make them look like angels.