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Right, the 16 hour Vietnam documentary that doesn't even mention that the Gulf of Tonkin incident, official reason for US involvement, was a false flag attack.
Burns' Iraq series will whitewash that invasion and portray neocons as well-intentioned "Wilsonians" who had good intentions for the people of Iraq but couldn't foresee the challenges, and it was more or less because of bureaucratic mismanagement.
PBS is far more insidious and destructive than Fox.
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Originally posted by linus View PostRight, the 16 hour Vietnam documentary that doesn't even mention that the Gulf of Tonkin incident, official reason for US involvement, was a false flag attack.
Burns' Iraq series will whitewash that invasion and portray neocons as well-intentioned "Wilsonians" who had good intentions for the people of Iraq but couldn't foresee the challenges, and it was more or less because of bureaucratic mismanagement.
PBS is far more insidious and destructive than Fox.
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Aye I’d really like to see your working there Linus. Sounds a bit like the most blinkered Scottish Nationalist whatabouttery once that tedious irrelevance Salmond took the RT shilling (aye, at least it’s no the BBC ken!). PBS might be a bit shit and old school hairshirt liberal, but worse than Fox? Fox seems to have at least as much responsibility as social media for the coarsening of debate and giving idiots justification in their bigoted idiocy.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 23-01-2018, 18:31.
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Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View PostI posted on that in the Film and TV forum back on 16 November. Nil thread.
Ah yes it was here:
https://www.onetouchfootball.com/sho...he-Vietnam-War
I guess that EEG missed it.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostAye I’d really like to see your working there Linus. Sounds a bit like the most blinkered Scottish Nationalist whatabouttery once that tedious irrelevance Salmond took the RT shilling (aye, at least it’s no the BBC ken!). PBS might be a bit shit and old school hairshirt liberal, but worse than Fox? Fox seems to have at least as much responsibility as social media for the coarsening of debate and giving idiots justification in their bigoted idiocy.
Let's take their main long-running documentary program, Frontline. In recent episodes like "Battle for Iraq" and "Hunting ISIS", or their general general coverage of the Mideast, PBS' coverage is outright deceptive, portraying ISIS (or Boko Haram) as organic religious militias. Their coverage of Syria or Iran for instance is a black and white, nuance-free depiction, with virtually no daylight between their editorial position and that of the State Dept or even say, John McCain.
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Right, the 16 hour Vietnam documentary that doesn't even mention that the Gulf of Tonkin incident, official reason for US involvement, was a false flag attack.
Dangerous subtle propaganda, no doubt.
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Countries John McCain has wanted to attack.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics...ack-map-syria/
I'm not conscious of feeling like this when I watch PBS, but that propaganda is subtle.
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A review.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0f96732cbca5d
Part three also has some informative discussion of internal government debates and relays the deception about the Gulf of Tonkin incident where the attack on a U.S. naval ship was provoked. The film points out that naval officers falsely reported a second attack allegedly because they mistranslated some intelligence signals.
However, since U.S. intelligence officers are technically competent, the film could have raised the question as to whether some elements of the national security bureaucracy bent on war may have deliberately skewed the intelligence – something we have seen recently.
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostA review.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0f96732cbca5d
John Pilger says Burns "promoted [the incident] as true".
Bureaucratic/chain of command mishaps are invariably the most common public explanations for events like the Gulf of Tonkin. And for the bigger policy-making picture, it's about unintended/unforeseen consequences by well-meaning or misguided politicians and generals.
I've covered Pilger and other points about Burns' Vietnam in the proper thread about the series in the film forum, I didn't catch the irony behind Reggie's first post above, thinking Burns was reallyworking on an Iraq series...
https://www.onetouchfootball.com/sho...tnam-War/page2
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Originally posted by Tactical GeniusI agree with Linus.
HCM when living in NY was a follower Marcus Garvey and regularly attended UNIA meetings. There are also suggestions he learned alot of his guerrilla tactics from the Haitian war of Independence.
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Fox does loads to mask its stance. Not least, it makes stuff up, literally all the time.Last edited by Tubby Isaacs; 25-01-2018, 22:47.
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Bureaucratic/chain of command mishaps are invariably the most common public explanations for events like the Gulf of Tonkin. And for the bigger policy-making picture, it's about unintended/unforeseen consequences by well-meaning or misguided politicians and generals.
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Originally posted by Tactical Genius View PostNo. I agree with him that PBS (and to a lesser extent the BBC). Are much more dangerous than Fox News.
Everyone is aware Fox has a right wing agenda and they do little to mask that.
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