Click here to access article by Gilles d'Aymery from Swans Commentary.
This author has done some clever sleuthing of mainstream media's portrayal of Bashar Assad and his wife Asma over time to provide us with another brilliant illustration of how ruling class gatekeepers manipulate information to support the interests of their capitalist masters. The ownership of media provides the most powerful tool in the arsenal of ruling class weapons, and it is astounding to me that most ordinary people are still unaware that corporate media largely serves to manipulate their views of the world.
Nearly a hundred years ago people like Upton Sinclair in Brass Check and George Seldes in Even the Gods Can't Change History tried to warn us about the many lies constructed by capitalist media to manipulate ordinary working people. Since then there have been many others like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Yet, I still find many of my fellow Americans who naively believe whatever the boob tube talking heads tell them. No doubt the educational system of the ruling class has also contributed to this mindset of believing whatever authority figures tell them.
