This article seems to say, Where it comes to DPRK, the US is just - TopicsExpress



          

This article seems to say, Where it comes to DPRK, the US is just as propagandist as DPRK. Does the writer have a point? Heres an article from maybe the Marxist anti-imperialist slant which is usually censored in the US (they are free to write and say, but most mainstream outlets will not even recognize it): { The propaganda isn’t just limited to journalism. Multiple films and video games are being made (and have been made) about the DPRK invading and/or occupying the United States. Even remakes of Cold War era films are having the enemy changed from the Soviet Union to the DPRK. This includes: the Video Games Homefront (2011), Homefront: The Revolution (2015), Crysis (2007), Crysis Warhead (2008). The Films Die Another Day (2002), Team America: World Police (2004), Stealth (2005), Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006) and Salt (2010), Red Dawn (2012, a remake of the 1984 film), and Olympus has Fallen (2013), among others. These are hardly innocent depictions; racists fueled by the release of the last two films mentioned took to twitter, providing horrific proof of the barbaric cultural logic underlying the recent spate of media attention. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the American State Department even openly provides considerable funding to anti-DPRK organisations — up to a $350,000 grant for each organisation — for engaging in “activism” on “human rights”. The despicably orientalist dimension of many of these myths (and the propaganda surrounding the DPRK in general) is obvious. Scary east-Asian cannibals? Idiots believing humans can land on the sun? How silly they are! How violent they are! How impotent they are! How threatening they are! How wanting of bombs and rectification they are! ... As long as you’re writing about the DPRK you have a license to print anything. What already frighteningly little journalistic integrity the bourgeois media can be said to possess is nowhere to be found on matters concerning this country. DPRK-bashing is assured to drag in the pageviews and advertising revenue, and that’s all that really matters. Let this be a case study on the lengths that imperialist media will go to slander its enemies. } anti-imperialism/2014/08/14/western-dprk-propaganda-the-worst-occasionally-hilarious-and-often-racist-lies/
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:38:13 +0000

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