Silicon Bites #67 - Mr Carlson Comes to Moscow to Amplify The Kremlin's Nuclear Terroristic Threats.

Edition No67 | 06-12-2024 - Love him or loath him, Tucker Carlson has a
knack for sucking the oxygen out of the information space. He creates
friction, he generates headlines, he grabs attention. “Nothing is what
it seems” is the apparent philosophy behind his media persona. He is
just asking the ‘difficult questions’ that nobody else wants to ask.
Looking for alternative ideas and uncovering the deep state conspiracies
that manipulate us and ruin our lives. The trouble is the overall
framing of his work is deeply imbued with highly partisan and
propagandistic narratives. He has a purpose, and it is itself deeply
manipulative and aligned with oligarchic money interests. No wonder the
Kremlin and Russian state TV love him. No wonder he has been called back
to Moscow when they find themselves in a real pickle.
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His persona perfectly matches the strategic purpose of networks like RT,
whose strapline is “question everything”. The underlying message behind
much of Russian propagandistic media is – "все не так однозначно" – or
“It’s really not so simple”. Stoke division, yes. Divide and conquer –
of course. But fundamentally, Russian propaganda is about denying your
agency. Preventing you from uniting, collaborating and organising to
resist the forceful expansion of its influence and interests. It does
this by eroding trust, sowing division and enmity, and fostering the
nihilistic idea of informational ambiguity. There is no truth or
morality – it’s all relative. My opinion is just as valid as your facts.
It’s complicated. Politics makes no difference. There are always two
sides of each story, and both are lies in their own ways. But lies can
be equated with truth. The aggressor with the victim. It’s cynical. It’s
corrosive. It’s effective. Think Doublespeak from Orwell’s 1984. Black
is white. Up is down. And Russia always lies.

It shouldn’t work, but it does, and increasingly this approach has power
in the era of weaponised social media algorithms, fragmented media,
weak institutions, disenchantment with party politics and the decline of
class identities. It’s the outer clothing of a regime that does not
pursue ideology or morality of any kind, but a pure projection of power
and material demands. Because those material demands are in the service
of a small parasitic elite, with an extraction mentality; the result is
always going to be negative. They are not grasping for power as an
extension of their country’s or people’s interests, but for their own
benefit.
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NEWS SOURCES:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-russia-moscow-interview-sergei-lavrov-putin-b2658625.html
https://www.politico.eu/article/tucker-carlson-sergey-lavrov-vladimir-putin/
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/04/tucker-carlson-interviews-russian-fm-lavrov-in-moscow-a87222
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/tucker-carlson-warns-of-wwiii-but-russias-nuclear-threats-ring-hollow/
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1985783/
https://stevenmoore.substack.com/p/tucker-carlsons-tourism-in-russia
https://uacrisis.org/en/tucker-carlson-in-moscow-again
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tymofiy-mylovanov-1a13112_lavrov-through-tucker-carlson-delivers-activity-7270765240839979009-3w1c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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