Short answer? We wouldn't.
Short answer? We wouldn't.
Why would we believe anything from them about Ukraine?
When we wrote about the media effort in 2018 {Go Deep}, specifically the collusion between the intelligence and national security agencies of the United States government, I asked the question, “Do we really think such a catastrophic level of corrupted journalism could reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?” The answer then, as now, is the same, NO. Indeed, it has only gotten worse in the past four years.
For the past several days, I have been highlighting a simple question on social media about something missing in the Ukraine story.
Where are the social media posts, from Ukraine citizens, that would support the narrative, as it is being told by Western media, about events happening in Ukraine? Seemingly, Ukraine is the only conflict in modern human history where a pop culture society of more than 30 million technologically connected people decided not to document every moment of it on social media.
Considering the scale and scope of the conflict, and considering the Ukraine population of more than 30 million is far larger than Canada, and considering that population is located in a country the size of Texas, and considering they are a western technologically connected society with tens of millions of cell phones, we should be seeing a great deal of footage, pictures and images from ordinary Ukrainian citizens. However, we don’t. Why?
I’m not talking about the professional war social media accounts, and/or military-centric accounts, which, to be fair do have lots of images and footage of Russian and Ukrainian conflicts. I’m talking about the ordinary man/woman in the major population centers, who under normal circumstances would be generating tens-of-thousands of social media posts to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, YouTube, etc.
Why would we believe anything from them about Ukraine?
When we wrote about the media effort in 2018 {Go Deep}, specifically the collusion between the intelligence and national security agencies of the United States government, I asked the question, “Do we really think such a catastrophic level of corrupted journalism could reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?” The answer then, as now, is the same, NO. Indeed, it has only gotten worse in the past four years.
For the past several days, I have been highlighting a simple question on social media about something missing in the Ukraine story.
Where are the social media posts, from Ukraine citizens, that would support the narrative, as it is being told by Western media, about events happening in Ukraine? Seemingly, Ukraine is the only conflict in modern human history where a pop culture society of more than 30 million technologically connected people decided not to document every moment of it on social media.
Considering the scale and scope of the conflict, and considering the Ukraine population of more than 30 million is far larger than Canada, and considering that population is located in a country the size of Texas, and considering they are a western technologically connected society with tens of millions of cell phones, we should be seeing a great deal of footage, pictures and images from ordinary Ukrainian citizens. However, we don’t. Why?
I’m not talking about the professional war social media accounts, and/or military-centric accounts, which, to be fair do have lots of images and footage of Russian and Ukrainian conflicts. I’m talking about the ordinary man/woman in the major population centers, who under normal circumstances would be generating tens-of-thousands of social media posts to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, YouTube, etc.
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