{"id":205735,"date":"2022-02-28T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=205735"},"modified":"2022-02-23T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:00:55","slug":"propaganda-switch-from-covid-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/propaganda-switch-from-covid-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Switch: From Covid to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_205736\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spr-media-navigator-2022-social.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205736\" class=\"wp-image-205736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spr-media-navigator-2022-social.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spr-media-navigator-2022-social.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spr-media-navigator-2022-social-300x152.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-205736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SPR Media Navigator (SPR)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>23 Feb 2022 &#8211; <\/em>During the last two years, geopolitical propagandists have had rather little to do \u2013 with the partial exception of quickly blaming China for the pandemic. With the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, the following \u201cpropaganda switch\u201d can now be observed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Liberal media close to NATO\/CFR<\/strong> (e.g. CNN, New York Times, Guardian, Wikipedia) have promoted covid propaganda and continue to promote NATO propaganda.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservative media close to NATO\/CFR<\/strong> (e.g. FOX, Wall Street Journal, Telegraph) partially questioned covid propaganda, but now promote NATO propaganda.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Independent liberal\/left\/socialist media<\/strong> (e.g. OffGuardian, Grayzone, WSWS) partially questioned covid propaganda and mostly question NATO propaganda.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Independent conservative\/libertarian media<\/strong> (e.g. ZeroHedge, Unz Review) mostly questioned covid propaganda and continue to question NATO propaganda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some \u201csemi-independent\u201d media outlets, both liberal and conservative, have not yet decided how to position themselves or remain ambivalent (e.g. Breitbart, Democracy Now). Some fully independent media outlets may be described as \u201cpro-Russian\u201d (e.g. The Saker), but most aren\u2019t \u2013 they simply don\u2019t like propaganda.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/media-navigator\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Media Navigator<\/a> (US\/UK) and <a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/medien-navigator\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Der Medien-Navigator<\/a> (German)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>See also:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/ukraine-situation-and-background\/\" >Ukraine: Situation and Background<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/advanced-online-media-use\/\" >Advanced Online Media Use<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/the-propaganda-multiplier\/\" >The Propaganda Multiplier<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-161314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> Swiss Policy Research<em>, founded in 2016, is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media. SPR is composed of independent academics that for personal and professional reasons prefer to protect their identities, and receives no external funding; there are no financial sponsors or backers. Our articles have been published or shared by numerous independent media outlets and journalists, among them <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/assange-tweet.png\" >Julian Assange<\/a>, and have been translated into more than two dozen languages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/propaganda-switch-from-covid-to-ukraine\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; swprs.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 Feb 2022 &#8211; During the last two years, geopolitical propagandists have had rather little to do \u2013 with the partial exception of quickly blaming China for the pandemic. With the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, the following \u201cpropaganda switch\u201d can now be observed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":205736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[1829,1868,234,372,961],"class_list":["post-205735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-media","tag-propaganda","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}