{"id":238991,"date":"2023-07-10T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=238991"},"modified":"2023-07-10T06:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:13:11","slug":"today-in-war-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/today-in-war-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in War Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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9 Jul 2023 – <\/em>The New York Times<\/em> has a new article out with the headline \u201cCluster Weapons U.S. Is Sending Ukraine Often Fail to Detonate<\/a>\u201d and the subheading \u201cThe Pentagon\u2019s statements indicate that the cluster munitions that will be sent to Ukraine contain older grenades known to have a failure rate of 14 percent or more.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you only read the headline \u2014 as\u00a0the majority of people<\/a>\u00a0do \u2014 you would come away with the impression that the news story being reported here is that the US is giving Ukraine weapons that are sometimes defective. That sounds like a newsworthy story by itself, and it\u2019s the only information provided in the headline.<\/p>\n

If you read the subheading in addition to the headline, you would come away with the same impression. You could even read the entire first paragraph and the first part of the second and still think you were reading a story about the US sending Ukraine sub-par cluster munitions.<\/p>\n

Not until you get to the final sentence of the second paragraph would you get to the vital piece of information which explains why the world is\u00a0criticizing the Biden administration<\/a>\u00a0for sending Ukraine these weapons:<\/p>\n

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\u201cYears or even decades later, they can kill adults and children who stumble on them.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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