There were quite a few people disappointed or shocked by the Tweets that Zembla had fabricated to demonize anti-D66 sound. A Twitter user whose tweets they had cut up even lost his job because of it. Those who are shocked by this have had spinach in their ears and eyes for at least three years. Maybe longer but I can't judge that because then I was still walking around with that spinach myself.
In the meantime, we have been able to see for years how journalism defends the narrative in the context of guarding state security. When I was still consuming MSM, De Volkskrant portrayed Maurice de Hond full-page as a manipulative Jew, Pointer stuck lies together to frame him, a subsidized feature film was even made to make him bald. He had put himself in the spotlight by exposing the ignorance of virologists and rivm. For me personally, that was the starting gun. Nothing can justify such an approach.
Another low point: the episode in which blckbox was portrayed as a 'stage for conspiracy theorists' with the examples being conspiracy theorists who had never been guests.
Looking at current events, we again see several desperate attempts to eliminate the 'counter-voice'. Think, for example, of Unheard of the Netherlands. The journalistic code nowadays means that only 'for' sound must be presented. So no pluralistic reporting, no rebuttal, no independent science, no debate, certainly no 'contra' sound. Those times are over...
Last week alone, there were three high-profile items that show how people work at our national State Security Service, 'PR/communication' department.
Timmermans follows in socialist footsteps
A lot of fuss about a minimal 'adjustment'. Frans Timmermans is terrified from his shaky position that attention will be diverted from him and 'his' party and polishes the logos of the Socialist Party from a photo. After all, it's about him, right?
In this picture you can see that on the SP signs there is a small "SP" logo in the bottom right corner. In Frenske's Tweet, the logo is shopped away on two signs.
Isn't this just "professional communication"? That dividing line cannot be drawn sharply. So you can fill 'scientific' libraries with it. There could, of course, be a law that defines a clear dividing line. Then we can abandon our morality: the government takes over our conscience. Philosophical considerations become rearguard action. Governments have a hard time resisting this temptation.
For me, it depends on a) the public or private sector (is it paid for by taxpayers' money?), b) the context (is it clearly indicated whether it is advertising or reporting?) and c) the medium, the sender and the quality standard that is expected from it. The latter is very vague and will always leave room for lies, as will freedom of speech.
Sometimes the intention is also involved, but good intentions should not be an excuse to harm others. The journalistic code thinks differently: it tries to destroy people in the name of charity, as we will see in the Zembla example.
Back to the SP logos. Fuss over little. The fact that such a minimal adjustment causes so much fuss indicates to me how easy it is to manipulate the population (including many journalists themselves) with text. The 'find the differences' between two information carriers is much more complicated with texts than with photos. Texts are always made to your own liking, as happened with those photos. In fact, it's hard to prevent.
Interpreting a text is also of a different order than comparing two flat images in a few seconds. Strangely enough, everyone immediately agreed with these photos: this is not possible, should not have been, this is the distortion of reality and that is out of the question. And that while this kneading of information is textually the order of the day.
News reports are reworded until they contribute to state security, because it is good. That doesn't stand out as much as an edited photo. That is precisely the dangerous thing about the manipulative propaganda that MSM has embraced.
Even Frenske framen
Jullie herkennen het ‘guilt by association’ principe? Zo werd Flavio van blckbx neergezet. Zet iemand in hetzelfde frame als misdadigers, dat geeft iedereen met deug-onderbuik het recht om zo iemand af te serveren. Dat gaat ongeveer zo:
By modifying protest signs, the voice of the people is silenced. Socialist mass murderer Joseph Stalin put photo manipulation firmly on the political-strategic agenda. In manipulated photographs, he pre-sorts for the desired reality, if necessary retroactively. Falsification of history, with the best intentions as camouflage.
In history, not only socialists have turned to propaganda to achieve their democratic right. Here is a picture with Lenin. Trotsky was later removed. (There are also comparisons with Hitler and Goebbels, but they are usually not well received.
Political opponents of socialist Stalin are giving way, as are allies with reservations. And they often don't just disappear from the picture. The beginning of photo manipulation as a socialist tradition.
What was so special about the emails surrounding the 'Note from Bruins'?
Cees van den Bosch published WOB documents showing how the 'note from Bruins' was pre-cooked. The note that he received during an extra corona broadcast was pressed into his hands. The official email with the announcement was sent a few minutes before the broadcast. Minister Bruins was already ready in the studio, the broadcast was already planned. That smacks of a set-up.
Van den Bosch reports on the correlation and leaves the drawing of conclusions to the reader. With this:
The images of that email correspondence show normal, professional communication, I can't see it any other way. Quite carefully, perhaps a little too carefully. It is the professional preparation of a message that you know you will have to deliver in the foreseeable future and that you want to have an impact. The careful consideration of effective communication and the persuasive and penetrating delivery thereof, that is quickly called 'use of hypnosis techniques' by some NLP people. I don't lift it so heavily; If it had been for a good cause, you might have been happy with it! If something like this happens sloppy and unprepared, it's of no use to you. I can't see much conspiracy in it.
What I found very interesting about this post, on the other hand, was the blackening of the draft message. Why? The concept:
The "message and quote"... What quote? In any case, that quote did not make it in the final messages sent, there is no quote in it:
For the other screenshots, see the Substack van Cees van den Bos
Why was that draft message leaked in the first place?
What could have been in that draft message that we shouldn't know?
The quote cannot be found in the final emails. And even then: what state-dangerous or privacy-sensitive quote must that have been? Or was it a planned quote? That would then demonstrate a high degree of scripting.
I can only think of one other thing: that draft email also stated that it was a man who had recently been to Lombardy. After all, that fitted in nicely with what people already knew about the corona disaster in Italy, making the message more credible and easier to remember, it strengthens the coherence of the reporting (you see: the 'narrative' is correct) and you know: it cannot be verified because of the privacy legislation.
But to show afterwards that you have current news, hot off the needle, ready weeks in advance ... You can't. Let's get rid of it. If anyone can think of something better, I'd love to hear it.
If that's how it happened, I do have a problem with that. It is the same fact manipulation that we see with the Tweets shopped by Zembla, the photos shopped by Timmermans and the science journalism colored by Maarten Keulemans (I don't show them here, just look in the Volkskrant or on Twitter).
The population is selectively informed by MSM with the aim of getting everyone on the same page, not to give them a realistic picture.
Did Bruins know about the communication plan?
Whether the editors have decided to inform Bruins in advance about the breaking news we don't know. How important is it whether our top government officials are willing to put on a play at the request of a newsroom?
Zembla loses confidence
Zembla presents the image below as a screenshot of a tweet. The unsuspecting viewer accepts that as hard evidence. MSM won't fake a Tweet, will it? But then the real screenshot.
It contains the concern that it could lead to a lynching. "Perpetrators" (i.e. of crimes) will be lynched when people start playing for their own judge because no action is taken to solve a certain problem. Zembla simply replaced the word 'perpetrators' with the word 'refugees'.
They even mistyped the phrase "Optyfen with the fortune seekers."with' has been forgotten, 'that' instead of 'the', 'Fortune seekers' without 's' and no period at the end. So they swap some words and sloppily type something over and that, according to Verweij, is first a "summary", then a "merge".
Vincent Verweij classifies the misrepresentation of a message in a bad falsification of a screenshot as a "journalistically correct summary."
That says everything about what "journalism" still is.
Watch the explanation below by David Boerstra and hear how Vincent Verweij screens with the label "journalism". It apparently states that journalists may modify information as they see fit to make their point.
On Twitter, it was discussed how Verweij (free-lance journalist at various wrong programs) got the home addresses. This would have been done via computer addresses, but only the government can request the linked home addresses from providers. Did Zembla have cooperation from the government?
View the full blckbx item:
L E E S T I P
Mattias Desmet writes about Gideon van Meijeren
An interesting combination, Matias and Gideon. The intro:
The Dutch Fvd politician Gideon van Meijeren is charged by the Public Prosecution Service with sedition. There are quite a few people who won't be surprised by that. For them, Van Meijeren is a far-right antivaxxer and conspiracy theorist who has also made racist statements in the past. Since I myself am regularly dismissed in this way, I am inclined to look at the matter more carefully. And I would ask everyone to do the same, even if you now feel that Gideon van Meijeren is your opposite. It could be relevant to yourself sooner than you think.
https://mattiasdesmetnederlands.substack.com/p/over-aanzetten-tot-geweld-gideon/comments
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