Strategic Communications

Robert Parry writes good stuff. "The Power of False Narrative" is one of them.  A couple other things I read today relate to what he wrote.

How Journalism Helps Lunacy Become Reality

By Larry Beinhart, Al Jazeera America

28 September 15

The Greatest Threat to Campus Free Speech Is Coming From Dianne Feinstein and Her Military-Contractor Husband By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept26 September 15

 Israel has created a powerful narrative to serve itself, its ambitions and its actions.

The USA has its own narrative in Exceptionalism.

Both are threatened by fact based analysis.  Neither can allow it.  Both use similar methods to extend and foster the narrative as well as protect it with defense and even greater offense measures.

The "norm" of the narrative has moved to the absolutely ridiculous.  Examples abound.  Trump and the clown car.

While the "norm" of truth and Objectivity has been moved so far out of bounds, defense and offense tools to "manage" reality distortions have also moved beyond reason to protect the false narrative.  Israel is the finest example of this situation although the USA is not far behind. 

Good job Robert.  Good Job Glenn.  Good job Larry.