COED MURDER MYSTERY!

Silence is Propaganda in the Murdoch Media

Propaganda isn’t just lies. It’s often about what you don’t hear.

I’m in New York, media city, en route to my job teaching journalism in Lisbon this semester. Yesterday I bought a coffee and a newspaper and noticed what isn’t news.

From Tucker Carlson to the New York Post, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire worked tirelessly to hype the Canadian trucker protests as a new conservative prairie fire that would bring down a liberal government. There was front-page, top-of-the-hour coverage every day.

But when the protests end in humiliating arrests & abandoned trucks? That news gets three paragraphs, on page 11, below a longer, more detailed story on a female school teacher who had sex with her students. And the cover story? “COED MURDER MYSTERY.”

Note the method. A propagandist hypes up a threat—like all those Mexican caravans that never arrived—and then just moves on with the help of distractions.

Their tiny little voice speaks volumes.

Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post.

Are you seeing propaganda? Do you ever notice the stories that suddenly disappear because they have become inconvenient? Share some examples.