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Sedition in slow motion
DEAR EDITOR,
Slowly the fog lifts, and we see how the daily “news” is being misused by some professional propagandists and political operatives as tools with which to achieve their own objectives.
It is a well prepared scheme; a busy public will not take the time to sift out facts from opinion and truth from lies. They are fooled into trusting the TV talking heads and the printed news page as black and white legitimacy.
These “fake media” establishments fight hard to keep their true function hidden, and a press-pass or accreditation by some semi-functional representative body completes the facade of journalistic respectability.
These media groups use terms such as “independent” and “free” press as shields behind which they plot and scheme.
Guyana’s democratic culture has allowed for a proliferation of such outfits, where so called “reporters” (really “hired-guns”) are recruited to produce stories aimed at disempowering elected officials and undermining constitutional authority.
Then national institutions, such as the elected Government, are destabilised bit by bit, story by story. What is really going on here is sedition in slow motion.
Subversive stories fashioned as “news reports” are being fed to the people. Some folks are taught to believe that they are under duress by unfriendly forces. Even imagined racial insecurities are exploited, and some are made to think they are being marginalised.
We’ve seen in the past how some folks, incited by pernicious media operatives, resorted to riotous actions.
Guyanese society must save itself.
People have got to recognise the difference between genuine news and activists’ propaganda, and they have got to withdraw their support — financial and otherwise — from the fake media.
The alternative is to risk leaving their children’s future in the hands of power hungry madmen and political agents who have no conscience with which to feel a sense of shame.
Justin de Freitas
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