it's crazy how many permutations of speculative articles the media has written when in reality they simply don't know anything
it's crazy how many permutations of speculative articles the media has written when in reality they simply don't know anything
I've come to the conclusion that these are written with the specific target of being read by the people they're about and sowing seeds of doubt. They want her to read it and they want to sow seeds of conflict internally.
They take events like a released list of people given various powers and then take the opportunity to haphazardly guess at who might harbor some discontent over not being selected, then they write about them in order to try and reinforce their discontent. This kind of thing is is pushed directly from intelligence and the media agencies put it out in exchange for access to the true stories that are given to them as Stockwell said.
It's basically just guesswork. Try and guess at who might be unhappy and then try and enflame that seed of unhappiness. There's always unhappy people when various selections and events occur that would involve power struggles or aspirations behind the scenes. It makes sense as loose thread to try and pull on it.
I think it is the opposite. I'm pretty sure NK understand perfectly well they don't know wtf they are talking about and don't pay attention. But it is because this is not read by the audience but by people who have absolutely 0 contact with the target and anyone who can outright disprove them, they have a free pass to make up anything they want.
I think that's an incidental side-benefit.
The most common use of media by the western propaganda machine is to try and influence people INSIDE target countries, in order to try and dismantle that country. Since they have no means to create media inside it though and very little information their capabilities are degraded to this haphazard approach that involves guesswork and hope. They would prefer to create a Radio Free NorthKorea but obviously can't.
In the long-long term it also forms the basis of trying to flip target individuals to the side of liberalism. They think she might one day be powerful, if they can lib her now then they can lib the country later.
It's the reason why they CAN say all that stuff. If it was easy to discredit they wouldn't say it because they'd just lose credibility.
These are not sold in the DPRK. Even if they were they're too stupid to convince someone who lives there, and most people wouldn't even be able to read them since I don't think most North Koreans have a good level of English understanding.
I know. But the CIA knows that those in the upper government are reading international media.
doing this onion bit, but for regime change.