{"id":123397,"date":"2022-03-10T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T00:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=123397"},"modified":"2022-03-10T17:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T00:21:48","slug":"abby-martin-how-the-media-manufactures-bloodlust-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/03\/10\/abby-martin-how-the-media-manufactures-bloodlust-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby Martin: How the media manufactures \u2018bloodlust\u2019 for war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>BY\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/maximillian-alvarez\">MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ<\/a> Courtesy The Real News Network<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><em>Just like in the dark days after 9\/11, corporate media have responded to the war in Ukraine with a craven \u2018bloodlust\u2019 that is making all of us less safe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the moment Russian troops invaded Ukraine the entire corporate media apparatus in the US moved to 24-7 coverage, filling airwaves with talking heads relentlessly beating the drums of war. Combined with Big Tech\u2019s sophisticated means for silencing and punishing dissenting voices, the increasingly hostile and propaganda-filled discourse that is taking shape today is eerily reminiscent of the Russiagate\u201d fervor and the cultural hysteria that permeated the post-9\/11 years. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with longtime journalist and activist Abby Martin about how the media\u2019s manufactured bloodlust\u201d for war makes us all less safe and how we must use independent media to advance the cause of peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abby Martin is an American journalist, show presenter, activist, and artist. She helped found the citizen journalism website&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mediaroots.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media Roots<\/a>&nbsp;and is the host of the investigative documentary and interview series&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/theempirefiles.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Empire Files<\/a>. Martin has been involved in numerous film projects, including producing the recent feature documentaries&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gazafightsforfreedom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Gaza Fights for Freedom<\/em><\/a>, and she is currently producing another feature entitled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthsgreatestenemy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Earth\u2019s Greatest Enemy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-real-news-network wp-block-embed-the-real-news-network\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tz5PoFZ7Kx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/abby-martin-how-the-media-manufactures-bloodlust-for-war\">Abby Martin: How the media manufactures \u2018bloodlust\u2019 for war<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Abby Martin: How the media manufactures \u2018bloodlust\u2019 for war&#8221; &#8212; The Real News Network\" src=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/abby-martin-how-the-media-manufactures-bloodlust-for-war\/embed#?secret=rZNwOxMSUR#?secret=tz5PoFZ7Kx\" data-secret=\"tz5PoFZ7Kx\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ Courtesy The Real News Network Just like in the dark days after 9\/11, corporate media have responded to the war in Ukraine with a craven \u2018bloodlust\u2019 that is making all of us less safe. From the moment Russian troops invaded Ukraine the entire corporate media apparatus in the US moved to 24-7 coverage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}