TEHRAN- When a country is portrayed for decades as dangerous, untrustworthy and inherently threatening, the plot of attacking it becomes easier to accept. The current war with Iran reflects this dynamic, after years in which mainstream Western media repeatedly cast it as unsafe, potential threat!
The International Union of Journalists (IUJ) has issued as statement denouncing attacks on journalists and media outlets in Iran in the wake of the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that began on February 28. The IUJ stressed that those responsible for attacking media workers be held accountable and face strict legal action.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. This famous statement, attributed to Joseph Goebbels, the German Minister of Information, was made more than eighty years ago during WWII. Yet in many ways it still seems to echo through some modern newsrooms.
