Flimflammed by dictatorships
Hopefully Canada will use the COVID-19 pandemic as a learning experience once all this isolation, quarantining, and social distancing is over. Lesson number one: don’t believe any messaging coming out of a dictatorship government.
One of the very first things dictatorships gain control of is the media. A free press is able to criticize a government. Dictatorships do not tolerate criticism. What they pass off as news is in actuality, propaganda.
Remember the impressive Olympic ceremonies in China in 2008, and the little girl who dazzled the world with her singing of Ode to the Motherland. It was so good, and she was so adorable, that she found herself on the front page of the NY Times.
But nothing is as it seems with a dictatorship. It turned out the angelic child was lip syncing and the actual singer was another child whose uneven teeth were considered damaging to China’s international reputation if you can believe.
It was also discovered that the fireworks going off in Beijing were much different from the incredible computer generated light-show viewers on television were witnessing via digital imaging. . . . contd.
