Narrative Management = Reality Management
The Grayzoneโs Max Blumenthal has published the first part of an investigative series on how so-called non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are being used to manipulate the narrative about whatโs going on in Syria by posing as impartial investigative bodies and circulating pro-imperialist disinformation to the western political/media class as objective fact. Part one is titled โBehind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an opposition front group became Western mediaโs go-to monitorโ, and it documents a mountain of evidence that one of these โNGOsโ is in fact very much state-funded and highly biased in favor of anti-Assad forces, yet still gets cited as an independent source by western mass media outlets in a way that just so happens to help make the case for western interventionism in Syria.