Media Domination and Arrows of Honeyed Speech

By Ibrahim Sabti

It seems that Media violence industry, practiced by some satellite channels that are oriented against the change which is going on in Iraq after the fall of the dreadful statue in 2003, is springing from some bases of change according to the political map and the rise of the daily event mode.

 These bases cannot withstand any confrontation unless a watertight plan is designed for how to attack any important achievement that might appear in the horizon that media domination can only be achieved by those who knew media fabrication, influence and tricks.

Domination, therefore, in its common sense, needs some justification to be marketed to the public opinion, which is difficult to penetrate.

This is attributed to the series of events and experiences that stormed the country during four decades of mass-mobilization, subsequent wars, economic blockade and agonies.

The Iraqi individual, as a result, used to analyze news or event before being marketed by the horrifying machine.

     Noam Chomsky, in his book (Media Domination: Propaganda Amazing Achievements), says that "the efficiency of mass media and their extraordinary ability to create acceptance do not appear when they are committed to a minimum level of ethics in presenting facts and defending them, because the right, in itself, is a power  capable of persuasion.

However, this efficiency appears in the way it succeeds in drawing people's attention away from the essence of the problems,   obliterating facts, fabricating alternatives and beautifying them in people's eyes so as to change their convictions concerning them".

     In line with this concept, the supercilious and interacting media with events escalate their affected speech directed to people of different levels.

These media channels have even made their followers of the different cultural levels gradually move to a lower level than expected.

This is the basis of the controversial project of the domination media which is practiced by some nets, agencies, organizations and satellite channels.

One should admit that the essence of this roar is that the experience of the nations, in altering their lifestyle and freeing themselves from the tyrant observer, can not develop or succeed unless these lobbies stand against them, prevent them and keep them away from interaction with the people.

In Chomsky's analysis of media domination, one can find that the media address pays no attention to ethics in its thoughts, rather to implant doubts about many convictions and issues, leading the involvement in fabricated crises and the issues pertaining to people's life where media are aware of how to affect their feelings.

Consequently, mass media achieved the aim of the domination under a worn-out and difficult situation forgetting that this thought has been timeworn and it has vanished from people's minds after the black decades, which destroyed the taste as the cultivated, the learned and the competent, who have realized their danger, left in mass emigration following a systematic and intentional destruction of the state's institutions. 

This destruction resulted from tyranny that dominated the whole country.

The Iraqi individual tolerated some sort of domination, that he cannot forget and that which does not exist in his life activities.

Thus, no mass medium could dominate people's minds and withdraw or weaken the recognition, consciousness, understanding, reasoning and induction of the inner thoughts, which these mass media and nets have not considered.

After a series of field experiments of intentional broadcast, some of the satellite channels sought to consider the Iraqi people as their share that they adhere to after 2003; and that no other means could compete with them over this costly gain.

 The channels mobilized a cadre capable of running the frightening campaign against Iraqis who got rid of the dark conditions.

 Thus strikes became stronger, wounds came successive and the arrows of the bloody honeyed speech fell in heaps to spread some sort of terror.

These satellite channels make use of all the modern means in leading the fevered campaign so as to bring death to selves and to reinforce one fact only; despair and asking God's mercy upon what was then! This is what these destructive channel seek to achieve

The media war has got inflamed, arrows have become tensed, the analyst army have invaded all the satellite channel corners and beautiful ladies grouped in a queue to read news bulletins until morning.

 People involved in destroying Iraq have received spiritual and financial gifts which came from every gentleman who is zealous for Arabism and their springboards are in Iraq's soil. The zealous gentlemen have regarded what happened as a loss of dignity and death of the dear country!

The Iraqi land has witnessed the largest media campaigns led by Arab and non-Arab institutions which support domination over the Iraqi space after the bomb cars frightened, killed and deformed an unlimited number of Iraqis. So it is natural for these horrific scenes to be preceded by more violent ones made by blood brothers who have the same history and destiny.

This is the war that has been waged against children and old men at the same time.

Then it is war but of a totally different meaning, i.e., the war of the bombed media which is seeking to destroy the Iraqi structures as taste and as a country in all its dignity.

Iraq, then, is an interesting conflict field for their analyses to develop their abilities and studies and a factory for their chicks.

Their selves cannot have mercy upon the country and its people; it is a war that they have firmly seized and to which they have raised their swords.

What type of power that seeks to have dominance over houses, streets and cafes?  All hope and eagerly wait for relief (brought by an item of news or a commentary) towards amusing views after the regime's dreadful fall.

Which type of people that have not yet until now celebrated the removal of the tyrant as years pass one by one? That the anniversary becomes far and routine which is never mentioned except in children's books after scores of years. 

This terror, that accompanies the modern media in a modern way and an intended  destruction in order to remove the Iraqi joys and replace them by bombs and   explosive devices, is the type pf media that gets  delighted by our horror and becomes distressed by our children's laughter.  

Translated by Dr Mehdi al-Ghazalli