The media are substituting grim predictions for positive facts about the Iran War

[rangerrebew]

 

The media are substituting grim predictions for positive facts about the Iran War
This is a propaganda technique intended to force defeat by destroying public support for the war, despite America’s spectacular battlefield successes.

Andrea Widburg | March 28, 2026
 

I’m just old enough to remember watching CBS News nightly reporting on the Vietnam War, which always ended with the talking head numbering the American dead and wounded from that day’s fighting. Despite this depressing ending, the top reporting was always anchored in actual facts: ‘On this day, American troops did X or Y.’ However, Vietnam was also the war when the leftist media discovered that negative spin worked.

That spin is now part of the warp and woof of the media’s reporting on the current war. Facts are subordinate to predictions, and the predictions are all negative. While our military is fighting the most spectacularly successful war in human history, the media have it losing a hypothetical war premised on all the grim things that “experts” predict might happen, either during the war itself or in its aftermath.

This is no way to report a war. It is, however, a superb way to disseminate what was once defined as treasonous propaganda during a war.

Here’s just a sampling of the type of negativity the media are churning out, not regarding what’s actually happening (Iran’s military and political infrastructure has been wiped out in just a month), but focusing instead on all the possible future worst-case scenarios—a negativity that, in turn, inevitably leads to investor concerns:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/03/the_media_are_substituting_grim_predictions_for_positive_facts_about_the_iran_war.html

[rangerrebew]

Why shouldn't they?  Its the same technique they've used all these years on "global warming" and it has worked like a charm.  The big difference now is that education has dumbed down people and hailed liberalism, which is destroying them, to the point that people are giving America haters the rope with which they will hang the Constitution.

[catfish1957]

Often seems TDS is more insidious than COVID. 

Sufferers symptoms mimic brain rot.

[DefiantMassRINO]

There is nothing positive until the mullahs and the IRGC are all dead.

Blowing up $h!t is not the same as achieiving strategic victory.

The Japanese Dec 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor was a tactical success, but a strategic failure - the real targets were the aircraft carriers that were not in Pearl Harbor that day.

[Fishrrman]

Andrea Widburg writes:
"This is a propaganda technique intended to force defeat by destroying public support for the war, despite America’s spectacular battlefield successes."

Of course the leftist media is on the side of the enemy. Most of them are of the left, if not outright communists.

But Ms. Widburg makes a statement above with which I have a problem:
Where in iran have there been any "battlefield" successes?
Where in iran has the U.S. Army engaged in a "battle" on "the fields"?

(I sense we may actually see something like that transpire, in the not-to-far-off future...)

As RINO posts above:
"Blowing up $h!t is not the same as achieiving strategic victory."

Yup.
And I'll add a statement of my own:
"There are no negotiations possible that will lead to unconditional surrender."