Sunday Thoughts October 2, 2022

If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday.

A big and important power of the media is the power to ignore. This is evident in the terrorist attack on the European gas lines last week. There were news stories, but nowhere near the volume one would expect from such a thing. There were no narratives posted by the usual suspects. Compare the coverage of the storm to the coverage of the bombing. The former is just weather porn, the latter is one of the most important geopolitical events in our lifetime.

Tucker talked about it last week in one of his monologues. It is as if the usual suspects in the media have been waiting for the scripts to arrive. They do not know what to say because they have not been told what to say and there is no obvious narrative structure.  You cannot blame it on the bad guys as that is too ridiculous even for this age. There can be no good guys here as blowing up civilian infrastructure is always considered a bad thing. The only solution is to ignore it.

This may turn out to be a critical event. The practical impact is hard to know. There are two other pipelines bringing gas into Europe. Maybe that will be enough to survive winter. One of them goes through Ukraine, so that is a concern. The bigger issue is the moral one. Washington just squandered all of its moral capital on this caper. You cannot be seen as the good guy when you are blowing up civilian infrastructure on allied territory. There is no way to ignore that reality.

Topics

·         Fake Russia News (Link)

·         The Usual Suspects (Link)

·         Fake Russia News #2 (Link)

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