Attract images in the youtube preroll (what you’d see when you mouse over this video on youtube) for news clips, with three year olds with cardboard weapons in their hands sounding *piew* *piew* *piew* - which is outright heroic, because its the clip for “US troops arrive in Poland to deter & defend”.
Interviews with the people on the streets containing the following sentiment: “Ukraine has been in a state of war since 2014, some of my friends have not returned from the front, and I’m constantly thinking about it, it touches every family - we are not just preparing for an attack, its happening already. We are not preparing for anything, this - is simply our life.”
Ah, the healthy western propaganda. Child with cardboard automatic weapon and red wool beanie, and psychologically instable young women conflating the death of her friends with purpose - even more so, with it being a necessary part of their daily lives, that will prolong into the future. For the nation, for future generations, for the non resolved part of the trauma that is showing…
Ah… That is good TV. What wonderful sentiments. “For freedom” is so abstract compared to that, wheres the human angle on that…
The demonstration to stop russian aggression then is brought to you as the third element of this very informative clip. Wasn’t “on message” enough, I presume… At least they showed clips of people singing the Ukraine anthem with their fist on their heart, thats at least pathos!
Lets go to our correspondent next, ask them some question about how the EU sees this, that no one is asking. But that for some reason also is their thumbnail title.
No need to contextualize what we just showed.
edit: Just for comparisons sake, this is the attract roll CBS put together. Same news story.
edit2: I’ll also drop this here (Additional information (on what drives public sentiments)).
