Through a glass darkly

Farangi’s post Franz Ferdinand’s Last Sigh is one of the sharpest rebukes yet on western media’s coverage of Benazir Bhutto’s killing. Not so much because it asserts that there is a conspiracy and exhorts people to question it, that we all know, but because it identifies a remarkable shift in the American psyche that occurred by the end of the 60s — a disavowal that is closely guarded and sustained through the minutiae of daily currency –an arrangement that is critical to the maintenance of US hegemony in the shifting sands of geopolitics. If you dont believe me, just try to recollect howmany times you hear the caveat — “I dislike conspiracy theories as much as you do” as preface to ponderous pronouncements. The post may seem a bit abstruse for readers not used to this style of writing — and since I am driving unsuspecting new traffic to the post – a couple of quick notes: MSM is main stream media. Franz Ferdinand — the Archduke of Austria whose assassination is often cited as the event that precipitated the World War I.

All well. I am still very annoyed at the complete black out on what the Pakistani newspapers are saying — in English, in Sindhi, in Punjabi, in Urdu…. those utterances and silences are the indices of what the assassination means in Pakistan. And we are so obsessed with what the MSM thinks about us. MSM who ?