Frederick Forsyth described in his novel The Dogs of War a unit of hard, efficient, and unscrupulous mercenaries operating in the African conflicts of the 1960s and 70s. They had at least a code: they fulfilled the contract, admitted what they were, and moved on. The media mercenaries of today are more dangerous. They do not move on. They stay inside, gnawing at the roots of their nations on the public payroll and with ideological conviction. And they believe themselves to be journalists.
How media became the elite’s mercenaries
A war is not always fought with weapons. Sometimes it is fought with narratives. And whoever controls the narrative controls the outcome.
