Media and propaganda

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches the media through the wars under way and what the media leave unsaid. On the war in Ukraine, he points to a media unanimity he says he has never seen before. He sees in it a "mush of sentiment", in Hegel's phrase, which exploits compassion instead of setting out the chain of causes. He sets a 2014 France 2 report on far-right militiamen in Kyiv against what is denied today1. Drawing on Halbwachs, he describes an amnesia induced by the social frameworks of memory, which the media fix in place. Regarding the Sahel, he shows that since Voltaire and the Calas affair public opinion has been an actor that must be won over in order to wage war, hence the silence about the region. He also compares two reports on the Téra convoy2. In 2025, he takes up Freud's remark that the death drives "progress in silence": the media din covers what must be kept quiet, for instance the recruitment of former Nazis by the American intelligence services. Against this he sets the restoration of sourced historical sequences3.

1. 1#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022
2. 2SPÉCIAL NIGER : Faut-il "noircir les cadavres" ?7 Aug 2023
3. 3Les silences du vacarme médiatique - nouveau cycle : la renazification atlantiste.21 Oct 2025

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