Novels are a type of narrative, but the news broadcast on television channels or the information written on social media sites also constitute narratives. - War narrativesSince WWII, the United States has been the foremost actor in the use of information media to promote narratives in support of military action. Those claims were then used to justify actions that resulted in untold suffering for Iraqi citizens and mollify the US public and international community. Similar to Putin’s Ukrainian neo-Nazi narrative, much of the US narrative about Hussein was false or distorted, but grains of truth also existed. The domestic US media may, in Ben Rhodes’ notorious words, "literally know nothing"[2], but the international community is no longer so naive.

Source: New York Times April 05, 2022 15:51 UTC