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German Journalists Investigated For Treason After Publishing Surveillance Leaks
German Journalists Investigated For Treason After Publishing Surveillance Leaks Two journalists at the prominent German news website Netzpolitik are under investigation for treason after publishing details about the planned expansion of the German Secret Service’s Internet surveillance program. On Wednesday, the organization received a letter from the Federal Attorney General of Germany confirming ongoing investigations against reporters Markus Beckedahl, […]
UK Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists
UK Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists A secretive British police investigation focusing on journalists working with Edward Snowden’s leaked documents remains ongoing two years after it was quietly launched, The Intercept can reveal. London’s Metropolitan Police Service has admitted it is still carrying out the probe, which is being led by its counterterrorism department, […]
Journalists’ Complicity in Hiding Those Guilty for MH17
Journalists’ Complicity in Hiding Those Guilty for MH17 Robert Parry headlined on July 9th, “MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog,” and he wrote: “Many investigative journalists, including myself, have been rebuffed in repeated efforts to get verifiable proof about the case or even informational briefings.” His phrase “have been rebuffed” was linked to a July 3rd article by nsnbc’s […]
Looking Inside Fukushima Prefecture
Looking Inside Fukushima Prefecture An Insider’s Story Because of Japan’s unconscionable open-ended new secrecy law, it is very likely journalism in the nation has turned tail, scared of its own shadow. Nevertheless, glimmers of what has happened, of what is happening, do surface when brave people come forward. On May 22nd 2015 Hiromichi Ugaya, a […]
Pentagon Brands ‘Belligerent’ Journalists As Legitimate “Enemy Combatant” Targets
Pentagon Brands ‘Belligerent’ Journalists As Legitimate “Enemy Combatant” Targets The Pentagon has released an 1,176-page book of instructions on the “The Law Of War” detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled “unprivileged belligerents,” an obscure term that replaces the Bush era “unlawful enemy combatant.” As The Washington Times reports, an […]
Today Financial Journalism Suffered An Epic Failure
Today Financial Journalism Suffered An Epic Failure Earlier today we reported about a very sad development for the freedom of speech, or at least the illusion thereof, when one of, if not the best, critical Federal Reserve reporter in the mainstream media, WSJ’s Pedro da Costa founds he was no longer “invited” to the Fed’s quarterly press […]
The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at Its Worst–and Filled With Falsehoods
The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at Its Worst–and Filled With Falsehoods Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, […]
American journalism’s ideology: Why the “liberal” media is fundamentalist
American journalism’s ideology: Why the “liberal” media is fundamentalist Note: The memo below is my response to an editor at a U.S. news organization who was soliciting feedback for a review of the organization’s coverage of environmental news. From a conservative point of view, this newsroom is part of the “liberal media.” My goal in […]
Media Lessons From Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
Media Lessons From Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources Two years ago, the first story based on the Snowden archive was published in the Guardian, revealing a program of domestic mass surveillance which, at least in its original form, ended this week. To commemorate that anniversary, Edward Snowden himself reflected in a New York Times Op-Edon the “power of an informed public” […]
Western ‘News’ Media as Tyranny’s Propagandists Hiding Reality
Western ‘News’ Media as Tyranny’s Propagandists Hiding Reality 1: The ugly realities are covered up, not covered; here’s an example of what you don’t see in the regime’s media about the people whom Americans’ tax dollars are bombing and killing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgB2bhFfEtM&app=desktop 2: The great investigative journalist John Pilger discusses the systematic truth-suppression: http://johnpilger.com/articles/war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda 3: The […]
Ukraine- Nazi’s Target American Journalist in Donbass
Ukraine- Nazi’s Target American Journalist in Donbass Preface from Washington’s Blog: We are not pro-Russian. We think Putin can be an asshole, and we are appalled by Russia’s crackdown on human rights. We are Americans who are pro-truth. And we follow the truth wherever it leads. Journalists are seldom the story and they shouldn’t be. […]
Watching Shadows of Liberty
Watching Shadows of Liberty A powerful new film on what’s wrong with the U.S. media is now being screened around the country. It’s called Shadows of Liberty and you can set up a screening of it as part of an upcoming international week of actions for whistleblowers called Stand Up For Truth. Or you can buy the DVD […]
