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Seriously Crazy Idea: Trump Proposes US State-Run News Agency
Seriously Crazy Idea: Trump Proposes US State-Run News Agency Trump is blasting CNN again today. OK, but his alleged “solution” is seriously crazy. Here are some counter-Tweets that I agree with: oat on Twitter “@realDonaldTrump Holy Christ. You’re advocating for a state-run press. This is possibly the most dangerous idea you’ve floated. And… twitter.com Claude […]
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn Photo Source Edwardx | CC BY 2.0 The BBC spreads fake news. We all know that. From the uncritical parroting of the British government’s Iraqi weapons of mass destruction claims to the unchallenged lies spouted by […]
How George W. Bush Corrupted America’s ‘News’-Reporting
How George W. Bush Corrupted America’s ‘News’-Reporting In order to understand today’s demonization of Vladimir Putin, one must go back to US President George W. Bush’s propaganda for “regime-change in Iraq” and demonization of Saddam Hussein at that time. The US regime now has come to recognize that with Putin’s high approval-ratings from the Russian public, the US […]
What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed by All the Terrible Events Going On In the World
What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed by All the Terrible Events Going On In the World Looking at the news lately is bound to hit you right in the feelings. It’s almost impossible not to be overwhelmed by it all. There are so many terrible things happening. Massacres in places of worship. Thousands of people […]
The Press Makes the News – They No longer Report It – A Sign of the End of Political Times
The Press Makes the News – They No longer Report It – A Sign of the End of Political Times QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong – On 08/23 you wrote a blog entry that seems to espouse two incongruous claims: (1) That the press has distorted & propagandized its news reporting so egregiously now that the American […]
How the media encourages – and sustains – political warfare
How the media encourages – and sustains – political warfare Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been waging war against the American press by dismissing unfavorable reports as “fake news” and calling the media “the enemy of the American people.” As a countermeasure, The Washington Post has publicly fact-checked every claim that Trump has labeled […]
OPINION: CBS’s & NPR’s Rabidly False ‘News’ About the Khashoggi Case
OPINION: CBS’s & NPR’s Rabidly False ‘News’ About the Khashoggi Case CBS It’s a lie to say, as CBS ‘News’ did on October 24th, that Saudi Crown Prince Salman couldn’t have done what Turkey says he did in the Khashoggi case — couldn’t do it, because it’s not in the Saud family’s “DNA” to do […]
Blowout Week 251
Blowout Week 251 We are told that the cost of Li-ion storage batteries is decreasing. Not so with Tesla, which has just increased the price of its 13.5 kWh Powerwall unit plus supporting hardware from $US6,600 ($489/kWh) to $7,800 ($578/kWh). The $100/kWh “holy grail” price considered necessary to support mass deployment of battery storage is […]
How To Make A Solid, Customized News Stream That Isn’t Manipulated By Silicon Valley
How To Make A Solid, Customized News Stream That Isn’t Manipulated By Silicon Valley It can be hard to find a supply of information about what’s going on in the world that isn’t being manipulated by power. You find a news outlet you like, then you start to notice them hiring reporters who regurgitate the establishment […]
New Vehicle Sales “Collapse” And Pending Home Sales “Plunge” As America’s Economic Slowdown Accelerates
New Vehicle Sales “Collapse” And Pending Home Sales “Plunge” As America’s Economic Slowdown Accelerates In late 2018, the bad economic news just keeps rolling in. At a time when consumer confidence is absolutely soaring, the underlying economic numbers are clearly telling us that enormous problems are right around the corner. Of course this is usually […]
We Need More, Not Less, Separation of State and Journalism
We Need More, Not Less, Separation of State and Journalism “Newspapers are dying,” writes Rob Kall, Editor-in-Chief of progressive (but refreshingly open-minded) opinion site OpEdNews, in a (recently updated) 2010 op-ed. “Let them. There may have been people who wanted to rescue the buggy whip industry. But they were misguided. It was transportation they really […]
ThinkProgress Censored By Facebook After Cheerleading Facebook Censorship
ThinkProgress Censored By Facebook After Cheerleading Facebook Censorship In an article last month titled “Facebook announces that fake accounts are now coming not just from Russia”, fauxgressive establishment apologia firm ThinkProgress falsely reported that I have been writing for an outlet that is alleged to be part of an Iranian propaganda campaign. I repeatedlybrought this false claim […]
That Time CNN Staged A Fake Interview With A Syrian Child For War Propaganda
That Time CNN Staged A Fake Interview With A Syrian Child For War Propaganda Imagine if you and some friends wandered into a completely dark room together for some reason. You’ve never been in this room before, and you can’t see a thing. Now imagine one of your friends says he can see everything in […]
How US Government Relies on Lying Media
How US Government Relies on Lying Media On Friday, August 31st, the neoconservative US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “The 3 million Syrians who have already been forced out of their homes and are now in #Idlib, will suffer from this aggression. Not good. The world is watching.” By “this aggression,” he was referring to the […]
Chuck Todd Blames Fox For Press Distrust, Urges Liberal Media To ‘Rise Up’
Chuck Todd Blames Fox For Press Distrust, Urges Liberal Media To ‘Rise Up’ In what we initially assumed was a satire piece, NBC News’ ‘fair and balanced’political chief Chuck Todd has taken to the auspiciously open-minded pages of The Atlantic to pen an op-ed explaining how we’ve all got it all wrong – it is […]
