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Anyone Who’d Support Going To War Over Taiwan Is A Crazy Idiot
Anyone Who’d Support Going To War Over Taiwan Is A Crazy Idiot Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Taiwan has been in the news a lot lately, and it’s really bringing out the crazy in people. The mass media have been falsely reporting that China has been encroaching on Taiwan’s “air defense zone”, which gets stretched into […]
All Our Problems Are Built On Us-Vs-Them Propaganda
All Our Problems Are Built On Us-Vs-Them Propaganda Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Liberal pundit Keith Olbermann shared a video the other day where he ranted about people who don’t want to take the Covid vaccine with such emotional vitriol that spittle flew from his mouth and drool poured down his chin. I found […]
People Don’t Understand How Unfree We Already Are
People Don’t Understand How Unfree We Already Are Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The biggest and most widespread blind spot among those who oppose totalitarian control by the powerful is the assumption that it has not already been achieved. We’ve been so busy watching out for the next overtly totalitarian dictatorship that […]
WikiLeaks Puts Afghanistan Back on Media Agenda
WikiLeaks Puts Afghanistan Back on Media Agenda Immigration Dominates Cable News The war in Afghanistan — a subject that has generated periodic spikes in media interest but not a high level of sustained coverage — was back atop the mainstream news agenda last week. And this time, the catalyst was neither violence on the ground […]
Reporters May Face 14 Years In Prison For ‘Embarrassing’ UK Government Officials
Reporters May Face 14 Years In Prison For ‘Embarrassing’ UK Government Officials People who believe President Obama abused his powers by cracking on journalists are about to be even more shocked by new rules being implemented in the UK. According to the Daily Mail, journalists could face prison sentences of up to 14 years for stories that […]
Snowden: Journalism
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After Russiagate, Why WOULDN’T People Be Skeptical About Covid?
After Russiagate, Why WOULDN’T People Be Skeptical About Covid? Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ You hardly ever hear about Russiagate anymore. The last time it made a blip in the radar was when disgraced Collusion author Luke Harding published a very thinly-sourced story in The Guardian claiming to have proof that Donald Trump was a Kremlin asset, but […]
TSHTF
TSHTF You just know everything’s going pear shaped when the venerable acronym TSHTF, well known in our circles, hits mainstream media….. The below article written by Fiona Blackwood from the Hobart ABC Bureau appeared on the ABC News website and it’s so full of ironies I just had to pull it apart. So please bear […]
“The Enemies of the State”: The New York Times and The Fluidity of Advocacy Journalism
“The Enemies of the State”: The New York Times and The Fluidity of Advocacy Journalism We have been discussing the rise of advocacy journalism and the rejection of objectivity in journalism schools. The New York Times has been at the forefront of this shift away from traditional reporting but has increasingly found that the fluidity of advocacy […]
Report: Biden Administration Officials “Unmasked” Tucker Carlson
Report: Biden Administration Officials “Unmasked” Tucker Carlson A few weeks ago, I testified in the House Judiciary Committee on the surveillance of journalists in a long series of scandals from the Bush to the Obama to the Trump to the Biden Administrations. These scandals have occurred with almost seasonal regularity. There was a rare sense of bipartisanship in […]
Former New York Times Editor: “I’m a Biased Journalist and I’m Okay With That.”
Former New York Times Editor: “I’m a Biased Journalist and I’m Okay With That.” We have been discussing the movement in journalism to discard out-dated notions of objectivity and define journalism as a form of advocacy. Now, Lauren Wolfe, the recently fired freelance editor for the New York Times, has not only gone public to defend her […]
The System Isn’t There To Protect Us From Criminals, It’s To Protect Criminals From Us
The System Isn’t There To Protect Us From Criminals, It’s To Protect Criminals From Us Listen to a reading of this article: Iraq war architect Donald Rumsfeld has died. Not in a prison cell in The Hague, not murdered by bombs or bullets, but peacefully in his home, surrounded by loved ones, a week and a […]
‘Rules-Based International Order’ Means Washington-Based International Order
‘Rules-Based International Order’ Means Washington-Based International Order Listen to a reading of this article: The US government has shut down multiple news media websites based in the Middle East, including Iran’s state-owned Press TV, and al-Masirah TV which is owned by the Houthi group Ansarullah in Yemen. The Department of Justice said on Tuesday it had seized 36 Iranian-linked […]
The ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Charade
The ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Charade How government and media use the phrase to suppress opposition.by Biden’s “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” report last week declared that “enhancing faith in American democracy” requires “finding ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories.” In recent decades, conspiracy theories have multiplied almost as fast as government lies […]
