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UK: Food Shortages ‘Inevitable’ – “The real food crisis for food supplies starts now.”
UK: Food Shortages ‘Inevitable’ – “The real food crisis for food supplies starts now.” Industry experts are warning that food shortages are “inevitable” in the UK as crops rot without reaching retail. Imports of beef from the EU are to be cut 85% under Brexit, leaving Brits asking “Where’s the beef?” and seeing absurdly high […]
Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’
Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’ In October 2020, I analysed press coverage of degrowth in Western European (English language) newspapers and magazines between January 2015 and October 2020. Using media theory concepts such as agenda setting and framing, my research explored how degrowth is being considered in the […]
Biden’s Attack on the Press – Same as Lenin
Biden’s Attack on the Press – Same as Lenin The Washington Post and New York Times should look at history. They may have waged war to get rid of Trump and cheered all night long when Biden was declared the winner. But little did they realize that those in Washington behind the curtain pulling all […]
“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating
“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do The soul of rectitude testifies in the Senate The news business just can’t stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating, of all places, at a “festival of […]
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They’re Agents of It
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They’re Agents of It News companies are pioneering a new brand of vigilante reporting, partnering with spy agencies they once oversaw Former CIA director John Brennan was a media villain, now he’s media himself. What a difference a decade makes. Just over ten years ago, on July 25, […]
How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden
How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden We live in a world where words are very carefully chosen. Companies hire public relations firms to give just the right “spin” to what they are saying. Politicians make statements which suggest that everything is going well. Newspapers would like their advertisers to be happy; they certainly […]
Corporate News Outlets Again “Confirm” the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it
Corporate News Outlets Again “Confirm” the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation. Rudy Giuliani appeared before the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan […]
Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One
Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One The most significant Trump-era alliance is between corporate outlets and security state agencies, whose evidence-free claims they unquestioningly disseminate. A US soldier in Afghanistan CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES That Russia placed “bounties” on the heads of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was one of […]
CNN’s Blatant Disinformation About Russia-Ukraine Activity
CNN’s Blatant Disinformation About Russia-Ukraine Activity Confrontation with Russia is in line with a sensationalist media, influenced by neocons, neolibs and flat-out Russia-haters. MSNBC host Joe Scarborough’s belittling comments against fair and balanced Russia related journalism relate to an April 12-13 CNN airing on recent matters concerning Russia and Ukraine. The segment at issue begins […]
It’s The Media’s Job To Normalize War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
It’s The Media’s Job To Normalize War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Exactly zero percent of the world’s worst criminals are in prison. Imperialists. War profiteers. Ecocide profiteers. The very worst of thieves are financial elites. The system isn’t designed to protect us from society’s worst, it’s designed to protect society’s worst […]
Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves
Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves Powerful media figures now invoke sexist and racist tropes to cast themselves as so fragile and marginalized that critiques of their work constitute bullying and assault. An unidentified man walks through the lobby of the Gannett-USA Today headquarters building August 20, 2013 on a […]
Have Journalists become Traitors to the United States?
Have Journalists become Traitors to the United States? Those in management at most of the mainstream media should be dragged from their offices and charged with conspiracy to overthrow the United States government and to eradicate the US. Constitution. The Washington Post displays its motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness” and indeed they are at war […]
Congressional Testimony: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists
Congressional Testimony: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists A hearing of the House Subcommittee focused on anti-trust and monopoly abuses examines the role of the corporate media in these growing pathologies. Hearing of the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, Mar. 12, 2021 There are not many Congressional committees regularly […]
Mainstream Journalism Doesn’t Exist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Mainstream Journalism Doesn’t Exist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Journalists should be exposing inconvenient truths about powerful people in their own nation and its allies. Instead the people we call “journalists” criticize enemy nations, smear political dissidents, demand increasing amounts of censorship, and advance narratives that are convenient for the powerful. ❖ […]
House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms
House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms Democrats’ justification for silencing their adversaries online and in media — “they are spreading fake news and inciting extremism” — is what despots everywhere say. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (C) with other House Democrats at the U.S. Capitol January 15, 2020 […]
