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2018: When Orwell’s 1984 stopped being fiction
2018: When Orwell’s 1984 stopped being fiction This is the moment when a newspaper claiming to uphold that most essential function in a liberal democracy – acting as a watchdog on power – formally abandons the task. This is the moment when it positively embraces the role of serving as a mouthpiece for the government. […]
The Guardian Is Committing Journalistic Malpractice By Not Retracting This Claim
The Guardian Is Committing Journalistic Malpractice By Not Retracting This Claim On the 19th of April, The Guardian published an article making the positive assertion that two Twitter accounts were run not by real people, but by automated bot software based in Russia. Since the article was published, the owners of both accounts have stepped forward, […]
BBC Reporter Discourages Syria Questions Due To “Information War” With Russia
BBC Reporter Discourages Syria Questions Due To “Information War” With Russia A BBC interview is making the rounds today among opponents of western interventionism in Syria. The subject of the interview, Admiral Alan West, voiced some much needed skepticism about the establishment narrative around the alleged gas attack in Douma. Everybody’s talking about it because West […]
Murdered Slovak Journalist Was Investigating Prime Minister’s Aide Linked to Suspected Italian Mafia Figure
Murdered Slovak Journalist Was Investigating Prime Minister’s Aide Linked to Suspected Italian Mafia Figure BEFORE HE WAS murdered last week with a single shot to the chest, and his body left alongside that of his fiancée, who was killed with one shot to the head, the Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak had been amassing evidence […]
The Controversy around Skin in the Game
The Controversy around Skin in the Game Skin in the Game is another addition to the Incerto, now volume 5; I avoided duplication by referring to where in the Incerto some points were developed such as via negativa or monoculture of forecasters or expert problems. You simply don’t repeat in chapter 23 what was said in […]
Opinion: Fearless Adversarial Journalism Doesn’t Work When You Are Funded By A Billionaire
Opinion: Fearless Adversarial Journalism Doesn’t Work When You Are Funded By A Billionaire Disobedient Media previously opined on the dagger-in-the-back publication of a hit piece against Wikileaks’ Julian Assange just one day after a UK magistrate, with blatant conflict of interest in the matter, shot down his legal representatives’ attempt to finally free him from […]
Brazil’s Largest Newspaper Abandons Facebook; Says News Feed is “Banning Professional Journalism”
Brazil’s Largest Newspaper Abandons Facebook; Says News Feed is “Banning Professional Journalism” São Paulo, Brazil— The largest newspaper in Brazil, Folha de S Paulo, announced late last week that due to Facebook’s recent changes to their news feed algorithm resulting in what the paper claims is “effectively banning professional journalism,” it would cease publishing content on […]
Untying PropOrNot: Who They Are … and a Look at 2017’s Biggest Fake News Story
Untying PropOrNot: Who They Are … and a Look at 2017’s Biggest Fake News Story A little over a year ago, the deep-state graced the world with Propornot. Thanks to them, 2017 became the year of fake news. Every news website and opinion column now had the potential to be linked to the Steele dossier […]
Mainstream Media and Imperial Power
Mainstream Media and Imperial Power Noted journalist and filmmaker John Pilger’s collection of work has been archived by the British Library, but deep-rooted problems of Western media create an increasingly difficult landscape for ethical journalism, as Pilger explained in an interview with Dennis Bernstein and Randy Credico. Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Pilger is among the […]
Fake News: Defining and Defeating
Fake News: Defining and Defeating Real techniques for identifying fake news and disinformation Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to present his media critics with so-called “fake news awards,” it is more important than ever to define what “fake news” actually is, and what it is not. President Trump’s repeated accusations of fake news are […]
“We Don’t Consider You a Legitimate Journalist”–How I Got Blacklisted by the Pentagon’s Africa Command
Photo: Natalie Jidovanu “WE DON’T CONSIDER YOU A LEGITIMATE JOURNALIST” — HOW I GOT BLACKLISTED BY THE PENTAGON’S AFRICA COMMAND CONVERSATIONS WITH MILITARY spokespeople can be curt, even confrontational, but they are not supposed to go this way. “Nick, we’re not going to respond to any of your questions” Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Falvo, the head […]
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror I was sitting in the nearly empty restaurant of the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, getting ready for a showdown with the federal government that I had been trying to avoid for more than seven years. The Obama administration […]
Russia-gate’s Reach into Journalism
Russia-gate’s Reach into Journalism The investigation to somehow blame Russia for Donald Trump’s election has now merged with another establishment goal of isolating and intimidating whistleblowers and other dissidents, as Dennis J Bernstein describes. The Russia-gate investigation has reached into the ranks of journalism with the House Intelligence Committee’s subpoena of Randy Credico, who produced […]
Did Anyone Do Even a Minimal Check on the Sensationalist Bitcoin Electrical Consumption Story?
Did Anyone Do Even a Minimal Check on the Sensationalist Bitcoin Electrical Consumption Story? Check the context before uncritically accepting sensationalist conclusions. Let’s start with a primer on how to write a sensationalist story that can be passed off as “journalism:” 1. Locate credible-sounding data that can be de-contextualized, i.e. sensationalized. 2. Present the data […]
Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That are False
Photo: Joe Raedle/AP Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That are False There is ample talk, particularly of late, about the threats posed by social media to democracy and political discourse. Yet one of the primary ways that democracy is degraded by platforms such and Facebook and Twitter […]
