{"id":13655,"date":"2015-10-21T07:25:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13655"},"modified":"2015-10-21T07:25:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:25:35","slug":"mh-17-case-old-journalism-vs-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13655","title":{"rendered":"MH-17 Case: \u2018Old\u2019 Journalism vs. \u2018New\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/10\/20\/mh-17-case-old-journalism-vs-new\/\" target=\"_blank\">MH-17 Case: \u2018Old\u2019 Journalism vs. \u2018New\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\"><strong>Exclusive:\u00a0<\/strong>For skilled\u00a0intelligence operatives, the Internet can be a devil\u2019s playground, a place to circulate doctored photos, audio\u00a0and documents, making investigations based on \u201csocial media\u201d and such sources particularly risky, a point\u00a0worth recalling in\u00a0the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, says Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>The first thing any thinking person learns about the Internet is not to trust everything you see there. While you can find\u00a0much well-researched and reliable material, you\u2019ll also encounter disinformation, spoofs, doctored photographs and crazy conspiracy theories. That would seem to be a basic rule of the Web \u2013\u00a0<em>caveat emptor and\u00a0<\/em>be careful what you do with\u00a0the information \u2013 unless\u00a0you\u2019re following a preferred neocon narrative. Then, nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>A devil-may-care approach to Internet-sourced material has been particularly striking when it comes to the case of the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. It has now become\u00a0<em>de rigueur<\/em>\u00a0on the part of the West\u2019s mainstream news outlets to tout the dubious work of a British Internet outlet called Bellingcat, which bases its research on photographs and other stuff pulled off the Internet.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/obama-russia.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12527\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/obama-russia-300x199.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the situation in Ukraine, on the South Lawn of the White House, July 29, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bellingcat\u2019s founder Eliot Higgins also has made\u00a0journalistic errors that would have ended the careers of many true professionals, yet he continues to be cited and hailed by the likes of The New York Times and The Washington Post, which have historically turned up their noses about Internet-based journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The secret to Higgins\u2019s success seems to be that he reinforces what the U.S. government\u2019s propagandists want people to believe but lack the credibility to sell. It\u2019s a great business model, marketing yourself as a hip \u201ccitizen journalist\u201d who just happens to advance Official Washington\u2019s \u201cgroup thinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MH-17 Case: \u2018Old\u2019 Journalism vs. \u2018New\u2019 Exclusive:\u00a0For skilled\u00a0intelligence operatives, the Internet can be a devil\u2019s playground, a place to circulate doctored photos, audio\u00a0and documents, making investigations based on \u201csocial media\u201d and such sources particularly risky, a point\u00a0worth recalling in\u00a0the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, says Robert Parry. The first thing any thinking person learns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[10055,6963,4835,10057,10056,1339,462,512,518,1426,655,7203,1169,821,865],"class_list":["post-13655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-bellingcat","tag-consortium-news","tag-credibility","tag-eliot-higgins","tag-group-think","tag-internet","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-mh17","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-robert-parry","tag-social-media","tag-ukraine","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13656,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655\/revisions\/13656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}