{"id":24374,"date":"2017-07-10T06:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T11:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24374"},"modified":"2017-07-10T06:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T11:56:27","slug":"msm-still-living-in-propaganda-ville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24374","title":{"rendered":"MSM, Still Living in Propaganda-ville"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MSM, Still Living in Propaganda-ville<\/a><\/h3>\n
Exclusive:<\/strong> The stakes in U.S.-Russia relations could not be higher \u2013 possible nuclear conflagration and the end of civilization \u2013 but the U.S. mainstream media is still slouching around in \u201cpropaganda-ville,\u201d says Robert Parry.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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As much as the U.S. mainstream media wants people to believe that it is the Guardian of Truth, it is actually lost in a wilderness of propaganda and falsehoods, a dangerous land of delusion that is putting the future of humankind at risk as tension escalate with nuclear-armed Russia.<\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a crowd on May 9, 2014, celebrating the 69th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Crimean port city of Sevastopol from the Nazis. (Russian government photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This media problem has grown over recent decades as lucrative careerism has replaced responsible professionalism. Pack journalism has always been a threat to quality reporting but now it has evolved into a self-sustaining media lifestyle in which the old motto, \u201cthere\u2019s safety in numbers,\u201d is borne out by the fact that being horrendously wrong, such as on Iraq\u2019s WMD, leads to almost no accountability because so many important colleagues were wrong as well.<\/p>\n

Similarly, there has been no accountability after many mainstream journalists and commentators falsely stated as flat-fact that \u201call 17 U.S. intelligence agencies\u201d concurred that Russia did \u201cmeddle\u201d in last November\u2019s U.S. election.<\/p>\n

For months, this claim has been the go-to put-down whenever anyone questions the groupthink of Russian venality perverting American democracy. Even the esteemed \u201cPolitifact\u201d deemed the assertion \u201ctrue.\u201d But it was never true.<\/p>\n

It was at best a needled distortion of a claim by President Obama\u2019s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper when he issued a statement<\/a> last Oct. 7 alleging Russian meddling. Because Clapper was the chief of the U.S. Intelligence Community, his opinion morphed into a claim that it represented the consensus of all 17 intelligence agencies, a dishonest twist that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton began touting.<\/p>\n

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MSM, Still Living in Propaganda-ville Exclusive: The stakes in U.S.-Russia relations could not be higher \u2013 possible nuclear conflagration and the end of civilization \u2013 but the U.S. mainstream media is still slouching around in \u201cpropaganda-ville,\u201d says Robert Parry. As much as the U.S. mainstream media wants people to believe that it is the Guardian […]<\/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":[6963,2864,496,1426,4728,655,7203,1250],"class_list":["post-24374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-lies","tag-mainstream-media","tag-misinformation","tag-msm","tag-propaganda","tag-robert-parry","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24374","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=24374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24375,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24374\/revisions\/24375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}