{"id":36831,"date":"2018-08-19T12:20:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36831"},"modified":"2018-08-19T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T17:20:47","slug":"omg-this-this-this-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36831","title":{"rendered":"OMG This This This\u00a0This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/08\/19\/omg-this-this-this-this\/\">OMG This This This\u00a0This!<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-5125\" class=\"post-5125 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-alternative-media tag-journalism tag-media tag-msm tag-propaganda\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-19-at-10.34.51-AM.png?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-19-at-10.34.51-AM.png 750w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-19-at-10.34.51-AM-300x170.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"424\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>That\u2019s right, I\u2019m writing an entire goddamn article about a single tweet made by another political commentator. It probably won\u2019t even be a long article, because the excellent Tim Black said it all. Call me lazy, I don\u2019t care, this is the most interesting thing I\u2019ve seen all day:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night, one of my callers said we needed journalists and commentators willing to die for the truth,\u201d Black <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealTimBlack\/status\/1030877568038318080\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cI disagreed. We need journalists and commentators willing to give up their status, quit their jobs and make less money telling truth and sadly to most that\u2019s the same as dying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s so much truth in that I just want to unpack it a bit and riff on its implications from my own perspective. What would happen if a significant percentage of journalists got fed up with spoon feeding lies to a trusting populace and decided to place truth and authenticity before income and prestige? Or, perhaps more realistically, what if people who are interested in reporting and political analysis ceased pursuing positions in the plutocrat-owned mass media and pursued alternate paths to getting the word out instead?<\/p>\n<p>I contend that if enough people did either of the above, it would save the world.\u00a0The omnicidal, ecocidal Orwellian power establishment that is oppressing us into heartlessness and driving our species towards extinction depends on deception and manipulation to manufacture support for depraved plutocratic agendas, so truth is poison to those agendas. The plutocrat-controlled media outlets advance that deception and manipulation, and honest alternative media outlets disrupt it. If enough talent began flooding into the latter instead of the former, it would become impossible to manufacture the consent of the governed for the deranged agendas which imperil our whole world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG This This This\u00a0This! That\u2019s right, I\u2019m writing an entire goddamn article about a single tweet made by another political commentator. It probably won\u2019t even be a long article, because the excellent Tim Black said it all. Call me lazy, I don\u2019t care, this is the most interesting thing I\u2019ve seen all day: \u201cLast night, [&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":[6],"tags":[17039,10726,462,3847,512,1235,2238,21306,1250],"class_list":["post-36831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-establishment","tag-journalism","tag-mass-media","tag-media","tag-orwell","tag-plutocracy","tag-tim-black","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36831","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=36831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36832,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36831\/revisions\/36832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}