{"id":36870,"date":"2018-08-20T08:50:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36870"},"modified":"2018-08-20T08:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:50:40","slug":"msm-finally-concedes-defeat-on-yemen-ceases-blackout-of-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36870","title":{"rendered":"MSM Finally Concedes Defeat On Yemen, Ceases Blackout Of\u00a0Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

MSM Finally Concedes Defeat On Yemen, Ceases Blackout Of\u00a0Coverage<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Last month, an article by Fair.org<\/a> went viral in republications by popular alternative media outlets ranging from\u00a0Salon\u00a0<\/em>to Zero Hedge<\/em> to Alternet<\/em> to Truthdig<\/em>, among many others. The article was initially titled \u201cACTION ALERT: It\u2019s Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in Yemen\u201d, but many subsequent republications went with variations on the more attention-grabbing headline, \u201cMSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels segments in the last year \u2014 but none on U.S. war in Yemen\u201d.<\/p>\n

The centerpiece of the article was the following graphic, which I saw shared on its own many times in my social media feeds:<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s about as in your face as it gets, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Ever since the Saudi-led assault on Yemen began in March of 2015, alternative media outlets everywhere have been repeatedly<\/a> and aggressively<\/a> decrying\u00a0the mainstream media<\/a> in the US and UK<\/a>for their spectacular failure<\/a> to adequately and accurately cover the violence<\/a> and humanitarian disaster<\/a> with appropriate reporting on who is responsible for it<\/a>. After the 2016 US election, journalist Michael Tracey wrote an essay<\/a> documenting how throughout the entire year and a half that Americans were pummeled with updates from the mass media about candidates and their campaigns, not one single question about Yemen was ever asked by any mainstream outlet of any candidate.<\/p>\n

This is of course outrageous, but because of how media coverage works, mainstream attention was never drawn to the problem. It hasn\u2019t been a total<\/em>\u00a0media blackout, but because it only turns up in mainstream media reports every once in a while with little if any emphasis being placed on who is behind the devastation, it occupies a very peripheral place in western consciousness.<\/p>\n

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MSM Finally Concedes Defeat On Yemen, Ceases Blackout Of\u00a0Coverage Last month, an article by Fair.org went viral in republications by popular alternative media outlets ranging from\u00a0Salon\u00a0to Zero Hedge to Alternet to Truthdig, among many others. The article was initially titled \u201cACTION ALERT: It\u2019s Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in Yemen\u201d, […]<\/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":[17039,496,4728,701,901],"class_list":["post-36870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-mainstream-media","tag-msm","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36870","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=36870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36871,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36870\/revisions\/36871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}