{"id":39567,"date":"2018-10-22T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39567"},"modified":"2018-10-22T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:55:09","slug":"u-s-media-refuses-to-inform-the-public-when-its-commentators-and-pundits-are-paid-foreign-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39567","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Media Refuses to Inform the Public When Its Commentators and Pundits are Paid Foreign Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Media Refuses to Inform the Public When Its Commentators and Pundits are Paid Foreign Agents<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Unbelievably \u2013 Rothkopf has the audacity to criticize Trump\u00a0for having\u00a0\u201crepeatedly shown great fondness for foreign leaders\u2014even despots and known murderers, human rights abusers and criminals\u201d, while\u00a0Rothkopf himself is literally a paid agent working to disseminating propaganda for one of the\u00a0most repressive regimes on the planet<\/a>, one that\u00a0does much of the Saudis\u2019 dirty work<\/a>\u00a0for it in Washington.\u00a0And the fact that the Daily Beast makes no disclosure of any of this is what makes this practice \u2013 having paid lobbyists and consultants for foreign regimes and corporations masquerade as objective and neutral analysts of the news \u2013 such a massive journalistic scandal and fraud.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 From today\u2019s Intercept article:\u00a0MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf With No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice<\/a><\/p>\n

Much of the American public despises mainstream corporate media, but rather than engage in some self-reflection and admit failure they just complain about Trump. It\u2019s critical we recognize that mass media in the U.S. is very much part of the very same discredited establishment it\u2019s supposed to report on, thus its response to justified criticism is likewise establishment-esque. Blame the readers, blame Trump, blame anyone but themselves.<\/p>\n

This is why mass media\u2019s gotten even worse since Trump was elected \u2014 not an easy feat. It\u2019s been obsessed with a Russia-Trump collusion tale that appears to be going nowhere<\/a>, while simultaneously\u00a0cheering on<\/a>Trump\u2019s worst instincts such as when he bombs Syria. Moreover, one thing the U.S. media definitely seems to have no interest in doing is disclosing when its commentators and pundits are paid shills for foreign governments, defense contractors and other unmentionable interests.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Media Refuses to Inform the Public When Its Commentators and Pundits are Paid Foreign Agents Unbelievably \u2013 Rothkopf has the audacity to criticize Trump\u00a0for having\u00a0\u201crepeatedly shown great fondness for foreign leaders\u2014even despots and known murderers, human rights abusers and criminals\u201d, while\u00a0Rothkopf himself is literally a paid agent working to disseminating propaganda for one of […]<\/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":[7844,22524,22167,4285,496,6174,694,701,776,3217,2428,827,1920],"class_list":["post-39567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-agents","tag-jamal-khashoggi","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-mainstream-media","tag-michael-krieger","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-uae","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-states","tag-us-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39567","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=39567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39568,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39567\/revisions\/39568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}