{"id":42725,"date":"2019-01-14T06:32:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42725"},"modified":"2019-01-14T06:32:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:32:26","slug":"dances-of-disinformation-the-partisan-politics-of-the-integrity-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42725","title":{"rendered":"Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the \u201cIntegrity Initiative\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the \u201cIntegrity Initiative\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Is there such a plane of blissful, balanced information, deliberated and debated upon?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Governments mangle; corporations distort.\u00a0 Interest groups tinker.\u00a0 Wars must be sold; deception must be perpetrated.\u00a0 Inconsistencies must be removed.\u00a0 There will be success, measured in small doses; failure, dispatched in grand servings.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The nature of news, hollow as it is, is to fill the next segment for the next release, a promiscuous delivery, an amoral ejaculate.\u00a0 The notion a complicated world can somehow be compressed into a press release, a brief, an observation, is sinister and defeating.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The believers in an objective, balanced news platform are there.\u00a0 Grants<\/a> are forked out for such romantic notions as news with integrity, directed to increase \u201ctrust in news\u201d, which is tantamount to putting your trust in an institution which has been placed on the mortician\u2019s table.\u00a0 The Trump era has seen a spike in such funding, but it belies a fundamental misconception about what news is.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Funny, then, that the environment should now be so neatly split: the Russians (always) seen to distort from a central programme, while no one else does.\u00a0 The Kremlin manipulates feeble minds; virtuous powers do not.\u00a0 The most powerful nation on the planet claims to be free of this, the same country that boasts cable news networks and demagoguery on the airwaves that have a distinct allergy against anything resembling balanced reporting, many backed by vast funding mechanisms for political projects overseas.\u00a0 Britain, faded yet still nostalgically imperial, remains pure with the BBC, known as the Beeb, a sort of immaculate conception of news that purportedly survives manipulation.\u00a0 Other deliverers of news through state channels also worship the idol of balance \u2013 Australia\u2019s ABC, for one, asserts<\/a> that role. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the \u201cIntegrity Initiative\u201d Is there such a plane of blissful, balanced information, deliberated and debated upon?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Governments mangle; corporations distort.\u00a0 Interest groups tinker.\u00a0 Wars must be sold; deception must be perpetrated.\u00a0 Inconsistencies must be removed.\u00a0 There will be success, measured in small doses; failure, dispatched in grand […]<\/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":[15948,171,3717,6110,379,3034,23264,23937,655,862],"class_list":["post-42725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-binoy-kampmark","tag-corporations","tag-disinformation","tag-global-research","tag-government","tag-information","tag-integrity-initiative","tag-interest-groups","tag-propaganda","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42725","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=42725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42726,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42725\/revisions\/42726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}