{"id":50850,"date":"2020-01-31T06:45:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T11:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50850"},"modified":"2020-01-31T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:28:34","slug":"50850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50850","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Sets Out To Become A War Propagandist. It Just Sort Of Happens."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nobody Sets Out To Become A War Propagandist. It Just Sort Of\u00a0Happens.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Senior Huffington Post UK<\/em> editor Chris York has published what is by my count<\/a> his twelfth<\/em><\/strong> smear piece against a small group of academics and independent journalists who\u2019ve expressed skepticism of establishment Syria narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

York\u2019s obsessive deluge of hit pieces revolve around British academics Tim Hayward and Piers Robinson, as well as independent journalist Vanessa Beeley. Every<\/a> word<\/a> in<\/a> this<\/a> sentence<\/a> hyperlinks<\/a>to<\/a> a<\/a> different<\/a> article<\/a> smearing<\/a> them<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

York\u2019s twelfth such hit piece is much like the preceding eleven: it omits<\/a> fundamentally crucial facts<\/a>, it hides<\/a> the shady nature<\/a> of its sourcing, it makes outright false claims<\/a>, and will only be believed by individuals who either don\u2019t research this subject very deeply or whose paychecks depend on their not thinking about it too hard. But, more importantly, it\u2019s his twelfth such hit piece<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dozen smear articles. A dozen. Not against politicians. Not against powerful government leaders or massive celebrities. York\u2019s smears focus on two professors with some 22,000 Twitter followers between them both, and Beeley, whom York himself refers to as an \u201cobscure blogger\u201d<\/a> while authoring smear piece<\/a> after smear piece<\/a> after smear piece<\/a> about her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Beeley, Hayward and Robinson all do great work asking the important questions that no one else is asking about the many<\/a>, many<\/a> glaring plot holes<\/a> in the narratives we\u2019re being fed about what\u2019s happening in Syria by the western political\/media class. I am a fan. But only a relatively tiny number of people have ever heard of them. I don\u2019t want to minimize the importance of what they do, but they are generally unheard of outside of small esoteric internet circles which focus on deep dives into questionable government narratives about Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nobody Sets Out To Become A War Propagandist. It Just Sort Of\u00a0Happens. Senior Huffington Post UK editor Chris York has published what is by my count his twelfth smear piece against a small group of academics and independent journalists who\u2019ve expressed skepticism of establishment Syria narratives. York\u2019s obsessive deluge of hit pieces revolve around British academics Tim Hayward and Piers Robinson, […]<\/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":[17039,28932,7265,14545,26071,28934,776,28933],"class_list":["post-50850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-chris-york","tag-huffington-post","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-management","tag-piers-robinson","tag-syria","tag-tim-hayward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50850","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=50850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50859,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50850\/revisions\/50859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}