Media
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Calling all NUJ Members
When a country’s main union for journalists polices the Overton window, you are in a society well on the way to authoritarianism. For four months I have been excluded from the National Union of Journalists and, despite repeated requests, the NUJ even refuses to tell me the nature of the objection. Continue reading
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US News Falsely Reports That North Korea Threatened to Nuke US
In order to eliminate the nuclear threats from the US, the DPRK government has made all possible efforts, either through dialogue or in resort to the international law, but all ended in a vain effort…. The only option left was to counter nuke with nuke. Continue reading
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CHD Responds to Accusation of Spreading “Misinformation” on Facebook
In November 2019, the Washington Post and other major news media accused Children’s Health Defense (CHD) of using Facebook advertisements to spread “misinformation” about vaccines. The basis for these accusations, which have since continued, is a study published in the prestigious medical journal Vaccine that named CHD as a top buyer of vaccine-related Facebook ads.… Continue reading
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CNN’s Portrayal of North Korea as Lawless Aggressor Reverses Reality
FAIR (7/6/17, 6/10/19, 4/29/20) has repeatedly pointed out how coverage of North Korea epitomizes the way corporate media’s editorial standards drop as official US hostility towards a country rises—what Adam Johnson dubbed the North Korea Law of Journalism. Not only does Western media coverage of North Korea traffic in obvious falsehoods and unverifiable claims, it’s… Continue reading
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What Journalism Needs Is Not More Diversity, but Less White Supremacy
As police violence against Black people and those who would rise in their defense forces a national engagement—of a sort—with the reality of white supremacy in our institutions, the widening recognition that the batons and tear gas are just one part of it, that there is more than one way to choke the life out… Continue reading
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US: Media Are Slowly Starting to Be Serious About Police Violence
As the George Floyd protests against police violence erupted around the nation, a massive amount of evidence of police brutality was widely captured through social media. Unfortunately, very little of it made it to mainstream outlets until much later. Continue reading
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Top 16 Euphemisms US Headline Writers Used for Police Beating the Shit Out of People
7 June 2020 — FAIR Neil deMause What NBC (5/31/20) described as “more aggressive tactics” included firing paint ball rounds at residents as they stood on their porches. Continue reading
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Emily Maitlis is no media hero. She simply forgot what she and the BBC are there to do
The wrong conclusions are being drawn about Emily Maitlis’s comments on Dominic Cummings on the BBC flagship Newsnight show this week. Her remarks are not evidence of her courage, or that journalists are being gagged, or that the BBC is suddenly capitulating to the government. Continue reading
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Media Smeared Ahmaud Arbery After His Lynching
While it took two and a half months for the authorities to finally make arrests in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, corporate media were much quicker to follow the time-honored practice of besmirching victims of racist violence. Continue reading
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Did Conservative HQ demand Emily Maitlis be publicly reprimanded?
Most of the mainstream media are reporting that Emily Maitlis was replaced as host of Wednesday night’s episode of Newsnight by another member of the programme’s team after BBC bosses reprimanded her over a monologue in which she attacked the government’s handling of Dominic Cummings’ lockdown trip to Durham. Continue reading
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Foreign Policy Sees ‘Repression’ in Vietnam’s Fight Against Coronavirus
A recent piece in Foreign Policy (5/12/20) is headed with a photograph of a placard that features an image of a nurse demonstrating the importance of wearing a face mask as both personal and interpersonal protection against the coronavirus. But reader beware: It’s not public education, it’s a “propaganda poster”—because it’s not from New Jersey, but was… Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: Debunking the COVID-19 Narrative with Prof. Dolores Cahill
Are public health officials and the mainstream media really telling the public scientific accurate and correct information about the Coronavirus and treatment for COVID-19? Was there any scientific or medical basis for governments to impose a lockdown? Are the government-media complex irresponsibly spreading misinformation about COVID-19? Is this misinformation harming the public and causing needless… Continue reading
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The EU, NATO, NewsGuard and the Voltaire Network
The propaganda device aimed at stifling dissenting voices has taken a step forward. It is no longer simply a matter of accusing them of committing factual errors or deliberately lying, but of presenting them as traitors in the pay of a foreign power. Continue reading
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Media Washes Hands of—and With—Boris Johnson
As the UK quickly becomes a world leader in death and infections from the Covid-19 pandemic, corporate media are transforming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson into an international Coronavirus bugaboo. Continue reading
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More journalists barred from Gov’t daily press briefings – for asking wrong questions
By TruePublica: On 3 February, (remember how long ago that was) political journalists walked out of a Downing Street press briefing en masse after a Dominic Cummings associate attempted to ban selected reporters from attending. The Prime Minister’s Director of Communications, Lee Cain, tried to prevent journalists from the Independent, the i, the Mirror, HuffPost,… Continue reading
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Welcome to the era of the Great Disillusionment
This is a column I have been mulling over for a while but, for reasons that will be instantly obvious, I have been hesitant to write. It is about 5G, vaccines, 9/11, aliens and lizard overlords. Or more accurately, it isn’t. Continue reading
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This Week in The Guardian #5 – Coronavirus Special
Our weekly feature rounding up the more shallow and vapid aspects of The Guardian‘s nonsense was one of the unnamed early victims of the coronavirus. When all the headlines are about the same thing, there suddenly seems little point in highlighting the silliest examples. Plus…there’s only so many hours in a day. Continue reading
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Britain: the capitalist press – “a great keyboard on which the government can play”
24 April 2020 — In Defence of Marxism Ben Gliniecki Image: Socialist Appeal This article was written before the coronavirus pandemic, but with the press spending weeks subjecting the Tories to nothing but uncritical “wartime” coverage, and now fawning over the establishment-friendly Labour leader Keir Starmer, the points it makes are more valid than ever. Continue reading
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News publishers and COVID-19 coverage
By TruePublica: As COVID-19 immerses Britain in crisis after crisis, the public go in search of facts not salacious celebrity stories and fake news peddled by right-wing rags. The Sun and Daily Mail lose ground as The Guardian and Financial Times reach new records. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 