Media
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Confessions of a Digital Gun for Hire
Join us in London to hear a former media strategist versed in the dark arts of media manipulation blow the whistle on trade secrets used in the private sector to engineer fake news and influence the media. Continue reading
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‘Nothing!’ Media refuse to cover Roger Waters concert in support of Julian Assange
If most rockstars performed one of their iconic hits outside the British Home Office, the media would lap it up. Not so, if the star is Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters and he sings for jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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The Future of the Spectacle …or How the West Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Reality Police
If you want a vision of the future, don’t imagine “a boot stamping on a human face — for ever,” as Orwell suggested in 1984. Instead, imagine that human face staring mesmerized into the screen of some kind of nifty futuristic device on which every word, sound, and image has been algorithmically approved for consumption… Continue reading
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MediaNorth Issue 4 September 2019 – is now on line
1 September 2019 — Coldtype MediaNorth, the quarterly newsletter of Britain’s Press and Broadcasting Freedom (North) is now on line at http://coldtype.net/MediaNorth.html Continue reading
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ACTION ALERT: NYT Presents Murder of a Palestinian Boy as ‘National Trauma’—for Jewish Israelis
The New York Times (8/27/19) takes up the complaint of “some Israelis” that an HBO series “unfairly focuses on the killing of a Palestinian teen by Jews when Palestinian terrorism is more common.” Continue reading
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Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange
The same media that has spent years dragging Assange’s name through the mud is now engaging in a blackout on his treatment. If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed. Continue reading
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Jeff Bezos’s Politics By Eric Zuesse
Jeff Bezos is the owner of the daily newspaper in Washington DC, the Washington Post, which leads America’s news-media and their almost 100% support of (and promotions for) neoconservatism — American imperialism, or wars. This includes sanctions, coups, and military invasions, against countries that America’s billionaires want to control but don’t yet control — such… Continue reading
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YouTube axes anti-protest channels as US Ministry of Truth battles China over Hong Kong
YouTube has disabled 210 channels for posting content related to the Hong Kong protests “in a coordinated manner,” following in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter in restricting its arbitrary censorship to pro-China accounts. Continue reading
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Labour Party revokes Electronic Intifada press pass
Last month, the Labour Party approved a press pass for The Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley to cover its annual conference next month. But last week the UK opposition party’s press team claimed in an email to Winstanley that “Your application has not been approved.” Continue reading
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Venezuelan Opposition Journalist Served as Agent for US, UK Gov’t
Venezuelan Ambassador to the United Nations Samuel Moncada revealed evidence that well-known opposition ‘journalist’ Nelson Bocaranda has served as a “local agent” of the United States and United Kingdom governments since the 1980s in a series of tweets Sunday and Monday. Continue reading
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The ABC documentary “Hero or Villain”: Undermining the defence of Julian Assange By James Cogan
A two-part documentary on Julian Assange by the state-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) “Four Corners” program, which went to air last month, has been rightly condemned by prominent figures in the campaign to defend the persecuted WikiLeaks publisher. Continue reading
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State Censorship: seizing journalists notes, restricting press freedom
By TruePublica: In our recent article entitled – Rise of the Techno Stasi-State we asked the question was that too strong a news headline after the High Court decided the government’s architecture of mass surveillance over the population was perfectly legal. The legal representative, Chamberlain QC, said on the High Court steps after Liberty-Human-Rights lost… Continue reading
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Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange By Oscar Grenfell
At a Sydney “Politics in the Pub” meeting on Thursday night, award-winning Australian journalist Mark Davis revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder. Continue reading
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NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela
The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the US terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua. As Greg Grandin writes, Otto Reich, head of the administration’s Orwellian propaganda outfit known as the Office of Public Diplomacy, informed the public network that his office had contracted “a special consultant service [to listen]… Continue reading
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8chan: Another Mass Shooting, Another Internet Purge This is the third “mass casualty event” in less than a year that was immediately followed up by censorship of the internet
Last year, after the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the new social-media platform Gab was attacked in the press and bullied off the internet. Earlier this year, following the Christ Church mosque attack, New Zealand briefly totally blocked access to several websites. Continue reading
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DNC lawsuit against WikiLeaks dismissed in major free press victory
In a historic win for WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief Julian Assange a federal judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over WikiLeaks’ publication of DNC documents in 2016. The case sets an important precedent for freedom of the press. Continue reading
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CounterSpin interview with Ed Morales on Puerto Rican protest
Janine Jackson interviewed Ed Morales about the Puerto Rican protest movement for the July 26, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript (inc. audio) Continue reading
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Media silent on dismissal of DNC suit against Julian Assange
A federal court ruling last Tuesday, dismissing a Democratic National Committee (DNC) civil suit against Julian Assange “with prejudice,” was a devastating indictment of the US ruling elite’s campaign to destroy the WikiLeaks founder and of the entire “Russiagate” conspiracy theory peddled by the Democratic Party, corporate media outlets and the intelligence agencies for the… Continue reading
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“Human Right Activists” Celebrate Facebook-Twitter Censorship
All Facebook and Twitter accounts associated with Bangkok-based geopolitical analyst Tony Cartalucci have been deleted. The extent to which both American-based tech companies went to target Cartalucci could be seen in a recent Reuters article reporting on it. Continue reading
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Russian Foreign Ministry Slams Facts Distortion By MSM In Response To UK Decision To Fine RT
British media regulator Ofcom announced today its decision to impose a £200,000 fine on RT for what it referred to as serious failures to comply with broadcasting rules. Ofcom’s investigation found that RT “failed to preserve due impartiality” in seven news and current affairs programmes between March 17 and April 26, 2018. In its statement,… Continue reading
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