Media
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Court orders Deutsche Welle to reinstate second Palestinian journalist
The German state broadcaster was ordered by the Berlin labor court to reinstate her and pay all her legal costs. The decisive victory “suggests that the court recognized that Farah’s termination, based on a controversial investigation and unfounded allegations of anti-Semitism related to reports published before her employment contract, was illegal,” said the European Legal Support Center. Continue reading
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British Media Turn on Putin War Plan. But Will They Turn on the New Clown in Downing Street?
To understand how the British media works and what’s behind the decisions it takes you don’t have to be very bright at all. In fact, you can be really quite dim and still get it, it’s really that simple. Gone are the days when a Brit would buy a paper, perhaps in the 70s and… Continue reading
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Journalists who challenge NATO narratives are now ‘information terrorists’
A US state department sponsored round table on ‘countering disinformation’ was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. “Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals” Andrii Shapovalov Continue reading
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The ‘Fact-Checking’ Liberal Media
In a remarkably unhinged analysis, NPR host Terry Gross and New York Times Magazine writer Robert Draper claimed that Russia is a communist country — as they went on about how detached from reality rightwing Republicans are. Continue reading
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BBC assault on antiwar academics was apparent product of UK intel plot
Leaked emails expose the fingerprints of UK intelligence all over a factually challenged BBC special that aimed to deprive antiwar academics of their jobs and destroy their reputations. Continue reading
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What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok All Have in Common?
The social media outlets are an open door to organizations like NATO, military suppliers, and the Atlantic Council, with executives making decisions about what content is allowed to circulate widely on social media and what content is encouraged to support U.S. foreign policy goals. Continue reading
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Quality Of Ukraine Reporting Continues To Deteriorate
The news about the war in Ukraine is getting so fake that even an amateur can debunk it no time. Continue reading
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Various Points On Ukraine And Media
Lambert Strether and Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism discuss a piece on the Russian operation in Ukraine that had been printed in the Marine Corps Gazette and of which facsimile pictures were published two weeks ago on Twitter and later in full at Reddit and by Southfront. Continue reading
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Independent Journalist Facing 3 Years Prison in Germany For Reporting Truth From Ukraine
German independent journalist Alina Lipp has been defying mainstream media by bravely reporting from Ukraine’s Donbass region. Now the reporter, who has been based in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region for six months, is facing three years in prison in her home country for her “crimes.” Continue reading
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CBS Wanted To Do Critical Reporting On Ukraine’s Government But Ukraine’s Government Said No
Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines. Continue reading
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Freedom of Speech and Graham Phillips
The imposition of sanctions against British citizen and journalist Graham Phillips is an appalling violation of freedom of speech – which to have meaning must mean freedom to say things which disagree with the government, the media and/or majority public opinion. Continue reading
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‘Western’ Conflict Reporting Has Come Down To “Officials On Our Side Said …”
Larry Johnson is rightfully appalled by a New York Times piece that quotes a lot from ‘officials’ but fails to check any of their obviously false claims: Continue reading
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Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, is Responsible for the War in Ukraine
On July 7, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR.org) published an article by Gregory Shupak analyzing the hypocrisy of U.S. corporate media in its reporting of Ukraine, specifically the differing treatment by Western media of the situations in Donbas compared to that of the Serbian-Albanian territory of Kosovo. The article was titled, “Media support ‘self-determination’ for U.S.… Continue reading
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Canada: Government Censorship Rebrands with “Disinformation” Campaign
Last week the Social Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Management released a report titled “The reach of Russian propaganda and disinformation in Canada”. According to lead author Anatoliy Gruzd, “the research provides evidence that the Kremlin’s disinformation is reaching more Canadians than one would expect. Left unchallenged, state-sponsored information operations can stoke societal… Continue reading
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RT responds to ‘trial after conviction’ by UK media watchdog
The broadcaster says it’s being punished for sharing views and facts the British establishment want kept out of the public eye Continue reading
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Watch: Max Blumenthal & Aaron Mate slam corporate media disinfo at Collision Toronto
At the Collision tech conference in Toronto on 6/21/22, before a hostile audience filled with members of the corporate press, The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate explain how the mainstream media is the most prolific source of disinformation on the planet, working closely with the national security state to cultivate public support for war… Continue reading
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New Frame steps back
After close to four years of intense work we must now reimagine how journalism can and should be done in a moment when the coils of social and political crisis squeeze ever more tightly. Continue reading
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How Spooks and Establishment Journalists Are Circling The Wagons
Analysis — Earlier this month, Russia banned 29 British journalists, including several from the BBC and The Guardian, on the grounds that they were “associated with the defense complex”. That claim was not, at least in all cases, quite as preposterous as was widely assumed. Continue reading
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Open Letter to the BBC: Every Article is a Lie to Attack Nicaragua
The June 23 BBC article by Bernd Debusmann, “US Immigration: They’d rather die than return to Nicaragua,” confirms that the corporate media consistently make every article an attack on its Sandinista Government. Continue reading
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Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics
They were shooting directly at the journalists: New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces”. Thus read a CNN headline on May 26, 2022, for an article describing what may have been a “targeted killing,” – that is, assassination – of Al Jazeera journalist Shirleen Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old highly esteemed Palestinian-American journalist who… Continue reading
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