[vox_mundi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vox_mundi', '[')b]Watchdog: Media freedom suffers ‘deep and disturbing decline’ worldwide

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')In post-Soviet countries, freedom has declined steadily, with many countries following the example of Russia, where government critics face persecution. Ukraine was a notable exception, seeing an improvement due to a decline in violence in the separatist conflict in the east of the country and some reform, though many problems still remain.

[dissident]

https://www.rt.com/news/340691-pirate-p ... t-erdogan/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Pirate Party’s leader detained in Germany for citing poem about Erdogan

[onlooker]

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

[dissident]

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/20/pen ... re-stupid/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Pentagon Official Once Told Morley Safer That Reporters Who Believe the Government Are “Stupid”

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '�')��I can’t understand how you fellows can write what you do while American boys are dying out here,” he began. Then he went on to the effect that American correspondents had a patriotic duty to disseminate only information that made the United States look good.

A network television correspondent said, “Surely, Arthur, you don’t expect the American press to be the handmaidens of government.”

“That’s exactly what I expect,” came the reply.

An agency man raised the problem that had preoccupied Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and [U.S. spokesman] Barry Zorthian — about the credibility of American officials. Responded the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs:

“Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? — stupid.”

One of the most respected of all the newsmen in Vietnam — a veteran of World War II, the Indochina War and Korea — suggested that Sylvester was being deliberately provocative. Sylvester replied:

“Look, I don’t even have to talk to you people. I know how to deal with you through your editors and publishers back in the States.”

At this point, the Hon. Arthur Sylvester put his thumbs in his ears, bulged his eyes, stuck out his tongue and wiggled his fingers.

[hvacman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', 'h')ttps://theintercept.com/2016/05/20/pentagon-official-once-told-morley-safer-that-reporters-who-believe-the-government-are-stupid/


Note that back in 1965 reporters actually had some resistance to this government BS. But today reporters think that getting their information from State Department briefings is real journalism. Pathetic.

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hvacman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', 'h')ttps://theintercept.com/2016/05/20/pentagon-official-once-told-morley-safer-that-reporters-who-believe-the-government-are-stupid/


Note that back in 1965 reporters actually had some resistance to this government BS. But today reporters think that getting their information from State Department briefings is real journalism. Pathetic.

[dissident]

http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160 ... blame.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights blamed Russian Aerospace Forces for conducting airstrikes in Idlib, it seems the group has once again spoken out before getting their facts straight as the exact same photo was first used by Al-Jazeera six months ago.

Reuters reported citing the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that Russian Aerospace Forces had allegedly carried out airstrikes in Idlib.

[dissident]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-0 ... ngton-post

The Washington Post is not happy with real data that does not fit its propaganda agenda.



Serial trash-talker and liar (*) Obama and his wonderful record of governance. He even got a Nobel Peace prize preemptively but has brought us to the closest to nuclear war since the nuclear weapons were developed. There is more war hysteria now than there was at the height of the Cold War.

(*) "Kosovo had a UN-mediated referendum on secession which made it legitimate" according to Obama. No such referendum was held. Obama was bitching at the time about the Russian majority in Crimea holding a real referendum and asserting the rights they were robbed of in 1991 and saving themselves from Washington sponsored Banderite vermin.

[dissident]

http://www.jta.org/2016/05/31/news-opin ... hered-jews

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Ukraine Honors Nationalists Whose Troops Butchered Jews

Bandera and Shukhevych collaborated with Nazi forces that occupied what is now Ukraine and are believed to have commanded troops that killed thousands of Jews. Once regarded by Ukrainian authorities as illegitimate to serve as national role models because of their war crimes against Jews and Poles, Petliura, Bandera and Shukhevych are now openly honored in Ukraine following a revolution spearheaded by nationalists in 2014.

[dissident]

http://dailysignal.com/2016/06/15/snaps ... ournalism/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Snapshots From a Trip to Russia to Talk ‘New Era’ Journalism

We debated dicey topics that largely have been off-limits in the dialogue here in the U.S. And I think that’s what was the most striking: Journalists from places like China, Syria, Lebanon, the U.K., South Africa, Russia, Japan, Sri Lanka, and India went to the former Soviet Union to speak openly about global trends toward censorship.

What did I learn?

It’s bad all over.

Increasingly organized and sophisticated efforts to shape the news narrative is a subject I addressed in my New York Times best-seller “Stonewalled,” and I’ll elaborate upon it in an upcoming book. But these important topics have been only whispered of and complained about off to the side at journalism conferences I’ve attended in the U.S.

[vox_mundi]

Truth is in danger as new techniques used to stop journalists covering the news

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he truth is being suppressed across the world using a variety of methods, according to a special report in the 250th issue of Index on Censorship magazine.

Physical violence is not the only method being used to stop news being published, says editor Rachael Jolley in the Danger in Truth: Truth in Danger report. As well as kidnapping and murders, financial pressure and defamation legislation is being used, the report reveals.

"In many countries around the world, journalists have lost their status as observers and now come under direct attack."

There's an increasing trend to label journalists as "extremists" or "terrorists" so governments can crackdown on reporting they don't like. According to Index's Mapping Media Freedom project, which tracks attacks on journalists in more than 40 countries, 35 incidents were reported where journalists were being linked to "extremism" to restrict reporting, 11 in Russia and others in Belgium, Hungary, France and Spain.

Veteran journalists say certain countries including Syria are becoming almost impossible to cover. And citizen journalists in Syria say they are under enormous pressure to stop reporting but feel a responsibility to carry on despite the risks, particularly since so few international journalists are left in Syria. "All we can do is persevere, coping with the fear and the risks," one told Index.

[vox_mundi]

I'm Sick of the So-Called "News"

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')onestly, it doesn't matter what day of the week or what time of day a person tunes into the 24-hour news networks, he or she can always find out the latest vapid and boorish insult that's spewed from Trump's lips.

The problem is… it isn't news!

It's nothing but pure infotainment.

The corporate commercial networks are much, much happier presenting personal drama in the form of packaged infotainment and faux outrage rather than any sort of programming in the public interest.

[onlooker]

Yes and that is why the Internet is so crucial it allows one to chose what one believes are objective sources for particular stories or subject matter, it allows for prolific research to connect dots and so allowing one to get a credible perspective and thus reach a credible, accurate and truthful conclusion. Assuming of course that is what one wants and not confirmation of wishful thinking

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'Y')es and that is why the Internet is so crucial it allows one to chose what one believes

[onlooker]

Cherry picked or not is in the eyes of beholder.

[ennui2]

"Cherry picking" and "eyes of the beholder" are synonyms.

You're basically exhibit A of what the article describes. If it isn't coming from Zerohedge or Fleeing Vesuvius or some other doomer blog, you aren't interested.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', '&')quot;Cherry picking" and "eyes of the beholder" are synonyms.

You're basically exhibit A of what the article describes. If it isn't coming from Zerohedge or Fleeing Vesuvius or some other doomer blog, you aren't interested.

[vox_mundi]

Pentagon paid PR firm $540mn to make fake terrorist videos

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

PR firm Bell Pottinger, known for its array of controversial clients including the Saudi government and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s foundation, worked with the US military to create the propaganda in a secretive operation.

The firm reported to the CIA, the National Security Council and the Pentagon on the project with a mandate to portray Al-Qaeda in a negative light and track suspected sympathizers.

Both the White House and General David Petraeus, the former general who shared classified information with his mistress, signed off on the content produced by the agency.

The Bell Pottinger operation started soon after the US invasion of Iraq and was tasked with promoting the “democratic elections” for the administration before moving on to more lucrative psychological and information operations.

Former employee Martin Wells told the Bureau how he found himself working in Iraq after being hired as a video editor by Bell Pottinger. Within 48 hours, he was landing in Baghdad to edit content for secret “psychological operations” at Camp Victory.

The firm created television ads showing Al-Qaeda in a negative light as well as creating content to look as though it had come from “Arabic TV”. Crews were sent out to film bombings with low quality video. The firm would then edit it to make it look like news footage.

They would craft scripts for Arabic soap operas where characters would reject terrorism with happy consequences. The firm also created fake Al-Qaeda propaganda videos, which were then planted by the military in homes they raided.

Employees were given specific instructions to create the videos. “We need to make this style of video and we’ve got to use Al-Qaeda's footage,” Wells was told. “We need it to be 10 minutes long, and it needs to be in this file format, and we need to encode it in this manner.”

The videos were created to play on Real Player which needs an internet connection to run. The CDs were embedded with a code linking to Google Analytics which allowed the military to track IP addresses that the videos were played on.

[dissident]

The real Climategate was Exxon, the Koch brothers and other companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars to push climate change denial. This is an example of a real Mediagate, where Washington spends hundreds of millions of dollars to spread lies about Syria. But of course we are never going to be agitated about real "-gates" just crap like stolen climate scientist emails taken out of context or some two bit story about MSM shenanigans. The system will never really challenge itself.

[dissident]

https://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2016/ ... tempt.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Facebook, Twitter, Western Media Attempt to Reassert Monopoly Over "Truth"

A network whose members have literally ended the lives of millions with their lies, propose to police the web and verify the truth.

October 3, 2016 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - In a surreal and stunning example of 21st century propaganda and censorship, Google has cobbled together a coalition it is calling "First Draft" to tackle what it calls "misinformation online."