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9Dec

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Media, USA

Washington Post Appends “Russian Propaganda Fake News” Story, Admits It May Be Fake

NOVANEWS By Tyler Durden ZeroHedge In the latest example why the “mainstream media” is facing a historic crisis of confidence among its readership, facing unprecedented blowback following Craig Timberg November 24 Washington Post story “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say“, on Wednesday a lengthy editor’s note appeared on top of the original article in which the editor not only distances the WaPo from the “experts” quoted in the original article whose “work” served as the basis for the entire article (and which became the most read WaPo story the day it was published) but also admits the Post could not “vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s finding regarding any individual media outlet”, in effect admitting the entire story may ...

9Dec

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Media, USA

Rather Than Exposing Propaganda, The Washington Post Shows How It’s Done

NOVANEWS By Dave Lindorff FAIR As the Hillary Clinton campaign slogged toward victory in the long primary campaign against Sen. Bernie Sanders, word came from WikiLeaks that it had scored a trove of hacked emails to and from the Democratic National Committee. Among other things, they proved that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, along with their organizations, had been working hand-in-glove to skew the primaries in Clinton’s favor. The day before the party’s convention opened in Philadelphia on July 24, Wasserman-Schultz had to resign her post or face a floor revolt. Sanders delegates were so angry at what they were learning from WikiLeaks about the sabotage of their candidate that hundreds walked out on the second day of the conventio...

6Dec

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Media

Fake News about ‘Fake News’ – The Media Performance Pyramid

NOVANEWS By Medialens Medialens In the wake of Brexit and Trump, ‘mainstream’ media have done the formerly unthinkable by focusing on media bias. The intensity of focus has been such that the Oxford Dictionaries have announced that ‘post-truth’ is their ‘Word of the Year 2016′. ‘Post-truth’ refers to ‘circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’. Students of ‘brainwashing under freedom’ will notice that this bears a striking resemblance to 20th century US policy advisor Reinhold Niebuhr’s insistence on the use of ‘emotionally potent over-simplifications’ to control the public mind. It’s nothing new, in other words. We learn from a lengthy article on Wikipedia that ‘post-truth politics’ is d...

4Dec

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Media, Russia

When Truth-Telling Becomes Russian Propaganda

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Fake news is a US government, mainstream media specialty – proliferating managed news misinformation agitprop, truth-telling suppressed on issues mattering most. Propaganda wars precede hot ones. Deception, popular fiction and Big Lies launch them. Intense Russia bashing risks world peace, stability and security. Washington’s imperial war machine is humanity’s greatest threat. Is Trump up to taming it? Will he try once in office? Or were his campaign pledges just bluster? World peace and stability depends on which way he goes – along with whether he’ll defend waning freedoms or eliminate ones left, making America more of a police state than already. A previous article discussed House passage of the draconian US Intelligence Authorization Act, callin...

4Dec

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Media, Syria

Fake News in Overdrive: President Assad “Created ISIS”

NOVANEWS Journalist Roy Gutman's Hakawati By Moon of Alabama The so called “journalist” Roy Gutman is marketing an old fairy tale in three acts. It was the Syrian President Assad who created ISIS. Assad also faked the Al-Qaeda bombings in Syria to get sympathy in the “west”. The Daily Beast even paid Gutman to publish this nonsense: This series charts Assad’s major role in the rise of Islamic extremism from the inside. … the regime likely staged bombings of its own security facilities in 2011 and 2012 to foster the impression that al Qaeda had an armed presence in Syria long before it did. … Syrian intelligence received orders to stand by when al Qaeda fighters crossed from Iraq into Syria in 2012. But where did Gutman get such extraordinary information? On would think that s...

3Dec

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Media, Russia, USA

Tell the Washington Post: “Smearing is not reporting.”

NOVANEWS Please sign this petition: To: Martin Baron, Executive Editor, The Washington Post Smearing is not reporting. The Washington Post’s recent descent into McCarthyism -- promoting anonymous and shoddy claims that a vast range of some 200 websites are all accomplices or tools of the Russian government -- violates basic journalistic standards and does real harm to democratic discourse in our country. We urge The Washington Post to prominently retract the article and apologize for publishing it. Background: The Washington Post: Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread “Fake News” During Election, Experts Say The New Yorker: The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda The Intercept: Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McC...

29Nov

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Media, Russia, USA

Demonizing Russian Media

NOVANEWS By Gilbert Doctorow One of the West’s top points in condemning Vladimir Putin’s “regime” since 2007 has been his alleged suppression of democratic institutions, including an assault on media freedom and imposition of government-directed propaganda. This week, the accusation was repeated in a resolution of the European Parliament calling for stronger counter-measures in defense of European values against “information warfare” from Moscow. The charges — that Russian media are only an instrument of state propaganda directed at the domestic population to keep Russian citizens in line and at foreign audiences to sow dissent among Russia’s neighbors and within the European Union — are taken as a matter of faith with almost no proofs adduced. Anyone who questions this “group think” is...

29Nov

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Media, USA

Major Media Crash: They Need A Scapegoat

NOVANEWS By Jon Rappoport | Activist Post They kept telling the American people Hillary Clinton was going to win the election; and in every way they could think of, they told the American people this was a good idea. Then, on election night, they, the media, crashed. The results came in. The media went into deep shock. As protests and riots then spread across America, the media neglected to mention a) they’d been bashing Trump because he said he might not accept the outcome of the vote, and b) here were large numbers of people on the Democrat side who weren’t accepting the outcome of the vote. A new campaign had to be launched. Suddenly, on cue, it was: Hillary Clinton lost because “fake news” about her had been spread around during the campaign. Fake news sites. That was the reas...

28Nov

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Iraq, Media

‘Fake news’ & ‘post-truth’ politics? What about those Iraqi WMDs?

NOVANEWS By Neil Clark The Oxford Dictionaries have named ‘post-truth’ as the word of the year. ‘Fake news’ and ‘post-truth’ politics have been blamed for both the Brexit vote in the UK and the victory of Donald Trump in America. It seems the uneducated plebs are falling for ’fake news’ they read in ’new media’ and the lies of dreadful rabble-rousing populist politicians who are relying on people’s emotions, instead of ’objective facts,’ to get votes. It’s all terribly worrying and poses a dire threat to Western civilization as we know it. Well, forgive me for laughing out loud. For this establishment ‘fake news’/’post-truth politics’ concern is the funniest thing I’ve come across in politics since Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, the very grand Chancellor of the University of Oxford, repea...

28Nov

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Human Rights, Media, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Journalist Omar Nazzal, Shadi Jarrar among Palestinians ordered to additional imprisonment without charge

NOVANEWS Omar Nazzal, prominent Palestinian journalist and member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, was ordered on Monday, 21 November to three additional months in administrative detention by the Israeli occupation military. One of dozens of imprisoned journalists, Nazzal was seized by occupation forces on 23 April 2016 as he attempted to cross the al-Karameh/Allenby bridge to Jordan to participate in the General Meeting of the European Federation of Journalists in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since that time, he was ordered first to four months in administrative detention without charge or trial, then again to another three months of arbitrary imprisonment before his detention was again renewed today. Nazzal’s case has drawn international condem...