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Conjugating the Controlled Opposition

NOVANEWS By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor  By Gordon Duff, Senior EditorThe video above isn’t worth watching.  It seems like a hit piece on Amy Goodman, staunch supporter of, by my estimation, whatever Israel wants her to support.  Even idiots at VT periodically peddle her poison, the careless and inane and I spank them for it when I find the time.What this video is, above all, is a demonstration of the vacuous nature of the paid alternative media.  What you are seeing, and I am telling you to not bother, is a media where paid off controlled opposition fights among themselves over not being paid off enough. Worse still is the amateur who inserted himself into this sad media piece as self aggrandizement. The tired hacks featured in the film remind me of what is so wrong with America. As ...
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Mainstream Media’s ‘Victimhood’

NOVANEWS By Robert Parry | Consortium News  It’s heartwarming that The New York Times and The Washington Post are troubled that President Trump is loosely throwing around accusations of “fake news.” It’s nice that they now realize that truth does not reliably come from the mouth of every senior government official or from every official report. The Times is even taking out full-page ads in its own pages to offer truisms about truth: “The truth is hard. The truth is hidden. The truth must be pursued. The truth is hard to hear. The truth is rarely simple. The truth isn’t so obvious. …”  On Sunday, those truth truisms ran opposite an alarmist column by Jim Rutenberg entitled, “Will the Real Democracy Lovers Please Stand Up?” Meanwhile, The Washington Post launched its own melodramatic sloga...