De
reguliere massamedia in de VS (en elders in het westen) zijn afgelopen week nog eens keihard door de
mand gevallen, nadat een bericht op Buzzfeed meldde dat Trump plotsklaps
echt impeachable (afzetbaar) zou zijn. Trump zou Michael Cohen hebben opgedragen te
liegen tegen het congres, over een te bouwen Trumptoren in Moskou,
niets van waar, zelfs Mueller die de zaak al zo’n 2 jaar onderzoekt (en nog steeds zonder enig bewijs zit) stelde dat dit een kulverhaal is en er geen documenten over
bestaan…..
De 2
daders voor dit zoveelste ‘Russiagate’ debacle, Jason Leopold en Anthony Cornier, waren zo ‘slim’ om beiden een
verschillend verhaal te vertellen aan de pers, Cornier vertelde CNN
dat hijzelf de documenten niet had gezien en Leopold vertelde MSNBC
dat hij ze wel had gelezen…… Over CNN gesproken: deze ‘nieuwsorganisatie’ ging al veel vaker plat op de bek als het om ‘Russiagate’ gaat, zo maakte men een heel domme fout met data, waarmee Trump junior in een kwaad daglicht werd gesteld, hij zou op het verkeerde moment toegang hebben gehad tot WikiLeaks….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Voordat
Mueller zijn reactie op de leugens gaf, gingen de reguliere media in
de VS (en heel wat westerse collega’s elders) helemaal los, en dat op basis van een verhaal van 2 figuren die
eerder al de boel hebben gemanipuleerd, met de claim dat Rusland de
VS presidentsverkiezingen had gefinancierd, terwijl het om verkiezingen in Rusland ging….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
De New York Times plaatste e.e.a. met veel bombarie op de voorpagina, waar de rectificatie, nadat Mueller een dag later de claim naar de prullenbak had verwezen, op pagina 11 werd geplaatst……..
Je hebt
het waarschijnlijk al begrepen: de zoveelste berg aan fake news
(nepnieuws) en desinformatie in de reguliere massamedia, terwijl men
daar met de vieze vingers durft te wijzen naar nepnieuws op de
alternatieve media (overigens zonder daar bewijzen voor te
leveren….)….. Ondanks dit alles (en dat voor de zoveelste keer) hebben deze media het gore lef om vertrouwen van hun klanten te vragen…….. Totaal ongeloofwaardig!!
MSM
Begs For Trust After Buzzfeed Debacle
Following
what the Washington
Post has
described as
“the highest-profile misstep yet for a news organization during
a period of heightened and intense scrutiny of the press,” mass
media representatives are now flailing desperately for an argument as
to why people should continue to place their trust in mainstream news
outlets.
On
Thursday Buzzfeed
News delivered the
latest “bombshell” Russiagate report to
fizzle within 24 hours of its publication, a pattern that is now so
consistent that I’ve personally made a practice of declining to
comment on such stories until a day or two after their release.
“BOOM!” tweets were issued by #Resistance pundits on
Twitter, “If true this means X, Y and Z” bloviations were
made on mass media punditry panels, and for about 20 hours
Russiagaters everywhere were riding the high of their lives, giddy
with the news that President Trump had committed an impeachable
felony by ordering Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a proposed
Trump office tower in Moscow, a proposal which died
within weeks and the Kremlin never touched.
There
was reason enough already for any reasonable person to refrain from
frenzied celebration, including the fact that the story’s two
authors, Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier, were giving the
press two
very different accounts of
the information they’d based it on, with Cormier telling CNN that he
had not personally seen the evidence underlying his report and
Leopold telling MSNBC that he had. Both Leopold and Cormier, for the
record, have already previously
suffered a Russiagate faceplant with
the clickbait viral story that Russia had financed the 2016 election,
burying the fact that it was a
Russian election.
UPDATE: A spokesperson for the special counsel is disputing BuzzFeed News’ report. buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Then
the entire story came crashing down when Mueller’s office took the
extremely rare step of issuing
an unequivocal statement that
the Buzzfeed story was wrong, writing simply, “BuzzFeed’s
description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office,
and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this
office, regarding Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony are not
accurate.”
According
to journalist and economic analyst Doug Henwood, the print New
York Times covered
the Buzzfeed report
on its front page when the story broke, but the report on Mueller’s
correction the next day was
shoved back to page 11.
This appalling journalistic malpractice makes it very funny that
NYT’s Wajahat Ali had the gall to tweet,
“Unlike the Trump administration, journalists are fact checking
and willing to correct the record if the Buzzfeed story is found
inaccurate. Not really the actions of a deep state and enemy of the
people, right?”
This is the behavior of a
media class that is interested in selling narratives, not reporting
truth. And yet the mass media talking heads are all telling us today
that we must continue to trust them.
“Those
trying to tar all media today aren’t interested in improving
journalism but protecting themselves,” tweeted NBC’s
Chuck Todd. “There’s a lot more accountability in media these
days than in our politics. We know we live in a glass house, we hope
the folks we cover are as self aware.”
More accountability in
media than in politics, Chuck? Really? Accountability to whom? Your
advertisers? Your plutocratic owners? Certainly not to the people
whose minds you are paid exorbitant sums to influence; there are no
public elections for the leadership of the mass media.
“Mueller
didn’t do the media any favors tonight, and he did do the president
one,” griped
the odious Chris Cuomo on
CNN. “Because as you saw with Rudy Giuliani and as I’m sure
you’ll see with the president himself, this allows them to say ‘You
can’t believe it! You can’t believe what you read, you can’t believe
what you hear! You can only believe us. Even the Special Counsel says
that the media doesn’t get it right.'”
“The
larger message that a lot of people are going to take from this story
is that the news media are a bunch of leftist liars who are dying to
get the president, and they’re willing to lie to do it, and I don’t
think that’s true” said Jeffrey Toobin on
a CNN panel,
adding “I just think this is a bad day for us.”
“It does reinforce
bad stereotypes about the news media,” said Brian Stelter on the
same CNN panel. “I am desperate as a media reporter to always
say to the audience, judge folks individually and judge brands
individually. Don’t fall for what these politicians out there want
you to do. They want you to think we’re all crooked. We’re not. But
Buzzfeed now, now the onus is on Buzzfeed.”
CNN,
for the record, has been guilty of an arguably even
more embarrassing Russiagate flub than Buzzfeed‘s
when they wrongly reported that Donald Trump Jr had had access to
WikiLeaks’ DNC email archives prior to their 2016 publication, an
error that was hilariously due to to the simple misreading of an
email date by multiple people.
(let op bij het hieronder weergegeven Twitterbericht hoort een video die ik niet kan overnemen, zie daarvoor het origineel)
CNN is leading the way in bashing BuzzFeed but it’s worth remembering CNN had a humiliation at least as big & bad: when they yelled that Trump Jr. had advanced access to the WL archive (!): all based on a wrong date. They removed all the segments from YouTube, but this remains:
The
mass media, including pro-Trump mass media like Fox News, absolutely
deserves to be distrusted. It has earned that distrust. It had earned
that distrust already with its constant promotion of imperialist wars
and an oligarch-friendly status quo, and it has earned it even more
with its frenzied promotion of a narrative engineered to manufacture
consent for a preexisting agenda to shove Russia off the world stage.
The
mainstream media absolutely is the enemy of the people; just because
Trump says it doesn’t make it untrue. The only reason people don’t
rise up and use the power of their numbers to force the much-needed
changes that need to happen in our world is because they are being
propagandized to accept the status quo day in and day out by the mass
media’s endless cultural engineering project. They are the reason why
wars go unopposed, why third parties never gain traction, why people
consent to money hemorrhaging upward to the wealthiest of the wealthy
while everyone else struggles to survive. The sooner people wake up
from the perverse narrative matrix of the plutocratic media, the
better.
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Zie ook:
‘De verregaande anti-Russische propaganda in de VS en de rest van het westen‘
‘WhatsApp beperking in strijd tegen fake news‘
‘Lichtgelovige ‘atheïst’ gelooft Russiagate leugens….‘
‘NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media‘
‘Bedrijf dat voor ‘Russische bots’ waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots‘
‘VS begint ‘troll farm’, alsof Hollywood en de massamedia al niet genoeg VS propaganda maken……….‘
‘Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen‘
‘De VS heeft Syrië volgepropt met ‘jihadisten’ en wapens‘
‘Der Spiegel, groot bestrijder van ‘fake news’ bracht zelf jarenlang dit soort ‘nieuws’‘
‘Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)
‘New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……‘
‘Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘ (Russiagate, de enorme leugen op basis waaraan we de huidige censuurgolf te danken hebben……)
‘‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..‘
‘‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’‘
‘Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden‘
‘New York Times: eerste Israëlische inval in Gazastrook sinds 2014 >> fake news!‘
‘Noord-Koreaans ‘bedrog met nucleaire deal’ is fake news o.a. gebracht door de New York Times‘
‘‘Fake News’ misbruikt door dictaturen en de reguliere (massa-) media‘
‘The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media‘
‘The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq‘
‘FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..‘
‘Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt‘
‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘
‘WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia‘
‘Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!‘
‘Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd‘
‘Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!‘
‘VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!‘
‘Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump‘
‘Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..‘
‘FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information‘
‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election‘
‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media‘
‘Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)
‘Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….‘
‘Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat‘
‘‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….‘
‘VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..‘
‘De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………‘
‘Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikeLeaks)
Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”