Nadat
Bernie Sanders de Washington Post (WaPo) volkomen terecht verweet een haatcampagne tegen hem te voeren, hebben de massamedia in de VS
belachelijk en hysterisch gereageerd op deze beschuldiging…….. Lullig voor die media, maar belangrijke
ex-vertegenwoordigers van die media zijn het helemaal zat en hebben
‘een dik boek opengetrokken’ over hun ex-werkgevers en hun voormalige
collega’s.
Met
voorbeelden geeft men aan dat deze massamedia, zonder uitzondering
in handen van plutocraten of investeringsgroepen, zich onderwerpen
aan zelfcensuur, men weet prima welke onderwerpen wel of niet genoemd
kunnen worden, censuur die de eigenaren verwachten van hun
werknemers…… Caitlin Johnstone, de schrijver van het hieronderopgenomen artikel zegt niets over de zelfcensuur die zogenaamde
onafhankelijke journalisten zich opleggen, over berichten die
regeringen wel of niet kunnen schaden, ook die zijn er voldoende……*
Zo is er
zelden of nooit commentaar in de reguliere westerse media op ingrepen
van de VS elders, of het nu gaat om illegale oorlogen, staatsgrepen
of ronduit massamoorden begaan middels drones, aanvallen op verdachte
mensen, die minstens recht hebben op een eerlijk proces…….
Ronduit VS terreur waarbij bovendien meer dan 90% van de vermoorden
niet eens werden verdacht, dus veelal vrouwen en kinderen…….
Gelukkig
ziet ook Caitlin Johnstone, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen
artikel, dat langzaam maar zeker een kentering van zaken,
plaatsvindt. Zo gelooft het grootste deel van de VS bevolking terecht
niet dat de uitbater van een kindermisbruiknetwerk, Jeffrey Epstein,
zichzelf het leven heeft benomen (voor berichten over Epstein, klik
op het label met zijn naam direct onder dit bericht).
Johnstone
concludeert m.i. terecht dat de propaganda-oorlog, gevoerd in de
reguliere massamedia steeds minder effect heeft op de publieke opinie,
al verwacht ik niet dat er daarom snel verandering zal komen in die
propaganda, eerder valt te vrezen wat we nu al zien: de brengers van
het echte nieuws, de alternatieve media worden meer en meer
gedemoniseerd door de reguliere westerse massamedia en westerse
politiek, waarbij steeds meer platforms worden geweerd van het
internet…….. De volgende stap is het strafrechtelijk vervolgen
van de alternatieve media, waarbij het eindelijk duidelijk zal
worden wat een smerig spel media en politiek spelen en dat gesteund
door multinationals, de financiële maffia en het militair-industrieel
complex……..
AUGUST
17, 2019 AUTHOR:
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
Mass
Media’s Phony Freakout Over Bernie’s WaPo Criticism Is Backfiring
After
days of ridiculous,
hysterical garment rending by
mass media talking heads in response to Senator Bernie
Sanders’ utterly
undeniable assertion
that The
Washington Post has
displayed unfair bias against his campaign, people with extensive
experience in the mainstream press who are fed up with the lies are
beginning to push back. Hard.
Former
MSNBC producer Jeff Cohen has published
an article in Salon titled
“Memo to mainstream journalists: Can the phony outrage; Bernie is
right about bias”. Cohen details his experience with the way
corporate media outlets keep a uniform pro-establishment narrative
running throughout all their coverage without their staff having to
be directly told to to do this by their supervisors (though sometimes
that happens, too). He writes as follows:
“It
happens because of groupthink. It happens because top editors and
producers know — without being told — which issues and sources
are off limits. No orders need be given, for example, for
rank-and-file journalists to understand that the business of the
corporate boss or top advertisers is off-limits, short of criminal
indictments.
“No
memo is needed to achieve the narrowness of perspective — selecting
all the usual experts from all the usual
think tanks to
say all the usual things. Think Tom
Friedman. Or Barry
McCaffrey.
Or Neera
Tanden.
Or any of the elite club members who’ve been proven to be absurdly
wrong time and again about national or global affairs.”
Cohen’s
exposé follows the
phenomenal segment recently
aired on The
Hill‘s
show Rising,
in which former MSNBC star Krystal Ball and her co-host Saagar Enjati
both detailed their experience with the way access journalism,
financial incentives, prestige incentives and peer pressure were used
to push them each toward protecting establishment narratives in their
respective mainstream media careers. Ball said at one point she was
literally called into the office and forbidden from doing any
critical Hillary Clinton coverage without prior approval in the
lead-up to the 2016 election, saying that in mainstream journalism
jobs “you are aware of what you’re going to be rewarded for and
what you’re going to be punished for, or not rewarded for.”
“It’s
not necessarily that somebody tells you how to do your coverage, it’s
that if you were to do your coverage that way, you would not be hired
at that institution,” Enjati said. “So it’s like if you do not
already fit within this framework, then the system is designed to not
give you a voice. And if you necessarily did do that, all of the
incentive structures around your pay, around your promotion, around
your colleagues that are slapping you on the back, that would all
disappear. So it’s a system of reinforcement, which makes it so
that you wouldn’t go down that path in the first place.”
Rolling
Stone‘s
Matt Taibbi has also jumped in to push back against the absurd
denials of bias from the establishment media, publishing
a new article titled
“The Campaign Press: Members of the 10 Percent, Reporting for the
One Percent–Media companies run by the country’s richest people
can’t help but project the mindset of their owners.” Taibbi, an
award-winning journalist with lots
of experience in
the news media industry, writes that pro-establishment
narratives are advanced in mainstream press not because some explicit
order is handed down by a media-owning oligarch, but because “We
all know what takes will and will not earn attaboys in newsrooms.”
Why the Sanders media beef is legit: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Taibbi
writes the following:
“The
news media is now loathed in the same way banks, tobacco companies,
and health insurance companies are, and it refuses to understand
this. Mistakes like WMDs are a problem, but the media’s biggest
issue is exactly its bubble-ness, and clubby inability to respond to
criticism in any way except to denounce it as misinformation and
error. Equating all criticism of media with Trumpism is pouring
gasoline on the fire.
“The
public is not stupid. It sees that companies like CNN and NBC are
billion-dollar properties, pushing shows anchored by big-city
millionaires. A Vanderbilt like Anderson Cooper or a half-wit legacy
pledge like Chris Cuomo shoveling coal for Comcast, Amazon, AT&T,
or Rupert Murdoch is the standard setup.”
Taibbi
is correct. Trust in the mass media continues
to plummet,
and these stupid, nonsensical hissy fits they throw whenever
criticized are only making it worse.
What
cracks me up most about all this is that the faux outrage over
Sanders’ criticisms of The
Washington Post was
completely unnecessary for everyone involved. They could have just
ignored it and let the news churn bury it, but they’re so insulated
in their little echo chambers that they seriously believed they could
get the public rallying to their defense on this. The general
consensus was something like “Ah ha! Bernie did that
media-criticizing thing that we all agreed nobody’s allowed to do
anymore! We’ve got him this time, boys!”
And
all they accomplished in doing this was giving honest journalists an
opportunity to inform the public about the insider tricks of their
trade. You may be absolutely certain that the information that has
been given to the public by Cohen, Ball, Enjati and Taibbi will
remain in high circulation throughout the Sanders campaign in
response to the increasingly shrill torrent of establishment smears,
breaking the spell of mainstream media trust for all who view it.
More than two thirds of Americans don’t believe Epstein died by suicide
Only 29% of Americans believe Epstein died by “suicide” showing that the establishment’s narrative control isn’t working anymore#EpsteinSuicideCoverUp#EpsteinMurder #EpsteinCoverUprasmussenreports.com/public_content…
All
these damning insider criticisms of the mainstream American press are
coming out at the same time a
new Rasmussen poll finds
that less than one third of the US population believes the story
they’re being told by the corporate media about the highly
suspicious death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Despite the
mass media’s mad push to
tar anyone questioning the official narrative about Epstein as a
loony “conspiracy theorist”, only 29 percent of those surveyed
reported that they believed Epstein had committed suicide as they’ve
been told, while 42 percent believe he was murdered. Never in my life
have I seen such a widespread and instantaneous rejection of an
establishment-promulgated narrative in the United States.
This
is hugely significant. The entire imperial oppression machine is held
together with aggressive plutocratic propaganda; the ability of the
ruling class to manipulate the way people think, act and vote is the
only thing stopping the public from using the power of their numbers
to force real changes and create a new system that is not built upon
endless war, ecocide and exploitation. The mass media propaganda
engine is now at its weakest and most vulnerable point ever, and the
narrative managers’ attempts to regain control are only exposing
them more severely.
Power
is the ability to control what happens. Absolute power is the ability
to control what people thinkabout
what happens. Our rulers are rapidly losing this absolute power.
People
are waking up.
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* Zo liet gevierd ‘journalist’ Max van Weezel op Radio1 al eens weten, dat hij zich goed voor kan stellen bepaalde berichten niet te brengen……..
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