Showing posts with label Fake News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fake News. Show all posts
Monday, November 25, 2019
Friday, March 30, 2018
Fake News-No this is really fake news or is it fake real news, or something - Whose watching the watch dog?
Moon Of Alabama displays an AP tweet with the words, “Watchdog group says bombs disguised as rocks in Yemen show Iranian aid,”
The title of the MofA article says it all:
“Arms Research "Watchdog Group" Lobbies For War On Yemen And Iran
Slant is the right word.
The late Larry Glick would always say on his radio show, “we’re going to get the story behind the story.” Let’s call that the sbts. there is little true journalism going on nowadays, but inadvertantly, the mainstream will give it away somewhere in the article.
Indeed, it is only in the seventh paragraph that we get the sbts.
Michetti’s organization, an independent watchdog group that receives funding from the United Arab Emirates, Germany and the European Union to research weaponry recovered in Yemen, said it examined a fake rock bomb in January near Mokha, some 250 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of the capital, Sanaa.
Watch dog does not mean a vicious doberman keeping evil robbers from stealing the family treasure while everyone is away from home. Rather, it is a lap dog wagging its tale and barking on command.
One supposes that everyone knows in their heart of hearts that all news is propaganda, but that most people are happy to let it slide if it fits the narrative of what one prefers. Here in the Nova Anglia, there are few who have not listened to someone breathlessly talk about something they’ve heard on NPR as if it had been given to Moses along with the Tablets.
This is, of course, another reason to we at the Neutralist push for a neutralist ethos. There will always be a manipulation of news to go fight some war somewhere for some noble cause that will turn out to be not so noble in retrospect.
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Luke Harding - The Neocon blame Russia flavor of the month
The radio is mostly on when driving. If out in the morning, two of the most powerful stations out here in nowheresville have Glenn Beck on in the morning. Usually, he is not worth listening to.
On the day in question, he was not worth it, but he was working at a higher level of disinformation. He was interviewing Luke Harding, author of Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.
The two lads were having a lovefest with each other and a hatefest over Trump and Putin. That's not that horrible as Beck is not taken seriously by the cool people.
Ah, but Terri Gross is a certified heavy hitter. Her show on NPR is important. She speaks with the interviewee with a serious, if low key tone.
Though I hear her not infrequently in the car, it is hard to say if she has ever been adversarial with guests. With Mr. Harding it was certainly not that (link to transcript). It may have not been the near French kissing that Beck seemed to be doing, but it did seem to agree with Luke in a let's get to the bottom of this tone. She truly seems to be on team collusion in the exchange below.
On the day in question, he was not worth it, but he was working at a higher level of disinformation. He was interviewing Luke Harding, author of Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.
The two lads were having a lovefest with each other and a hatefest over Trump and Putin. That's not that horrible as Beck is not taken seriously by the cool people.
Ah, but Terri Gross is a certified heavy hitter. Her show on NPR is important. She speaks with the interviewee with a serious, if low key tone.
Though I hear her not infrequently in the car, it is hard to say if she has ever been adversarial with guests. With Mr. Harding it was certainly not that (link to transcript). It may have not been the near French kissing that Beck seemed to be doing, but it did seem to agree with Luke in a let's get to the bottom of this tone. She truly seems to be on team collusion in the exchange below.
But actually, if I'm honest with you, Terry, I mean, this book was quite easy to write because it is such a compelling story. It is like a thriller, but with bizarre elements, but just a kind of relentless plot. And I kind of wrote each chapter as sort of character by character so that there's a chapter on Steele, there's a chapter on Michael Flynn - who jokes to a Russian that he met that he was actually General Misha, which is Russian for Michael - and Paul Manafort, whom I met, and so on. And I - you know, the book, I think, came together in record time.GROSS: You know, you're right. Initially, Trump was happy to have the Russia investigation deflect attention away from his business dealings in China and other emerging markets because you say, unlike in Russia, these were substantial and involved the payment of large bribes and kickbacks.
HARDING: Well, again, we can't prove this. But this is what the Steele dossier alleges. And it's based on Steele's own secret sources. And by the way, no one knows who they are, these secret sources. But I think one point, which is kind of very important on the sources, is that I've talked to friends of Steele's. And what they point out is that these sources were not new. They're not people that he kind of discovered yesterday. They are trusted contacts who essentially had proven themselves in other areas.
Notice after Ms. Gross gives him the you go guy, he does say, it can't be proven. The whole tone is it's true even if there is not absolute (or any) evidence.
The session ends with,
There may be some errors there. But broadly, I think people in British and American intelligence think the dossier is correct, which means that Donald Trump is compromised.GROSS: Well, Luke Harding, thank you so much for talking with us. And thank you for your reporting.HARDING: Thank you, Terry. It was great.
You bet it was.
I am not a Trump fan. Some of his campaign statements I liked. Wanting to get along with Russia and not make more of a mess in Syria were good. He is too supportive of Saudi Arabia in Yemen and making noise with the Norks is a waste of time.
But,
Messing around with the constitutional order and doing what you can to take back an election because the guy is not one of the elite smacks of the late Roman Republic. Responsible people would be wanting to shore that up rather than crashing it.
Luke Harding and his book have their fans for what it says about Trump. Yeah, Terri, who is part of the Ministry of Information is all for him as are, no doubt, others of that brand.
There was a fellow who did ask Harding a few questions that were a bit less than smooches. Look at the video below.
I am not a Trump fan. Some of his campaign statements I liked. Wanting to get along with Russia and not make more of a mess in Syria were good. He is too supportive of Saudi Arabia in Yemen and making noise with the Norks is a waste of time.
But,
Messing around with the constitutional order and doing what you can to take back an election because the guy is not one of the elite smacks of the late Roman Republic. Responsible people would be wanting to shore that up rather than crashing it.
Luke Harding and his book have their fans for what it says about Trump. Yeah, Terri, who is part of the Ministry of Information is all for him as are, no doubt, others of that brand.
There was a fellow who did ask Harding a few questions that were a bit less than smooches. Look at the video below.
As it says on the intro page,
The Real News Network's (TRNN) Aaron Maté politely and professionally dismantles shameless Guardian reporter and author Luke Harding.
Aaron is a class act. Don't expect to see Mr. Maté on CNN or MSNBC, Fox, or dare one say it, NPR.
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