cnsnews--2019-05-29--Mark Levin on Hannity Mass Media Dont Represent a Free Press They Represent the Democrat Part

Mark Levin on  ‘Hannity’: Mass Media ‘Don’t Represent a Free Press; They Represent the Democrat Party’

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host of “The Mark Levin Show” and FOX News TV host of “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Mark Levin went on Sean Hannity’s FOX TV show “Hannity” last evening, Levin suggesting the mass media in America “don’t represent a free press; they represent the Democrat Party.”  “All of a sudden, the American media says, ‘We don’t want to look,’” said Mark Levin. “All of a sudden they’re Hellen Keller – they don’t want to see, they don’t want to hear, they don’t want to know bupkis. It’s more demonstration of what a joke the mass media is in this country today. They don’t represent a free press; they represent the Democrat Party.”  Mark Levin’s comments on “Hannity” came after President Donald J. Trump, as posted on WhiteHouse.gov, “directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election. The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information. Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions.”  Below is a transcript in pertinent part of Mark Levin’s remarks concerning the mass media on “Hannity” Tuesday:  Sean Hannity: “Alright, the Democrats once screamed from rooftops about transparency. Now that President Trump, by the way, is giving it to them – he’s now declassified Russia investigative documents – they’re running for the hills. “Here with reaction about that— By the way, number— 11 days, 12 days now in a row, number one Amazon.com, bookstores everywhere, Hannity.com – ‘Unfreedom of the Press.’ I call him ‘The Great One,’ host of ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’ the number one show Sunday nights on cable. The Great One, how are you, my friend? Thank me.” Mark Levin: “Doing great, Sean. You know, it is kind of hilarious to watch this. I mean, even Chris Cuomo and Joe Scarborough may understand what I’m about to say, which is …” Hannity: “Be nice. You get me in trouble. Go ahead.”  Levin: “… I thought the media wanted this information. You know, the Pentagon pages – they’re all proud of themselves – leaks to The New York Times all about the FISA court and so forth. Democrats want 6e information, classified information. They’re trying to hold the Attorney General in contempt for it. “The president says, ‘I’ll tell you what. I’m going to give you guys a boatload of information. I want the Attorney General to look at it. We want to find out about Russia-collusion, Russia interference in the election, what the Obama administration did or didn’t do about it. “All of a sudden, the American media says, ‘We don’t want to look.’  All of a sudden they’re Hellen Keller – they don’t want to see, they don’t want to hear, they don’t want to know bupkis. It’s more demonstration of what a joke the mass media is in this country today. They don’t represent a free press; they represent the Democrat Party.”


fortruss--2019-07-23--VIDEO INTERVIEW Western Mass Media 100 Infiltrated by CIA William Binney

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Western Mass Media 100% Infiltrated by CIA, William Binney

The Herland Report TV: Our totalitarian democracy means end of freedom for the people  “We are violating the Constitution by spying on every US citizen. It is a totalitarian process, for example the media is totally infiltrated by the CIA” says former NSA director, William Binney, on his role as the leading American whistleblower before Edward Snowden.  Binney, who uncovered and warned of the mass surveillance done out of the NSA post 9/11, speaks to The Herland Report in an exclusive interview.  https://www.youtube.com/user/HanneNab… FOLLOW THE HERLAND REPORT NEWS SITE and pick up articles from leading intellectuals, authors, journalists and activists: http://www.theherlandreport.com  William Binney says: “The media is totally infiltrated by the CIA and various other agencies. When it comes to national security, the media only talk about what the administration wants you to hear, and basically suppress any other statements about what’s going on that the administration does not want get public. The media is basically the lapdogs for the government.”  “William Casey, who was the director of Central Intelligence Agency back when Reagan was president, said at one point that you’ll know how effective we are once at least 70 percent of what’s publicly known is false.”  “In other words, they have been infiltrating the press for decades and they’re pushing their thinking and agenda to the media, so the media will promulgate it to the public. The public won’t even have any idea what’s really going on.”  “The objective is to keep everybody uninformed so that they can’t make a smart decision about anything. Everything is being done behind this secret door that you are not supposed to know about. That is really destroying the fundamental essence of democracy.”  “That was what our Constitution was all about, that the people were supposed to know what the government was doing. Not the government knowing what the people were doing at all times, they way it is turning today.”  “We are pretty much heading towards a totalitarian system. In this country, democracy has been subverted, much I think by Dick Cheney. He masterminded this because he would spend time in Congress, he knew about the congressional operation, how it worked. He was assistant to President Nixon, spying on everybody. He knew that he needed to know things about people in the opposition. What better way to do it than have a sister agency and the US government just open up and collect everything, store it, so you can go in and look at it at any time retroactively and examine anybody.”  The Herland Report is a Scandinavian news site https://www.theherlandreport.com/ and TV channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/HanneNabintuHerland?sub_confirmation=1 reaching millions yearly, presenting leading intellectuals’ view on foreign policy, current affairs, the Middle East, Western decadence, featuring a variety of opinion and analysis from a number of commentators from across the political spectrum. The Herland Report is founded and hosted by Hanne Nabintu Herland, a historian of comparative religions, bestselling author, commentator and TV producer, known from the media for sharp analysis and fearless speech.


humansarefree--2019-10-13--The Actual Reason Why “Joker” was Bashed by Mass Media

The Actual Reason Why “Joker” was Bashed by Mass Media  Although “ Joker ” was praised by most “serious” movie critics, mass media sources bashed the movie in all ways possible, even deeming it “d...


infowars--2019-06-18--Mass Media Hoax Claims Alex Jones Sent Child Porn When He Was the Victim of 3rd Party Sending Child

Mass Media Hoax Claims Alex Jones Sent Child Porn When He Was the Victim of 3rd Party Sending Child Porn to Him

Update: Below is just one example of the letters we are sending out to media outlets who have published the completely false – and completely absurd – assertion that Alex Jones emailed illicit material. We are putting news outlets on notice that they must make the necessary corrections and retractions to their articles as soon as possible.  – The emails were sent to Infowars by a third party   – The FBI’s investigation is treating Jones as the victim   – The mass media ran a giant hoax claiming Jones sent the emails to Sandy Hook lawyers   – The emails ended up in a spam folder and were never opened by Infowars staff   – The emails sent to Infowars were “very hostile” and contained threats against Jones   – Plaintiff’s lawyers in the Sandy Hook case tried to subpoena 9.6 million emails   – Unopened emails did not say they contained child porn   – The entire farce was likely a set-up to frame Jones   – Jones has offered a $1 million dollar reward to find the perpetrator  The mass media ran a giant hoax claiming Alex Jones had sent child porn to Sandy Hook lawyers when in fact Jones himself was a victim of a third party sending him malware which contained child porn.  The entire farce clearly looks like a set-up intended to frame Jones. Here’s what actually happened;  As part of discovery, the judge in the Sandy Hook case initially ordered Infowars to turn over an archive of 9.6 million emails received since 2012.  Having subsequently accepted that this was an impossible task, the judge clarified that Infowars only had to turn over emails that mentioned Sandy Hook terms or the names of victims.  57,000 emails were turned over to the court, out of which 12 emails contained images of child porn. These emails went into a spam filter and nobody at Infowars opened the emails or the attachments (doing so would have been a crime). The emails did not state that they contained child porn. Only after the Sandy Hook lawyers subpoenaed the emails was the porn discovered.  When Sandy Hook lawyers found these emails as part of discovery, they turned them over to the FBI in late May and the FBI began an investigation.  According to Jones’ attorney Norman Pattis, the FBI is treating Jones as the victim because the malicious emails were sent to him by a third party and were “very hostile” towards Jones.  “There were 9.6 million emails that were searched; we turned over about 57,000 of them. In 12 of them, there were embedded images of child pornography,” Pattis said. “As it turns out, those emails were never opened, the images were never opened. There’s no evidence that anybody here, or anybody affiliated with you, or you, ever searched them. So clearly they were placed in there as malware.”  “I’ve spoken to federal prosecutors, they regard you as a victim. They do not regard you in any way as a suspect,” he added.  “I spoke to federal prosecutors last week. They report that there is no indication anyone at InfoWars knowingly possessed child pornography,” said Pattis.  Indeed, the emails did not indicate that they contained child porn and were not opened by any Infowars staff. This clearly suggests that the emails were an attempt to set-up Jones and Infowars for possession of child porn.  Despite the media acknowledging in early reports that Jones was the victim, reporting that he had offered a $1 million reward to find the culprit who sent the emails, two days later the press began running fake news headlines claiming Jones had sent the emails to Sandy Hook lawyers, which is completely false.  The fact that the media would run a complete hoax in claiming Jones had sent child porn when in fact he was the victim because the emails were sent to him is particularly egregious, but par for the course given that the profession of journalism is now controlled by far-left activists who abuse their power to ruin people’s lives.  One newspaper, the Hartford Courant, actually reported the truth when it stated, “The FBI has informed Alex Jones someone planted child pornography on the servers for his Infowars website” and that the emails “appeared to be threats against Jones but actually contained child pornography.”  Sandy Hook attorneys accused Jones of failing to perform “minimal due diligence” by refusing to open the child porn attachments. Doing so would have been a crime, and at no point did anyone at Infowars even open the emails.  Another lawyer acting on behalf of Jones, Robert Barnes, also commented on the matter.  “FBI confirmed Jones was VICTIM of malware sent to him he never opened, that lawyers found from court discovery opening up all attachments of all emails ever sent to him,” said Barnes, adding, “I’m wide awake in Vegas & will be suing libelers.”  “When even the Jones-haters detail how #AlexJones was the VICTIM of malware, then you know how bad the libel is from the rest of the press. Shouldn’t that cause people to ask: what else are they lying about concerning #AlexJones?” he added, highlighting a tweet by trial lawyer Max Kennerly.  “It does not appear (Jones) was knowingly involved in possessing child pornography. Rather, someone emailed it unsolicited to an InfoWars address,” said Kennerly.


naturalnews--2019-01-16--Trump Derangement Syndrome fueled by these FOUR POISONS Mass media propaganda vaccines fluoridate

Trump Derangement Syndrome fueled by these FOUR POISONS: Mass media propaganda, vaccines, fluoridated water, and rapeseed oil

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naturalnews--2019-01-23--Mass shooting deaths in 2018 killed 68 Americans and the mass media freaked out ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Mass shooting deaths in 2018 killed 68 Americans and the mass media freaked out; ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS murdered 2,000 people – MSM silent

(Natural News) It’s astonishing how at least 200 million Americans have no clue what’s really going on in this country regarding deaths caused by illegal immigrants, prescription medications, vaccines, hospital superbugs (think MRSA), chemotherapy, and hospital surgery errors. That’s because the mainstream media, a.k.a. MSM, purposely fails to report any of it.  What most people fail to realize also is that nearly every TV station and newspaper is biased news that covers up all the atrocities caused by whatever makes the corporations money or ensures more people voting for Democrats (Socialism and “free stuff”). Every year in America, illegal immigrants flood across the border, bringing with them drugs, crime, infectious diseases, and likely votes for more crooked Democrat politicians. Though some illegal aliens are innocent humans seeking a better life, many are also criminals who will rob, rape, and kill to “get theirs.”  If you hate fake news, bad news, and twisted news, kill your television and burn the newspaper in your fireplace, then cancel your subscriptions. The main reason mass shooting news is all you see after one occurs is because it riles up emotions of citizens so everyone will vote for gun control, which is really total gun confiscation in disguise. Every death of an innocent person in a mass shooting is a complete tragedy, but the numbers pale in comparison to the innocent Americans dying at the hands of violent illegal immigrants.  When an illegal alien commits a crime, any crime, mass media ignores it entirely. It doesn’t fit the narrative that supports mass immigration and socialism (a.k.a. communism). One of the deadliest, most dangerous gangs in the world is now flourishing on U.S. soil, and they’re called Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). They are prominent in half of the U.S. states right now as you read this. Again, you will never hear this on mainstream media, but it’s true.  Just since 2012, and thanks to Obama’s DACA program, over 200 murders have been tied to MS-13, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. The DACA program helped spread crime, but none of that is ever reported on the major networks. In fact, over 500 cases of major crimes are linked to MS-13 gangs, but the sanctuary cities and the feds protect them from getting deported or even arrested by local police.  A radical Leftist group called SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) fully supports the MS-13 gang, and has declared our President, Donald J. Trump a racist for calling these outright guilty murderers the “violent animals” that they really are. If the mainstream media were to call a mass shooter at a school or church an “animal,” it would be perfectly normal, but to refer to a mass-murdering illegal immigrant as one, well, that’s a crime in itself, according to MSM.  One recent tweet by SPLC posted this: “It is unacceptable for such racist, dehumanizing language to now be repeated 10 times on the White House website in a document that speaks for America.” Yet surely if MS-13 gang members were to rape and murder some Democratic politician’s child, they would be yelling curse words and calling the criminal an animal.  Still mainstream news wouldn’t report that the murderer was an illegal immigrant, and that wouldn’t be considered hate speech, since social media sites like Facebook and Twitter only define and censor “hate speech” when it fits the Leftist narrative. You see, according to MSM, all illegal immigrants are peaceful, healthy people who just want a better life, even the gang members.  One member of MS-13 is actually nicknamed “Animal” and is serving 40 years in prison for stabbing a teenage boy to death. So, SPLC, you were saying? Still, SPLC considers conservative Christians to be “extremists.” Go figure.  MS-13 gang violence goes unreported in the mainstream media, while mass shootings stay flooded across the media for days on end, 24/7. MS-13 violence, including gruesome murder, happens way more often than mass shootings, too, but it’s not in the news. MS-13 gangs have been known to stab people 100 times and dismember bodies, but it’s not in the news. They bludgeon people to death with baseball bats, kidnap kids and teens and hack them up after gang-raping them, but it’s not in the news. MS-13 murders American police officers in cold blood at traffic stops, but it’s not in the news.  This is just a sampling of the many incidents of illegal immigrant violence and murder, all of which is blacked out by mainstream media, so the brainwashed American masses will continue to vote for Democrats, who fully intend to destroy the Constitution, free speech, free press, liberty, and the American dream. Tune into LiberalMob.com for more updates on illegal immigrants committing horrific crimes that go unpunished and unreported by the corrupt “lame-stream” media.


naturalnews--2019-04-22--Mass media celebration of woman scientist credited for black hole image was bogus even SCIENCE is

Mass media celebration of woman scientist credited for black hole image was bogus... even SCIENCE is now pushing a liberal agenda

(Natural News) In its rush to politicize on the basis of gender, the world’s first computer-generated image of a “black hole,” the mainstream media has once again been caught propagating politically-correct “fake news” by falsely attributing the image’s creation to a female whose algorithms weren’t even used to generate said image.  For days, Left Cult writers, pundits, and politicians hailed Katie Bouman as some kind of hero for supposedly single-handedly coding the data that ultimately generated the black hole image – something that Bouman herself initially claimed on her personal Facebook page when she captioned a celebratory photo of herself with the words:  “Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed.”  Bouman, the paying-attention world would quickly find out, wasn’t actually being honest in taking full credit for the image’s generation, seeing as how an entire team of coders contributed to the project. Not only that, but Bouman’s coding “contributions” didn’t even make the final cut – meaning she contributed a whole lot of nothing to the final creation.  But none of this stopped the fake news brigade, along with dimwitted politicians like socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), from publishing all sorts of sexist, woman-worshiping nonsense about how Bouman has somehow earned a unique place in the history books as a female contributor to science.  “Take your rightful seat in history, Dr. Bouman!” tweeted AOC, along with an emoji of a telescope. “Congratulations and thank you for your enormous contribution to the advancements of science and mankind. Here’s to #WomenInSTEM!” the live-streaming fanatic added, “STEM” referring to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, which many Leftist feminists claim isn’t occupied by enough women, LGBTs, and other “special” groups.  Sponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store: Lab-verified Nascent Iodine solution is a dietary supplement that provides your body with supplemental iodine to help protect your thyroid during radiation exposure. Nuclear accidents such as Fukushima (or nuclear war) can expose your body to radioactive iodine-131, a dangerous radioisotope. Pre-loading your system with stable iodine occupies the iodine receptor sites on your organs, causing your body to naturally expel radioactive iodine you may have been exposed to through air, food, water or milk products. This defensive strategy is recommended by nearly all health authorities, worldwide, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Discover more at this link.  For more related news, be sure to check out Libtards.news.  Once real news started to leak about how Bouman had basically taken full credit for an accomplishment to which she hardly contributed, the postdoctoral fellow took to social media once again to correct the record – kind of. Bouman, presumably out of reluctance, highlighted the fact that the spotlight for this accomplishment “should be on the team and no individual person,” adding that “[f]ocusing on one person like this helps no one, including me.”  As it turns out, a male named Andrew Chael actually contributed the bulk of the coding that was ultimately used to generate the black hole image. Chael is said to have written 850,000 of the 900,000 total lines of code that resulted in the black hole image becoming a reality.  “Katie’s algorithm, despite the media’s stance, was not used to produce this image,” tweeted Sara Issaoun, another one of the project’s contributors. “There were three algorithms used and combined to form the final image, and a team of 40 scientists part of that aspect of the project (including myself and more women),” she added.  Issaoun claimed in a separate tweet that the spreading of fake news to the contrary “is not Katie’s fault but due to extremely misleading PR she had no involvement in that was blown out of proportion and harming all involved.”  “… it’s important to set the facts straight and let the collaboration and its people be heard and celebrated for their true accomplishments as part of the many challenging aspects of this project,” Issaoun added, challenging the notion expressed by some that telling the truth about this fiasco somehow represents an “attack” on Bouman.  At the end of the day, Bouman does not deserve any type of special credit – or really any specific recognition, to be quite honest – for the black hole image. And the only reason she even received any at all is because she’s a woman as opposed to a man – the epitome of discriminatory sexism by deranged, man-hating Leftists.


newswars--2019-06-18--Mass Media Hoax Claims Alex Jones Sent Child Porn When He Was the Victim of 3rd Party Sending Child

– The emails were sent to Infowars by a third party   – The FBI’s investigation is treating Jones as the victim   – The mass media ran a giant hoax claiming Jones sent the emails to Sandy Hook parents   – The emails ended up in a spam folder and were never opened by Infowars staff   – The emails sent to Infowars were “very hostile” and contained threats against Jones   – The entire farce was likely a set-up to frame Jones  The mass media ran a giant hoax claiming Alex Jones had sent child porn to Sandy Hook parents when in fact Jones himself was a victim of a third party sending him malware which contained child porn.  The entire farce clearly looks like a set-up intended to frame Jones. Here’s what actually happened;  As part of discovery, the judge in the Sandy Hook case initially ordered Infowars to turn over an archive of 9.6 million emails received since 2012.  Having subsequently accepted that this was an impossible task, the judge clarified that Infowars only had to turn over emails that mentioned Sandy Hook terms or the names of victims.  57,000 emails were turned over to the court, out of which 12 emails contained images of child porn. These emails went into a spam filter and nobody at Infowars opened the attachments (doing so would have been a crime).  When Sandy Hook lawyers found these emails as part of discovery, they turned them over to the FBI in late May and the FBI began an investigation.  According to Jones’ attorney Norman Pattis, the FBI is treating Jones as the victim because the malicious emails were sent to him by a third party and were “very hostile” towards Jones.  “There were 9.6 million emails that were searched; we turned over about 57,000 of them. In 12 of them, there were embedded images of child pornography,” Pattis said. “As it turns out, those emails were never opened, the images were never opened. There’s no evidence that anybody here, or anybody affiliated with you, or you, ever searched them. So clearly they were placed in there as malware.”  “I’ve spoken to federal prosecutors, they regard you as a victim. They do not regard you in any way as a suspect,” he added.  “I spoke to federal prosecutors last week. They report that there is no indication anyone at InfoWars knowingly possessed child pornography,” said Pattis.  Despite the media acknowledging in early reports that Jones was the victim, reporting that he had offered a $1 million reward to find the culprit who sent the emails, two days later the press began running fake news headlines claiming Jones had sent the emails to Sandy Hook families, which is completely false.  The fact that the media would run a complete hoax in claiming Jones had sent child porn when in fact he was the victim because the emails were sent to him is particularly egregious, but par for the course given that the profession of journalism is now controlled by far-left activists who abuse their power to ruin people’s lives.  Sandy Hook attorneys accused Jones of failing to perform “minimal due diligence” by refusing to open the child porn attachments. Doing so would have been a crime, and at no point did anyone at Infowars even open the emails.  Another lawyer acting on behalf of Jones, Robert Barnes, also commented on the matter.  “FBI confirmed Jones was VICTIM of malware sent to him he never opened, that lawyers found from court discovery opening up all attachments of all emails ever sent to him,” said Barnes, adding, “I’m wide awake in Vegas & will be suing libelers.”  “When even the Jones-haters detail how #AlexJones was the VICTIM of malware, then you know how bad the libel is from the rest of the press. Shouldn’t that cause people to ask: what else are they lying about concerning #AlexJones?” he added, highlighting a tweet by trial lawyer Max Kennerly.  “It does not appear (Jones) was knowingly involved in possessing child pornography. Rather, someone emailed it unsolicited to an InfoWars address,” said Kennerly.


prisonplanet--2019-06-18--Mass Media Hoax Claims Alex Jones Sent Child Porn When He Was the Victim of 3rd Party Sending Child

– The emails were sent to Infowars by a third party   – The FBI’s investigation is treating Jones as the victim   – The mass media ran a giant hoax claiming Jones sent the emails to Sandy Hook lawyers   – The emails ended up in a spam folder and were never opened by Infowars staff   – The emails sent to Infowars were “very hostile” and contained threats against Jones   – Plaintiff’s lawyers in the Sandy Hook case tried to subpoena 9.6 million emails   – Unopened emails did not say they contained child porn   – The entire farce was likely a set-up to frame Jones   – Jones has offered a $1 million dollar reward to find the perpetrator  The mass media ran a giant hoax claiming Alex Jones had sent child porn to Sandy Hook lawyers when in fact Jones himself was a victim of a third party sending him malware which contained child porn.  The entire farce clearly looks like a set-up intended to frame Jones. Here’s what actually happened;  As part of discovery, the judge in the Sandy Hook case initially ordered Infowars to turn over an archive of 9.6 million emails received since 2012.  Having subsequently accepted that this was an impossible task, the judge clarified that Infowars only had to turn over emails that mentioned Sandy Hook terms or the names of victims.  57,000 emails were turned over to the court, out of which 12 emails contained images of child porn. These emails went into a spam filter and nobody at Infowars opened the emails or the attachments (doing so would have been a crime). The emails did not state that they contained child porn. Only after the Sandy Hook lawyers subpoenaed the emails was the porn discovered.  When Sandy Hook lawyers found these emails as part of discovery, they turned them over to the FBI in late May and the FBI began an investigation.  According to Jones’ attorney Norman Pattis, the FBI is treating Jones as the victim because the malicious emails were sent to him by a third party and were “very hostile” towards Jones.  “There were 9.6 million emails that were searched; we turned over about 57,000 of them. In 12 of them, there were embedded images of child pornography,” Pattis said. “As it turns out, those emails were never opened, the images were never opened. There’s no evidence that anybody here, or anybody affiliated with you, or you, ever searched them. So clearly they were placed in there as malware.”  “I’ve spoken to federal prosecutors, they regard you as a victim. They do not regard you in any way as a suspect,” he added.  “I spoke to federal prosecutors last week. They report that there is no indication anyone at InfoWars knowingly possessed child pornography,” said Pattis.  Indeed, the emails did not indicate that they contained child porn and were not opened by any Infowars staff. This clearly suggests that the emails were an attempt to set-up Jones and Infowars for possession of child porn.  Despite the media acknowledging in early reports that Jones was the victim, reporting that he had offered a $1 million reward to find the culprit who sent the emails, two days later the press began running fake news headlines claiming Jones had sent the emails to Sandy Hook lawyers, which is completely false.  The fact that the media would run a complete hoax in claiming Jones had sent child porn when in fact he was the victim because the emails were sent to him is particularly egregious, but par for the course given that the profession of journalism is now controlled by far-left activists who abuse their power to ruin people’s lives.  One newspaper, the Hartford Courant, actually reported the truth when it stated, “The FBI has informed Alex Jones someone planted child pornography on the servers for his Infowars website” and that the emails “appeared to be threats against Jones but actually contained child pornography.”  Sandy Hook attorneys accused Jones of failing to perform “minimal due diligence” by refusing to open the child porn attachments. Doing so would have been a crime, and at no point did anyone at Infowars even open the emails.  Another lawyer acting on behalf of Jones, Robert Barnes, also commented on the matter.  “FBI confirmed Jones was VICTIM of malware sent to him he never opened, that lawyers found from court discovery opening up all attachments of all emails ever sent to him,” said Barnes, adding, “I’m wide awake in Vegas & will be suing libelers.”  “When even the Jones-haters detail how #AlexJones was the VICTIM of malware, then you know how bad the libel is from the rest of the press. Shouldn’t that cause people to ask: what else are they lying about concerning #AlexJones?” he added, highlighting a tweet by trial lawyer Max Kennerly.  “It does not appear (Jones) was knowingly involved in possessing child pornography. Rather, someone emailed it unsolicited to an InfoWars address,” said Kennerly.  This article was posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 10:12 am


tass--2019-12-13--Abramovich becomes top Russian mogul in foreign mass media

MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. Billionaire Roman Abramovich has topped a rating of the most popular Russian businessmen in terms of mentioning in English language media in 2019. Abramovich is followed by businessmen Oleg Deripaska and Mikhail Fridman, according to the survey prepared by LexisNexis Russia.  Mass media referred to Abramovich 9,684 times in 2019. These are mainly UK-based media with football as the key topic of publications, LexisNexis says. Oleg Deripaska was mentioned on 4,735 occasions in the media, or half as much. Alfa Group founder Mikhail Fridman was mentioned in 2,894 foreign media reports. "The total number of articles mentioning Abramovich, Deripaska and Fridman is higher than the figure for all other Top 20 participants taken together," the company says.  Lukoil CEO Vagit Alekperov, businessman Viktor Vekselberg, VKontakte and Telegram founder Pavel Durov, businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, Novatek CEO Leonid Mikhelson and Yuri Milner all had more than 1,000 publications in English language media.  They are followed by Alisher Usmanov, Pyotr Kondrashev, Arkady Volozh, Igor Makarov, Vladimir Potanin, Dmitry Rybolovlev, Evgeni Kaspersky, Oleg Tinkov, Iskander Makhmudov, Vladimir Lisin and Roman Trotsenko.  Experts of LexisNexis Russia studied mentioning of 98 Russian businessmen in the Forbes 2019 billionaires rating in publications of English language media.


thedailycaller--2019-02-03--WaPo Runs Super Bowl Ad Worth Millions Promoting Free Press Amid Mass Media Layoffs

The Washington Post announced Saturday it will premier an ad during Sunday’s Super Bowl LIII extolling the importance of journalism to a healthy democracy.  The 60-second ad comes as hundreds of journalists are losing their jobs amid mass media layoffs.  “While most Super Bowl ad producers have the better part of a year, we had the lesser part of a week, but with an event this big, we decided to seize the opportunity,” Fred Ryan, publisher and CEO of WaPo, noted in a press statement.  CBS is charging $5.25 million for a 30-second ad, CNBC reported. WaPo would not comment on how much the company was spending on its commercial slot.  The ad, which will feature actor Tom Hanks as the narrator, is expected to showcase murdered and missing journalists around the world. The campaign comes after WaPo contributor Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.  Major digital media outlets meanwhile are cutting workforce size amid an upheaval in the industry. (RELATED: Vice Lays Off 10 Percent Of Staff As Digital Media Struggle During Trump Era)  BuzzFeed, Yahoo! and other major outlets, for instance, cut loose more than 1,000 jobs Wednesday in what analysts say is a broadside against journalists. There is also concern Facebook is indirectly responsible for the massacre.  Verizon Media, which owns Yahoo! and the Huffington Post, is slashing roughly 800 jobs, or 7 percent, of its global workforce across the organization. BuzzFeed is also expected to cut 15 percent of its workforce, including jobs in journalism. Other media outlets followed suit.  Vice cut roughly 250 jobs from its payroll Friday, which are expected to have a sizable impact on Vice’s 2,500-person staff. The move was designed to focus on profitable areas like film and television production.  Concerns about Facebook’s effect on the industry comes less than a year after the company decided in 2018 to de-emphasize news on the platform. Outlets worried the change in algorithm would wipe out digital journalism and cause several digital companies to pare down.  Conservative outlet Independent Journal Review (IJR) terminated several employees in February 2018, leaving an unclear future for the millennial-focused conservative website that has recently faced a declining audience and internal strife. An analytics report from SimilarWeb.com shows a substantial drop in traffic before the outlet cut its workforce.  Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.


thedcclothesline--2019-01-24--Mass shootings in 2018 killed 68 Americans and the mass media freaked out ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS murder

Mass shootings in 2018 killed 68 Americans and the mass media freaked out; ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS murdered 2,000 people – MSM silent

(Natural News) It’s astonishing how at least 200 million Americans have no clue what’s really going on in this country regarding deaths caused by illegal immigrants, prescription medications, vaccines, hospital superbugs (think MRSA), chemotherapy, and hospital surgery errors. That’s because the mainstream media, a.k.a. MSM, purposely fails to report any of it.  What most people fail to realize also is that nearly every TV station and newspaper is biased news that covers up all the atrocities caused by whatever makes the corporations money or ensures more people voting for Democrats (Socialism and “free stuff”). Every year in America, illegal immigrants flood across the border, bringing with them drugs, crime, infectious diseases, and likely votes for more crooked Democrat politicians. Though some illegal aliens are innocent humans seeking a better life, many are also criminals who will rob, rape, and kill to “get theirs.”  If you hate fake news, bad news, and twisted news, kill your television and burn the newspaper in your fireplace, then cancel your subscriptions. The main reason mass shooting news is all you see after one occurs is because it riles up emotions of citizens so everyone will vote for gun control, which is really total gun confiscation in disguise. Every death of an innocent person in a mass shooting is a complete tragedy, but the numbers pale in comparison to the innocent Americans dying at the hands of violent illegal immigrants.  When an illegal alien commits a crime, any crime, mass media ignores it entirely. It doesn’t fit the narrative that supports mass immigration and socialism (a.k.a. communism). One of the deadliest, most dangerous gangs in the world is now flourishing on U.S. soil, and they’re called Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). They are prominent in half of the U.S. states right now as you read this. Again, you will never hear this on mainstream media, but it’s true.  Just since 2012, and thanks to Obama’s DACA program, over 200 murders have been tied to MS-13, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. The DACA program helped spread crime, but none of that is ever reported on the major networks. In fact, over 500 cases of major crimes are linked to MS-13 gangs, but the sanctuary cities and the feds protect them from getting deported or even arrested by local police.  A radical Leftist group called SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) fully supports the MS-13 gang, and has declared our President, Donald J. Trump a racist for calling these outright guilty murderers the “violent animals” that they really are. If the mainstream media were to call a mass shooter at a school or church an “animal,” it would be perfectly normal, but to refer to a mass-murdering illegal immigrant as one, well, that’s a crime in itself, according to MSM.  One recent tweet by SPLC posted this: “It is unacceptable for such racist, dehumanizing language to now be repeated 10 times on the White House website in a document that speaks for America.” Yet surely if MS-13 gang members were to rape and murder some Democratic politician’s child, they would be yelling curse words and calling the criminal an animal.  Still mainstream news wouldn’t report that the murderer was an illegal immigrant, and that wouldn’t be considered hate speech, since social media sites like Facebook and Twitter only define and censor “hate speech” when it fits the Leftist narrative. You see, according to MSM, all illegal immigrants are peaceful, healthy people who just want a better life, even the gang members.  One member of MS-13 is actually nicknamed “Animal” and is serving 40 years in prison for stabbing a teenage boy to death. So, SPLC, you were saying? Still, SPLC considers conservative Christians to be “extremists.” Go figure.  MS-13 gang violence goes unreported in the mainstream media, while mass shootings stay flooded across the media for days on end, 24/7. MS-13 violence, including gruesome murder, happens way more often than mass shootings, too, but it’s not in the news. MS-13 gangs have been known to stab people 100 times and dismember bodies, but it’s not in the news. They bludgeon people to death with baseball bats, kidnap kids and teens and hack them up after gang-raping them, but it’s not in the news. MS-13 murders American police officers in cold blood at traffic stops, but it’s not in the news.  This is just a sampling of the many incidents of illegal immigrant violence and murder, all of which is blacked out by mainstream media, so the brainwashed American masses will continue to vote for Democrats, who fully intend to destroy the Constitution, free speech, free press, liberty, and the American dream. Tune into LiberalMob.com for more updates on illegal immigrants committing horrific crimes that go unpunished and unreported by the corrupt “lame-stream” media.


therussophileorg--2019-04-22--Mass media celebration of woman scientist credited for black hole image was bogus even SCIENCE is n

Mass media celebration of woman scientist credited for black hole image was bogus… even SCIENCE is now pushing a liberal agenda

This  [post](http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-04-22-mass-media-celebration-of-woman- scientist-credited-for-black-hole-image-was-bogus.html)  was originally published on  [this site](http://www.naturalnews.com/)[]()  ([Natural News](https://www.naturalnews.com/)) In its rush to politicize on the basis of gender, the world’s first computer-generated image of a “black hole,” the mainstream media has once again been caught propagating politically-correct “fake news” by [falsely attributing](http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60059) the image’s creation to a female whose algorithms _weren’t even used_ to generate said image.  For days, Left Cult writers, pundits, and politicians hailed Katie Bouman as some kind of hero for supposedly single-handedly coding the data that ultimately generated the black hole image – something that Bouman herself initially claimed on her personal Facebook page when she captioned a celebratory photo of herself with the words:  “Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed.”  Bouman, the paying-attention world would quickly find out, wasn’t actually being honest in taking full credit for the image’s generation, seeing as how an entire _team_ of coders contributed to the project. Not only that, but Bouman’s coding “contributions” didn’t even make the final cut – meaning she contributed a whole lot of _nothing_ to the final creation.  But none of this stopped the fake news brigade, along with dimwitted politicians like socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), from publishing all sorts of sexist, woman-worshiping nonsense about how Bouman has somehow earned a unique place in the history books as a female contributor to science.  “Take your rightful seat in history, Dr. Bouman!” tweeted AOC, along with an emoji of a telescope. “Congratulations and thank you for your enormous contribution to the advancements of science and mankind. Here’s to #WomenInSTEM!” the live-streaming fanatic added, “STEM” referring to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, which many Leftist feminists claim [isn’t occupied by enough women, LGBTs, and other “special” groups](https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-29-lgbt-agenda-is-corrupting- science-and-destroying-young-minds-with-progressive-propaganda.html).  _**Sponsored solution from the Health Ranger Store:** Lab-verified [Nascent Iodine solution](http://iodine.naturalnews.com/iodine.html) is a dietary supplement that provides your body with supplemental iodine to help protect your thyroid during radiation exposure. Nuclear accidents such as Fukushima (or nuclear war) can expose your body to radioactive iodine-131, a dangerous radioisotope. Pre-loading your system with stable iodine occupies the iodine receptor sites on your organs, causing your body to naturally expel radioactive iodine you may have been exposed to through air, food, water or milk products. This defensive strategy is recommended by nearly all health authorities, worldwide, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [Discover more at this link](http://iodine.naturalnews.com/iodine.html)._  For more related news, be sure to check out [Libtards.news](http://libtards.news/).  ## In la-la Leftist land, women somehow deserve credit for accomplishments they didn’t even accomplish  Once real news started to leak about how Bouman had basically taken full credit for an accomplishment to which she hardly contributed, the postdoctoral fellow took to social media once again to correct the record – kind of. Bouman, presumably out of reluctance, highlighted the fact that the spotlight for this accomplishment “should be on the team and no individual person,” adding that “[f]ocusing on one person like this helps no one, including me.”  As it turns out, a male named Andrew Chael actually contributed the bulk of the coding that was ultimately used to generate the black hole image. Chael is said to have written 850,000 of the 900,000 total lines of code that resulted in the black hole image becoming a reality.  “Katie’s algorithm, despite the media’s stance, was not used to produce this image,” tweeted Sara Issaoun, another one of the project’s contributors. “There were three algorithms used and combined to form the final image, and a team of 40 scientists part of that aspect of the project (including myself and more women),” she added.  Issaoun claimed in a separate tweet that the spreading of fake news to the contrary “is not Katie’s fault but due to extremely misleading PR she had no involvement in that was blown out of proportion and harming all involved.”  “… it’s important to set the facts straight and let the collaboration and its people be heard and celebrated for their true accomplishments as part of the many challenging aspects of this project,” Issaoun added, challenging the notion expressed by some that telling the truth about this fiasco somehow represents an “attack” on Bouman.  At the end of the day, Bouman does _not_ deserve any type of special credit – or really any specific recognition, to be quite honest – for the black hole image. And the only reason she even received any at all is because she’s a woman as opposed to a man – the epitome of discriminatory sexism by deranged, man-hating Leftists.  **Sources for this article include:**  [InformationLiberation.com](http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60059)  [NaturalNews.com](https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-29-lgbt-agenda-is- corrupting-science-and-destroying-young-minds-with-progressive- propaganda.html)  from http://www.naturalnews.com/2019-04-22-mass-media-celebration-of-woman- scientist-credited-for-black-hole-image-was-bogus.html


therussophileorg--2019-04-23--Mass media celebration of woman scientist credited for black hole image was bogus even SCIENCE is n

by: Ethan Huff  ([Natural News](https://www.naturalnews.com/)) In its rush to politicize on the basis of gender, the world’s first computer-generated image of a “black hole,” the mainstream media has once again been caught propagating politically-correct “fake news” by [falsely attributing](http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60059) the image’s creation to a female whose algorithms  _weren’t even used_  to generate said image.  For days, Left Cult writers, pundits, and politicians hailed Katie Bouman as some kind of hero for supposedly single-handedly coding the data that ultimately generated the black hole image – something that Bouman herself initially claimed on her personal Facebook page when she captioned a celebratory photo of herself with the words:  “Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed.”  Bouman, the paying-attention world would quickly find out, wasn’t actually being honest in taking full credit for the image’s generation, seeing as how an entire  _team_  of coders contributed to the project. Not only that, but Bouman’s coding “contributions” didn’t even make the final cut – meaning she contributed a whole lot of  _nothing_  to the final creation.  But none of this stopped the fake news brigade, along with dimwitted politicians like socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), from publishing all sorts of sexist, woman-worshiping nonsense about how Bouman has somehow earned a unique place in the history books as a female contributor to science.  “Take your rightful seat in history, Dr. Bouman!” tweeted AOC, along with an emoji of a telescope. “Congratulations and thank you for your enormous contribution to the advancements of science and mankind. Here’s to #WomenInSTEM!” the live-streaming fanatic added, “STEM” referring to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, which many Leftist feminists claim [isn’t occupied by enough women, LGBTs, and other “special” groups](https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-29-lgbt-agenda-is-corrupting- science-and-destroying-young-minds-with-progressive-propaganda.html).  ## In la-la Leftist land, women somehow deserve credit for accomplishments they didn’t even accomplish  Once real news started to leak about how Bouman had basically taken full credit for an accomplishment to which she hardly contributed, the postdoctoral fellow took to social media once again to correct the record – kind of. Bouman, presumably out of reluctance, highlighted the fact that the spotlight for this accomplishment “should be on the team and no individual person,” adding that “[f]ocusing on one person like this helps no one, including me.”  As it turns out, a male named Andrew Chael actually contributed the bulk of the coding that was ultimately used to generate the black hole image. Chael is said to have written 850,000 of the 900,000 total lines of code that resulted in the black hole image becoming a reality.  “Katie’s algorithm, despite the media’s stance, was not used to produce this image,” tweeted Sara Issaoun, another one of the project’s contributors. “There were three algorithms used and combined to form the final image, and a team of 40 scientists part of that aspect of the project (including myself and more women),” she added.  Issaoun claimed in a separate tweet that the spreading of fake news to the contrary “is not Katie’s fault but due to extremely misleading PR she had no involvement in that was blown out of proportion and harming all involved.”  “… it’s important to set the facts straight and let the collaboration and its people be heard and celebrated for their true accomplishments as part of the many challenging aspects of this project,” Issaoun added, challenging the notion expressed by some that telling the truth about this fiasco somehow represents an “attack” on Bouman.  At the end of the day, Bouman does  _not_  deserve any type of special credit – or really any specific recognition, to be quite honest – for the black hole image. And the only reason she even received any at all is because she’s a woman as opposed to a man – the epitome of discriminatory sexism by deranged, man-hating Leftists.  **Sources for this article include:**  [InformationLiberation.com](http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60059)  [NaturalNews.com](https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-29-lgbt-agenda-is- corrupting-science-and-destroying-young-minds-with-progressive- propaganda.html)  Related Posts:     **We truly are under attack. We need user support now more than ever![For as little as $10, you can support the IWB directly – and it only takes a minute.](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s- xclick&hosted_button_id=DAKZTAE6PJLGW) Thank you.** 116 views  Related Posts:


therussophileorg--2019-05-28--The Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate

This  [post](https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/the-mass-media-is- poisoning-us-with-hate/)  was originally published on  [this site](https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/)  Counterinformation  [https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/67966a395560e8593ecb2c24f7bc6397?s=96&d=identicon&r=R](https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/67966a395560e8593ecb2c24f7bc6397?s=96&d=identicon&r=R)  By Chris Hedges  May 27, 2019 “[Information Clearing House](http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/)” – __    In “[Manufacturing Consent](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/78912/manufacturing-consent- by-edward-s-herman-and-noam-chomsky/9780375714498/): The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” published in 1988, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky exposed the techniques that the commercial media used to promote and defend the economic, social and political agendas of the ruling elites. These techniques included portraying victims as either worthy or unworthy of sympathy. A Catholic priest such as Jerzy Popiełuszko, for example, murdered by the communist regime in Poland in 1984, was deified, but four Catholic missionaries who were raped and murdered in 1980 in El Salvador by U.S.-backed death squads were slandered as fellow travelers of the “Marxist” rebel movement. The techniques also included both narrowing the debate in a way that buttressed the elite consensus and intentionally failing to challenge the intentions of the ruling elites or the actual structures of power.  “Manufacturing Consent” was published on the eve of three revolutions that have dramatically transformed the news industry: the rise of right-wing radio and Fox-style TV news that abandon the media’s faux objectivity, the introduction of 24-hour cable news stations, and the creation of internet platforms—owned by a handful of corporations—that control the distribution of news and information and mine our personal data on behalf of advertisers, political campaigns and the government. The sins of the old media, bad though they were, are nothing compared with the sins of the new media. Mass media has degenerated into not only a purveyor of gossip, conspiracy theories and salacious entertainment but, most ominously, a purveyor of hate. [Matt Taibbi](https://taibbi.substack.com/), the author of “[Hate Inc.](https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/hate-inc/): How, and Why, the Media Makes Us Hate One Another,” has dissected modern media platforms in much the same way that Herman and Chomsky did the old media.  The new media, Taibbi points out, still manufactures consent, but it does so by setting group against group, a consumer version of what George Orwell in his novel “1984” called the “[Two Minutes Hate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate).” Our opinions and prejudices are skillfully catered to and reinforced, with the aid of a detailed digital analysis of our proclivities and habits, and then sold back to us. The result, Taibbi writes, is “packaged anger just for you.” The public is unable to speak across the manufactured divide. It is mesmerized by the fake dissent of the culture wars and competing conspiracy theories. Politics, under the assault, has atrophied into a tawdry reality show centered on political personalities. Civic discourse is defined by invective and insulting remarks on the internet. Power, meanwhile, is left unexamined and unchallenged. The result is political impotence among the populace. The moral swamp is not only a fertile place for demagogues such as Donald Trump—a creation of this media burlesque—but channels misplaced rage, intolerance and animosity toward those defined as internal enemies.     “Objectivity was when I was told I couldn’t write with voice,” Taibbi told me when I interviewed him on my television show, “On Contact.” [[Part one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_vla4l-AX8) of the interview; [part two](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTf4KHe-M8I).] “I couldn’t write with a point of view. Objectivity was to write in a dull, flat, third-person perspective. Don’t express yourself. Don’t be too colorful. This actually was, if you pick up The New York Times today, that same writing style. The original idea behind it is you didn’t want to turn off people on the start because they’re trying to reach the widest possible audience. This also infected radio, television. That’s why you have this Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather-style delivery, which was monotonal, flat, unopinionated. A lot of people thought this was some kind of an ethical decision that news organizations were making. In fact, what they were trying to do is reach the greatest number of people to sell the greatest number of ads. That’s how we developed that idea.”The old media sold itself as objective, although as Taibbi points out, this was more a reflection of tone rather than content. This vaunted objectivity and impartiality was, at its core, an element of a commercial tactic designed to reach the largest numbers of viewers or readers.  The old media rigidly held to the fiction that there were only two kinds of political opinions—those expressed by Democrats and those expressed by Republicans. These two positions swiftly devolved into caricatures on radio and television. The classic example was the show “Crossfire,” in which two antagonists, the stereotypical liberal and the stereotypical conservative, could never agree. The liberal, Taibbi pointed out, “was always cast as the person who couldn’t punch back. He was always in retreat. The conservative was always in attack mode. A personality like [Tucker Carlson](https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tucker-carlson.php).” These staged and choreographed confrontations were, in essence, sporting events.  “If you watch a [[‘Sunday NFL] Countdown’](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_NFL_Countdown) you’ll see the sets are designed exactly the same” as that of “Crossfire.” “The anchor on one side. There’s usually four commentators—two that represent each team. They have graphics that tell you what the score is, who is ahead, who is behind. We want people to perceive politics as something they have a rooting interest in. There’s no possibility of any gray area in any of this. Your political identity can’t possibly bleed into any other political identity. You are on one team or another. That’s it. We don’t even acknowledge the existence of people who have different types of ideas. For instance, anti-abortion but also pro-union. Whatever it is. That doesn’t exist in the media.”  The fact that on most big issues the two major political parties are in agreement is ignored. The deregulation of the financial industry, the militarization of police, the explosion in the prison population, deindustrialization, austerity, the endless wars in the Middle East, the bloated military budget, the control of elections and mass media by corporations and the wholesale surveillance of the population by the government all have bipartisan support. For this reason, they are almost never discussed.  “It’s always presented as two parties that are always in disagreement about everything,” Taibbi said, “which is not true.”  “We [members of the press] are not focusing on the timeless, permanent nature of how the system works,” he said. “We don’t think about the central bank. We don’t think about the security state. We don’t think about any of that stuff. We focus on personalities. Donald Trump versus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That simplifies everything and allows us to not look at the bigger picture.”  Once the old media model imploded with the arrival of 24-hour news networks, Fox-style news and the internet, the monopoly of a few dominant newspapers and networks ended. In the new setting, media organizations tailor their content to focus on specific demographics.  “MSNBC, which has gone through some interesting changes over the years, markets itself as a left-leaning network,” Taibbi said. “But it was so intensely pro-war in 2002 that it had to uninvite [Jesse Ventura](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-ventura-msnbc- tried_b_492237?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIu7MzBa7gLon5L6wIYCqI9XXrWd5mU1xMRz4hI9gSPY2jc4fAiK1LPIrCGkcLqghfB6ATeX1 -x29GD_SBxhUkvWDxCuImwWWhZFK2fDE0agqxu4HM- U6tZUqQhrNEyg3F_CPAiPXiTnax5TP_BoAesEFmEsKbqxtJOCPH1VyEhK) and [Phil Donahue](https://billmoyers.com/2013/03/25/the-day-that-tv-news-died/) from the network. This latest thing was ‘Russiagate’ and the constant hyping of the narrative ‘If you watch, you might learn any minute that we, along with Robert Mueller, are going to take down the president.’ ”  The media model not only sets demographic against demographic, it mutes and destroys investigations into corporate systems of oppression and genuine dissent.  “You don’t have to make the news up for these people,” Taibbi said of the process of carving up the public. “You can just pick stories that they’re going to like. You start feeding them content that is going to ratify their belief systems. Fox did it first. They did it well. They started to make money. They were No. 1 for a long time. But this started to bleed into the rest of the business. Pretty soon, everybody was doing the same thing. It didn’t matter whether you were the food channel tailoring content for people who liked food or MSNBC who tailored content for people who leaned in a certain political direction, you were giving people stuff they wanted to hear.”  “Previously, you were looking at the illusion of debate,” Taibbi said of the old media model. “You would see people arguing on ‘Crossfire.’ On the op-ed pages, there were people who disagreed with each other. Now, most people’s news consumption experience is tailored entirely to their preferences. … If you’re only reading media that tailor to your particular belief system you’re not being exposed to other ideas. It’s going to be progressively more vituperative.”  “One of the first stories that taught the news business you can actually sell anger as a product was the [Monica] Lewinsky scandal,” Taibbi said.  MSNBC built its brand and its audience by relentlessly warning that the presidency of Bill Clinton was in mortal peril during the Lewinsky investigation. It repeated this formula by spending two years hyping the story of supposed Russian collusion with the Trump administration.  “What they were trying to do was basically create the impression that [a new] ‘Watergate was going on, you better tune in because at any moment this could all go kaput,’ ” Taibbi said of the Lewinsky scandal. “They got an enormous market share. Fox added a twist to it. Fox took the same concept and openly villainized the characters. They decided to make Bill and Hillary Clinton into caricatures and cartoon figures, aging hippies. They kept running clip after clip of Hillary Clinton talking about how she didn’t bake cookies. They knew their audience was going to react to all these images in a certain way. They sold people stories that make them angry. They told them, ‘If you keep tuning in, somehow you are a part of the process. You are a part of this ongoing prosecution of this culture enemy that we’re showing you. … We tell you about somebody you don’t like. We keep telling you about it over and over to dominate the ratings.’ ”  The result, Taibbi argues, is a marketing strategy that fosters addictive and aggressive behavior. The more the habits of readers and viewers on the internet and electronic devices are tracked, the more the addiction and aggression are fed.  “This creates more than just pockets of political rancor,” he went on. “It creates masses of media consumers who have been trained to only see in one direction, as if they have been pulled through history on a railroad track, with heads fastened in blinders, looking only one way. … Even without the vitriolic content, just the process of surfing and consuming the news has a lot of the same qualities as other addictions—like smoking cigarettes or taking drugs. People get addicted to the feel of their phones. They get addicted to the process of turning on screens. You especially get addicted to the idea that you’re going to turn on a news program or read an article and it’s going to tell you something that is going to anger you even more than you were yesterday.”  The template for news, Taibbi writes, is professional wrestling.  “Wrestling was a commercial formula that they figured out worked incredibly well,” Taibbi said of the corporate owners of news outlets. “There was a simplified morality play where there was a good guy, who was called the baby face, and a bad guy they called the heel. They relentlessly hyped the bad guy. The heel was more important in wrestling and more popular than the face. The amount of tickets they can sell is a direct correlation to how much people hate the bad guy. You have to have a hateable heel in order to make the formula work. This is how news works.”  Reporters, Taibbi writes in his book, “now regularly do the outraged hero, finger-pointing routine whenever they are within a mile of Trump. [Jim Acosta’](https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/07/trump-acosta-white- house-972060)s confrontations with the president, for instance, seemed pulled straight from WWE [World Wrestling Entertainment] outtakes. Trump’s whole presidency has turned into a heel/hero promotion with Bob Mueller in the face role.”  “Trump fits like a glove into the commercial formula of all of this,” Taibbi said in the interview. “That’s what’s fascinating about it. He actually makes more money for the MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times side than he does for Fox and the [Daily Caller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Caller). He’s a cartoon character who is a perfect heel. You have an utterly simplified political landscape. There are only two ways to be. You are either for this incredibly noxious figure or you are against him.”  But, Taibbi notes, there is a diminishing return as with any addiction.  “You always have to constantly increase the level of the rhetoric in order to get people to keep coming back,” he said. “You can’t be narrowly ‘incompetent’ or ‘corrupt.’ Sooner or later, you have to get to the point where you’re saying ‘demagogues,’ ‘authoritarians,’ ‘dictators.’ Finally, as[Glenn Beck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck) discovered, you have to start calling them Hitler. Beck got to the point where he was simultaneously calling people Hitler and Stalin. It wasn’t enough just to be Hitler.”  “If you are defining somebody else as that bad, then everything is permissible,” he said. “We saw this with Russiagate. The same sort of liberal commentators who, ages ago, would have been very concerned about things such as the collapse of attorney-client privilege, or the [FISA](https://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/about-foreign-intelligence-surveillance- court) program, any of that stuff. They don’t care about it anymore. They just want to get the person.”  The shaping of the public into antagonistic tribes works commercially. It works politically. But it is a recipe for social disintegration. I watched competing ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia seize rival mass media outlets and use them to spew vitriol and hate against the ethnic group they demonized. The poisonous images and rhetoric that were pumped out month after month in Yugoslavia led to a savage fratricide.  The United States is already plagued by an epidemic of mass shootings, death threats against critics of Trump, [including Rep. Ilhan Omar](https://www.rollcall.com/news/guns-found-in-new-york-home-of-man-who- threatened-to-shoot-rep-ilhan-omar), and aborted assassination attempts, including a Trump supporter’s [mailing of pipe bombs](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/clintons-obama-suspicious- packages/index.html) last year to prominent Democrats and CNN, an effort to decapitate the hierarchy of the Democratic Party, as well as terrorize the media outlet that is the party’s principal propaganda arm.  “If you’re constantly winding up audiences and telling them that all of their troubles are a result of this other group that is literally Hitler, that they’re literally Nazis, they’re literally Stalin, sooner or later some people are going to start picking up weapons and do something crazy,” Taibbi said. “This is why people are correctly upset about Fox News. But they should also be concerned about other forms of media. The formula is similar across the board.”  “Our system of bubble economics is going to produce some kind of a catastrophe at some point,” Taibbi, the author of one of the finest books on the 2008 financial crash, “[Griftopia](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/176128 /griftopia-by-matt-taibbi/9780385529969/),” concluded. “At which point, if you tell people often enough that their next-door neighbor is literally in the league with Nazis or terrorists or whatever it is—of course Fox pioneered this, going back to the Iraq War, when we were told liberals were terrorist supporters—sooner or later, there’s going to be violence. The inability of society to agree on a common set of facts means the media has failed already. It means we’re just not reaching people. [In this atmosphere] we will never be able to work things out in a civil way.”  _Chris Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.<https://www.truthdig.com/author/chris_hedges/>_  <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/>  from https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/the-mass-media-is- poisoning-us-with-hate/


therussophileorg--2019-07-23--VIDEO INTERVIEW Western Mass Media 100 Infiltrated by CIA William Binney

This  [post](https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/07/video-interview-western-mass- media-100-infiltrated-by-cia-william-binney/)  was originally published on  [this site](https://www.fort- russ.com/feed/)<https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fo_QG_Ks3yY>  The Herland Report TV: **Our totalitarian democracy means end of freedom for the people**  “We are violating the Constitution by spying on every US citizen. It is a totalitarian process, for example the media is totally infiltrated by the CIA” says former NSA director, William Binney, on his role as the leading American whistleblower before Edward Snowden.  Binney, who uncovered and warned of the mass surveillance done out of the NSA post 9/11, speaks to The Herland Report in an exclusive interview.  [https://www.youtube.com/user/HanneNab…](https://www.youtube.com/user/HanneNabintuHerland?sub_confirmation=1) FOLLOW THE HERLAND REPORT NEWS SITE and pick up articles from leading intellectuals, authors, journalists and activists: [http://www.theherlandreport.com](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=Fo_QG_Ks3yY&redir_token =yIIDMiWaDN- jvzp7hAq8e05xuHh8MTU2Mzk0OTQyOUAxNTYzODYzMDI5&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theherlandreport.com)  VIDEO  William Binney says: “The media is totally infiltrated by the CIA and various other agencies. When it comes to national security, the media only talk about what the administration wants you to hear, and basically suppress any other statements about what’s going on that the administration does not want get public. The media is basically the lapdogs for the government.”  “William Casey, who was the director of Central Intelligence Agency back when Reagan was president, said at one point that you’ll know how effective we are once at least 70 percent of what’s publicly known is false.”  “In other words, they have been infiltrating the press for decades and they’re pushing their thinking and agenda to the media, so the media will promulgate it to the public. The public won’t even have any idea what’s really going on.”  “The objective is to keep everybody uninformed so that they can’t make a smart decision about anything. Everything is being done behind this secret door that you are not supposed to know about. That is really destroying the fundamental essence of democracy.”  “That was what our Constitution was all about, that the people were supposed to know what the government was doing. Not the government knowing what the people were doing at all times, they way it is turning today.”  “We are pretty much heading towards a totalitarian system. In this country, democracy has been subverted, much I think by Dick Cheney. He masterminded this because he would spend time in Congress, he knew about the congressional operation, how it worked. He was assistant to President Nixon, spying on everybody. He knew that he needed to know things about people in the opposition. What better way to do it than have a sister agency and the US government just open up and collect everything, store it, so you can go in and look at it at any time retroactively and examine anybody.”  The Herland Report is a Scandinavian news site <https://www.theherlandreport.com/> and TV channel on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/user/HanneNabintuHerland?sub_confirmation=1> reaching millions yearly, presenting leading intellectuals’ view on foreign policy, current affairs, the Middle East, Western decadence, featuring a variety of opinion and analysis from a number of commentators from across the political spectrum. The Herland Report is founded and hosted by Hanne Nabintu Herland, a historian of comparative religions, bestselling author, commentator and TV producer, known from the media for sharp analysis and fearless speech.  from https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/07/video-interview-western-mass-media-100 -infiltrated-by-cia-william-binney/


therussophileorg--2019-08-19--Mass Medias Phony Freakout Over Bernies WaPo Criticism Is Backfiring by Caitlin Johnstone

Mass Media’s Phony Freakout Over Bernie’s WaPo Criticism Is Backfiring, by Caitlin Johnstone

This  [post](https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/08/18/mass-medias-phony-freakout- over-bernies-wapo-criticism-is-backfiring-by-caitlin-johnstone/)  was originally published on  [this site](https://straightlinelogic.com/feed/)[https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/805203347f71b4a9606694b65ac317ee?s=96&d=identicon&r=G](https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/805203347f71b4a9606694b65ac317ee?s=96&d=identicon&r=G)   _ **The media is getting pushback against its contrived outrage against Bernie Sanders for suggesting the Washington Post is biased. From Caitlin Johnstone at[medium.com](https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/mass-medias-phony- freakout-over-bernie-s-wapo-criticism-is-backfiring-f97d9c6272f8):**_  After days of [ridiculous, hysterical garment rending](https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/msm-smears-sanders-for-saying-msm- smears-sanders-e03cfb4c81b1) by mass media talking heads in response to Senator Bernie Sanders’ [utterly undeniable](https://fair.org/home/washington- post-ran-16-negative-stories-on-bernie-sanders-in-16-hours/) 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_](https://www.salon.com/2019/08/16/memo-to-mainstream-journalists-can- the-phony-outrage-bernie-is-right-about-bias/) 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](https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffair.org%2Fextra%2Ffair%25E2%2580 %2588study-think-tank- spectrum-2012%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7C3fae1f9742084e14b5c208d7218ba817%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C1%7C637014756022754074&sdata=nZdDChPbpRm3yOhSMS6DeIU%2BVrOccLHdauQ5cOe7C%2Bo%3D&reserved=0) to say all the usual things. Think [Tom Friedman](https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffair.org %2Ftake-action%2Fmedia-advisories%2Ftom-friedmans-flexible- deadlines%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7C3fae1f9742084e14b5c208d7218ba817%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C1%7C637014756022764071&sdata=hHoeEoZ%2FDT0p8%2BskWj5gSfn%2BMLHTI5uG7wv4Fr9XNkI%3D&reserved=0). Or [Barry McCaffrey](https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fviews%2F2006%2F08%2F04 %2Fbeing-tv-expert-means-never-having-say-youre- sorry&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7C3fae1f9742084e14b5c208d7218ba817%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C0%7C637014756022764071&sdata=CWUm2HFLxB8IStpNQ4KigulIwBwTURfUvDaXW42BCKc%3D&reserved=0). Or [Neera Tanden](https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F04%2F15%2Fus%2Fpolitics %2Ftanden- sanders-.html&data=02%7C01%7Cjcohen%40ithaca.edu%7C3fae1f9742084e14b5c208d7218ba817%7Cfa1ac8f65e5448579f0b4aa422c09689%7C0%7C0%7C637014756022774065&sdata=20AI%2FQb8cWY9UjpOGZX%2BYXe9kroWxWRkrc7XKfVQRuA%3D&reserved=0). Or any of the elite club members who’ve been proven to be absurdly wrong time and again about national or global affairs.”  [Continue reading→](https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/mass-medias-phony- freakout-over-bernie-s-wapo-criticism-is-backfiring-f97d9c6272f8)  from https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/08/18/mass-medias-phony-freakout-over- bernies-wapo-criticism-is-backfiring-by-caitlin-johnstone/