Tag Archives: US media

Another good one. No spoiler from me.Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistHow To Silence RT Forever Caitlin JohnstoneSee also“Iran Is Completely Different! This US-Led Regime Change Will Work Out Fine!” Also Consortium NewsThe Coming War Against Iran John Kiriakou, former CIA counterterrorism officer and a former senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations CommitteeAlso at CNWar Clouds Gather Around Iran Inder Comar, executive director of Just Atonement Inc., a legal...

Bringing down the curtain of censorship in US media. Moon of AlabamaThe Media War On Truthful Reporting And Legitimate Opinions - A Documentary b Related Tony Blair redux? It worked the first time around. Consortium NewsAnother Dodgy British Dossier: the Skripal CaseGareth Porter

The New York Times has finally detected some modern-day McCarthyism, but not in the anti-Russia hysteria that the newspaper has fueled for several years amid the smearing of American skeptics as “useful idiots” and the like. No, the Times editors are accusing a Long Island Republican of McCarthyism for linking his Democratic rival to “New York City special interest groups.” As the Times laments, “It’s the old guilt by association.” Yet, the Times sees no McCarthyism in the frenzy of...

Moon of Alabama explains how ridiculous, but dangerous for democracy nevertheless, the "Russian influence" media mania has become. He speculates felicitously that perhaps Putin is funding it to make the US look weak and Russia strong. Looking from the outside the U.S. media have simply gone nuts. There seems to be no other way to explain the silliness of their "reporting". Then again: Could they all be under Russian influence? Are Russian secret services paying for such stories? Consider...

Weekend reading. Mat Taibbi sees the media as the sole factor, or major factor at least, in the rise of Trump. In my view, there are many factors involved, not the least of which is the state of the American character. This would not be happening if there were not appetite for it.Rolling StoneThe Media Is the Villain – for Creating a World Dumb Enough for Trump Matt Taibbi

In an article titled "Breitbart, other 'alt-right' websites are the darlings of Russian propaganda effort" published on August 24, USA Today stated that the most popular domains mentioned by a "Russian propaganda Twitter network" during the previous 48 hours included "True Pundit, the Russian government-controlled television network RT, the Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Russian government news agency Sputnik News and Breitbart."USA Today also argued that on that day the aforementioned websites...