Tag: Mainstream Media
ABC Four Corners “Tell the World” Analysis
Debunking Trump and Corporate Media’s WHO/China Coverup Conspiracy Theories
CNN’s Portrayal of North Korea as Lawless Aggressor Reverses Reality
[2018] War, censorship, and the invention of “fake news”
War, censorship, and the invention of “fake news”
When most people think of the term “fake news,” they think of the headlines in supermarket tabloids about alien invasions and two-headed grandmothers giving birth to quintuplets. But when the New York Times and the leading US intelligence agencies use the term, they mean something entirely different: reporting that cuts across the efforts of the state to promote war and political viewpoints that challenge the establishment.
Western Media Rehabilitate Brazil’s Criminal Ex-Justice Minister for Presidential Run
Western Media Rehabilitate Brazil’s Criminal Ex-Justice Minister for Presidential Run | Brasil Wire
Western corporate media apparently saw no irony in the allegations made by the former judge, who played an instrumental role in an “anti-corruption” witch hunt aimed at illegally jailing former President Luis Ignacio “Lula” da Silva and destroying his left-wing Workers’ Party.
Rather, they fawningly described Moro as an “anti-corruption crusader” (BBC, 4/25/20), “celebrity justice minister” (Guardian, 4/24/20) and “a figure who for many represented a new, better Brazil” (Washington Post, 4/24/20), cheering the “tantalizing” prospect of a 2022 presidential bid (Bloomberg, 5/6/20).
Nixon-Trump vs. the Strategy of Tension
America Without the Sugar Coating: Wishing Ill Will On Our World
Don’t Listen to Fox. Here’s What’s Really Going On in Seattle’s Protest Zone.
Don’t Listen to Fox. Here’s What’s Really Going On in Seattle’s Protest Zone.
What’s happening in these four blocks that shook the world is indeed an occupation, but it looks nothing like the “totalitarian takeover” touted on the conservative network.
NYT and Latin American Coups: In Hybrid War “Nuance” Is A Rhetorical Weapon
NYT and Latin American Coups: In Hybrid War “Nuance” Is A Rhetorical Weapon
From Chile to Venezuela to Brazil to Bolivia, the “Paper of record” has a long history of using blurred language to provide cover for US-backed coups in Latin America
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