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NYT’s Exposé on the Lies About Burning Humanitarian Trucks in Venezuela Shows How US Govt and Media Spread Fake News theintercept.com/2019/03/10/nyt…
Independent journalists - the kind who treat claims from U.S. officials skeptically rather than mindlessly spreading as Truth - proved weeks ago that the claims about burning humanitarian trucks in Venezuela were a lie. But they were kept off TV & ignored theintercept.com/2019/03/10/nyt…
As last night's NYT exposé proved (which just used evidence cited weeks ago by independent journalists), CNN outright lied to the world when it said "a CNN team saw incendiary devices from police on the Venezuelan side of the border ignite the trucks" theintercept.com/2019/03/10/nyt…
While CNN lied to the world - claiming they saw something in Venezuela that *never happened* because they're trying to help the US Govt start a regime change war in Venezuela - RT presented the evidence showing it was a lie, copied last night by the NYT. Who acted as "state TV"?
US officials like Marco Rubio, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, @USAIDMarkGreen - along with media stars like @Kasie & think tank experts like @dany_bahar - used Twitter to spread classic Fake News to start a war. Does anyone want them banned from Twitter, or their posts deleted?
The real problem here is that U.S. news and cable outlets don't air dissent about US foreign policy. They only give voice to US officials, not to those who doubt or challenge their claims. That was supposed to be the lesson of 2002 but it hasn't changed. Chomsky explained why:
This is an amazing example of CNN outright lying - not just printing something inaccurate, but lying for the USG, by claiming that they personally saw something that even the NYT now says *never happened*: that Maduro's forces burned humanitarian trucks edition.cnn.com/2019/02/24/ame… 
It's so gross (and typical) how the NYT published its story proving the US Govt & media lied about the burning trucks in Venezuela without crediting all the independent journalists who used the same evidence to prove this *weeks ago.* But it's beneficial the NYT published this.
And oh: needless to say, the independent journalists who used video footage, photos & other documentary analysis to prove right away that the US Government's claims were a lie (something it took the NYT 3 weeks to do) were smeared as Maduro apologists & Putin stooges. Obviously.
