Thread by @caitoz

The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout On Recent Assange Revelations

It's been more than three days since the @stundin story broke, and yet somehow not only is Assange still in prison, but the mass media are completely ignoring the massive story about his case.
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The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout On Recent Assange Revelations (Audio)

"Western mass media outlets are propaganda... You see this propaganda in the way things are reported, but you also see it in the way things are not reported."
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As of this writing, it has been three days since the Icelandic newspaper Stundin broke the story that a key witness in the US government's case against Julian Assange had fabricated allegations against the WikiLeaks founder. Yet Assange is still in prison.
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Weirder still, not one major western media outlet outside of Iceland has reported on this massive and entirely legitimate news story.

It reminds me of the blanket media blackout that occurred while the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was hemorrhaging leaks revealing a US government-tied coverup in the alleged chlorine gas incident in Douma, Syria.
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We got some insight into what happens in mainstream newsrooms during such bizarre circumstances when @Tareq_Haddad leaked the emails from his editors at @Newsweek refusing him permission to write about the unfolding OPCW scandal.
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And that's just pretty darn convenient for the powerful, is it not? For western mass media outlets to ust be following the lead of NYT, WaPo, WSJ and The Guardian on any major story which poses an inconvenience for the powerful?

Western mass media outlets are propaganda.

They are owned and controlled by wealthy people in coordination with the secretive government agencies tasked with preserving the world order upon which the media-owning plutocrats have built their kingdoms.
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You see this propaganda in the way things are reported, but you also see it in the way things are NOT reported. Entire news stories can be completely redacted from mainstream attention if they are sufficiently inconvenient for the mechanisms of empire.
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Or if they're not completely blacked out they can be only allowed in via platforms like Tucker Carlson Tonight and thereby tainted and spun as ridiculous right-wing conspiracy theories.
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If newsworthiness and significance were what governed mainstream news media reporting, instead of the agendas of profit and power, we'd constantly be hearing about the people dying in Yemen and the brutal income inequality in the United States.

I sometimes get people telling me that some news stories are meant to "distract" us from other, bigger news stories, like this is something the imperial narrative managers do especially on some occasions but not all the time.

We are being lied to. Constantly, and in more ways than we realize. By omission, by distortion, by half-truths and by outright deception. Our minds are being actively messed with by powerful people with limitless resources to ensure their continued domination of the planet.

Our very perception of reality is being assaulted on myriad fronts. Until humanity finds a way to wake itself up from its propaganda-induced coma, the abuses of the powerful will continue.