HAHAHA this article is amazing and definitely worth reading, primarily for the insight it provides into the lifestyle and mindset of the elite population that comprises most of mainstream western journalism today.
This is the kind of news reporting that's been shaping the western Syria narrative for years.
"Rather than retract her bogus dispatch, Newsweek quietly issued what might have been one of the longest corrections in journalistic history: a 168-word, seven-sentence mini-essay that read as follows:"
Some insight into the perks which come with having the money and family connections to get into an elite journalism school:
Again, this is most of the journalists shaping mainstream public perception in the western world today.
The boys had a lot of fun writing this one.
OMFG LMAO
“Indeed, the defendants called the plaintiff sloppy and irresponsible – but the statements that the defendants made were in response to an article which the plaintiff wrote which contained factually incorrect information. That is not and cannot be defamation,” the judge concluded

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30 Jun
The way the mass media have begun simply ignoring major news stories that are inconvenient for the powerful, across not just some but ALL major news outlets, is extremely disturbing. It means any time there's an inconvenient revelation, the MSM will just pretend it doesn't exist.
Seriously think about what this means for a moment. You want to talk about a threat to the press? Forget jailing journalists and whistleblowers, how about all news outlets of any real influence unifying to simply deny coverage to any major information which comes to light?
They just completely blacked out the Stundin report on Assange, and the OPCW leaks before that. The journalists involved in those revelations would naturally have expected these major revelations to receive mainstream coverage, but they just didn't. They were disappeared.
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29 Jun
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.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-weird-cr…
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.
stundin.is/grein/13627/ke…
Read 15 tweets
28 Jun
We haven't seen anything like the complete mass media blackout on @stundin's revelation that the Assange prosecution relied on false testimony since the complete mass media blackout on the OPCW leaks.
The evidence that western media is a propaganda arm of the US-centralized empire consists as much of what they don't report as what they do.
The western media have a trick where as long as no other major news media outlet reports a story, they can treat that story as though it never happened. That's what they did with the OPCW scandal, and it's what they're doing with the @Stundin exclusive.
Read 6 tweets
26 Jun
Becoming conscious as a white person is a little bit like waking up with a bad hangover, covered in blood and surrounded by dead bodies, and slowly realizing that you're holding the murder weapon.
White people talk about "white guilt" like it's this horrifying dangerous thing made of molten lava that will kill you if you don't run away from it as fast as you can. But coming to conscious terms with your place in the world will bring up many emotions, like grief, and guilt.
It's not ABOUT the guilt, it's about becoming aware of reality. But the guilt is there, waiting to be felt, and you're either conscious of it and real about it or you're not. Pretending it's not there just makes you defensive and aggressive.
Read 4 tweets
25 Jun
Here's the UFO report. Summary:
- No direct mention of the possibility of extraterrestrial origin
- Repeatedly says phenomena could pose a national security threat
- Explicitly names advanced technologies by Russia and China as a potential origin for UFOs
dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
These are the only parts of the report that are going to get any attention from actual policymakers:
There's nothing in the report that hasn't been public knowledge for years. It just says they don't know what the phenomena are, could pose a threat, could totally be Russia or China. Just as everyone who's been viewing this story without alien-colored glasses knew it would.
Read 4 tweets
24 Jun
It's not actually possible to be excessively critical of the US empire. There's a common notion that there needs to be some kind of "balance" between criticism of the US power alliance and its enemies. No there doesn't; the US government is objectively far worse than any other.
Criticizing the US empire far more than its rivals IS balance; criticizing it the same as you'd criticize US-targeted governments is what would be imbalanced, because the US and its allies are far, FAR more murderous and destructive than anyone else. It SHOULD be criticized more.
You're not being impartial if you pretend the US is as bad as China, Russia, Iran, etc; you're being heavily biased in favor of the US, because you're greatly helping to advance the interests of the far worse government by placing it on equal footing with the others.
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