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The Media's Odd Double Standard On Evidence Required For Claims Of An Impending Attack

When claims begin emerging of an imminent attack by a US ally, the media suddenly remember their journalistic training to note that these claims are "without evidence".
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I've highlighted a key repeating phrase we've been seeing in a few quotes to help you spot the difference between the way the western media cover unevidenced claims about a future attack by Moscow and unevidenced claims about a future attack by Kyiv:

See if you can spot the difference between the above examples and the way CBS News reports an anonymous government official's claim that Putin has ordered the invasion of Ukraine to proceed:

Or if those examples are too subtle, how about the way The New York Times reports on the alleged intelligence which prompted Biden's recent announcement that he is convinced a Russian invasion is imminent:

See if you can detect the difference between the way MSM are reporting on claims that Kyiv is about to attack Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine and the way WaPo reports that Putin is plotting to round up LGBT persons to have them tortured and killed after invading:

Yep. So subtle you almost need an electron microscope to see it.

https://twitter.com/scotthortonshow/status/1495607581338972163

And of course completely unspoken in all this straight-shooting news reporting is that the actual evidence seems to suggest that the separatist factions in Ukraine do indeed seem to be under attack with a sharp spike in aggression, as explained here:

https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1495406973671587844?s=20&t=QmMZUK5YWBlAojVn6egHYw

None of these discrepancies would be worth pointing out if the mass media in the western world did not uphold itself as a free and impartial press whose only job is to report the truth about what's happening in the world.

The discrepancy is only noteworthy because it highlights another one: the discrepancy between what the western mass media purport to be, and what they actually are.

The Media's Odd Double Standard On Evidence Required For Claims Of An Impending Attack (Audio)

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