In my entire career, spanning more than three decades of professional journalism, I have never seen MSM resolve to such ugly smear campaigns & hit pieces against those questioning mainstream narratives, with a different view point, as I have seen on Syria, recently.
.2/ This is a dangerous manoeuvre , a witch hunt in fact, aimed not only at character assassination, but at attempting to silence those who think differently or even sway from mainstream & state narrative.
.3/ It would have been more productive, to actually question the reason why more & more people are indeed turning to alternative voices for information & news, than to dish out ad hominem smears aimed at intimidating by labelling alternative voices as conspirators or apologists.
.4/ The journalists, activists, professors & citizens under attack are presenting an alternative view point. Surely, people are entitled to hear those and are intelligent enough to make their own judgments.
.5/ Or is there an assumption, (patronising, if so), that the tens of thousands of people collectively following these alternative voices are too dump & unintelligent to reach their own conclusions by sifting through the mass information being dished at them daily from all sides?
.6/ Like it or hate it, agree or disagree with them, the bottom line is that the people under attack do present an alternative view point. Lest we forget, no one has a monopoly on truth. Are all those currently launching this witch hunt suggesting they do?
.7/ The above are my thoughts following today’s smear campaign against @sahouraxo & @VanessaBeeley & earlier in the week professors @PiersRobinson1 @timand2037 & @Tim_Hayward_
please unroll. Thanks.
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