Media Manipulation

The failure of legacy media to inform and educate is clear to see. The goal of the media is to push desired narratives. Several events this week caused me to think in this direction... Ukraine, the Durham Report, and the freedom convoy among them.
Have we finally arrived at 1984's Newspeak?
Some Newspeak words include:
Thoughtcrime - Anti-Party thoughts
Facecrime - Occurs when the face reveals the existence of thoughtcrime (either lacking in anti-Party vigor, or expressing distaste for Party actions).
Goodthinkful - Describes a person who thinks just as the Party wishes.
Unperson - Someone the Party has vaporized; someone that no longer exists.(think Joe Rogan)

Let's start with the beat of the US war drum toward Russia using Ukraine as an excuse.
The US coup removed a Russia leaning president and installed actually Nazis. (21 min)

The Biden administration has been steadily beating the drums for war with Russia, and the corporate media has been playing along right in tune. Most recently NBC News’ Richard Engel aired a segment where he, wittingly or otherwise, aired propaganda from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, which is made up of dedicated neo-Nazis.

Jimmy and The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté (https://mate.substack.com/) discuss the Biden team’s bumbling toward a possible World War III and the media that’s cheerleading it all the way there.

Repeat a lie often enough and eventually???

Instead of reporting factual information, US media outlets have flooded their audiences with what one Western intelligence official calls a "strategic communications campaign." This campaign is described uncritically by CNN as a series of "alarming headlines" and a "drumbeat of official disclosures" that have come from "agency spokesmen and officials" who "have provided little by way of evidence -- in effect, asking reporters to report the material without confirmation." In short, a "strategic communications campaign" of state propaganda.

https://mate.substack.com/p/stoking-war-with-russia-us-media

Sounds like a false flag, perhaps a bomb rather than shell?

The self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk is evacuating citizens to Russia after reports of shelling from the Ukrainian military. This as Russian president Putin meets with Belarusian president Lukashenko and US secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is in Poland to meet with Duda. During the meeting between Putin and Lukashenko, Putin repeated to members of the press that Russia’s concerns have yet to be addressed by the US and NATO. RT’S Roman Kosarav gives us the latest Then, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and host of On Contact Chris Hedges and former UK MP George Galloway join a panel to discuss.

Lies and more lies..
US President Biden delivers a speech from the White House wherein he reiterated US claims about Russian plans for a "invasion" of Ukraine. Ben Norton and others respond...

about 5 min

Why would they push a war?

Despite stock market turmoil in other sectors, defense contractors Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and Raytheon are doing good business. Meanwhile, the US outspends Russia by a factor of ten on its military. The US military budget is more than the next nine countries combined. Washington’s predictions about an “impending Russian invasion” don’t add up, given the multibillion-dollar business of war central to the US role in world affairs. Chris Hedges of “On Contact” shares his insights. He says Democrats and Republicans alike are “in lockstep with the war industry.”

So enough with the way we're lied into war, another manipulative technique we experience is the reluctance to cover uncomfortable stories.

Hunter's laptop story from a year or so ago is a good example...

"The WPost's 'fact-checker' @pbump continues to classify the Biden laptop as a ‘conspiracy theory’ even after a new book from POLITICO's @SchreckReports proves the key emails are real," Greenwald reacted. "The actual 'conspiracy theory' is the media & CIA's lie that it was ‘Russian disinformation.’"

Greenwald continued, "This entire ‘fact-check’ reads like a DNC press release. Like the ‘anti-disinformation’ industry, this new media title ‘fact-checker’ is a huge fraud, designed to disguise liberal media activism as something more elevated, noble and trustworthy, like they're neutral or whatever.

What about the discredited Steele Dossier? I missed those headlines and the unraveling of the Russiagate narrative. This is the same treatment the shitlibs are giving to the possibly damning Durham Report.

Durham's grand juries have already yielded indictments of two Clinton campaign-tied operatives for deceptive attempts to influence the FBI's Trump-Russia probe. That Horowitz has already uncovered so many inconsistencies in the FBI's account – and that Durham has gone out of his way to question the FBI predication that Horowitz accepted – suggests that the Steele dossier and the Alfa Bank "secret hotline" story are far from the only fraudulent Trump-Russia activity in Durham's sights.

If Durham does unearth additional evidence that the FBI did not launch the Trump-Russia probe in the way that it claims, then that would be yet another devastating revelation for a bureau that has already been caught relying on Clinton-funded disinformation and lying about it. Given how hard the FBI and Democratic Party allies have fought to shield this conduct from scrutiny, Durham's probe could become a major political flashpoint as his probe reaches its final months and hones in on its final targets.

https://mate.substack.com/p/as-durham-closes-in-fbis-trump-russia

One characteristic of Russiagate bombshells is that the mainstream press simply doesn’t cover them. That stands in contrast to the breathless coverage given to the original investigations, even as they never delivered the promised goods.

So it is with the latest jaw-dropping revelation from the Durham investigation. Special Counsel John Durham, of course, is scrutinizing the origins of the Obama administration’s Trump/Russia probe — a probe that holdover officials at the FBI and other government national-security agencies extended into the Trump administration, even as Donald Trump was the sitting president of the United States and, at least nominally, the chief executive to whom those agencies answered.

In a court submission last week, Durham alleged that a tech executive, who was supposed to be helping the government combat cyber threats, used his privileged access to Internet data — specifically, domain name system (DNS) traffic between servers — to mine contacts between Russia and facilities connected to Donald Trump. The information, Durham says, was taken out of context and distorted to suggest that Trump might be a clandestine agent of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Alarmingly, some of the Internet traffic mined in early 2017 was generated by the Executive Office of the President — the White House. That is, the tech executive, who has been identified as Rodney Joffe, was monitoring then-President Trump, trying to portray him as Putin’s mole.

In other words: He was spying on the president of the United States with the aim of harming his ability to govern the country.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/02/durhams-jaw-dropping-revelation/

Then there's the disappearance of any voice which questions the narrative. This is the tool of the social media manipulators. Just disappear YT videos, channels, and people who don't promote the narrative. Cancel twitter accounts. Throttle and minimize unaccepted views with algorithms. Joe Rogan is too popular with his large audience, so label him a racist and promoter of misinformation.

Julian Assange, the greatest journalist of our time has been disappeared in a maximum security prison with absolutely no outcry from the MSM. I saw a sign in Ottawa this week.
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The Canadian media has been bought and paid for.

A Feb. 2 Instagram post claims that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “pays mainstream media $600 million to report in favor of him.”

The evidence? A clip of Trudeau saying just that.

“You sometimes hear about liberal bias in the media these days, how they’re constantly letting our government off the hook for no good reason,” he says in a video in the post. “Frankly, I think that’s insulting. It’s clear that they let us off the hook for a very good reason. Because we pay them $600 million.”

The video in the post then cuts to an image of Trudeau with text appearing that says “Mainstream media? I just bought it.” Meanwhile, he can still be heard saying: “You don’t get stellar headlines like these without greasing the wheels a bit.”

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/justin-trudeau-600-million-do...
But hey it was just a joke...of course jokes aren't funny unless there's some truth to them.

We are being manipulated by the media, most of which is an arm of government propaganda controlled by advertisers money. Operation Mockingbird is alive and well with CIA villains actually manning the reporters desks. Welcome to today's "Ministry of Truth"

The story holds up pretty well and this version isn't bad.

There so many more examples of media malfeasance, and I hope you'll chime in below with your favorites.