The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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7 big lies ‘American Sniper’ is telling America about Iraq and Chris Kyle
Zaid Jilani, AlterNet in Raw Story
Here are seven lies about Chris Kyle and the story that director Clint Eastwood is telling:
Top US Newsman Brian Williams “Destroyed”, 3 Others Killed Over Obama 9/11 Fears
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… not only has Williams and his reputation been “destroyed”, this past week three of his most important colleagues, former NBC international reporter Ned Colt, top CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, and top New York Times reporter David Carr, were also killed. Bob Simon, 73, this report states quoting US propaganda mainstream media sources, was killed Wednesday in New York City in a car crash, and on Thursday Ned Colt, 58, was said to have perished by a massive stroke followed within hours by David Carr, 58, collapsing and dying in his New York Times newsroom office. Important to note about the deaths of these award winning journalists, and the “reputation destruction” of Williams, SVR experts in this report note, was that the four of them had formed an independent video news company last month and filed the necessary security documents that would allow them access to the Kremlin’s most secret archive of evidence relating to the 11 September 2001 attacks.
World Press Freedom Index 2015: decline on all fronts
The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.
The 2015 World Press Freedom Index highlights the worldwide deterioration in freedom of information in 2014. Beset by wars, the growing threat from non-state operatives, violence during demonstrations and the economic crisis, media freedom is in retreat on all five continents.
The Williams record in covering up the sickening horrors wreaked by the US military in its never-ending campaign to re-order the world to Washington’s liking goes way back. When NATO jet fighters bombed a passenger train in Serbia – by “mistake” – killing a dozen and wounding dozens more, Williams intoned that visuals of the train attack “are so graphic that we cannot show them on television for fear of upsetting viewers.” Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil – that’s how the trained monkeys of our “mainstream” media treat the depredations of US imperialism: there’s no need to “upset” the delicate sensibilities of Americans, who might be disabused of their rulers’ beneficence. Better to view these crimes through the Vaseline-covered lens of a committed shill. Williams isn’t a reporter: he’s a cosmetician, whose job it is to prettify the ugly truth.” At what point does this become treason? At what point — taking into account Congressional abdication of its own Article 1 responsibilities — might we hold the “fourth estate” accountable for telling us the truth?
The Sins of Brian Williams: They are many – and he’s far from alone
The Cowardly and Despicable American Presstitutes
Why U.S. Reporters Are Always Pro-War
Valuable insight for those interested in seeing how news curation and editor's choice approaches in journalism can benefit both the publisher and its audience a lot more than simply picking and aggregating interesting stories from other sites. One key relevant difference between aggregating news stories from other sources and editorially curated content is the role of the curator, a tangible person with specific value and ethics who readers come to respect, identify with and ultimately trust for his / her choices in what they should be paying attention to. Curation and trust may indeed form the basis of a new symbiotic [HUMAN] relationship between information seekers and subject-matter expert curators that will gradually displace the value of traditional algorithmic search.
The Future of News Journalism Will Be Built Around Curation and Trust
War Is the New Normal: Seven Deadly Reasons Why America’s Wars Persist
How do we inoculate our children against such a permanent state of war and the war state itself? I have one simple suggestion: just stop it. All of it.
by William Astore, CommonDreams
LIST ONLY: 1. The privatization of war; 2. The embrace of the national security state by both major parties; 3. “Support Our Troops” as a substitute for thought; 4. Fighting a redacted war; 5. Threat inflation; 6. Defining the world as a global battlefield; 7. The new “normal” in America is war. Read full article.
Propaganda Has Triumphed over Journalism, and the Consequences Are Enormous
We need a press that teaches the young to be agents of people, not power.
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The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an “invisible government”. It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
