Thread: Brave New World

The blame for this elongated, perpetual war can be laid quite seriously at the feet of one man alone. PUTIN started what he initially viewed as a victory in 3 days. Seven days might have been acceptable, but no, he continues to target some kind of victory for himself.

You can post all you like about the reasoning behind it. Some of it might be relevant, but not all, and certainly not the inclusion of a mention for your favourite hobby horse, Assange. He has nothing to do with the blame for this war. That lay at the feet of the idiot Tyrant PUTIN.

Got it? OK now move on.

Your simplistic invective comes down to, "M'ehhh it's all His fault [insert Villain du jour]". Thanks for sharing, but I am sure the kind of readership that can read and appreciate Chris Hedges Tour de Force do not see the World, or current geopolitics and political trends, in such black and white terms. But tally ho old chap, pip pip- we need people like you in the trenches.

^ He's won more Journalistic prizes than you've had AVO's 'arry. Including the Pulitzer. But thanks for the highbrow commentary, always good for a larf.

Chris Hedges - Wikipedia

Originally Posted by sabang

Your simplistic invective comes down to, "M'ehhh it's all His fault [insert Villain du jour]". Thanks for sharing, but I am sure the kind of readership that can read and appreciate Chris Hedges Tour de Force do not see the World, or current geopolitics and political trends, in such black and white terms. But tally ho old chap, pip pip- we need people like you in the trenches.

^ He's won more Journalistic prizes than you've had AVO's 'arry. Including the Pulitzer. But thanks for the highbrow commentary, always good for a larf.

Chris Hedges - Wikipedia

He's a worthless plagiarist and an inveterate liar.

Bit like you really.

The fact he managed to con a few gongs before anyone noticed does not detract from the truth.

The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges

Pulitzer winner. Lefty hero. Plagiarist.


Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Winner, a Lefty Hero, & a Plagiarist. | The New Republic

Perhaps you could get a job polishing his shoes �� .

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

He's a worthless plagiarist and an inveterate liar.

sabang would see this as a compliment . . . oh, no surprise:

Originally Posted by sabang

Perhaps you could get a job polishing his shoes �� .

Perhaps you could enjoy your holiday in 'Thailand' instead of posting thousands of times . . . a bit like NPT.

Perhaps you could post something containing actual content, instead of constantly whining about other posters Walter mitty.

^ I agree with Sabang here one hunled percen.

You are an (place your insult here.) No, you are a (place your insult here) is getting repetitive. And, it is on just about every thread now.

Originally Posted by misskit

^ I agree with Sabang here one hunled percen.

Of course you do, you have form for that which includes threats - you also mentioned that you like Taxexile's posts, so you agreeing with sabang is actually a good thing.

Originally Posted by misskit

You are an (place your insult here.) No, you are a (place your insult here) is getting repetitive. And, it is on just about every thread now.

If that's what you think the you're not looking enough - but I thank you for your selective critique.

Originally Posted by sabang

Perhaps you could post something containing actual content, instead of constantly whining about other posters Walter mitty.

This from someone whose content is almost exclusively bullshit state propaganda.

Originally Posted by sabang

Perhaps you could get a job polishing his shoes �� .

You could probably get a job licking them.

‘Yes, we’re propagandists,’ say western journalists, as public confidence falls

By Nury Vittachi


TRUST IN THE MAINSTREAM media has collapsed, a series of new studies show. Western journalists openly see their role as propagandists for their beliefs, in contrast with their readers, who seek balanced coverage.

• Majority of U.S. reporters oppose ‘balanced’ news, preferring to take sides

• Confidence in mainstream media plummets in the U.S. and worldwide

• Massive financing enables industrial-level vilification of the Chinese

The overwhelming majority of ordinary U.S. citizens, 76%, believe news should balance both sides of a debate, a Pew Research Center survey showed. In contrast, the majority of mainstream journalists, 55%, believe it should not be balanced, but should push a political agenda. Only 22% of the public agree with the reporters.
“The disdain for even-handed reporting is even worse among younger journalists and those from left-leaning outlets: 63 percent of reporters ages 18 to 29 say both sides do not deserve equal coverage, as do 69 percent of journalists who say their outlet’s audience leans left,” said Marc Theiseen, reporting on the survey for the Washington Post.

Bias cannot be denied

That means it is no longer possible to deny that the Washington Post itself, plus the New York Times, AP, CNN, MSNBC, and most of the dominant forces in global media, are biased – because they are happy to admit it. Western journalists, especially younger ones, are open propagandists, no different to the reporters on the People’s Daily of China, although with an infinitely bigger and better distribution network to push their agenda. But the result is that the huge amount of trust that mainstream media used to have is evaporating.
This was predicted by venture capitalist and Chinese media boss Eric Xun Li in a Fridayeveryday interview last year. It’s clear that the western media is “highly biased”, but ultimately that factor damages itself and western society, he said.

They ‘just don’t care’

International journalists believe they have a job to do, and it is to push the superiority of western liberal democracy, with emphasis on liberal, research indicates. “They don’t believe in objectivity,” says Ari Fleischer, author of a statistics-filled new book, Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias: Why the Press gets So Much Wrong – and Just Doesn’t Care. “They don’t believe in two sides. They believe that their side, particularly on social issues and on racial matters, is the only right side.”
Separately, a July 2022 Gallup study shows a massive decline of trust in the mainstream media (see graphic below) by the American public. From a figure of 72% of people having high confidence in the press in 1977, numbers fell to 51% in 1979 and have plummeted to just 16% today. (In TV news, the figure is 11 per cent, and among right-of-centre voters, it is just five per cent.)

Global fall in trust

A regular global poll known as the Edelman Barometer shows that the fall of trust in mainstream media is a worldwide phenomenon. (A graphic summarising the results appears further down on this page.)
The world’s three big news agencies and all major news media slant their presentation of the news through a western prism, representing roughly 12% of humanity, largely ignoring or discarding the views of the 88% of people not in the west.
The distortion is magnified through “news reports” issued by media outlets such as Radio Free Asia, the BBC, Voice of America, and literally dozens of smaller groups which hide their finding sources. In addition to long-term financing for these, a new U.S. “poison pen” fund of more than US$1.5 billion to be used against China (see below) by 2024 means vilification of the Chinese is happening at an industrial level worldwide, and will continue to happen.
Specific events likely caused the loss of trust to accelerate. Numerous reports, over months, said that Russia and China interfered in the U.S. 2016 elections. This was later admitted to have not happened – while widespread political interference by the U.S. was taking place around the world, in Hong Kong, Cuba, Sri Lanka and other places.
US Democrats pushed the Steele Dossier, later discredited, while US Republicans used Hong Kong’s Trump-worshipping Apple Daily to create a Hunter Biden dossier attributed to a journalist who was later shown to have been generated by an artificial intelligence program.

Decades old

On a geopolitical level, the distortion process is decades old. A mainstream media campaign to vilify China by ascribing atrocities to them in coverage of Xinjiang and Hong Kong, was stepped up from 2018 onwards, but was built on the back of many years of demonisation. “For 20 or 30 years, they’ve been telling the public that China would fail, that there’s no way the Communist Party will succeed,” said Eric Li. The media led Westerners to believe that “history was on their side” and China was in danger of imminent collapse. But what happened? “Whoops! One morning they wake up and find China is so big and so successful,” he said.
To cover their embarrassment, some reporters work hard to falsely portray Hong Kong and Mainland China as dystopian police states, although this is clearly untrue. It is a low crime city with a free, critical press, and extraordinary levels of achievement in generating health and wealth.

Readers are fact checking

The problem for the western media is that truth has a tendency to leak out, and people know how to do their own fact checking.
So, for example, the media tells the world that press freedom in Hong Kong has gone, and quote as evidence “press freedom indexes” from NGOs that it is clear the US has influenced, infiltrated or funded.
Foreign correspondents push this fake narrative, fooling the world, but fail to deceive Hong Kong people, who see evidence for the real story in every pavement newspaper kiosk,
And it takes literally seconds for anyone in the world to surf to Hong Kong news sites to find that there has been no change in critics’ ability to criticise the government.

Who’s behind it

Who’s the dark power behind the problem? It’s not one individual or group, but a deep-set problem of confirmation bias from journalists who have spent years nurturing hostility for societies which are different, several commentators say. Fleischer says that there is “no central source of propaganda” for the media because there is no need for one. “It’s worse than that. It comes naturally to the media because they’re too much alike—they have a diversity problem.”
This is nothing to do with skin colour, but mindset. Years of indoctrination have to be undone.
Observers reckoned that one day, mainstream media journalists will have to set aside their prejudices and realise that the world is a big place, with societies which have a wide variety of ways of governing themselves—or they will lose their audiences to voices who do realise that, and who can see it around them.
“So their narrative is in trouble. They can’t deal with it,” Eric Li said.

https://johnmenadue.com/yes-were-pro...fidence-falls/

Originally Posted by sabang

‘Yes, we’re propagandists,’ say western journalists, as public confidence falls - Pearls and Irritations

Another worthless blog that tells us Chinkystan and Russia are good, the West is bad and the Jooos are the ones behind it all.

Witless propaganda bullshit.

Menadue = Another bureaucrat, left winger who hasn’t had a job since 1980. Living in the past has that effect.

Your barrel bottom is getting very close, as you dig deeper for sources to support those silly theories. Does this Australian remind you of anyone?

If I wanted to dig to the bottom of the barrel, I have plenty of sources here.

Originally Posted by sabang

If I wanted to dig to the bottom of the barrel, I have plenty of sources here.

Yes but we really don't want you to repost your shit. Once is already too much.

Right on time.

Originally Posted by sabang

If I wanted to dig to the bottom of the barrel, I have plenty of sources here.

This we have worked out already. Hence the friendly heads up.

Originally Posted by sabang

Right

I'm glad you agree with me.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Another worthless blog that tells us Chinkystan and Russia are good, the West is bad and the Jooos are the ones behind it all.

Careful, sabang claims Jewish blood but 'hates the kikes' . . . among others

Russia Revokes Novaya Gazeta Newspaper Print License

A Moscow court on Monday revoked the print license of independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, whose chief editor last year was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.


"The Basmanny court of Moscow invalidated the registration certificate of the print version of Novaya Gazeta," the outlet said on social media.


Novaya Gazeta's chief editor, Dmitry Muratov, told reporters the court decision was “political.”


“The newspaper was killed today,” Novaya Gazeta said Monday in an official statement following the court ruling.


“Today [they] killed our colleagues again, who had been already killed by this state for the fulfillment of their professional duty,” the editorial said.“[But] it [the newspaper] was, is and will be.”


Russia's media watchdog Roskomnadzor had previously said Novaya Gazeta failed to provide its editorial statute within a required timeframe.


Novaya Gazeta suspended publication in March following a crackdown on independent media amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.


Some of its staff left Russia and launched a new edition from Europe.


The license decision comes less than a week after the death of the Soviet Union’s last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, a key supporter of Novaya Gazeta who donated a part of his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize money to set up the newspaper.


Six of Novaya Gazeta’s reporters have been killed in assassinations that the newspaper and human rights groups say were connected to their reporting.


Muratov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for efforts to” safeguard freedom of expression.”

Russia Revokes Novaya Gazeta Newspaper Print License - The Moscow Times

To be honest I'm surprised it was allowed to operate that long. We all know how puffy hates hearing the truth. Kills people for it.

Poor Julian! At least we know what Julian actually did.



Russia Jails Journalist for 22 Years on Treason Charges

A Moscow court sentenced reporter Ivan Safronov to 22 years in prison Monday, Russia’s first treason conviction for a journalist since 2001.


Safronov, a defense journalist at top Russian newspapers Kommersant and Vedomosti who went on to work for state space agency Roscosmos, was convicted of collecting secret information about the Russian military and handing it to spies for the Czech Republic.


The reporter denies the accusations and says his prosecution is “directly related to his journalism.” Supporters believe the case is revenge for reporting on Russian arms deals.


Safronov’s supporters chanted “freedom” and applauded the journalist as the verdict was read out. His legal defense team said they will appeal the verdict, which was two years less than the 24 years requested by prosecutors.


“I will write to everyone. Write to me. I love you,” Safronov, 32, said before he was taken out of the courtroom.


The verdict was quickly condemned by supporters, lawyers and human rights activists.


“Ivan Safronov has been sentenced to a savage, demonstratively cruel punishment, that reflects the current realities in Russia,” human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov posted on Telegram. Russian human rights advocate Marina Litvinovich said after the court hearing that the verdict was designed “so that everyone would be afraid.”


The case has involved significant legal violations, according to Safronov’s legal team, who point out that even prosecution witnesses said in court that Safronov “did not break the law.”


“Any prison term — even one year — is too much,” said lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who was involved in Safronov’s defense before fleeing Russia last year.


The case against Safronov was retaliation for a 2019 article in newspaper Kommersant on Moscow’s sale of fighter jets to Cairo that triggered a diplomatic scandal, the BBC Russian Service reported last week, citing correspondence between Egyptian and Russian officials.

MORE Russia Jails Journalist Safronov for 22 Years on Treason Charges - The Moscow Times

Supporters believe the case is revenge for reporting on Russian arms deals.

And they're probably right. With Puffy the war criminal having complete control over state security and the judicial system, he can just invent charges on the fly - and does.