Dispatches From The War On Journalism: The New “Nixon’s Enemies List” (December 5, 2016)
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K “The unconscionable indignity inflicted on those poor souls who have worked and sacrificed all their lives only to be excluded from The List is reprehensible.”
J “Imagine the shame having to face your friends and loved ones in this holiday season and admit that you did not make The List. You do not measure up. You are, as they now say in popular parlance, a loser.”
K “John Michael Greer at “The Archdruid Report” and Greg Hunter and Paul Craig Roberts at “USAWatchdog” each commented on the travesty and indignity.”
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K “Some individuals never recovered from being excluded from the ‘Nixon’s Enemies List’ released back in 1973.”
J “Not one of them was ever interviewed for ‘Where Are They Now’ stories because no one even knew who they were.”
K “Deserving individuals excluded for no good reason.”
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K “What a schism and chasm in journalism. Adam Johnson at ‘Fair & Accuracy In Reporting’ wrote in ‘Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited “Fake News” Blacklist?’, and I quote to the best of my recollection, that ‘USA Today (11/25/16), Gizmodo (11/25/16), PBS (11/25/16), TheDailyBeast (11/25/16), Slate (11/25/16), AP (11/25/16), The Verge (11/25/16) and NPR (11/25/16) all uncritically wrote up the Post’s most incendiary claims with little or minimal pushback’.”
J “Under the circumstances, a question or two is not inappropriate.”
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K “The very real and serious danger is that extremely sophisticated players carefully devised an attack on anyone who thinks and writes something that challenges the official government/corporate line. The article is a direct and ominous threat.”
J “The attack is broadly against any commentator not owned by and subservient to the Owners. The threat is very effective at chilling any criticism.”
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K “I heard a rumor that George Orwell is on a suicide watch. It’s gotten that bad.”
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Click on a site or two:
“The Washington Post’s Propaganda about Russian Propaganda” by William K. Black at “new economic perspectives.org”
“The Corporate Media’s Gulag of the Mind” by Charles Hugh Smith at “of two minds.com”
“We’re Under Attack” by Yves Smith at “nakedcapitalism.com”
“The ‘Washington Post’ ‘Blacklist’ Story Is Shameful and Disgusting” by Matt Taibi at “rollingstone.com”
“The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda” by Adrian Chen at “newyorker.com”
“Washington Post Reporter Won’t Discuss His Controversial ‘Blacklist’ Story” by Dion Hinchcliffe at “truthdig.com”
“Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited ‘Fake News’ Blacklist?” by Adam Johnson at “fair.org”
“Counterpunch as Russian Propagandists: the Washington Post’s Shallow Smear” by Joshua Frank at “www.counterpunch.org”
“Timberg’s Tale: Washington Post Reporter Spreads Blacklist of Independent Journalist Sites” by Pamela Martens and Russ Martens at “www.counterpunch.org”
“Truthdiggers of the Week: Journalists Who Ripped Washington Post, PropOrNot for McCarthyite Hogwash” by Natasha Hakimi at “truthdig.com”
“No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See” by Matthew Ingram at “fortune.com”
“Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post — and the journalism it’s practicing” by Patrick Maines at “thehill.com”
“The End of the American Century” by John Michael Greer at “thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com”
“Fake News List Death Knell for MSM-Paul Craig Roberts” with Paul Craig Roberts and Greg Hunter at “USAWatchdog”
“The Deepening Deep State” by James Howard Kunstler at “kuntsler.com”
“Fascism with a Democratic Party Face” by Glen Ford at “http://blackagendareport.com/”
“I Am a Dangerous Professor” by George Yancey at “The New York Times”
[See the e-commentary at “A ‘Journalist’ Declares War On Journalists . . . And Journalism (November 28, 2016)”.]
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Mass Media Breeds Mass Deception
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