Peter Oborne on Fake news

[Grafenwalder]

Journalist Peter Oborne was interviewed on Ch4 news the other evening on the subject of fake news. Listen to what he has to say.

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British journalists have become part of Johnson’s fake news machine

Written by Peter Oborne and well worth the read.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opende ... zcxTtSlpM#

[Cannydc]

A gang of feral smear merchants straight out of No 10, whose origin is directly attributable to Boris Johnson becoming PM.

Oh so true, oh so damning.

[Stooo]

Journalist Peter Oborne was interviewed on Ch4 news the other evening on the subject of fake news. Listen to what he has to say.

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British journalists have become part of Johnson’s fake news machine

Written by Peter Oborne and well worth the read.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opende ... zcxTtSlpM#

Peston was a bit of a shocker, Humpfries has buggered off to Classic FM . Theo Usherwood is worth a follow.

[Lady Murasaki]

Excellent. Not surprised at all. Shoddy reporting by people who should know better. Can’t stand the smarminess of Laura Kuenssburg.

[Fletch]

British Government Disinformation Shop Lost Charity Status - Continues In New Format

At the end of last year some enterprising 'anonymous' person released papers of the British Integrity Initiative. As we reported at that time:

The British government financed Integrity Initiative is tasked with spreading anti-Russian propaganda and thereby with influencing the public, military and governments of a number of countries. What follows is an contextual analysis of the third batch of the Initiative's internal papers which were dumped by an anonymous yesterday.

Christopher Nigel Donnelly (CND) is the co-director of The Institute for Statecraft and founder of its offshoot Integrity Initiative. The Initiative claims to "Defend Democracy Against Disinformation".

The Integrity Initiative does this by planting disinformation about alleged Russian influence through journalists 'clusters' throughout Europe and the United States.

Both, the Institute as well as the Initiative, claim to be independent Non-Government Organizations. Both are financed by the British government, NATO and other state donors.

There have been seven releases of Institute of Statecraft documents.

The Institute of Statecraft was registered as a charity under Scottish law. After the release of its papers the Scottish charity regulator OSCR investigated the status of the Institute. Unsurprisingly the OSCR found (pdf) that its shady behavior and its running of anti-Russian disinformation campaigns did not justify its status:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/11/b ... ormat.html

Posted about it here a number of times and now the Scottish charity regulator is not convinced by them either.

[Fletch]

Since the Integrity Initiative was exposed the British government opened and financed a new secretive shop that will continue to spread anti-Russian disinformation:

On 3rd April, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) minister Alan Duncan revealed his department’s ‘Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme’ - which bankrolls the Institute for Statecraft and its Integrity Initiative subsidiary - was funding a new endeavour, Open Information Partnership (OIP).

The announcement, buried in a response to a written parliamentary question, was supremely light on detail - Duncan merely said the effort would “respond to manipulated information in the news, social media and across the public space”. Official fanfare was also unforthcoming - there was no accompanying press release, briefing document, or even mention of the launch by any government minister or department via social media channels.

The original proposal for the Open Information Partnership, as released by 'anonymous', included the Institute of Statecraft, a Media Diversity Institute, Bellingcat, DFR Lab (i.e. the Atlantic Council) and some others in a so called ZINC Network. On the current OIP website the Institute of Statecraft 'charity' is no longer named.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/11/b ... ormat.html

Oh dear and the biggest joke of all, for the aware anyway...

The Open Information Partnership is a diverse network of established organisations and individuals across Europe working in open, independent, fact-based reporting.

https://openinformationpartnership.org





I'll continue with the proven record of the alternative media thank you very much.

[Fletch]

Media Silent as Nobel Prize Winning OPCW Found “Fixing” its Own Findings on Syria

https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-sil ... gs/262576/

[Fletch]

Arrest of Gov’t Critic and Journalist Max Blumenthal Signals Escalation in War on Alternative Media

https://www.mintpressnews.com/arrest-jo ... ia/262637/

Isn't there a name for that kind of behaviour?

[Fletch]

The Imperial Propaganda Machine
By Caitlin Johnstone

It’s important to avoid fake news, Russian media or conspiracy theorists. We must only trust those reputable news outlets who tell us that neoliberalism is working fine, that US foreign policy is perfectly sane, and that protests are only happening in Hong Kong and nowhere else.

The difference between state media and western media is that in state media the government controls what information the public is given about what’s going on in the world in order to prevent political dissent, whereas in western media this is instead done by billionaires.

Any attempt to understand the world which fails to take into account the fact that extremely powerful people are pouring massive amounts of money and resources into manipulating your understanding of the world will necessarily result in a distorted worldview.

Whenever news media reports unsubstantiated assertions from anonymous sources in government agencies, just mentally insert “Here is something the government told us to tell you:” into the beginning of the report, because that’s all they’re doing.

Russia and China haven’t become any more of a threat to you than they were three years ago, yet you think about them many times more often than you did back then. That’s propaganda at work, FYI.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52489.htm

[Rolluplostinspace]

So the MSM is outed yet again but no apologies for Fletch.
Whenever it comes out that MSM is untrustworthy on everything except cat got stuck up tree stories it's just the edge being curled up a little.
Carry on wallowing in the bullshit folks especially Lordy with his Russia crap

[Stooo]

So the MSM is outed yet again but no apologies for Fletch.
Whenever it comes out that MSM is untrustworthy on everything except cat got stuck up tree stories it's just the edge being curled up a little.
Carry on wallowing in the bullshit folks especially Lordy with his Russia crap

How much is Johnson paying you lot?

[Stooo]

Are you going to defend (not very) Cleverley next?

[Fletch]

The Hugely Important OPCW Scandal Keeps Unfolding. Here’s Why No One’s Talking About It.
Caitlin Johnstone Nov 17 · 7 min read

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is now hemorrhaging evidence that the US and its allies deceived the world once again about yet another military intervention, which should be a front-page story all over the world. Yet if you looked at American news media headlines you’d think the only thing that matters right now is indulging the childish fantasy that Donald Trump might somehow magically be removed from office via supermajority consensus in a majority-Republican Senate.

CounterPunch has published an actual bombshell of a report by journalist Jonathan Steele containing many revelations about the OPCW scandal which were previously unknown to the public. Steele is an award-winning reporter who worked as a senior foreign correspondent for The Guardian back before that outlet was purged of all critical thinkers on western imperialism; he first waded into the OPCW controversy last month with a statement made on the BBC revealing the existence of a second whistleblower on the organisation’s investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria.

If you haven’t been following this story you can click here for a timeline of events to fully appreciate the significance of these new revelations about the Douma incident, but just to quickly recap,...

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the- ... 32903f22a2

Impeach for war crimes by all means but for the threat of exposing the deep state and prominent Dems, as detailed elsewhere? Get out of it.

[SD777]

The Hugely Important OPCW Scandal Keeps Unfolding. Here’s Why No One’s Talking About It.
Caitlin Johnstone Nov 17 · 7 min read

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is now hemorrhaging evidence that the US and its allies deceived the world once again about yet another military intervention, which should be a front-page story all over the world. Yet if you looked at American news media headlines you’d think the only thing that matters right now is indulging the childish fantasy that Donald Trump might somehow magically be removed from office via supermajority consensus in a majority-Republican Senate.

CounterPunch has published an actual bombshell of a report by journalist Jonathan Steele containing many revelations about the OPCW scandal which were previously unknown to the public. Steele is an award-winning reporter who worked as a senior foreign correspondent for The Guardian back before that outlet was purged of all critical thinkers on western imperialism; he first waded into the OPCW controversy last month with a statement made on the BBC revealing the existence of a second whistleblower on the organisation’s investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria.

If you haven’t been following this story you can click here for a timeline of events to fully appreciate the significance of these new revelations about the Douma incident, but just to quickly recap,...

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the- ... 32903f22a2

Impeach for war crimes by all means but for the threat of exposing the deep state and prominent Dems, as detailed elsewhere? Get out of it.

Nothing will happen

[Fletch]

What does that tell you?