I read an article on the great I.F. Stone years ago. In the article he recounted his experience as a young reporter covering the murder of a young woman. The suspect was the son of a local furniture store owner - his newspaper had evidence supporting the guilt of the young man. The editor of the newspaper brought in the furniture store owner and showed him two different headlines - and let him choose. According to Stone, the newspaper got a large number of paid advertisements for the furniture store and the young man walked.
It doesn't seem to me anything has really changed in the last 100 years. There is the approved narrative and those not supporting it should, or will have to, seek employment elsewhere.
"....if you can’t be fired or demoted or otherwise punished, you can simply be denied air time."
That was quite obvious in the run-up to the invasion in 2003. There were large protests in cities across the country; the estimate was 100,000 in NYC on February 15th alone. Did it make breaking news? Did we see massive coverage of the worldwide gatherings? Um....nope. I don't know if there was even a passing mention on the local news of the protest here in CLE.
Wow. Thank you for the Banfield lecture. The voice of reason. She says at one point "I am fascinated to know how we are going to work out the situation in Iraq" this just after Mission Accomplished.
This is why I wrote over a year ago about a desperate plea to unplug from corporate media, as well as convincing your friends and family to do the same.
Thank You, Bill, for introducing me to Ashleigh Banfield. Reading and learning about her, i was led to wonder what she had to say about 9/11. And discovered this…:
(NewsNation) — We all remember where we were and what we were doing when tragedy struck the country on September 11, 2001. The same can be said for journalists who were on the ground covering the attacks, including NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield.
21 years ago, Banfield was covering the attacks in New York for MSNBC. Looking back on video clips of her coverage, she says she hears terror in her voice.
“Everyone calls me so brave for having been there that day. The truth is, I was absolutely terrified,” Banfield said on “NewsNation Prime.”
Despite the chaos, Banfield felt like she needed to keep covering what was happening to the U.S. She said there were many moments that have stuck with her all these years, but there’s one in particular she will never forget.
“The one moment that I really take with me is the time when I was broadcasting live, it was in the evening sometime, and it was after 9/11. So it would have been on the 12th or 13th, or maybe even 14th. A woman came up to me while I was on the air with her poster, because everybody had their posters asking ‘Have you seen my loved one? My husband, my wife, my daughter, my son, everything?’
“And she said, ‘Have you seen Lindsay Herkness?’ Lindsay Herkness was my friend. Yeah, so I didn’t know it at the time. And Lindsay died. So that hit me live on the air,” Banfield said. “I just had to really kind of figure that one out, you know, and there’s no pamphlet, blueprint. There’s nothing to help you as a journalist kind of get through something like that. That one stays with me.”
In the video above, Banfield describes more of her experience reporting on 9/11 and how she remembers the tragic day each year.
Great piece. I do think, however, that the tide is slowly starting to turn. Dana Bash practically called Netanyahu a liar to his face on CNN, and then Nancy Pelosi came on and confirmed Netanyahu wasn't telling the truth about food shipments to Gaza.
The Democrats are going to try to pin all of the blame for the Gaza Genocide on Netanyahu, and that breaks the unified wall of pro-Israel reporting from American media. Let's all do our bit to make sure they can never rebuild it.
... it's hard changing the world, trying to make it better, when you're only getting one-sided information-propaganda-coverage... we need be better than that otherwise status-quo prevails, and we all keep loosing
...and tnx to you too, roger, for the approbatory feedback. i'm more accustomed to receiving censorious macerations and lacerations from the vulgate, particularly the US/UK/EU/canada fopdoodles and cattywumpuses in their respective armadas of angry ants and disputatious donnards who luxuriate in that misguided pantheon of pampered pricks. conciliatory saphrosynes they are not! concomitantly, they are immune to absorbing parrhesia [truth-telling].
b/c i'm a hopeless sumpsimus, please take pity on my OCD, and manumit me to correct the catachreses in my quondam comment... videlicet, "nyangi's" should be "nyangi", and the phrase "significantly more extensive than nyangi island's footprint" should be enisled in brackets. your patience w/ me is appreciated. i must absquatulate to more salubrious endeavours before i go off the rails entirely!
tnx dennis and toma. am dubious it will be possible, but am keen to remain a living life form long enough to witness the behemoth island of plastic trash, significantly more extensive than nyangi's island's footprint-size, be tossed by those monstrous storm-driven seas in the north pacific gyre back onto land, preferably onto the coastal and even upland cities, states, megalopolises, and provinces from which they 'provenanced'. a pox on their demesnes!
World War Three has already begun, though few have noticed. It is being fought out in parliaments and the press, on social media platforms, in pubs and at family dining tables around the globe. It is an almost silent war that will kill millions, potentially billions and wreck the planet for all.
World War Three is a universal conflict between tested truth – and convenient lies. Between reality and manufactured fantasy. It is a fight for the human soul. It will determine whether our civilisation survives, or goes down in darkness. At stake may even be the survival of our species.
Humanity is presently facing the greatest existential emergency in our million-year history. This comprises ten man-made catastrophic risks: 1. Extinction and ecocide, 2. Resource depletion, 3. Global poisoning, 4. Global overheating, 5. Nuclear arms race, 6. Food insecurity, 7. Overpopulation, 8. Pandemic disease, 9. Dangerous new technologies and 10. Mass delusion.
No Government on Earth has a policy for solving these. There is no plan for human survival.
Potentially, the most deadly of these threats is mass delusion. The uncontrolled spread of lies, misinformation and disinformation in all societies renders it almost impossible for humanity to take concerted action to arrest and roll back the other nine catastrophic risks....................
In the Revelation of Jesus Christ 16: 13-16 describing the Battle of that Great Day of God Almighty aka ARMAGEDDON, it's written, "I come as a thief." In other words, when you least expect it.
Because Nuclear Armed Israel was recreated from the Bible claiming after 4000 years, all of Palestine belongs exclusively to Jews, what is happening over there in OUR generations, is in fact leading to the Battle of that Great Day of God Almighty between Jews, Christians and Muslims and the whole World is caught up in it.
That's the basic REALITY whether one wants to see it or not!
I read an article on the great I.F. Stone years ago. In the article he recounted his experience as a young reporter covering the murder of a young woman. The suspect was the son of a local furniture store owner - his newspaper had evidence supporting the guilt of the young man. The editor of the newspaper brought in the furniture store owner and showed him two different headlines - and let him choose. According to Stone, the newspaper got a large number of paid advertisements for the furniture store and the young man walked.
It doesn't seem to me anything has really changed in the last 100 years. There is the approved narrative and those not supporting it should, or will have to, seek employment elsewhere.
"....if you can’t be fired or demoted or otherwise punished, you can simply be denied air time."
That was quite obvious in the run-up to the invasion in 2003. There were large protests in cities across the country; the estimate was 100,000 in NYC on February 15th alone. Did it make breaking news? Did we see massive coverage of the worldwide gatherings? Um....nope. I don't know if there was even a passing mention on the local news of the protest here in CLE.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests
Wow. Thank you for the Banfield lecture. The voice of reason. She says at one point "I am fascinated to know how we are going to work out the situation in Iraq" this just after Mission Accomplished.
I added the Landen Lecture to my playlist and will listen to it tomorrow.
This is why I wrote over a year ago about a desperate plea to unplug from corporate media, as well as convincing your friends and family to do the same.
https://www.indiemediatoday.com/p/our-new-mission-unplug-from-corporate-media?r=539iu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=comment
Thank You, Bill, for introducing me to Ashleigh Banfield. Reading and learning about her, i was led to wonder what she had to say about 9/11. And discovered this…:
NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield Remembers Covering 9/11 Attacks by Caitlyn Shelton / NewsNation 11 Sep 22
(NewsNation) — We all remember where we were and what we were doing when tragedy struck the country on September 11, 2001. The same can be said for journalists who were on the ground covering the attacks, including NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield.
21 years ago, Banfield was covering the attacks in New York for MSNBC. Looking back on video clips of her coverage, she says she hears terror in her voice.
“Everyone calls me so brave for having been there that day. The truth is, I was absolutely terrified,” Banfield said on “NewsNation Prime.”
Despite the chaos, Banfield felt like she needed to keep covering what was happening to the U.S. She said there were many moments that have stuck with her all these years, but there’s one in particular she will never forget.
“The one moment that I really take with me is the time when I was broadcasting live, it was in the evening sometime, and it was after 9/11. So it would have been on the 12th or 13th, or maybe even 14th. A woman came up to me while I was on the air with her poster, because everybody had their posters asking ‘Have you seen my loved one? My husband, my wife, my daughter, my son, everything?’
“And she said, ‘Have you seen Lindsay Herkness?’ Lindsay Herkness was my friend. Yeah, so I didn’t know it at the time. And Lindsay died. So that hit me live on the air,” Banfield said. “I just had to really kind of figure that one out, you know, and there’s no pamphlet, blueprint. There’s nothing to help you as a journalist kind of get through something like that. That one stays with me.”
In the video above, Banfield describes more of her experience reporting on 9/11 and how she remembers the tragic day each year.
Source: https://www.newsnationnow.com/prime/newsnations-ashleigh-banfield-remembers-covering-9-11-attacks/ .
Great piece. I do think, however, that the tide is slowly starting to turn. Dana Bash practically called Netanyahu a liar to his face on CNN, and then Nancy Pelosi came on and confirmed Netanyahu wasn't telling the truth about food shipments to Gaza.
The Democrats are going to try to pin all of the blame for the Gaza Genocide on Netanyahu, and that breaks the unified wall of pro-Israel reporting from American media. Let's all do our bit to make sure they can never rebuild it.
And thank you, Bill, for your honesty, integrity and courage; and for bringing Ms. Banfield to our attention.
... it's hard changing the world, trying to make it better, when you're only getting one-sided information-propaganda-coverage... we need be better than that otherwise status-quo prevails, and we all keep loosing
...and tnx to you too, roger, for the approbatory feedback. i'm more accustomed to receiving censorious macerations and lacerations from the vulgate, particularly the US/UK/EU/canada fopdoodles and cattywumpuses in their respective armadas of angry ants and disputatious donnards who luxuriate in that misguided pantheon of pampered pricks. conciliatory saphrosynes they are not! concomitantly, they are immune to absorbing parrhesia [truth-telling].
b/c i'm a hopeless sumpsimus, please take pity on my OCD, and manumit me to correct the catachreses in my quondam comment... videlicet, "nyangi's" should be "nyangi", and the phrase "significantly more extensive than nyangi island's footprint" should be enisled in brackets. your patience w/ me is appreciated. i must absquatulate to more salubrious endeavours before i go off the rails entirely!
tnx dennis and toma. am dubious it will be possible, but am keen to remain a living life form long enough to witness the behemoth island of plastic trash, significantly more extensive than nyangi's island's footprint-size, be tossed by those monstrous storm-driven seas in the north pacific gyre back onto land, preferably onto the coastal and even upland cities, states, megalopolises, and provinces from which they 'provenanced'. a pox on their demesnes!
MSNBC cancels Muslim Mehdi Hassan after Mehdi challenges Israeli adviser Mark Regev on false Israeli claims.
https://youtu.be/HD-yRuTasHU?si=egShij2DXigZMz_3
Let's also remember that today is Julian Assange's possible judgement day.
Pretty cruel in the way they decided to dispose of her! Always liked her on CNN before I switched to only Live Streaming of my News @ present...
'The next World War has started'
World War Three has already begun, though few have noticed. It is being fought out in parliaments and the press, on social media platforms, in pubs and at family dining tables around the globe. It is an almost silent war that will kill millions, potentially billions and wreck the planet for all.
World War Three is a universal conflict between tested truth – and convenient lies. Between reality and manufactured fantasy. It is a fight for the human soul. It will determine whether our civilisation survives, or goes down in darkness. At stake may even be the survival of our species.
Humanity is presently facing the greatest existential emergency in our million-year history. This comprises ten man-made catastrophic risks: 1. Extinction and ecocide, 2. Resource depletion, 3. Global poisoning, 4. Global overheating, 5. Nuclear arms race, 6. Food insecurity, 7. Overpopulation, 8. Pandemic disease, 9. Dangerous new technologies and 10. Mass delusion.
No Government on Earth has a policy for solving these. There is no plan for human survival.
Potentially, the most deadly of these threats is mass delusion. The uncontrolled spread of lies, misinformation and disinformation in all societies renders it almost impossible for humanity to take concerted action to arrest and roll back the other nine catastrophic risks....................
https://johnmenadue.com/the-next-world-war-has-started/
In the Revelation of Jesus Christ 16: 13-16 describing the Battle of that Great Day of God Almighty aka ARMAGEDDON, it's written, "I come as a thief." In other words, when you least expect it.
Because Nuclear Armed Israel was recreated from the Bible claiming after 4000 years, all of Palestine belongs exclusively to Jews, what is happening over there in OUR generations, is in fact leading to the Battle of that Great Day of God Almighty between Jews, Christians and Muslims and the whole World is caught up in it.
That's the basic REALITY whether one wants to see it or not!
All main news media must run their stories past IDF censors.