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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/really-bad-optics-monday-june-26?publication_id=463409&post_id=131159728&isFreemail=true

In the early hours on Saturday, government-affiliated reporters labeled the Wagnerian dustup a Russian “Civil War.” The Atlantic ran one of my favorites of the headlines, which by no means was the only one:




Russia didn’t slide into Civil War very far! ...

The New York Times, which on Saturday ran no fewer than SEVEN separate top-of-fold stories celebrating Putin’s imminent fall, any second now, was reluctantly forced by the rough pace of current events to display a much more muted tone this morning:




Uh oh. I guess the Weekend Civil War didn’t really help Ukraine that much. The Times’ sub-headline, above, glumly admitted, “The Ukrainian Army is encountering an array of challenges.” An array! An “array of challenges” is even worse than just regular challenges.

If the Times admitted THAT, you know it’s got to be BAD. The best news that diligent Times reporters could scrape together was the alliterative headline suggesting “Ukraine COULD Capitalize on Chaos,” maybe, who knows, plus a 12-minute audio podcast where some talking head opined about “How the Wagner revolt challenges Putin’s power.”

But does it, though?

Now begins the great face-saving, the re-spinning, the narrative un-weaving, the shucking-and-jiving by all the corporate media reporters and expert shills who on Saturday ran with hot takes that the situation in Russia was REALLY SERIOUS and Putin was teetering on the brink of finally being deposed by the brave, democracy-loving, freedom-fighting Wagner forces (freedom fighters who were long labeled as war criminals, as of Thursday afternoon at least, but never mind, they would again be war criminals by late Sunday afternoon). ...

So, we’ll keep waiting to find some clarity, and in the meanwhile enjoy corporate media mocking itself.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/media-meltdown-tuesday-june-27-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=131401181&isFreemail=true

Our media is a laughingstock. You literally can’t believe anything they say these days. I feel like we should apologize to the Russians for mocking their Soviet-era newspaper ‘Pravda’ back in the day. Now we know what it feels like.

Russian President Putin gave a speech yesterday about the uprising. As usual it was credible and coherent. Unlike someone else’s speeches, but I digress. I’ll link it (it’s not too long), not because I “love Putin” but because our corporate media won’t print a single word.

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71528

Honestly, it baffles me that, after building Putin up into the ONE REASON for this entire conflict, our media proceeds to black out everything the man has to say about it. How can they possibly justify that? If everything Putin says is a lie, expose him as a liar every time he talks. The media’s ONE JOB is to inform us about newsworthy events, not carefully curate the information we are exposed to so that we won’t think wrong.

It’s a time of war and the government-controlled media is deliberately deceiving us. That’s arguably treason. ...

I have a modest proposal. How about this? How about we end the era of the state secret. Maybe we need to decide, once and for all, that a huge undercover secret government military-industrial apparatus is antithetical to a ‘small-R’ republican form of government.

Look at it this way — we gave it a solid try, but it didn’t work out. Let’s move on.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/media-meltdown-tuesday-june-27-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=131401181&isFreemail=true

Speaking of western intelligence involvement, I haven’t had the time to quite work this up yet, but dots are coalescing. I find very interesting the collective timing of the massive rush Saturday-morning rush by corporate media to label the Wagner uprising a “Civil War.” Nearly every corporate media outlet had at least one long-form piece ready Saturday morning when events had unfolded in Russia over Friday night.

Including outlets that don’t usually report breaking news, like The Atlantic magazine. How was all of that possible without outside coordination?

Remember, the New York Times had no fewer than SEVEN articles ready to go first thing Saturday morning, all written by different reporters. Then yesterday we found out that our intelligence agencies briefed Congress earlier in the week about the expected uprising.

The CIA and Congress knew about Wagner ahead of time. Which means corporate media knew ahead of time.

They wrote the Russian Civil War narrative AHEAD OF TIME.

It sure looks to me like Saturday morning’s media blitz was a CIA psyop on the American people. The goal perhaps was to help manufacture a color revolution in Russia on the strength of Prigozhin’s popularity, or at least, what the intelligence agencies believed about his popularity.

Boy, were they wrong. Nobody cares about Prigozhin.

I wonder what else we’ll discover going forward.

https://notthebee.com/article/actor-jim-caviezel-slams-the-mainstream-media-for-their-lies-about-trump-and-covering-up-hunter-bidens-crimes

The way thigns are gonna be done now- it's gonna be changed from this point on. There's gonna be a new direction in this country.

People aren't buying the media like they used to. Because they, you know, the stuff that happened on Hunter Biden laptop. Okay. Two years you told us not true. Okay, I believe you, you're the media. Then it's true.

And then for 7 years we learned that Donald Trump is a Russian spy. Well, that's wrong. Thank you media for telling us that. Durham report drops, he's not a Russian spy. ...

80% that you told us is all false. So the public is all going, "No, you don't have the power you used to."

Patrick says

Our media is a laughingstock. You literally can’t believe anything they say these days. I feel like we should apologize to the Russians for mocking their Soviet-era newspaper ‘Pravda’ back in the day. Now we know what it feels like.

I hope you realize that everything that is called "reliable sources" is propaganda.

Patrick says

80% that you told us is all false. So the public is all going, "No, you don't have the power you used to."

It's higher than 80%. No information is given out by corporate media other than maybe sports scores or possibly the weather, and they even lie about that. Canada is burning because of "climate change", they say - it's arson. What do "reliable sources" report that is true? Name some. Think carefully about this. They are lying about everything from foreign policy to the reason for protests.

Patrick says

The internet has eclipsed TV, I think.

There's a big difference:

TV is strictly one way, from the CIA to you.

The internet at least has the potential of being multi-directional, where random individuals can communicate with each other, just like we are doing now.

But yes, Google, Facebook, and Twitter (even now) are being used as deadly weapons against humanity.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-debunking-the-debunkers

jeepers you guys, it looks like the new york times is still saying that “covid-19 vaccines do not prevent transmission of the disease” is “debunked claims from vaccine skeptics!”




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but jeez i hope nobody tells the CDC, because it seems like probably that would hurt their feelings…

Trollhole says

The internet has eclipsed TV, I think.

Internet allows us to learn, just about anything, television doesn't.

Philo Farnsworth invented the television expecting it to be an educational tool. He saw it as a failure to such an extent that when his son asked him why they didn't have one, he supposedly said:

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

He was a true genius, it's a pity he died in 1971. I doubt he even know ARPANet was invented. The Internet can be as bad as television, but ONLY as bad. It can't be worse, provided it's 2 way. Anything you encounter which is one way, is just the same old shit, if you can't comment, and you can't learn from other independent people, it's worthless.

Commenting is the best thing ever. I learned more about the world from individual people commenting on news articles than I could have ever learned just reading news articles. People will point out bullshit in a second when they see it.

https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1677714524009385984

In Iowa, Tucker Carlson Did The Job The Decaying Media Monolith Won’t

https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/18/in-iowa-tucker-carlson-did-the-job-the-decaying-media-monolith-wont/

Patrick says

Yep, as warned by Lewis Carol long ago:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/triple-standards-wednesday-july-19?publication_id=463409&post_id=135273232&isFreemail=true

Narrative alert! Bloomberg ran a narrative-baking story yesterday deceptively headlined, “US Suspends Wuhan Institute Funds Over Covid Stonewalling.” ...

Bloomberg also reported that HHS’s Office of Inspector General conducted an audit earlier this year that determined the NIH failed to effectively monitor its awards and subawards, harming the agency’s “ability to understand the nature of research conducted and identify problem areas.” In other words, Bloomberg is setting up an excuse for NIH to “not know” what was going on with the money it gave Wuhan.

See? The NIH wasn’t deliberately funding gain-of-function research. They just trusted the Wuhan lab and forgot to check what it was using the money for.

In other words, the NIH is admitting to the lesser crime of negligence, rather than of being up to its filthy neck in gain-of-function research and being nabbed in a Chinese biolab bathroom with its pants down.

This was a narrative-crafting article. Bloomberg is helping stitch together a fairytale about how the virus leaked from a shoddily-run lab. It was negligence all around, just one of those things. The conclusion will be that we need to tighten up the procedures and fund the agencies even more so that they can do their jobs properly.

https://notthebee.com/article/did-you-hear-about-the-officer-who-stopped-a-muslim-terrorist-from-shooting-up-a-street-fair-in-fargo-this-week

Did you hear about the officer who stopped a heavily-armed man named Mohamad from shooting up a street fair in Fargo last week?

Did you hear about the shooting in North Dakota? No? Why not?

Don't we have national news corporations?

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/reasonableness-tuesday-july-25-2023

Israeli journalism also captured:

https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-exposes-big-pharmas-control

RFK Jr. Exposes Big Pharma’s Control Over the TV News

There are only two countries that allow pharma ads on TV: one is the United States, and the other is New Zealand.

“75% of the advertising revenues in the nightly news come from pharmaceutical companies,” reported Kennedy.

Kennedy produced a documentary about vaccines and presented it to Fox News. Then Fox News executive Roger Ailes told Kennedy, “This is like a red line for us.” “If one of my hosts, like Cavuto or Sean, allowed you on to talk about this issue, I would have to fire them.” ...

“Anderson Cooper is getting a $13-million-a-year salary. But if you actually look at the revenues, probably 70 or 80% of that is coming from Pfizer,” commented Kennedy.

“So, who is he really working for? Is he working for the public interest? I don’t think so. And it’s not that Pfizer is writing his scripts and dictating stuff, but he knows where the boundaries are of what he can and cannot say.”

This interview was censored and taken down by YouTube, but you can still watch it here:

https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1685397533315526656

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Toss+Salad

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/32-ideas-for-32-years?publication_id=323684&post_id=135485126&isFreemail=true

What modern journalism has become. The internet’s digital tsunami of information and emancipation of authorship shattered the traditional newspaper business model and the elite-controlled dispensation that had long endowed newsrooms with a sacrosanct authority as a gatekeeper to knowledge with a monopoly over dissemination and agenda-setting. To survive, the mainstream media has pivoted from journalism to tribalism; the goal isn’t to inform readers, it’s to confirm what they already believe.

Patrick says

the goal isn’t to inform readers, it’s to confirm what they already believe.

Correct, it is not "Get this out quickly, the people have a right to know," but rather "Get this out quickly, people want their opinions validated."