Journalists Shouldn't Be Copy-and-Pasting Police Press Releases
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-15
Except Block Club Chicago suffers, particularly on the issue of "crime" reporting, from the same stunted ethical scope all other local corporate media does. | The post Journalists Shouldn't Be Copy-and-Pasting Police Press Releases appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
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Facebook Accused of 'Full-Frontal Suppression of Dissent' After Independent Media Swept Up in Mass Purge
Jake Johnson | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-15
The massive shutdown affected many progressive sites devoted to covering war, police brutality, and other issues neglected by the corporate media. | After Facebook announced on October 10 that it shut down and removed hundreds of pages and accounts that it … | The post Facebook Accused of 'Full-Frontal Suppression of Dissent' After Independent Media Swept Up in Mass P…
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The Routine Use of Fake Images and Video Footage by the Western Media
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-15
Image. CNN Report: "Chinese Cops" in Tibet: Footage of a protest movement in India, 2008 | While Google and Facebook relentlessly target the independent online media in their campaign against "Fake News", the routine use of fake videos and images by … | The post The Routine Use of Fake Images and Video Footage by the Western Media appeared first on Global Research.
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The US Military's Vision for State Censorship
Andre Damon | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-15
In March, the United States Special Operations Command, the section of the Defense Department supervising the US Special Forces, held a conference on the theme of "Sovereignty in the Information Age." The conference brought together Special Forces officers with domestic … | The post The US Military's Vision for State Censorship appeared first on Global Research.
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Pacifica Radio Network Stands with Wikileaks and Julian Assange
Repost | indybay.org | 2018-10-15
Pacifica passed a resolution to defend Julian Assange who is the founder of Wikileaks. "The mainstream media has basically been silent about the harassment of Julian Assange and the attempt to imprison him. And even some so-called progressive outlets have been silent. I think that if Pacifica makes a statement, it will be very important and will serve to educate many people in this country and beyond."
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2018 Media Freedom Summit
Project Censored | indybay.org | 2018-10-15
College of Marin, Kentfield Campus, 835 College Avenue Kentfield California 94904…
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Facebook's purge of left-wing media: A frontal assault on freedom of speech
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-15
The social media monopoly's removal of left-wing news pages with millions of followers is the latest step in a conspiracy by the state and the technology giants to censor the internet.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/15/pers…
Five Questions For: Author Suzanne Gordon on the VA as a 'Model for American Health Care'
Alexandra Tempus | progressive.org | 2018-10-14
"Many liberals and progressives who don't buy the propaganda about climate, or about education, buy the propaganda about the VA."
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Facebook Censorship and the Atlantic Council
Jonathan Sigrist | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-14
Yesterday we witnessed one of the greatest Facebook account and page purges since its formation over a decade ago. In total, 559 pages and 251 personal accounts were instantly removed from the platform, for having " consistently broken our rules … | The post Facebook Censorship and the Atlantic Council appeared first on Global Research.
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Rampant voter suppression underway, with Black voters the chief target
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2018-10-12
With the mainstream media obsessed over Kanye West and Donald Trump's la…
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Facebook Purges US-Based Independent Media For Political Disinformation
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-12
The concerted efforts to censor independent media on social media began in earnest following Facebook's announcement this past May that Facebook would be teaming up with the notoriously hawkish, government- and corporate-funded think tank, the Atlantic Council. | The post Facebook Purges US-Based Independent Media For Political Disinformation appeared first on MintPress News.
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Google CEO Tells Senators That Censored Chinese Search Engine Could Provide "Broad Benefits"
Ryan Gallagher | theintercept.com | 2018-10-12
Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to answer a list of questions from a bipartisan group of six senators. | The post Google CEO Tells Senators That Censored Chinese Search Engine Could Provide "Broad Benefits" appeared first on The Intercept.
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'Land of censorship & home of the fake': Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter's crackdown
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-12
Alternative voices online are incensed after Facebook and Twitter closed down hundreds of political media pages ahead of November's crucial midterm elections. Facebook says they broke its spam rules, they say it's censorship.
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Censorship crackdown? Top 10 alt-media pages newly banned by Facebook & Twitter
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-12
Sites dealing with government transparency, pages dedicated to police brutality and alternative media — take a closer look at the top ten accounts with millions of followers that were recently suspended by Twitter and Facebook.
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New Writers Welcomed to Consortium News
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-10-10
In the past few weeks Consortium News has added a group of accomplished writers as regular contributors, ensuring that Consortium remains a unique source of news, analysis and commentary that you will not find in mainstream media. Pepe Escobar, the… Read more ?…
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Publishing Police Press Releases as Local 'Crime' Reporting
Adam Johnson | fair.org | 2018-10-10
Block Club Chicago suffers, particularly on the issue of "crime" reporting, from the same stunted ethical scope all other local corporate media does. Again and again, Block Club's "crime" reporting consists of simply copy-and-pasting Chicago police blotters about alleged crimes, with no effort to report any side other than the police's.
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I Was Reported to Police as an 'Agitated Black Male' — for Simply Walking to Work
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-10
A Black employee at the University of Massachusetts Amherst opens up about the racial profiling incident that rocked the campus and upended his life. | Last month, I walked across the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to get to work. It was an ordinary stroll. But to a bystander, the sight of an educated Black professional going about his day was apparently cause for alarm. | That bystander called the police. My workplace was shut down. I was, and remain, humiliated. | Racial profiling at predominantly white institutions is nothing new, and this wasn't the first time that I had to grit my teeth th…
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Trump savages Medicare for All, as more Americans embrace socialism
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-10
President Trump once again lambasted the idea of socialized healthcare, as Medicare for All becomes a mainstream Democrat position and more and more Americans warm to the idea of socialism.
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Google now plays 'Good Censor' for civility's sake, leaked internal briefing confirms
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-10
Internal research commissioned by Google confirms Orwellian-scale censorship powers enjoyed by tech giants. It says free speech is a "utopian idea," and creating "ordered spaces for safety and civility" is Google's new mission.
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Space race: Richard Branson trolls Elon Musk, says he must sleep more
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-10
With a new space race heating up, two business titans could be set for a war of words of galactic proportions as Sir Richard Branson has offered some unsolicited advice to his rival Elon Musk.
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Trump Admin Follows Corporate Media Playbook for War With Iran
John O'Day | fair.org | 2018-10-04
John Bolton (BBC, 9/26/18): "Let my message today be clear: We are watching, and we will come after you." | Three years ago, as Americans debated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran–popularly known as "the Iran deal"–I highlighted a troubling media trend on FAIR.org ( 8/20/15): "For nearly all commentators, regardless of their position, war is the…
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After Chemnitz: Germany's Extreme Right Exploits Government Passivity and Public Resentment to Enter the Mainstream
Denijal Jegić | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-02
While the AfD party emerges as a leading voice of political opposition, the government downplays its danger and even co-opts… | The post After Chemnitz: Germany's Extreme Right Exploits Government Passivity and Public Resentment to Enter the Mainstream appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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Presenting The Syria Deception: Al Qaeda Goes to Hollywood (VIDEO)
Dan Cohen | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-09-16
An exclusive Grayzone investigative documentary rips the cover off of the most sophisticated and expensive campaign of humanitarian interventionist propaganda… | The post Presenting The Syria Deception: Al Qaeda Goes to Hollywood (VIDEO) appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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