VS massamedia krijgen van jetje na demoniseren Bernie Sanders (democratisch presidentskandidaat VS)

Nadat Bernie Sanders de Washington Post (WaPo) volkomen terecht verweet een haatcampagne tegen hem te voeren, hebben de massamedia in de VS belachelijk en hysterisch gereageerd op deze beschuldiging........ Lullig voor die media, maar belangrijke ex-vertegenwoordigers van die media zijn het helemaal zat en hebben 'een dik boek opengetrokken' over hun ex-werkgevers en hun voormalige collega's.

Met voorbeelden geeft men aan dat deze massamedia, zonder uitzondering in handen van plutocraten of investeringsgroepen, zich onderwerpen aan zelfcensuur, men weet prima welke onderwerpen wel of niet genoemd kunnen worden, censuur die de eigenaren verwachten van hun werknemers...... Caitlin Johnstone, de schrijver van het hieronderopgenomen artikel zegt niets over de zelfcensuur die zogenaamde onafhankelijke journalisten zich opleggen, over berichten die regeringen wel of niet kunnen schaden, ook die zijn er voldoende......*

Zo is er zelden of nooit commentaar in de reguliere westerse media op ingrepen van de VS elders, of het nu gaat om illegale oorlogen, staatsgrepen of ronduit massamoorden begaan middels drones, aanvallen op verdachte mensen, die minstens recht hebben op een eerlijk proces....... Ronduit VS terreur waarbij bovendien meer dan 90% van de vermoorden niet eens werden verdacht, dus veelal vrouwen en kinderen.......

Gelukkig ziet ook Caitlin Johnstone, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, dat langzaam maar zeker een kentering van zaken, plaatsvindt. Zo gelooft het grootste deel van de VS bevolking terecht niet dat de uitbater van een kindermisbruiknetwerk, Jeffrey Epstein, zichzelf het leven heeft benomen (voor berichten over Epstein, klik op het label met zijn naam direct onder dit bericht).

Johnstone concludeert m.i. terecht dat de propaganda-oorlog, gevoerd in de reguliere massamedia steeds minder effect heeft op de publieke opinie, al verwacht ik niet dat er daarom snel verandering zal komen in die propaganda, eerder valt te vrezen wat we nu al zien: de brengers van het echte nieuws, de alternatieve media worden meer en meer gedemoniseerd door de reguliere westerse massamedia en westerse politiek, waarbij steeds meer platforms worden geweerd van het internet........ De volgende stap is het strafrechtelijk vervolgen van de alternatieve media, waarbij het eindelijk duidelijk zal worden wat een smerig spel media en politiek spelen en dat gesteund door multinationals, de financiële maffia en het militair-industrieel complex........

AUGUST 17, 2019 AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

Mass Media’s Phony Freakout Over Bernie’s WaPo Criticism Is Backfiring

After days of ridiculous, hysterical garment rending by mass media talking heads in response to Senator Bernie Sanders’ utterly undeniable assertion that The Washington Post has displayed unfair bias against his campaign, people with extensive experience in the mainstream press who are fed up with the lies are beginning to push back. Hard.

Former MSNBC producer Jeff Cohen has published an article in Salon titled “Memo to mainstream journalists: Can the phony outrage; Bernie is right about bias”. Cohen details his experience with the way corporate media outlets keep a uniform pro-establishment narrative running throughout all their coverage without their staff having to be directly told to to do this by their supervisors (though sometimes that happens, too). He writes as follows:

“It happens because of groupthink. It happens because top editors and producers know — without being told — which issues and sources are off limits. No orders need be given, for example, for rank-and-file journalists to understand that the business of the corporate boss or top advertisers is off-limits, short of criminal indictments.

“No memo is needed to achieve the narrowness of perspective — selecting all the usual experts from all the usual think tanks to say all the usual things. Think Tom Friedman. Or Barry McCaffrey. Or Neera Tanden. Or any of the elite club members who’ve been proven to be absurdly wrong time and again about national or global affairs.”

Cohen’s exposé follows the phenomenal segment recently aired on The Hill‘s show Rising, in which former MSNBC star Krystal Ball and her co-host Saagar Enjati both detailed their experience with the way access journalism, financial incentives, prestige incentives and peer pressure were used to push them each toward protecting establishment narratives in their respective mainstream media careers. Ball said at one point she was literally called into the office and forbidden from doing any critical Hillary Clinton coverage without prior approval in the lead-up to the 2016 election, saying that in mainstream journalism jobs “you are aware of what you’re going to be rewarded for and what you’re going to be punished for, or not rewarded for.”

“It’s not necessarily that somebody tells you how to do your coverage, it’s that if you were to do your coverage that way, you would not be hired at that institution,” Enjati said. “So it’s like if you do not already fit within this framework, then the system is designed to not give you a voice. And if you necessarily did do that, all of the incentive structures around your pay, around your promotion, around your colleagues that are slapping you on the back, that would all disappear. So it’s a system of reinforcement, which makes it so that you wouldn’t go down that path in the first place.”

Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi has also jumped in to push back against the absurd denials of bias from the establishment media, publishing a new article titled “The Campaign Press: Members of the 10 Percent, Reporting for the One Percent–Media companies run by the country’s richest people can’t help but project the mindset of their owners.” Taibbi, an award-winning journalist with lots of experience in the news media industry, writes that pro-establishment narratives are advanced in mainstream press not because some explicit order is handed down by a media-owning oligarch, but because “We all know what takes will and will not earn attaboys in newsrooms.”

Matt Taibbi

✔@mtaibbi

Why the Sanders media beef is legit: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/bernie-sanders-washington-post-media-complaint-872349/ …

The Campaign Press: Members of the 10 Percent, Reporting for the One Percent

Apart from being described as a lying faux-Leninist Russian stooge who wants to elect Trump, what does Sanders have to complain about?

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Taibbi writes the following:

“The news media is now loathed in the same way banks, tobacco companies, and health insurance companies are, and it refuses to understand this. Mistakes like WMDs are a problem, but the media’s biggest issue is exactly its bubble-ness, and clubby inability to respond to criticism in any way except to denounce it as misinformation and error. Equating all criticism of media with Trumpism is pouring gasoline on the fire.

“The public is not stupid. It sees that companies like CNN and NBC are billion-dollar properties, pushing shows anchored by big-city millionaires. A Vanderbilt like Anderson Cooper or a half-wit legacy pledge like Chris Cuomo shoveling coal for Comcast, Amazon, AT&T, or Rupert Murdoch is the standard setup.”

Taibbi is correct. Trust in the mass media continues to plummet, and these stupid, nonsensical hissy fits they throw whenever criticized are only making it worse.

What cracks me up most about all this is that the faux outrage over Sanders’ criticisms of The Washington Post was completely unnecessary for everyone involved. They could have just ignored it and let the news churn bury it, but they’re so insulated in their little echo chambers that they seriously believed they could get the public rallying to their defense on this. The general consensus was something like “Ah ha! Bernie did that media-criticizing thing that we all agreed nobody’s allowed to do anymore! We’ve got him this time, boys!”

And all they accomplished in doing this was giving honest journalists an opportunity to inform the public about the insider tricks of their trade. You may be absolutely certain that the information that has been given to the public by Cohen, Ball, Enjati and Taibbi will remain in high circulation throughout the Sanders campaign in response to the increasingly shrill torrent of establishment smears, breaking the spell of mainstream media trust for all who view it.

Currie Dobson@Ventuckyspaz

More than two thirds of Americans don’t believe Epstein died by suicide

Only 29% of Americans believe Epstein died by "suicide" showing that the establishment's narrative control isn't working anymore#EpsteinSuicideCoverUp#EpsteinMurder #EpsteinCoverUphttp://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2019/americans_say_murder_more_likely_than_suicide_in_epstein_case …

Americans Say Murder More Likely Than Suicide in Epstein Case

Americans aren’t buying that disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in jail last weekend.

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All these damning insider criticisms of the mainstream American press are coming out at the same time a new Rasmussen poll finds that less than one third of the US population believes the story they’re being told by the corporate media about the highly suspicious death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Despite the mass media’s mad push to tar anyone questioning the official narrative about Epstein as a loony “conspiracy theorist”, only 29 percent of those surveyed reported that they believed Epstein had committed suicide as they’ve been told, while 42 percent believe he was murdered. Never in my life have I seen such a widespread and instantaneous rejection of an establishment-promulgated narrative in the United States.

This is hugely significant. The entire imperial oppression machine is held together with aggressive plutocratic propaganda; the ability of the ruling class to manipulate the way people think, act and vote is the only thing stopping the public from using the power of their numbers to force real changes and create a new system that is not built upon endless war, ecocide and exploitation. The mass media propaganda engine is now at its weakest and most vulnerable point ever, and the narrative managers’ attempts to regain control are only exposing them more severely.

Power is the ability to control what happens. Absolute power is the ability to control what people thinkabout what happens. Our rulers are rapidly losing this absolute power.

People are waking up.

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* Zo liet gevierd 'journalist' Max van Weezel op Radio1 al eens weten, dat hij zich goed voor kan stellen bepaalde berichten niet te brengen........

9/11: de VS heeft niets geleerd......

Jon Jeter schreef op MintPress News een opiniestuk, waarin hij niet alleen de 'aanslagen' op de Twin Towers in 2001 aanhaalt, maar zich vooral richt op de andere 9/11, die van 1973 in Chili.... Chili waar de CIA met hulp van massamoordenaar, oorlogsmisdadiger en Nobelprijswinnaar voor de Vrede* (ha! ha! ha!) Henry Kissinger, de fascist, moordenaar, verkrachter en martelbeul Pinochet middels een bloedige staatsgreep aan het bewind hielpen........ De democratisch gekozen** president Salvador Allende werd vermoord en daarmee begon de grote ellende voor de Chilenen......

30.000 mensen werden gevangen gehouden en gemarteld, naar schatting 5.000 mensen werden vermoord door het fascistische Pinochet regime.....

Lees in het volgende artikel hoe Pinochet de economie vakkundig naar de kloten hielp, zodat in 1982 de buitenlandse schuld van Chili was opgelopen tot 16 miljard dollar, in hedendaags waarde gaat het om een bedrag 42 miljard ('billion') dollar..... Tegen 1989 was het gemiddelde loon sinds 1973 met 40% gedaald....... In diezelfde tijd verdubbelde de armoede tot 40% van de bevolking..... Het aantal mensen met slechte huisvesting was tegen die tijd ook 40% van de bevolking, een stijging met 13% sinds het laatste jaar dat Allende regeerde...... Het aantal calorieën dat arme mensen dagelijks gebruikten liep vanaf 1973 terug van 2.019 naar 1.629 in 1989.......

'Gelukkig' beeft Nederland nadat Joop de Uyl weg was, goede zaken gedaan in Chili; 'waar een klein land al niet groot in kan zijn.........' 

Inderdaad de VS heeft niets geleerd van de nasleep die 9/11 liet zien, integendeel deze grootste terreurentiteit op aarde is 'voortvarend' doorgegaan met het op grote schaal uitoefenen van terreur in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft, e.e.a. heeft intussen aan fiks mer dan 2 miljoen mensen het leven gekost....... (al moet nog wel opgemerkt worden dat de aanslagen van 9/11 door de VS zelf zijn geregisseerd >> zie o.a. de links onderaan dit bericht....) 

A Tale of Two 9/11s and the Lessons America Chooses Never to Learn

After 9/11, Bush famously asked “Why do they hate us?” The answers might have been found on another 9/11, 28 years before, when the U.S. in Chile took a decisive step down the road to empire.

by Jon Jeter

NEW YORK — Of apartheid South Africa’s myriad atrocities, one of the most medieval was a system in which white settlers plied their farmworkers with alcohol in lieu of wages. Known by the Afrikaans word for tot, or drink, the dop not only kept workers docile — and wages low — but, in fostering widespread and chronic dependency, the practice bordered on enslavement, manacling workers to their addictions and hence their oppression.

A progressive white South African lawyer told me that shortly after voters of all races went to the polls to repeal apartheid in 1994, he managed to purchase a Cape Town vineyard as part of his lifelong ambition to create award-winning wines. His first order of business was to professionalize the operations; so, soon after he closed the deal to buy the vineyard, he gathered up all 15 farmworkers and announced that he would end the dop and pay their wages, in full.

Seven walked off in disgust, he said.

This story is the perfect metaphor for America in the aftermath of the terrorist attack that occurred 17 years ago today. An entire nation stared into the abyss on 9-11 and, like a sloppy drunk waking up in a pool of his own vomit, saw its image reflected in the wreckage as though for the first time. But rather than facing our demons, owning our failures, and acknowledging the outsized role we’ve played in the suffering of others, we simply sidled up to the bar for another drink. Like the inebriates who walked off a South African farm, ours is an Empire in denial and poor health, doubling down on our most self-destructive impulses, stumbling towards an inevitable, ugly end.

In an interview months after 9-11, Osama bin Laden warned:

The U.S. government will lead the American people — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”

 A 9/11 less remembered

Ironically, if we could pinpoint the date that United States took its first drink it would almost certainly be September 11, 1973, as General Augusto Pinochet’s troops stormed Chile’s presidential palace. Organized by Henry Kissinger and the CIA, the coup targeted Chile’s popular socialist President Salvador Allende, who the Nixon administration feared was another Fidel Castro in-the-making. As the attack unfolded, workers in the basement of a Santiago publishing house shop were hard at work printing what was to be the military junta’s 500-page economic plan.

Believing himself to be a messianic figure, Pinochet put his faith in a coterie of young Chilean advisers who had trained under Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago’s School of Economics, the academic vanguard of neo-classical economics. With his bloody crackdown on dissidents, artists, college students and union leaders, Pinochet’s repressive regime censored the press, banned labor unions and political opposition parties, murdered an estimated 5,000 leftists, tortured another 30,000 and handed the “Chicago Boys” – as they came to be known – a blank check to remake Allende’s nationalized economy, and return the country at South America’s southwestern edge into the Empire’s orbit.

Nearly 15 years before economists coined the phrase “Washington consensus,” and a decade before Reagan’s trickle-down policies began dismantling the New Deal in the U.S., Chile was the guinea pig for anti-Keynesian macroeconomic policies designed to fatten corporations’ share of global wealth. Pinochet slashed duties on imports, from an average tariff rate of 94 percent in 1973 to 10 percent by 1979. He privatized all but two dozen of Chile’s 300 state-owned banks, as well as utilities and entitlements such as social security. By 1979, he had cut public spending almost in half and public investment by nearly 14 percent. He lowered taxes, restricted union activities and returned more than a third of the land seized under Allende’s land-reform program.

       

A woman with a tattoo of Chile’s late Salvador Allende places a candle in front of Allende’s statue in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 11, 2018. Esteban Felix | AP

Monetary policy was liberalized on two important fronts. First, Pinochet allowed “hot money” — speculation on the currency market — to flow in and out of the country without obstacle. And in 1979 he fixed the exchange rate for Chile’s peso, requiring the central bank to keep $1 in reserve for every 39 pesos printed. This kept the bank from merely printing money to pay bills and curbed an inflation rate that had soared to nearly 400 percent annually under Allende.

Pinochet’s reforms worked like a fast-acting virus. A recession in 1975 caused Chile’s economy to shrink by 13 percent, its greatest decline since the Great Depression. The recovery that followed was fueled largely by foreign cash, which poured into the country as investors gobbled up utilities and stashed money in Chile’s currency markets. The prices of imports fell sharply; between 1975 and 1982 the number of foreign cars sold in Chile tripled. Domestic manufacturing shriveled by 30 percent. Domestic savings plummeted. Wages fell, and the income gap between rich and poor widened by a factor of 50.

By 1982, Chile had accumulated $16 billion in foreign debt — nearly $42 billion in today’s dollars — and foreign investment represented a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product. The money flowing into the country flowed out just as easily, to pay debts and bills for imported goods and through capital flight as investors soured on Chile’s currency market. The economy had overheated and was now in a meltdown.

With a third of the workforce unemployed and unrest growing, by 1984 Pinochet began to “reform the reforms,” the Chilean economist Ricardo Ffrench-Davis said in a 2003 interview.

Pinochet allowed the peso to float and reinstated restrictions on the movement of capital in and out of the country. He introduced banking legislation, and ratcheted up spending on research and development efforts through quasi-governmental institutions and other collaborations between the public and private sectors — creating, as one example, the billion-dollar salmon farming industry out of whole cloth.

Still, Chile’s economic woes persisted. By 1989, real wages had declined by 40 percent from 1973, and the percentage of the population living in poverty had doubled to 40 percent. The number of Chileans without adequate housing had also climbed to 40 percent, up 13 percentage points from Allende’s final year in office. The country’s poor consumed 1,629 calories per-day-on average, compared to 2,019 in 1973.

Ill-fed, and ill-housed, Chileans began to refer to the cadre of advisers not as the Chicago Boys but as Si, Cago; Voy — which translates to “Yes, I shit; I go.”

A plebiscite in 1989 ended Pinochet’s rule and Chileans gradually began to reorganize their economy. Since 1990, it has consistently been Latin America’s strongest performer. But in its violent, fascist crackdown on the left and its fealty to Wall Street bankers, Chile under Pinochet presaged the entirety of the United States’ global class war against workers — in Argentina and Zambia; Flint and Venezuela; Philadelphia to Greece; Haiti, Iraq, Ukraine, Honduras; Russia in its post-Cold war transitional period, and South Africa after the collapse of apartheid.

The two 9/11s 28 years apart bracket the United States’ descent into madness. Much like the vintner’s abolition of the dop, the downing of the Twin Towers should’ve triggered some soul-searching in the United States, and an examination of our accumulation of stuff through the dispossession of other human beings. As we mourn the losses on that Indian-summer day in 2001, what we need to contemplate is redemption, not revenge — and how we might begin to rejoin a human community that we’ve wronged, again and again and again.

God Bless America. . . . and everyone else too.

Top Photo | Chrissy Bortz of Latrobe, Pa., pays her respects at the Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. after a Service of Remembrance, Sept. 11, 2018, as the nation marks the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Gene J. Puskar | AP

Jon Jeter is a published book author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent on two continents, as well as a former radio and television producer for Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life.”

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*   Kissinger kreeg die prijs godbetert in 1973, het jaar van de coup in Chili....

** In feite werd Allende vermoord door de VS, het land dat altijd de bek vol heeft met democratie brengen........

Zie ook:
'9/11 forum geblokkeerd, de waarheid mag niet gezegd worden........'

'9/11: de leugens over smeltend staal van de Twin Towers'

'9/11 getuigen totaal genegeerd door media (en overheid)'

'9/11 Israël nogmaals aangewezen als hulp- bij het neerhalen van de Twin Towers en gebouw 7 van het WTC'

'9/11: Al Qaida tjokvol agenten van Saoedi-Arabië, VS, Israël en Egypte'

'9/11 voorafgegaan door CIA visa fraude.....'

'9/11: Palestijnen hebben niet gejuicht voor de aanslagen op de Twin Towers'

'9/11 eerst de explosie waarna de 'vliegtuigen' de Twin Towers raken'

'9/11: professor stelt dat WTC-gebouwen gecontroleerd zijn gesloopt, de bewijzen daarvoor zijn overweldigend'

'Pearl Harbor (7 december 1941) en de aanslagen van 9/11 hebben veel overeenkomsten.........'

'9/11 de verklaring van de VS overheid aangaande het instorten van WTC gebouw 7 is vals..........'

'911 samenzweringstheorie wint nog meer aan geloofwaardigheid......'

'911, de beurs en geschiedvervalsing.......'

'9/11, WikiLeaks, Prism en 'complottheorieën''

'911, een 'leuk' feit'

Wat betreft de agressie van de VS en de staatsgreep in Chili, zie:
'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........'

'List of wars involving the United States'

'VS: openlijke militaire oefening met terreurgroep in Syrië......'

'NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO.........'

'VS commando's vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog.........'

'Chileense fascisten vragen rk kerk om vergeving voor vreselijke misdaden begaan onder Pinochet bewind......'

'De VS, een duivels imperium, dat achter haar psychopathisch moordende troepen staat??'

'De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht'

'Chili 11 september 1973'

'VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII........'

'CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi's beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz.........'

'CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen............'