One may have hoped that the media would respond to their 2016 failures and resulting lack of credibility by reforming. Instead, it seems that many in political media are quadrupling down on the mistakes that served them and their readers and viewers so poorly in the lead-up to Donald Trump’s surprise victory in November…
Whoops! Definitely-Not-Senile John Lewis Says He FORGOT He Boycotted W’s Inauguration…
WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived…
In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging…
Your Weekly Alarming Anonymous Friday Night WaPo Dump: Vermont Electrical Grid Edition…
It seems like every Friday this month, there has been an alarming Friday night news dump in the WaPo based off anonymous leaks. This time, it’s a story claiming that, Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont. The anonymous officials behind this story have just squandered the efforts of a slew […]
Misguided Support for PropOrNot Seems to Include Koch Brothers, CIA, Parts of Congress…
The CIA. The Koch Brothers and parts of Congress seem to support PropOrNot’s extensive list of 200-plus alternative-news websites that supposedly have disseminated Russian propaganda. According to this article, above, anti-alternative news fervor in Congress could serve to bind together the parties in a common cause…
Hints of Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying Rise from Blacklist Case…
Last month, the Washington Post gave a glowing front-page boost to an anonymous online blacklist of hundreds of American websites, from marginal conspiracy sites to flagship libertarian and progressive publications…the anonymous website argued that all of them should be investigated by the federal government…for Russian propaganda…
WPost Letter Responding to Truthdig’s Demand for a Retraction…
This Week at CounterPunch: More Hollow Smears and Baseless Accusations…
U.S. Census Bureau, I.R.S. and St. Louis Federal Reserve Added to “Russian Propaganda” Black List Sites…
Who’s Behind Faux Blacklist of News Websites…Fascinating Read!…
A shadowy group called PropOrNot (shorthand for Propaganda Or Not) that has gone to a great deal of trouble to keep its funders and principals secret, is promulgating a blacklist of 200 alternative media websites that it has labeled “Russian propaganda outlets”…
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