Fwd: New York Times as Judge and Jury

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From: John H

This attachment contains two articles from Consortium News of genuine interest.  Both pieces deal with the same subject.  The New York Times as the putative 'paper of record' in the United States adopting as fact Democratic Party establishment memes about supposed conspiracies by Russia and others to interfere with U.S. elections in the absence of any convincing evidence to support them beyond indictments of people who will never be charged and tried and therefore no evidence will have to ever be provided.  These so-called facts are based solely on assertions made by establishment leaders and the Times would like to convince the American public such assertions by themselves establish facts.  This is propaganda at its worst.  The second article, The Battle for Our Minds, goes even further with the Times story as a jumping off point to other Russian-based stories which are also offered as facts without evidence.  It is a major problem when the 'paper of record' as well as other establishment media outlets become little more than a propaganda organ for U.S. corporate, military, intelligence and political interests.  It is particularly distressing to see that private corporate social networking organizations are now taking it upon themselves to censor information they deem unsuitable by using secret algorithms.  For instance, this month's Harper's Magazine reported that in July Facebook censored 5 paragraphs from The Declaration of Independence as hate speech!  Small [d] democratic institutions require a free and unfettered press and media to survive and ours no longer meets that test.  This should be a major are of concern for all American citizens.

 

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 John

 

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