A thread about Media, Journalism, Spin and Gaslighting

So, you can see that these wonderful, left leaning news papers like the NYT and The Guardian were reporting on the US Government spreading MISINFORMATION and DISINFORMATION 10 and even 20 years ago. 

So why is it difficult to believe that they would do it today? 

I got MOST of my info originally from THIS article, which is a terrific non-mainstream read on how the US manipulates the world into war using propaganda and manipulating public perception using social and mainstream media. 

The greatest irony is that you can apply this tactic to ANYTHING.

War. Pandemics. Climate Change. 



This article is from 2012, so it will be hard for someone to make the case that Trump was behind this.

Seriously, though this is an incredible read that feels timely, as though it was written for current events today but it was written 12 years ago, 5 years before Russia's annex of Ukraine and 9 years before the pandemic and 5 years before Trump....and yet it hits the nail RIGHT ON THE HEAD. 

Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War

As the drums of war begin to beat once again in Iran, Syria, the South China Sea, and other potential hotspots and flashpoints around the globe, concerned citizens are asking how a world so sick of bloodshed and a population so tired of conflict could be led to this spot once again.

To understand this seeming paradox, we must first understand the centuries-long history of how media has been used to whip the nation into wartime frenzy, dehumanize the supposed enemies, and even to manipulate the public into believing in causes for war that, decades later, were admitted to be completely fictitious.

As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington’s interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension. Far from being a dispassionate observer of these developments, however, the media has in fact been central to increasing those tensions and preparing the public to expect a military confrontation. But as the online media rises to displace the traditional forms by which the public forms its understanding of the world, many are now beginning to see first hand how the media lies the public into war.…

It is now generally accepted among some of the greatest intellectuals of our time that Wikipedia has been captured and weaponized for political reasons. 

Innocent man killed while riding his bicycle.

The killers joked about it on social media

News reports it as a bicycle accident. 

Authorities arguing over whether this one was Musk's or Trump's fault.

The more you know. 

America's Journalism Pipeline Is Filled With Lying, Toxic Sewage:


I Said Hamas Raped and Beheaded. The Yale Daily News Issued a Correction.
Sahar Tartak
October 31, 2023

...I was relieved to be away from hostile protests where many of my classmates have cheered—in reference to Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis—that such "resistance is justified." At an Oct. 25 protest, Yale students publicly admonished an Oct. 12 op-ed I wrote for the Yale Daily News. In it, I noted that the student group Yalies4Palestine had blamed the victims for their plight, arguing that "the Israeli Zionist regime [is] responsible for the unfolding violence," and called on the Yale community "to celebrate the resistance's success."

I was in Brooklyn when I learned that the Yale Daily News had done its own part to help the "resistance," excising four sentences from my piece. They referred to Hamas's atrocities. "Yes, they raped women. Yes, they kidnapped children. Yes, they beheaded men. Yes, they cheered the whole time."

Appended to the article now is the following correction, made without my knowledge: "Editor's note, correction, Oct. 25: This column has been edited to remove unsubstantiated claims that Hamas raped women and beheaded men.".....

....The Yale Daily News editor in chief told me that at the time my piece was published—five days after Hamas carried out a pogrom reminiscent of the bloodiest 19th-century atrocities—"there was swirling unsubstantiation [sic] of the rape and beheading claims."

Unlike the Nazis, who took pains to hide their actions, Hamas broadcast them to the world. Live videos of the horrors were circulating on the internet—and on broadcast television—on the day of the attack. For those with lingering doubts, or inclined to split hairs about whether victims were beheaded or simply found with severed heads, international reporters were on the ground in Israel within 48 hours to chronicle the atrocities.

"We saw boys and girls bound, who were shot in the head. Men and women burned alive. Young women who were raped and slaughtered. Soldiers who were beheaded," Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the world on Oct. 11.

The correction added to my piece wasn't a one-off, a fluke, a case of a rogue editor's bad judgment. My friend Ariane de Gennaro's Oct. 13 op-ed now includes the following correction: "This column has been edited to remove unsubstantiated claims of rape." She told me that, like me, she was not consulted about the correction.


Yale Daily News editors are not such sticklers when it comes to lobbing accusations at the Jewish state. An Oct. 17 op-ed accuses Israel of the "indiscriminate targeting of hospitals," without mention of the fact that Israel actually targets Hamas operatives and infrastructure that the terrorist group hides among civilians, like the troves of rockets found in a U.N.-funded school.....

I see professional journalists making the same mistakes. It's not an accident: The Yale Daily News is their breeding ground, and in a few years, the editors who wrote and approved that correction will go on to careers in the mainstream press, which is chock-full of Yale Daily News editors and reporters. Take the New York Times, where the author of the flagship daily newsletter, the paper's diplomatic and Supreme Court correspondents, and the host of the paper's hit podcast The Daily are all Yale Daily News alumni.

This pipeline is full of sewage, and it shows. The Yale Daily News is now a home for modern-day Holocaust denial, where brutalizing Jews does not need to be justified. It's just denied outright.