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I hope this is not taken as a political post but I remember a post about censorship in the media a while back but I could not find it to reply.
This is a interview by Mario Nawfal who is not a fan of the Iran regime but to his credit he has guests on his show from the alternative media. He also had a member or former member of the IDF this past week, He interviews ex CIA analyst Larry Johnson here. You may remember him on mainstream media where he is no longer welcome. Listen starting at the 30:10 point. and he tells you how it happened over time. I have heard this from many in the alt media landscape. He has been around the block and speaks from experience. People I used to see who have disappeared from mainstream but are heard on podcasts possibly with substantial audiences. Anyway as a consumer to alternative media I can tell you that I used to occasionally hear such voiced on mainstream before but no longer do thus I believe there is censorship,
The rest of his analysis is worth listening to in my opinion but he does admit that he could be proven wrong and he may well be as no one really knows what will happen, Mario has a habit of caving to his guests so you might say the discussion is one sided but he does present some counter points but since you will not hear this on talk radio or CP24, here it is:
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Indepenedant media is more important than ever now to grasp a more focused reality of events.
MSM who sells ads, commercials and wants to (not lose) their access to partisan events, walks a fine line for their coverage and rarely offers the full story; unless you're getting the sports scores or maybe the weather from them.
Mario has his moments and i'm aware of him on 'X' but I have not heard his 'interview' with the IDF guy and not sure I would want to considering the IDF is an ongoing part of the problem with regards to the 7 decades of occupation, apartheid and genocide of the native people in Palestine.
Another good source of independent news/information is the Democracy Now (!) daily report with Amy Goodman (audio podcast available by 8am weekday mornings or on youtube). They are not selling ads and not politically motivated.
Here's today's report from New York:
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Amy Goodman is an excellent example of the media censorship. I remember seeing her on MSNBC in the early 2000's but after that not so much as any countervailing voices have been silenced. Democray Now has however been allowed on CIUT for many years.
Now there is alternative media which did not exist before. Podcasts. I looked at the podcast chart the other day and iin the top 10 you had Tucker Calrson and Candice Owens. The fox news friendly Ben Shapario was much lower. I disagree with most of what these two indivuals stand for but they do not share the mainstream narrtives and are against the war and they both have huge audiences and that's why some people say there is a maga civil war. Dave Smith is another example.
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Amy Goodman is an excellent example of the media censorship. I remember seeing her on MSNBC in the early 2000's but after that not so much as any countervailing voices have been silenced. Democray Now has however been allowed on CIUT for many years.
I'm pretty sure 980 CFPL London has or at least at one time had Democracy Now. That surprised me when I was tuning around a few years ago. Never expected it on a mainstream commercial outlet.
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Amy Goodman is an excellent example of the media censorship. I remember seeing her on MSNBC in the early 2000's but after that not so much as any countervailing voices have been silenced. Democracy Now has however been allowed on CIUT for many years.
I'm pretty sure 980 CFPL London has or at least at one time had Democracy Now. That surprised me when I was tuning around a few years ago. Never expected it on a mainstream commercial outlet.
Wow that does surprise me but I am almost certain that I have not seen her on legacy TV in the last 26 years,
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At around 6:12 of the interview I posted above with with ex CIA analyst Larry Johnston. He mentions the vans pulling up to the Andrews air base and then to the Bethesda medical as as an example of US injuries not being reported at time by MSM. low and belond yesterday or the day before we hear that 175 US soldiers have been injured. He gave us a glimpse of what's to come several days in advance
A perfect example of inside knowhow, contacts and knowledge.
That's why I have been following ex CIA, FBI and Military people who are largely shunned by the mainstream bc they no longer follow the company line. Another example is Col. Lawrence Wilkerson who was second in command to Colin Powell but resigned over the Iraq war. He used to be a reg on MSNBC in the early 2000's but no more. Also Col Daniel Davis - Who I do see very occasionally on the mainstream but he was actually hired by Trump to be second in command to DNI Tulsi Gabbard but was taken out by Ted Cruz before he could start.
I have been listening to these gents and more like them for a long time and they have all predicted exactly what has happened now. Amazing if anyone is surprised. They all said if the US was foolish enough to do this get ready for the response. I could play you a hundred videos over the last six months with such analysis also by Academics and Journalists. The warning was don't attack.
Such people are more reliable than the anodyne intelligence, military and academic experts trotted out by CNN , MSNOW of Fox and you could group them all as anti war.
I obviosly know the rules of the board about politics but my topic here is about radio, TV and media control and censorship and I don't plan on overload.
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...Such people are more reliable than the anodyne intelligence, military and academic experts trotted out by CNN , MSNOW of Fox and you could group them all as anti war. I obviosly know the rules of the board about politics but my topic here is about radio, TV and media control and censorship and I don't plan on overload.
The mainstream news outlets do a fairly okay job reporting present events. But, aside from a few very good investigative journalists, they're not very good at probing beneath official statements and immediate public or agency reaction. Any journalists here who are interested in or already pursuing investigative journalism would do well to check out groups like Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). They have bimonthly pub nights in Toronto, and occasional conferences (March 26 next one) and workshops here. Good, smart people ...
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...Such people are more reliable than the anodyne intelligence, military and academic experts trotted out by CNN , MSNOW of Fox and you could group them all as anti war. I obviosly know the rules of the board about politics but my topic here is about radio, TV and media control and censorship and I don't plan on overload.
The mainstream news outlets do a fairly okay job reporting present events. But, aside from a few very good investigative journalists, they're not very good at probing beneath official statements and immediate public or agency reaction. Any journalists here who are interested in or already pursuing investigative journalism would do well to check out groups like Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). They have bimonthly pub nights in Toronto, and occasional conferences (March 26 next one) and workshops here. Good, smart people ...
Saul, I'm not sure if your group is aware of Lt Col Daniel Davis but I'm pretty sure he is a Republican as he was selected by Donald Trump at the beginning of his second term to be second in command to DNI Tulsi Gabbard but was side-lind by the neo-cons. He is also a veteran of the first Gulf War. This again presents facts and opinions not heard on the mainstream media. I have seen him on NBC and I think News Nation but he can't be this outspoken there.
He is an insider and even has contacts with people engaged in the war on the American side.
I don't think that the opposition to the war is a left or right thing anymore as Davis speaks to his producer at the end who is now ex MAGA
I will say that perhaps the Col's analysis is wrong and Iran will quickly fall quickly like a house of cards but we don't know yet but they are pitted against the strongest army in the world..I think he is correct in his analysis about the new immoral standards of war as set by the Trump regime and the hypocrisy
The main thing here is to pay attention to what you will not see on ANY mainstream media channel and I bring it here BC censorship in the media has been discussed on the board a number of times and IMHO it's directly media related and not at all left vs right.
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This is truly frightening, although I think the courts might have something to say about it if they ever tried to carry out this absurd threat.
F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage
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This is truly frightening, although I think the courts might have something to say about it if they ever tried to carry out this absurd threat.
F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage
I saw that yesterday and was similarly dismayed.
I have mentioned before that Megyn Kelly, who had come back to Trump world seems to be dropping out again. Here's a YT short with her and Saagar Enjetti. Saggar BTW is the conservative counterpoint to the liberal Crystal Ball on Breaking Points. Crystal ,ex MSNBC, is another individual who has been exiled from the mainstream and it's not bc of ratings but her views. Breaking Points is a very popular independent media outlet.
One more thing I saw a segment on CNN yesterday with Kate Baldwin, who I believe is one of their better anchors, where she was asking her two guests real questions about the war. A little ray of hope.
The clip is about Hegseth's rant against the media and asking everyone to be Fox
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Gas prices have gone up, there may be fertilizer shortages and the stock market is suffering and all for a war of choice.
Here is ex CIA analyst Larry Johnson again with professor Glen Dieson on what we may expect in terms of gas prices etc. He is an insider and somewhat of a whistleblower. Over the weekend there was a lot of talk about Karg Island. Listen at the beginning to hear what he says about that. He refers of Trump as "The Mad King Lear". Listen at 15:36 about the Pentagon propaganda. Listen at 18:37 about sleeper cell and the much hyped and incorrect Iranian terror threat.
Some of what he says is now starting to seep out in the mainstream but not much pushback about relentless propaganda which has been going on for years. I have been following the alternative media and so I know that this point of view is getting out. That's not to say that all his predictions will turn out to be correct as the US has stronegst military in history.
I know I said I will not overload on this topic and I will now back off as the 3 videos I have posted thus far have sufficiently covered most of the points I wanted to. I will leave you to decide if people like Larry Johnson are engaging in deceptive propoganda from their side but my goal is just to bring a counter narrative that you do not hear in the mainstream.
The title of the video BTW refers not to what has happened but what will happen should Trump decide to attack the oil refineries on Karg Island
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ok so I said I wld not come back to this thread but I was watching an interview with Norm Finkelstein yesterday and he asked some important questions about the war coverage.
1. Why is everyone now only focusing on the military aspect and why is almost no one concentrating on the fact that the war was launched illegally. Just before the war started, the Omani negotiator went on CBS and said the two sides were very close and cld reach a deal. Has anyone asked if the Omani was lying ???
Don't think so as I think he was telling the truth. Oman is a US allay.
2. Everyone is now obsessed with the Strait of Hormuz - which was wide open before the war and is now closed due to the war. The Americans are scrambling, trying to re-open something that their actions are responsible for closing.
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Damn Epstein files....
I never have watched it, but the whole damn thing sounds like something along the lines of the chicanery seen in 'Wag the Dog'. 😡
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A while back I had posted on another thread that I thought the BBC and western media in general engages in exaggeration and misinformation about Iran. Some of that is brought up in the posts above in this this thread. I mentioned on the BBC post that I had visited Iran and knew first hand that there was a lot of nonsense to the msg that was being delivered in the west. Some people on the board seemed to think that I was making things up but I can post pictures of the trip if anyone wants. BTW I'm somewhere between agnostic and atheist and don't believe in a theocracy but wanted to point out that the vilification was unjustified and I had my own experience as a guide.
Anyway here is an account of a westerner visiting Iran during this war and his telling of what he saw and experienced on the streets, There is no way anyone in the mainstream media would allow this person on air, the producers would find a way to ignore such and but again thankfully there is new media now and the word does get out:
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