What's wrong with the Guardian, the West has become an Orwellian nightmare? It once had an independent panel who overlooked it, but now it manned with bankers and Neocons. KV - Kevin.
The Guardian Neswspaper, which once was an honest newspaper that spoke for the British working class has now been suborned, in my opinion, by the CIA and British Intelligence (sic).
Perhaps you remember a few years ago that The Guardian complied with illegal orders from the corrupt UK government to destroy the Wikileak files that revealed US felonies and deceptions of so-called “allies,” who are nothing but Washington’s vassals.
What disturbs me about The Guardian is that it no longer guards truth and the working class. Instead The Guardian guards the extraordinary lies that serve the agenda of the US hegemonic state.
I cannot understand why any of The Guardian’s original subscribers read apologies for Washington’s crimes and misdeeds or why The Guardian prefers conflict instead of peace with Russia. Why does The Guardian work to increase hostility between nuclear powers that can easily result in the termination of life on earth? Are The Guardian’s editors paid by the CIA and UK “intelligence,” as the German newspaper editor Udo Ulfkotte said in his book, Bought Journalism, or are The Guardian’s editiors threatened with arrest and prison unless they serve the interests of the UK’s overlord in Washington?
Whatever The Guardian is, just like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and the rest of the Western presstitutes, journalism is not present on its pages. What the West has is a Ministry of Propaganda. The public is lied to and brainwashed, not informed.
We can see the total failure of The Guardian, and all the rest as well, in the reporting on the arrest of the alleged Russian spy, Maria Butina by the utterly corrupt US Department of Justice (sic). The principal evidence against Maria is that she met with a former Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. According to the utterly corrput US Department of Justice (sic), an assistant US attorney, Erik Kenerson, “cited Butina’s encounter with Kislyak as proof that she was in touch with diplomatic or consular officials and must be detained while awaiting trial.”
So, in America if you get your photo taken with a former Russian ambassador to the US it is evidence that you are a spy.
I have read the indictment of Maria Butina. She is not accused of any crime recognizable by Anglo-American law. She is indicted under Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century totalitarian argument that she is guilty of the “crime” of possibly intending to commit one in the future. (See The Tyranny of Good intentions by PCR and Lawrence Stratton.)
I suspect Roberts is just trying to boost traffic to his site and does not believe even half the nonsense he spouts.
ReplyDeleteThe Guardian was a balanced publication for its first century and a half. Founded by textile traders and merchants, it was basically was an organ of the middle class.
ReplyDeleteWhen did the Guardian flip to neoliberalism? This question is debatable, but to me it seems that that the change began around 1990. Over the next ten years or so, progressive contributors were gradually purged one by one as the Guardian changed into a neoliberal tabloid like all the rest.
Newspapers used to be funded by advertising revenue, plus subscriptions and direct purchases. Today they are mainly funded by oligarchs, big corporations, and neoliberal foundations. The Washington Post, for example, is funded by Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Direct funding by the US / UK national governments is also a factor.
Today, corporate sources of media funding tend to be Big Pharma. Hence the endless media warnings that our planet will be destroyed unless we have mandatory universal vaccination.
Two big factors.
ReplyDelete1. Funding now that the subscription model is broken.
2. Gaining and maintaining access to "sources" now that new rooms and actual reporting are unprofitable.
Result media propaganda.
Trump is correct in calling it "fake news."
“I suspect Roberts is just trying to boost traffic to his site and does not believe even half the nonsense he spouts.”
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of comment that readers ignore, since it makes no attempt to justify its claims by logic or by examples. It just claims that Roberts spouts nonsense. It does not specify which aspects of Roberts are allegedly nonsense. It amounts to a mindless and impotent “f**k you.”
Lame!
@ Tom Hickey:
ReplyDeleteIf you do a Google image search for “1960s newsroom,” you will see numerous images of newsrooms from the days when the news media focused on reasoned analysis and investigative reporting. Newsrooms were filled with armies of reporters.
Today’s newsrooms consist of a half a dozen people (or fewer) who are mere stenographers for politicians and oligarchs.
”Trump is correct in calling it ‘fake news’.”
Yes.
The movie All the President’s Men (1976) glorified the old newsrooms with their sea of reporters at their desks. The recent movie The Post (Jan 2018) was a nostalgic reenactment of those glory days.
There is no nonsense in PCR's article, Konrad, I just read facts.
ReplyDeleteI put this out before, Konrad, You might find it interesting.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone is interested, Alex Krainer, a hedge fund manager, exposes Bill Bowdon as a gangster. It's a good interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=91f3a4jC9kA
The Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and Russophobia: Interview with Alex Krainer
Interview with Alex Krainer, hedge fund manager and author of The Killing of William Browder: Deconstructing Bill Browder's Dangerous Deception. Bill Browder is the man responsible for much of the anti-Russian sentiment in the West in recent years through his lobbying for the Magnitsky Act, which sanctions individuals believed to have been involved in the death of Russian "lawyer" Sergei Magnitsky in 2009. Browder told his story in a book called Red Notice, in which he paints himself as a totally innocent victim of a Russian campaign to destroy him. But Krainer dissects Browder's account piece by piece, showing that he was anything but an innocent businessman.
In addition to deconstructing Browder's self-serving lies and rampant Russophobia, Krainer gives a concise history of the crisis Russia went through in the 90s, how a handful of Russian oligarchs and Westerners like Browder siphoned the country's wealth, and how Putin turned all that around in the years after he came to power in 1999.
Due to pressure from Browder's legal team, Amazon censored the book by delisting it. Krainer has made it available for free here and here.
https://dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/TheKillingOfWilliamBrowder_PrintLayout_6x9-1.pdf