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It’s Official !!! The Media Can Legally Lie and Still Call it a News Report

April 1, 2013 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update

In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.

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Back in December of 1996, Jane Akre and her husband, Steve Wilson, were hired by FOX as a part of the Fox “Investigators” team at WTVT in Tampa Bay, Florida. In 1997 the team began work on a story about bovine growth hormone (BGH), a controversial substance manufactured by Monsanto Corporation. The couple produced a four-part series revealing that there were many health risks related to BGH and that Florida supermarket chains did little to avoid selling milk from cows treated with the hormone, despite assuring customers otherwise.

According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts. Fox editors then tried to force Akre and Wilson to continue to produce the distorted story. When they refused and threatened to report Fox’s actions to the FCC, they were both fired.(Project Censored #12 1997)

Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury’s words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows. They further maintained that she deserved protection under Florida’s whistle blower law. Akre was awarded a $425,000 settlement. Inexplicably, however, the court decided that Steve Wilson, her partner in the case, was ruled not wronged by the same actions taken by FOX. Read the rest of this entry →

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Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Censorship at CNN

September 10, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

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I saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.
- Amber Lyon

The Amber Lyon story is just the latest in a series of articles that expose the total Joseph Goebbels like censorship rampant in mainstream media today.  The first one I posted several weeks ago exposed how the NY Times basically just regurgitates whatever government officials tell them, while the other showcased how an NPR reporter covering D.C. had to leave and do her own thing out of frustration.  This is precisely why alternative media sites are taking off.  They provide the only outlets left for genuine journalism.

So back to Amber.  Back in March 2011, CNN sent a four person team to Bahrain to cover the Arab Spring.  Once there, the crew was the subject of extreme intimidation amongst other things, but they were able to record some fantastic footage.  As Glenn Greenwald of the UK’s Guardian writes in his blockbuster article from today:

In the segment, Lyon interviewed activists as they explicitly described their torture at the hands of government forces, while family members recounted their relatives’ abrupt disappearances. She spoke with government officials justifying the imprisonment of activists. And the segment featured harrowing video footage of regime forces shooting unarmed demonstrators, along with the mass arrests of peaceful protesters. In sum, the early 2011 CNN segment on Bahrain presented one of the starkest reports to date of the brutal repression embraced by the US-backed regime.

Despite these accolades, and despite the dangers their own journalists and their sources endured to produce it, CNN International (CNNi) never broadcast the documentary. Read the rest of this entry →

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Propaganda – Manufacturing Consent, The Death of Free Press and Free Thinking

May 28, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Headline, Politics, Video Perspective, World News

This article has come about for 2 reasons,  one being an article at beforeitsnews.com about propaganda, and secondly an article involving Tim Pool proposing a monopoly on audio broadcast during the NATO summit in the event  [like many people thought was going to happen]  that internet data transmissions went down and live video feeds were not possible.

I was going to just re-post the beforeitsnews.com article,  but felt there was alot more to say and wanted to address why we feel so strongly that even talking about a monopoly in media is enough of an offense, that it destroys the very fabric of what independent journalists working against mainstream media is all about. Not to mention what that sounds like to any journalist in a collective space where people are donating their time and energy for ZERO profit,  just for the sake of getting news out to people.

The propaganda model is a conceptual model in political economy advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky that states how propaganda, including systemic biases, function in mass media. The model seeks to explain how populations are manipulated and how consent for economic, social and political policies are “manufactured” in the public mind due to this propaganda.  — beforeitsnews.com

–  see video below  Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent”  Well worth the time.

Today the “news” is all but bought and paid for by wealthy elitists that have every interest in controlling what you think, buy, do, say, act, wear, eat, and even how you go about your day to day life in a way that is unprecedented in scale.  Just look at the fact that 5-6 companies own every major broadcast network in the U.S. and how much money is being flooded into commercial advertising. Read the rest of this entry →

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Canada Refuses to Allow Fox “news” A License – Lying to People is Illegal There

April 23, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, World News

This is not a new headline,  but I feel it needs to be re-addressed as IT IS STILL PERFECTLY LEGAL TO LIE TO THE PUBLIC in United States Corporate Media,  and it is getting worse.

By Nick Hathaway – roguemedia.org

“Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators announced they would reject efforts by Canada’s right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news.  Canada’s Radio Act requires that ‘a licenser may not broadcast….any false or misleading news.’ The provision has kept Fox ‘news’ and right wing talk radio out of Canada”   -Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Huffington Post

I lived in Vancouver, BC for about 2 years myself around 2005-7,  and was astonished at the fact they actually got real world news.  Something I was not used to coming from the U.S. and I commented on all the time. People there were shocked to hear when I told them what a traditional U.S. news broadcast entailed..

I told them that I have never lived in communist China,  but going off what I had heard I did not think the U.S. was much different in terms of getting real honest news reports of what was going on around the world, let alone in my own city or state.  I still feel that way today and I believe it is getting worse.

The illusion of freedom of the press is perhaps more damaging and dangerous than knowing that you are being lied to and that everything you hear is censored. Read the rest of this entry →

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MDPD’s Homeland Security Bureau Was Monitoring My FB Page Hours Before My Arrest

April 23, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Video Perspective

By Carlos Miller – pixiq.com

And many more insightful details obtained through a public records request of emails

Major Glenn Stolzenberg, who heads the Homeland Security Bureau for the Miami-Dade Police Department wondered if it was illegal for me to post photographs of police officers

Eleven hours before I was arrested during the Occupy Miami eviction in January, the Miami-Dade Police Homeland Security Bureau sent an email to various police officers, which was then forwarded to the department’s public information officers – including arresting officer Major Nancy Perez – informing them that I would be documenting the action.

The subject of the email was “Multimedia information/Situational Awareness.” It included my Facebook profile photo where I’m trying my hardest to look like a terrorist thug.

Sinister looking terrorist thug, is that some gang sign he is holding up?

It also included the following statement about me.

Carlos Miller is a Miami multimedia journalist who has been arrested twice for taking pictures of law enforcement.  He has publicly posted on social networks that he will be taking pictures today in order to document the eviction.

The email makes it clear that the Homeland Security Bureau was monitoring my Facebook page since before my arrest – not that I have an issue with that considering I have my profile set to public.

But it also makes it clear that Perez should have known exactly who I was when she singled me out from a horde of other journalists documenting the eviction and had me arrested. Read the rest of this entry →

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Arizona House Bill 2549: Bill to Censor Electronic Speech Makes Trolling Illegal

April 3, 2012 in Headline, Politics

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Arizona House Bill 2549 would update the state’s telephone harassment law to apply to the Internet and other electronic communications. It would make it a crime to communicate via electronic means speech that is intended to “annoy,” “offend,” “harass” or “terrify,” as well as certain sexual speech.  However, because the bill is not limited to one-to-one communications, H.B. 2549 would apply to the Internet as a whole, thus criminalizing all manner of writing, cartoons, and other protected material the state finds offensive or annoying.

Most Recent News: H.B. 2549 passed the legislature on March 29 and is on Governor Jan Brewer’s desk awaiting her decision on whether to veto or sign the bill. Media Coalition sent a letter explaining our concerns to Gov. Brewer, her chief of staff Eileen Klein, and Joe Scarriotta, general counsel, on the same day it passed.

After passing out of the Senate Rules Committee, the Democratic and Republican caucuses passed the bill onto the full Senate for consideration of whether or not to put H.B. 2549 to a vote. Media Coalition sent a memo to every member of the Arizona State Senate.

On March 14, Media Coalition sent a memo to the Senate Rules Committee regarding constitutional infirmities in H.B. 2549.

Media Coalition sent a memo in opposition to the bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 8, ahead of a hearing on the bill on March 11.

updated 3/30/12  -  mediacoalition.org

see the full text of the bill here

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Google admits tracking Safari users

February 19, 2012 in Headline

Internet giant says it circumvented security settings in browser to track users on desktops and iPhones.

Google has come under attack for violating users’ privacy and ignoring their wishes after admitting that it intentionally circumvented security settings in Apple‘s Safari browser to track users on both desktop computers and iPhones.

A number of other advertisers exploited the loophole it had created to track those users too.

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Glenn Beck and the Death of Free Speech – FOX “news”

February 16, 2012 in Headline, World News

by – Cliff Kincaid

Fox News has aired several interviews with Daily Caller editors and reporters on the influence of Media Matters, the Soros-funded left-wing attack machine. A series of articles in The Daily Caller sheds new light on the operations of the group, which masquerades as a non-profit but has partisan political ties to the Obama White House and the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, the interviews failed to touch on the most visible example of Media Matters working its will on the media—the sacking of Glenn Beck from Fox News.

One can imagine that this is a sensitive topic at Fox News.

It is even more sensitive in view of what News Corporation, the parent of Fox News, is doing to its staff at the British newspaper, The Sun. As part of an internal investigation of phone-hacking and bribery, News Corporation voluntarily turned over information to police authorities.

 

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Google offering money in exchange for users’ search history

February 10, 2012 in Headline, Politics, Update, World News

The Screenwise project offering money in exchange for users' search history.

GOOGLE is offering money in exchange for users’ search history in a bid to “learn more about how everyday people use the internet”.

The new Screenwise project is asking for volunteers to install a Chrome browser extension that allows data to be collected in exchange for “up to $25 in gift cards”.

The website says those who sign up will be given a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card code, and then an addition $5 gift card code every three months for staying with the project as a “thank you.”

Google is also reported to have a more extensive version of the program in which web surfers participate by installing a “high-end router”.

The Screenwise Data Collector project is offering $100 on signup, plus $20 per month up to one year’s involvement, technology website Ars Technica reports.
“What we learn from you, and others like you, will help us improve Google products and services and make a better online experience for everyone,” the Screenwise website says.

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Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Country Basis’

February 2, 2012 in Headline, Politics, Update, World News

By   -  taken from wired.com/threatlevel

Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required.

Twitter announced technology last week addressing the same topic. It said it had acquired the ability to censor tweets in the countries only where it was ordered removed, instead of on an internet-wide basis.  Twitter’s announcement via its blog sparked a huge online backlash. The microblogging service was accused of becoming a censoring agent.  Yet Google’s announcement three weeks ago — buried in a Blogger help page — went unnoticed until it was highlighted by TechDows on Tuesday.

Google wrote Jan. 9 it would begin redirecting Blogger traffic to country-specific URLs, meaning whatever country you’re in, you’ll get that country’s domain for Blogger-hosted blogs.  TechDows reports that this is now happening in India, for example. So when you’re there and click on a Blogger blog, the URL will end .in.

Doing that, Google wrote, means content can be removed “on a per country basis.”  “Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law,” Google wrote.  Twitter did not announce how its new technology functions, but said Twitter has the ability to remove tweets only in countries where that content was barred.

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