{"id":101814,"date":"2017-11-13T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=101814"},"modified":"2017-11-13T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:07:18","slug":"selected-articles-mainstream-media-fake-news-war-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/11\/selected-articles-mainstream-media-fake-news-war-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Articles: Mainstream Media \u201cFake News\u201d, War Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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12 Nov 2017 – We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles focusing on the obfuscation of truth through media manipulation<\/strong> as well as the routine dissemination of war propaganda. These articles show how media lies and fabrications are used as a justification to wage so-called \u201chumanitarian wars\u201d.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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FAKE NEWS: BBC criticised for using Iraq 2003 photo to illustrate Syrian massacre<\/a> – <\/strong>By\u00a0Global Research<\/a>, November 11, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been slammed for mistakenly using a photo taken in Iraq in 2003 to illustrate the Syria 2012 massacre, in which over 100 people, including 32 children, were brutally killed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fake News Used to Justify All Out War: The Bosnian Serb \u201cDeath Camp\u201d Fabrication. Pretext for R2P \u201cHumanitarian Intervention\u201d (1992) in Yugoslavia<\/a> – <\/strong>By\u00a0Global Research News<\/a>, November 10, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

Serbian emergency shelters for Bosnian refugees sold to the public as a concentration camp to win public support for international intervention.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Attack on \u2018Fake News\u2019 Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media<\/a> – <\/strong>By\u00a0Dave Lindorff<\/a>, November 09, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

These are tough days to be a serious journalist. Report a story now, with your facts all lined up nicely, and you\u2019re still likely to have it labeled \u201cfake news\u201d by anyone whose ox you\u2019ve gored \u2014 and even by friends who don\u2019t share your political perspective. For good measure, they\u2019ll say you\u2019ve based it on \u201calternative facts.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who is Behind \u201cFake News\u201d? Mainstream Media Use Fake Videos and Images<\/a> – <\/strong>By\u00a0Prof Michel Chossudovsky<\/a>, October 21, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

The manipulation of videos and images is routine. In some cases, these manipulations are revealed by readers, independent media and social media. In most cases they go undetected. And when they are revealed, the media will say \u201csorry\u201d we apologize: they will then point to technical errors. \u201cwe got the wrong video\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media \u201cFake News\u201d Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq<\/a> – <\/strong>By\u00a0Timothy Alexander Guzman<\/a>, August 03, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

The mainstream media (MSM) has declared war on alternative media websites labeling them\u00a0\u201cFake News\u201d\u00a0ever since Hillary Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cFake News\u201d and Crimes against Humanity: Amnesty International Admits Syrian \u201cSaydnaya\u201d Report Fabricated Entirely in UK<\/a> – <\/strong>By\u00a0Tony Cartalucci<\/a>, February 09, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

The only photographs of the prison are taken from outer space via satellite imagery. The only other photos included in the report are of three men who allege they lost weight while imprisoned and a photo of one of eight alleged death certificates provided to family members of detainees who died at Saydnaya.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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12 Nov 2017 – We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles focusing on the obfuscation of truth through media manipulation as well as the routine dissemination of war propaganda. These articles show how media lies and fabrications are used as a justification to wage so-called \u201chumanitarian wars\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}