[grc] media disinformation

Thu Dec 16 08:33:20 PST 2021

The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch as NBC News Tells Four Blatant Lies
in a Two-Minute Clip
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same corporate outlets that most vocally profess concern over
disinformation are the ones spreading it most casually. NBC's Assange
report is the perfect case study.

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MSNBC's
Joe Scarborough and Claire McCaskill tell one lie after the next during a
purported news report on the case of Julian Assange, Dec. 10, 2021

*The war on "disinformation”* is now one of the highest priorities of the
political and media establishment. It has become the foundational
justification for imposing a regime of online censorship. Around the world, new
laws are being enacted
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in
its name to empower the state to regulate discourse. Exploiting this cause,
a small handful of billionaires
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are
working in unison with Western security state agencies — under the guise of
neutral-sounding names like The Atlantic Council
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—
to set the limits of permissible thought and decree what is true and false.
Corporate media outlets are attempting to rehabilitate their shattered image
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by
depicting themselves as the bulwark against the rising tide of
disinformation.

It is an understatement to say that this righteous cause is a scam. That
its motive is power and control over speech and thought — to eliminate
dissent and discredit competition — rather than a noble quest for truth is
almost too self-evident to require explanation. No human institutions
should be trusted with the inherently tyrannical power they seek to
arrogate unto themselves: to decree truth and falsity with such
authoritative power that views they have decreed "false” become prohibited,
off-limits, even worthy of punishment.

A foundational view of the Enlightenment was that truth and falsity are
best discovered by humans engaging in free inquiry and appealing to reason
and persuasion, rather than being captive to the whimsical decrees of
centralized authority dictating to citizens what they are and are not
permitted to believe. That is why I believe, as I wrote at length in a 2013
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 article
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that at the heart of every censor lies *hubris*: the belief that they are
so evolved, enlightened and superior that they have risen above the eternal
human propensity to err, enabling them to ascertain universal truth whose
validity is so unassailable that nobody should be permitted to question it
let alone dissent from it.

All that said, there is a core truth — an unintentional one — that lies at
the crux of this elite war on "disinformation." It is absolutely true that
U.S. political discourse is drowning in deliberate disinformation campaigns
and lies. It is also true that this disinformation epidemic is a serious
menace, a toxic plague on our democracy and society. That part they have
right.

*Where they have gone wrong — very, very wrong — is how they have
identified the most harmful sources of this disinformation. It does not
emanate primarily from Trump boomers on Facebook or dark web QAnon groups
or mischievous and transgressive teenagers on 4Chan. Ordinary citizens are
obviously as capable as anyone of believing and spreading false assertions.
But the far more damaging, destructive, organized and coordinated
disinformation campaigns come from major corporate media outlets themselves
and their security-state partners — particularly the corporate outlets that
most vocally and flamboyantly claim
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to
be so profoundly concerned about disinformation that they want to censor
the internet in the name of stopping it.* They are the ones who spent the
last five years flooding the country with demented CIA-constructed
conspiracies about a Kremlin takeover of the U.S. using clandestine sexual
blackmail over the president and hallucinating Russian agents hiding under
every bed; so many fabrications were disseminated under the rubric of that
fairy tale that it is genuinely hard to choose the worst
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.

Arguably the most pernicious and prolific disseminator of organized
disinformation campaigns is NBC News, which includes its cable unit MSNBC.
We have spent the last several months working on a mini-documentary
demonstrating how most of the coordinated lies from the U.S. security state
were spread by a tiny handful of pundits, three of whom — Rachel
Maddow, all-but-official
CIA spokesman
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Ken
Dilanian, and former Bush/Cheney spokesperson Nicolle Wallace — work for
NBC News. That report will be published shortly.

But this week we produced a video dissecting one specific two-minute
segment that NBC aired in order to demonstrate how casually, aggressively
and constantly NBC's highest-paid personalities lie to the public. As I
note in this new video, I use the term “lie” here *not* the way it has been
used by the liberal CNN/NBC/Atlantic/*NYT* corporate media axis over the
last five years: *1. anything Donald Trump or his supporters say; 2.
anything that contravenes liberal orthodoxies*. In this video report, I use
the term "lie” in its most literal, restrictive and classic sense: namely,
the assertion of demonstrably false factual claims with either the
knowledge that it is false or complete indifference to its truth or falsity.

On December 10, MSNBC aired a segment on
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Joe
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—
a purported news report featuring its host Joe Scarborough, the former GOP
Congressman from Florida, and its regular paid contributor Claire
McCaskill, the former two-term Democratic Senator from Missouri — that
packed one lie after the next into two short minutes. The duo was
purporting to explain to its audience the implications of last week's
ruling by a British court
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approving
the Biden DOJ's request to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S. to stand
trial *on espionage charges* in connection with the 2010 publication by
WikiLeaks, in partnership with numerous mainstream media outlets, of a
cache of secret documents revealing various war crimes, lies and
corruptions on the part of the U.S. and UK governments and their allies.

Within the span of two minutes, these NBC personalities told *four blatant
lies* about the Assange case. I do not mean that they asserted dubious
opinions or questionable narratives or even misleading claims. I mean that
they outright lied about four separate matters that are crucial to
understanding the Biden administration's attempted extradition and
prosecution of Assange. These lies were not just misleading but *pernicious*,
as they were designed not merely to mislead the public but to provoke them
to believe that one of the gravest attacks on press freedom in years
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the imprisonment of a journalist for the crime of reporting true and
accurate information about the crimes of power centers — is something
viewers should applaud rather than denounce.

We took the time to dissect this segment and to amass the dispositive proof
of their multiple lies *not* because we think Scarborough and McCaskill
will pay any price or will have to retract any of this. Of course they will
not. They are doing their job, which is to lie in a way that flatters the
ideological preconceptions of NBC viewers, who hate Assange due to the role
his reporting played in harming the Democratic Party during the 2016
election, which Hillary Clinton herself claims
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was
one of the two primary reasons she lost.

We did this video report in order to illustrate how easily and reflexively
these corporate outlets lie; to demonstrate that the public's view that
these outlets are completely untrustworthy and contemptible is valid and
correct; and to set the record straight about the Assange case. We realize
that not all subscribers here want to watch a one-hour video, and for that
reason — as we do with all of the video reports we produce
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—
we will shortly publish a written transcript of the program for our
Substack subscribers. But I really hope people will take the time to watch
this particular video: since the lies came in the form of video; we
therefore concluded that using video to highlight the severity and
intentionality of this lying was the most effective way to demonstrate how
noxious it really is.
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