The Criminal Duplicity of the Mainstream Journalist
By Julian Rose
We are faced by a shocking fact these days: the profession
of journalism, and I speak of mainstream media journalism, has descended into
truly toxic levels of printed and broadcast disinformation. One can now
virtually count on the fact that what is being said on any topic of political
significance, will be a carefully scripted trotting-out of government and
corporate propaganda.
That is not journalism. That is what George Orwell called
‘News Speak’.
It is a dangerous game which these news hacks are playing.
They are witnessing one event and describing it as quite another event. Let me
amplify this by looking at the stories emanating out of the Middle East.
It must be obvious to most of us by now that Russia, via
Putin, is being held responsible for pretty much everything which is no longer
working well for Western engineered neoliberal/neocon hegemonic globalism. In
fact, the stream of accusations against Putin’s Russia have descended into near
or actual farce, due mainly to the fact that they are not backed by any factual
evidence. We are all simply supposed to ‘know’ that Mr Evil is at it again and
that the West must ready itself to take action against his ‘tyrannical
activities’.
Aleppo: BBC reports that returning pro Assad Syrian army
troops are raping and murdering the civilian population of this once beautiful
city in Eastern Syria. That thousands are trying to flee the massacre going on
night and day at the hands of Assad’s army, supported by Russia and Iran. That
a systematic bombardment of the citizens of West Aleppo is being perpetrated by
the liberating Syrian army. That children are being killed in schools and that
all this is being done with cold blooded ruthlessness at the hands of the
liberators.
You’ve seen this sort of ‘journalism’. It is based on
fictitious information concocted and spread about by paid-off insiders, hired
to tell lies at ten a minute. They are there to protect the geopolitical
interests of the West. As if to officially rubber stamp this fact, the US
Senate recently introduced a bill attempting to ban any story line which might
contradict such ‘official’ version of events. Especially those surrounding the
defeat of ISIS and the liberation of Aleppo which had been occupied – and
virtually starved out – by ISIS terrorists for the past four years.
Attempts to silence truth are a direct attack on free
speech. And such attacks are endemic in Westminster and Washington, as we have
long been aware. But what we have been less focused on is the fact that
mainstream media journalists are one hundred percent complicit. They are
equally as worthy of the title ‘criminals’ as the editors who pay them to lie
and the politicians who use these lies to further their ambitions.
I strongly doubt that any BBC, or other mainstream Western
journalist, has even set foot in Aleppo during the past two weeks. They don’t
have to. The propaganda machine works best when nobody looks the reality in the
eye. They are simply puppets, singing the hymns that NATO, the EU and USA wants
the world to hear.
What has just happened in Aleppo is actually a disarmingly
opposite reality. The Syrian national army has completed its recapture of the
town. Supported by Russia and Iran, it has finally driven out the bloodcurdling
terrorist executioners who had held thousands of terrified Syrian citizens
hostage and in fear of their lives. The liberating army has brought food and
has reconnected disconnected drinking water supplies. It is providing medical
services to the sick and wounded and busing others out of still active danger
zones. It is being greeted with relief and tears of joy.
While, in comparison with the West, Russia has emerged as a
relative powerhouse of studied diplomacy, as well as an effective military
force in directly combating the US and UK’s gruesome hegemony.
ISIS, let us not fail to reveal, had even bombarded the
people of Aleppo in their own homes, as a deliberate ploy so as to directly
accuse Russia and Syria of engaging in these horrors. Western sponsored NGO’s
are also complicit in inverting such news horror stories to sound like the evil
is being perpetrated by President Asad’s national army. There is no end to the
attempts being made to distort and reverse the truth.
Now, let’s switch for a moment to that other closely related
story of lies and deceit called ‘Fake News’. And, lo and behold, The gods of
what is brazenly called ‘serious news’ (the mainstream media empire) are
suddenly spooked by the fact that they might be loosing control over their
people. That the feast of lies is not being absorbed as readily as before and
that a significant number of those still able to think are turning over to
alternative sources of information, like this one, in search of something
plausible.
Well, well, this is clearly something that must not be
allowed to happen! Let’s brand these clandestine truth seeking sites ‘Fake
News’ outlets, spreading false propaganda and lies amongst our audiences! Let’s
outlaw freedom of speech – err, I mean fake news – and impeach those who defy
us. Yes, and now we ‘know’ Russia hacked into the US elections let’s try and
get the West on a serious war footing and kick NATO into action against these
anti Western infidels!
So what I have discovered concerning what actually occurred
in Aleppo is now Fake News, and because I’m telling fake news I’m in danger of
being criminalized and held up as a traitor of mainstream ‘serious’ news and no
doubt my Country. Don’t worry, I’ve been on the front lines for years fighting
the likes of Monsanto, Tesco and the European Union, and I’m not about to run
and hide at the behest of Rupert Murdoch, George Soros or the Rothschild’s.
In a heightened state of outrage a few days ago, I
contributed the following comment to a discussion on fake news in The Guardian:
“You have just been reading a fake news column. Mainstream media = Fake News.
It is under the unbending thumb of corporate control – and thus editors of
papers, such as this one, are tools of a system that will only allow into print
that which is expurgated and rid of any attempt to tell the truth, rather than
the ‘news-speak’ acceptable to the status quo. End of story.”
And somewhat to my surprise it was not moderated out of
existence. It received support and dissent, but the support considerably
outperformed the dissent. That’s interesting.
Please do take the time to click on the below link and watch
the footage put together by ‘UK Column News’. It stands out like a beacon of
light amidst the sea of darkness surrounding the issues I have described above.
Real journalism can now only be found on discerning
alternative media sites. Please note that I said ‘discerning’. Main stream
journalists who knowingly distort the truth, especially in life and death
situations, should be considered as directly complicit in crimes against
humanity.
Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, a
writer, actor, international activist and President of The International
Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside. He is the author of two acclaimed
titles: Changing Course for Life and In Defense of Life upon which further
information can be found at changingcourseforlife.info
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