“Rumors” as the Newest Censorship Tool

If you read this NYT article, you will immediately see an incredibly severe attack of lack of curiosity. An Irish riot was caused by "rumors" that three Irish children and an Irish woman were wounded by an Algerian migrant wielding a knife. An excerpt from this NYT article:

Soon after three children and a woman were wounded in a knife attack outside a Dublin school on Thursday, rumors about the perpetrator’s nationality began to proliferate online.

The Garda Síochána, the Irish police force, declined to comment on the background of the suspect, who was taken into custody after being tackled to the ground by bystanders. The police said only that he is a man in his 50s.

The NYT repeatedly discusses the "rumors" and "unconfirmed reports" without answering a simple obvious question: Was the attacker an Algerian migrant? This information would seemingly be simple to figure out and it is central to the story that a "riot" ensued and included people carrying banners reading "Irish Lives Matters." The NYT bluntly claims that these protestors were part of "anti-immigration and far-right groups."

Again, was the assailant an Algerian migrant? Also, what is the basis for calling the protestors "anti-immigration" and "far right"? Are they truly opposed to all immigration? On what basis are the on the "right" (and see this recent post on the myth of left and right politics).

Until the NYT takes the time to answer whether the assailant is an Algerian migrant, how can the NYT conclude that this idea is a "rumor." Mike Benz has the answer: Calling real facts and real concerns "rumors" is the most recent tactic for censorship. The bad people in this story are the Irish people concerned with safety. They need to be censored:

What is the long term solution for the very real problem that Irish people are concerned about immigration policies that lead to violence? Those Irish people need to be censored. The Irish Government is not wasting any time to enact emergency legislation:

The Washington Post used a similar tactic, as skewered by this tweet:

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CDC and Corporate News Media Profoundly Disinterested in Reedley, California Nightmare-Level Illegal Biolab

Almost no news media coverage of this surreal situation: CDC disinterest in an illegal Chinese-funded lab with pouches of ebola, transgenic mice with COVID-19 and other extreme hazards. No coverage by NYT, CNN, MSNBC or NPR. Only one day of token bury-the-lede coverage by WaPo. See the 8-minute video at Twitter explaining how the city of Reedley, California rang the alarm, crying out for help to the CDC, which reluctantly, ultimately, did a shitty job of "investigating" this lab, despite ubiquitous evidence of dangerous wrongdoing.

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More PsyOp Journalism at the Washington Post regarding Nord Stream

The Washington Post is still working as a stenographer for the CIA on this Nord Stream Pipeline fable. The bullshit runs extremely deep on here. How can the WaPo fail to prominently state in this story that Joe Biden stated on camera: "There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2." A few seconds later he said: "I promise you we'll be able to do it." Somehow Biden's promise was not mentioned in this WaPo Story. This is a major display of corruption above and beyond the two incidents mentioned by Aaron Mate. The WaPo has ZERO credibility. Truly. And they still can't bear to mention the reporting of Seymour Hersh?

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Corporate Media – Working Hard to Keep You in the Dark on the Nashville Mass Murderer

The Nashville mass killings were a big national story covered by all major news outlets. A vicious person gunned down three children and three adults at a school in Nashville. Immediately after the shootings, all of us wanted to know why the shooter fired 152 rounds, murdering six people. Back on April 3, CNN reported that the police "have yet to determine a motive."

But then, oops, we learned that the shooter was a trans person, meaning that lots of special rules kick in. The main rule: Even though the shooter wrote a long manifesto, it's important that we keep the manifesto secret. Government officials and corporate media outlets have marched in lockstep ever since.

Thus, at at NPR or MSNBC, you won't learn anything about the fact that three pages of the shooter's manifesto have been leaked. Back near the time of the killings, however, on March 28, 2023, MSNBC wrote:

A day after Monday’s shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, we know much more about the shooter and the dead. But one question remains: “Why?” Why this school, why these victims, why was the shooter motivated to take these lives? The search for a motive is a logical one. There’s a deep desire to understand what pushed a person to carry out such a heinous crime, especially when three children are dead.

Now that three pages of the manifesto have been leaked, MSNBC no longer has any interest in sharing with us what the murderer wrote on those pages.

NYT, CNN and WaPo published stories reporting that several pages were leaked and that they are authentic, but none of these three outlets offer any specifics about what the three pages reveal. No quotes and no images of those pages.  The NYT focuses on how upset government officials are that three pages were leaked (without describing the content of the leaks).  CNN focuses on the alleged fears of some parents that release of the manifesto will harm people, including by "copycat attacks." CNN sanitizes the leaked pages, saying only:

The released pages use hate-filled language directed toward the school and children and include what appears to be a timeline of events seemingly leading up to the shooting.

And here's Google/YouTube, once again keeping us safe from knowing important things, such as the motives of mass killings, as Seth Dillon attempted to report:

What do we know from those three pages? To actually know the words the killer wrote, we need to turn to X (formerly Twitter): Steven Crowder writes:

BREAKING: Nashville School Covenant Shooter Audrey Hale’s “DEATH DAY” Manifesto Targeted “Cr*ckers” with “white privlages”

“wanna kill all you little cr*ckers”

“I hope I have a high death count”

"I'm ready...I hope my victims aren't."

"Ready to die."

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The Extremely Low Bar of War Reporting

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”

― Aeschylus

Remember the 500 who died at a Gaza hospital? But then we learned that wasn't true. And it was an Israeli attack that caused it--until it wasn't. David Zweig was suspicious about that nice round number of 500. It turns out that, yes, this is more extremely slipshod reporting by dozens of corporate media outlets.

This reporting debacle is very bad for several reasons pointed out by Zweig:

  1. One, None of the outlets credited Al Jazeera as the source of the interview.

  2. Two: No reporters replied to Zweig's request for the source.

  3. Third, "Important quotes or citations should always be linked or sourced."

  4. Fourth: "Newsrooms composed of dozens or hundreds of staff members, including teams of editors and foreign correspondents, and so on, backed by billion-dollar corporate owners still published a claim that was never fact-checked at its source."

The epilogue of Zweig's article is that lover of corporate media Michelle Goldberg, who has been one of the corporate media people who claims that Twitter ("X") is a "cesspool of misinformation," admitted that she got it wrong about the 500 deaths because she relied on this massively shoddy reporting by the corporate "news.".

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