Matt Orfalea’s Military-Industrial Complex Non-Disclosure Mashup

Matt Taibbi, quoting Jeff Cohen of FAIR:

"If you’re listening to CNN, CBS, or PBS, and they introduce someone as a ‘former’ something, they’re lying to you,” he says. “What’s more relevant to the news consumer, that someone was an Undersecretary of Defense eight years ago, or that the same person is a highly paid lobbyist now? It’s obviously the second, but almost never revealed.”

And now, here is Matt Orfalea's Military-Industrial Complex Non-Disclosure Mashup:

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Aaron Mate: There are Two Forms of Censorship

Aaron Mate asks why our news media doesn't not feature voices advocating for a negotiated peace that also acknowledges the historical U.S. involvement that led to the current situation. He states that there are two types of censorship. In Russia you will find the traditional version. Here in the U.S. we have a much more sophisticated version.

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Aaron Mate: The United States Abandoned the Ukrainian Peace Project in 2019

Aaron Mate offers some historical context:

On a warm October day in 2019, the eminent Russia studies professor Stephen F. Cohen and I sat down in Manhattan for what would be our last in-person interview (Cohen passed away in September 2020 at the age of 81)...

At that point, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky was just months into an upstart presidency that he had won on a pledge to end the Donbas conflict. Instead of supporting the Ukrainian leader's peace mandate, Democrats in Congress were impeaching Trump for briefly impeding the flow of weapons that fueled the fight. As his Democratic allies now like to forget, President Obama refused to send these same weapons out of fear of prolonging the war and arming Nazis). By abandoning Obama’s policy, the Democrats, Cohen warned, threaten to sabotage peace and strengthen Ukraine's far-right.

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The Most Dangerous Form of Media Bias

Saagar Enjeti, on Breaking Points:

The ironclad rule of media bias here on Breaking Points bears repeating: The most pernicious form of media bias is not what they've choosen to show you, but what they choose not to show you. Selective presentation of facts, cherry-picked headlines and curated bias is the name of the game for narratives on cable news. And in the Western press, it's designed specifically to fulfill an ideological or policy agenda. In a time of war, it is perhaps the most dangerous in this serious and crazy environment that we're living in today. We've seen a collective psychosis take over the media and the global elite as they push for a no fly zone, aka World War Three with Russia.

Here are numerous examples of the media hard at work not telling us important information. Here is Russell Brand's concern that the news media is part of a much larger team that does not have your interests at heart:

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