Key witness in Assange case lied.

[Seanchaidh]

Key Assange Witness Recants—With Zero Corporate Media Coverage

A key witness against Julian Assange has recanted his testimony, but this blow to the US case has received zero media coverage.

fair.org

1)Train people to dismiss anything but corporate propaganda as Russian disinformation
2)Corporate propaganda ignores inconvenient stories
3)????
4)Worgen!

 

[Seanchaidh]

The President of Haiti was just assassinated.

Haiti has been going through a lot, but you'd hardly know it if you only watch mainstream US media.


"If it bleeds, it leads" is not true; people were shot during these uprisings.


Why isn't this in the news?

The answer is that newsrooms have interests beyond the accounting profits of their particular organizations. They are owned by entities which have much more at stake. And they act like it.

 

[Silvanus]

Why isn't this in the news?

It's on the front pages of CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and ABC. The only one I had to scroll down to find it on is Fox.

Edit: to be clear, as a general point, the US media's disinterest in international conflict (particularly in the global south, and particularly particularly in conflicts that may reflect poorly on US policy) is pretty fucking egregious.

 

[Seanchaidh]

It's on the front pages of CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and ABC. The only one I had to scroll down to find it on is Fox.

???

I don't think the subject of David Sirota's tweet is on any of those.

Edit: to be clear, as a general point, the US media's disinterest in international conflict (particularly in the global south, and particularly particularly in conflicts that may reflect poorly on US policy) is pretty fucking egregious.

The assassination is being reported on; the years of uprising and violent suppression/killings were not. Probably because our media approved of those. The US backed "President" being killed? Well, that is a step over the line.

 

[Silvanus]

???

I don't think the subject of David Sirota's tweet is on any of those.

Oh, I thought that was in reference to the assassination, not the Sirota thing. Carry on.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Oh, I thought that was in reference to the assassination, not the Sirota thing. Carry on.

I shall edit to be more clear.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Another example of various US media responding to incentives beyond their own narrowly considered accounting profit:


Contorting themselves in knots to avoid saying that the Los Angeles Police Department accidentally blew up a residential street and its surroundings with explosives it was intentionally detonating in the middle of a residential street. And that the only person they're going to punish is the one they took the fireworks from and arrested before they blew up that residential area. Why are these media companies doing this? Is it making them money? Do they like eroding their credibility yet further?

 

[Seanchaidh]

Concerning Assange:

The Julian Assange Media Blackout Must End

Stunning revelations have emerged overseas about the reckless and duplicitous methods used by US law enforcement against Julian Assange. But in the US, the story has been subject to an almost total media blackout.

jacobinmag.com

Nearly two weeks after the Stundin report came out, the only mainstream news outlet that’s so much as acknowledged its existence is the Washington Post, which on Thursday buried a brief reference to it halfway down a story on Biden’s magnanimous offer to let Assange rot in an Australian prison, playing down the story’s significance to the case. Of course, last year, before Thordarson had been discredited, the paper had devoted nearly eight hundred words to his falsified allegations when they were included in the Justice Department’s updated indictment, arguing that it “adds evidence to the government’s assertions that Assange is not a publisher or journalist but a hacker” and that it “seems to strengthen the prosecution’s case.”