We highly appreciate the site of Charles Hugh Smith because it integrates good economic graph with critical political comments.
A couple of days ago, it appeared on a list of Russian Propaganda Sites that got cited by mainstream media.Washington Post’s reports Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election.
This is the precise methodology of The Washington Post’s shoddy “fake news” list of “Russian propaganda” websites. Any association with an “enemy of the state” site like RT (Russia Today) convicts you by association of being an “enemy of the state.”
Neither the “fake news” publishers of the list nor The Washington Post combed through the thousands of pages of blog posts on my site and identified those purported to be “Russian propaganda.” They didn’t bother, because, well, that would have taken some serious journalistic work.
Instead, they labeled oftwominds.com as guilty by association. Here is a chart of my guilt by association:
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The Washington Post's-methodology on identifying "Russian Propaganda " |
Just as a reminder, every major power funds international media outlets.consider BBC (U.K.); Radio Liberty (USA); France 24 (France); NHK (Japan) and China’s overseas broadcast empire.
It doesn’t take much of a dose of cui bono (to whose benefit?) to grasp that state-owned and operated media (even if it is at arm’s length to maintain a claim to “journalism”) aim to paint the issuing state in rosy hues while publicizing the woes of its rivals.
Even the most dimwitted mainstream media “journalist” grasps this obvious fact. The rest of us certainly do.
So let’s extend The Washington Post’s shoddy “fake news” methodology just a bit, to the sources of oftwominds.com’s “Russian propaganda.” Since oftwominds.com’s content relies on statistics from these three websites, clearly they are guilty by association.
Here’s the revised chart with another layer of “Russian propaganda” sites: the U.S. Census Bureau, the I.R.S. and St. Louis Federal Reserve (FRED). These sites are integral to oftwominds.com’s output, and so by supplying oftwominds.com with anti-status quo content, they too are guilty of wittingly or unwittingly spreading “Russian propaganda.”
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The Washington Post's-methodology on identifying "Russian Propaganda" |
This is the logic of totalitarianism–guilt by association. Just in case you haven’t seen the dozens of charts I use in my “Russian propaganda” from the St. Louis Federal Reserve (FRED), take a gander at this: |
Shares of domestic income. Compensations paid. Wage and salaries |
And that’s why we’re now swimming in the raw sewage of The Washington Post’s “fake news”. Join me in seeking solutions by becoming a $1/month patron of my work via patreon.com.
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