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ABC News Caught Staging Fake Crime Scene. ABC News has been caught staging a fake “crime scene” for reporter Linsey Davis to report from in a ...

ABC News Caught Staging Fake Crime Scene

ABC News has been caught staging a fake “crime scene” for reporter Linsey Davis to report from in a segment broadcast on Good Morning America. Viewers were presented with the sight of Davis standing in front of yellow police tape with the words “SHERIFF’S LINE DO NOT CROSS” and ABC News, reporting from the site for hours, claimed Davis was in the middle of an active crime scene.

But she wasn’t. The ABC News report had more in common with a Hollywood production than a breaking news report. BREAKING : CIA Declares WAPO’s Russian Hacker Piece an “Outright Lie” – TruthFeed. A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs. The Anonymous Blacklist Promoted by the Washington Post Has Apparent Ties to Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying. Photo Credit: Max Borge, Flickr Last month, the Washington Post gave a glowing front-page boost to an anonymous online blacklist of hundreds of American websites, from marginal conspiracy sites to flagship libertarian and progressive publications.

The Anonymous Blacklist Promoted by the Washington Post Has Apparent Ties to Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying

As Max Blumenthal reported for AlterNet, the anonymous website argued that all of them should be investigated by the federal government and potentially prosecuted under the Espionage Act as Russian spies, for wittingly or unwittingly spreading Russian propaganda. My own satirical newspaper was raided and closed down by the Kremlin in 2008, on charges of “extremism”—akin to terrorism—which I took seriously enough to leave for home for good.

What the Washington Post did in boosting an anonymous blacklist of American journalists accused of criminal treason is one of the sleaziest, and most disturbing (in a very familiar Kremlin way) things I’ve seen in this country since I fled for home. Smearing a progressive journalism icon. The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network. Image by Nathaniel St.

The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network

Clair Last week, the Washington Post published a scurrilous piece by a heretofore obscure technology reporter named Craig Timberg, alleging without the faintest evidence that Russian intelligence was using more than 200 independent news sites to pump out pro-Putin and anti-Clinton propaganda during the election campaign. Obama Joins the War Against “Fake News” By Derrick Broze | Activist Post In his last days as President of the United States, Barack Obama has decided to join the chorus of mainstream voices taking a stand against “fake news.”

Obama Joins the War Against “Fake News”

Clinton’s Top Donor Buys ‘The Onion’, Immediately Starts Posting Propaganda. The Onion has already begun publishing propaganda after being purchased by top Hillary donor.

Clinton’s Top Donor Buys ‘The Onion’, Immediately Starts Posting Propaganda

Credit: The Onion The Onion, a satirical news website whose headlines alone garner thousands of shares on social media, was purchased by Univision Communications last month, who is a top donor to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The move made many fans wary, carefully watching to see if anything would be slipped in that seemed too good to be satire and, to the dismay of many, a pro-Hillary, not-very-satirical article did pop up. The title of the article read, “Female Presidential Candidate Who Was United States Senator, Secretary Of State Told To Be More Inspiring.” Government Spying is “Chilling” Writers’ Freedom of Expression (Project Censored #7) By Shelby Meyers & Mickey Huff | * Project Censored Mass surveillance has “badly shaken writers’ faith that democratic governments will respect their rights to privacy and freedom of expression,” according to a January 2015 PEN America report based on the responses of 772 writers from fifty countries.

Government Spying is “Chilling” Writers’ Freedom of Expression (Project Censored #7)

Reporting for Common Dreams, Lauren McCauley covered not only the PEN America report, but also a July 2014 report by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch indicating that US journalists and lawyers increasingly avoid work on potentially controversial topics due to fear of government spying. McCauley’s January 2015 Common Dreams story quoted one of the conclusions from the PEN America report: “If writers avoid exploring topics for fear of possible retribution, the material available to readers—particularly those seeking to understand the most controversial and challenging issues facing the world today—may be greatly impoverished.”

3 Popular Mainstream Media Journalists Come Together & Tell The Truth About Tell-Lie-Vision. The world is changing so fast, and many people, at least in the developed world, are starting to see through corporately owned mainstream media.

3 Popular Mainstream Media Journalists Come Together & Tell The Truth About Tell-Lie-Vision

They’ve been caught red handed ‘faking’ and lying about major global events on multiple occasions, and now, some of their employees are leaving their jobs and telling the truth about something that dominates a large portion of mainstream media. That being said, it’s clear that not every single thing we see on mainstream western television is a lie, but it seems that much of it is or at least has corporate and political bias’ behind it, especially when it comes to major global events like war and terrorism. 4 US journalists dead past 24 hours — in the US!

Top US Newsman Brian Williams “Destroyed”, 3 Others Killed Over Obama 9/11 Fears. Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says "I Would Do It All Again" From the YouTube description: In 2007, John Kiriakou became the first CIA official to publicly confirm and detail the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding.

Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says "I Would Do It All Again"

He’s just been released from prison to serve the remaining three months of his 30-month sentence under house arrest, and joins us from his home in Virginia. When asked if he thinks NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden would receive a fair trial if he returns to the United States, Kiriakou responds, “Not under any circumstances. … I think the deck is stacked against him as it is against any whistleblower.”

Journalist Makes Powerful Statement After Receiving 63 Month Prison Sentence. This week, journalist Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for reporting on information that was revealed in hacked documents.

Journalist Makes Powerful Statement After Receiving 63 Month Prison Sentence

These Tiny Hidden Cameras Can Help You Record Human Rights Violations - Anywhere (VIDEO) Award Winning German Journalist: "I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public."