Interesting dig at the two Daves and ML in there too Archived Message
Posted by Raskolnikov on May 21, 2019, 8:05 am, in reply to "Jon Snow and the Murdered Children: His Six-Figure Salary Cannot Buy a Clear Conscience"
Watch the great John Pilger’s documentary The War You Don’t See if you doubt this for a second and then read Vanessa Beeley – a real journalist who has reported exhaustively from on the ground in Syria bringing out first-hand testimonies and effectively single-handedly exposing the White Helmets for the ‘propaganda construct inside Syria’ which John Pliger says they are, giving full credit to Vanessa for her outstanding investigation in his interviews and in the forward to Media Lens’s latest book, Propaganda Blitz. It is worth noting, however, that the people behind Media Lens, David Edwards and David Cromwell, although advocating the same opinion on the White Helmets as Pilger and Beeley, have never once, as far as I am aware, credited her for her vital work on this story which must have deeply influenced their opinion. Vanessa has been the target of a vicious propaganda campaign in the corporate media for telling the truth, and it seems even the fearless Media Lens have discovered that the self-censoring mechanism they have so thoroughly exposed in others is alive and well in their own psyches. I must confess, it is personally painful for me to have to say that their own silence on Vanessa’a work, as well as the murderous acts described above (and others) is a shameful chapter in their otherwise honorable history of media activism. Although clearly approving of ML they obviously feel strongly about the lack of ML comment on this issue. Is this accurate?
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