Advocacy for a cause replaces draw your own conclusions Journalism

By James Petras October 06, 2018 “Information Clearing House“ – The leading financial publications have misled their political and investor subscribers of emerging crises and military defeats which have precipitated catastrophic political and economic losses. The most egregious example is the Financial Times (FT) a publication which is widely read by the business and financial elite. In this essay we […]

via The Lies Of Our (Financial) Times — Uprootedpalestinians’s Blog

I can’t wait to see the next permutation of “Yellow Journalsm”

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts and pages for what it calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” generally networks of ostensibly independent outlets that were in fact controlled centrally by Russia and Iran. Some of these accounts were identified as much as a year ago. In a post by the company’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher,…

via Facebook and Twitter remove hundreds of accounts linked to Iranian and Russian political meddling — TechCrunch