Thank God for the Social Media

Twitter, in particular, has been losing a large section of its customers due to the idiocy of its owner – in anticipation of its eventual demise, even I have taken out a (still dormant) sub to bluesky, where I have the handle bluesky @nomadron.bsky.social

The MSM refuses to give any coverage to police raids on journalists who 

protest against the Palestinian genocide – the Crispin Flintoff show is 

gloriously alone in the space it gives such brave people. Another rebel channel 

is Electronic Infada which exposed the police raid on the home of Asa Winstanley,

 seizing – as is their wont – all his electronic devices. As Media Lens explains, 

not a single MSM deigns to let the public know of this gross infringement of our 

basic rights.  

Propoganda Blitz – how the corporate media distort reality D Edwards and D 

Cromwell (2019) is a useful update, 40 years later, to Manufacturing Consent 

– the political economy of the mass media Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky 

(1989)

Most journalists imagine they set the public record straight and check the excesses of power, which Edmund Burke called a ‘fourth estate’. The BBC goes further and ordains itself a divinity on earth, ‘speaking truth to power’: an exquisite nonsense that has endured since its founder secretly wrote propaganda for a Tory prime minister during Britain’s General Strike.

Driven from the ‘mainstream’, Seymour Hersh had to publish his work outside the United States. Robert Parry set up his own independent news website where, in a final piece following a stroke in December 2017, he wrote, ‘Whether they would admit it or not, [Western journalists] believe in a “guided democracy” in which “approved” opinions are elevated – regardless of their absence of factual basis – and ‘unapproved evidence is brushed aside or disparaged regardless of its quality.’

The US channel Consortium News is one of the few which offers a truly independent view on what’s going on in the world and had this to say about Britain’s war on independent journalism. Just a couple of examples of where Twitter has given me news that MSM doesn’t

Palestinian academic wins her case against Sheffield Hallam University

another pro Palestine journalist raided pre-dawn - Asa Winstanley 17 October 2024 and all electronic equipment siezed