Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Switching fields?
Something odd is happening today. The BBC's front page is COMPLETELY FREE of Russian Meddling. No Skripal, no Satan Putin, no Russia at all. Instead. BBC is focusing on Facebook's supposed "data breach" that allowed a supposedly Trump-favoring organization to buy info through normal channels. Horrible!
Simultaneously the NY TIMES is focusing on another Facebook "data breach" that favored Obama.
Both of these focuses are SUDDEN and UNPRECEDENTED.
When fake news demons suddenly remove the SOLE FOCUS, you know the SOLE FOCUS has gone wrong in some way.
And when fake news demons SWITCH to a story that favors the WRONG PARTY, you know something MASSIVE has gone wrong.
As a wise man said, "Journalists never start being right. At best they sometimes stop being wrong."
In fact neither of those "data breaches" is a problem. If Facebook wants to open its data banks to Obama for free, that's fine. If Facebook wants to allow a Trump organization to buy its data, that's fine.
What's NOT fine is doing it secretly and lying about it.
As I said yesterday, monitoring and data flow are NOT the problem. More data flow is always good, and that INCLUDES data flow in the opposite direction.
If everyone knows everything, blackmail is impossible.
A bit later: checking the other major EU Sorosians. DW is still hammering on Skripal, but France24 has dropped it and switched to a more understandable local news item: Sarkozy arrested for allowing Qaddafi to MEDDLE in the 2012 French election. Is that the reason why BBC has quietly eliminated the Russian Meddling focus?
Two days later: STILL nothing about Russia on BBC's front page!
3/26: Still nothing about Russia on BBC's page, except for the mall fire, which is REAL news.
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