You knew when the “mainstream” “news” media is launching one of its hit jobs because of the co-ordination, rather similar to the way Stalin and the front page of Pravda functioned together. Definitely, truly anti-democratic, anti-journalistic.<\/p>\n
The latest shameful episode occurred yesterday when AP & NBC “News” declared Clinton the nominee before today’s primaries, in direct defiance of the Democratic National Committee’s explicit directive that the super delegates do not vote until the convention, and therefore there should not be second guessing about their votes.<\/p>\n
The story was, as filmmaker John Fox tweeted, “incorrect, fabricated trash.”<\/p>\n
Of course–lockstep coordination at its finest–the story was immediately picked up and blazoned everywhere else in corporate-media world.<\/p>\n
It was indeed, as Jon Queally at Common Dreams quotes<\/a> outraged spectators to the assassination attempt, “a blatant and despicable attempt to undermine the electoral process by suppressing voter turnout.” It’s all of a piece with the corporate media’s behavior during this election cycle–during every election cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You knew when the “mainstream” “news” media is launching one of its hit jobs because of the co-ordination, rather similar to the way Stalin and the front page of Pravda functioned together. Definitely, truly anti-democratic, anti-journalistic. The latest shameful episode … Continue reading