Oh the irony
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Stop that.
This morning.
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Oh the irony
🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪😜😜😜🤪🤪😛😛 pic.twitter.com/eT8AU8aIN0— Dáil Fox (@SeanDubIreland) March 15, 2022
Stop that.
This morning.
No, irony is equating whatever beef you have with a newsaper with a top-down state-ctontrolled war-time propaganda campaign concurrent with a crackdown on demonstarations, dissent and all forms of non state-sanctioned journalism, resulting in violence and imprisonment.
but sure you could say that about Canada couldn’t you Nigel?
You could, but the same irony would apply.
Were you aware that without producing any evidence and going through the Ukrainian judicial system, the Zelensky regime shut down opposition media by decree at the beginning of February, claiming they were in receipt of funding from Russia?.
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskiy-bans-three-opposition-tv-stations/a-56438505
“Three pro-Russian TV channels have gone off the air in Kyiv after pro-Western President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a Ukrainian security council decree imposing sanctions for five years on eight media and TV companies..
..The three affected Kyiv outlets issued a joint statement describing the bans on them as a “reckoning with inconvenient media.”
..The head of the Ukrainian Union of Journalists, Nikolay Tomilenko, said: “The deprivation of access to Ukrainian media for an audience of millions without a court is an attack on freedom of expression.”
..The European and international federations of journalists (EFJ and IFJ) do not seem to share Zelensky’s understanding of “European values” as they condemned the closure of the three TV channels as “extrajudicial and politically motivated and a blatant attack on press freedom that must be lifted urgently”.
IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger said: “This arbitrary and politically motivated ban is unacceptable in a democracy.” ‘
Were you aware that Ukraine”s overeignity has been under constant threat from Russia, which has lately prided itself on its asymmetrical warfare abilities using disnformation and propaganda while also funding violent seperatist conflicts withing Ukraine, having actually invaded Ukraine twice, making such drastic steps possibly more justifiable than pro-Putin fanboys like yourself would ever admit? Oh, and even it it can’t be justufued on those grounds, it still doesn’t justify the invasion.
Since you’re a reactionary who instinctively supports & rationalises all State actions, Nigel, you are in no position to judge how much dissent is repressed in our society. You think the Gardai aren’t regularly calling on dissidents at their homes or inviting them to the station for a little talk? Wrong, wrong, wrong.
You surely aren’t suggesting that the media in Ireland & the West in general aren’t pure State propaganda & operate as an arm of State & the Corporate power structure which owns both the State & the Media? Our media is entirely top-down & never for one second considers it has any duty to be on the side of the people, never mind honest or truthful, all basic requirements for a healthy & free Fourth Estate.
‘Since you’re a reactionary who instinctively supports & rationalises all State actions,’
Except those of the Russian state, apparently.
‘You surely aren’t suggesting that the media in Ireland & the West in general aren’t pure State propaganda’
Not remotely like it is in Russia, no,
Well, you really are inanity taken to it’s irrational extreme, aren’t you, Nigel. What exactly has the Russian media, which you know nothing about, anyway, got to do with your fanatic support for any old crap the State or Corporate sectors spew out? Russia is a nation, entirely unlike Ireland which is a vassal state of the EU, which is a vassal super-state of the US. Comparisons are odious but you seem to have mistaken not supporting the Zelensky Regime as some sort of support for Russia. In reality, it just means I’m not an authoritarian State-hugger, like you & I actually noticed the pattern of behaviour of our bosses in America over many decades.
The pattern goes like this WAR, WAR, COUP, WAR, WAR, COUP, WAR, WAR, COUP, COUP. Obviously, that’s not quite enough ”wars” or ”coups” but time is tight & you’ll get the picture, right?
So, when Russia announces that it’s had enough of WAR, WAR, COUP, etc, from the US, I had to admit they had a point. The Zelensky Regime has had the Nazi brigades of their army shelling Donbass since 2014, with support from the US & EU, that’s when this current war started & Russia didn’t start it. Add in the statements that came from NATO after their 2008 conference & I think war was inevitable & the US just thought, let it happen, it will drive a wedge between Germany & Russia & the former will have to buy it’s energy from us.
America got what it wanted, it always does & it’s always WAR, WAR, COUP, etc, isn’t it?
Can’t you go and shout at people coming out of Aldi instead?
LOL, imagine being the kind of useful idiot who publishes and pushes propaganda without doing their due diligence first.
There’s jobs in our media for those sort of people (& only those), ANO. The pay is dreadful but if money is not a worry for you…
Enough in it to keep Bodger in white shirts, anyway
No, you’re mixing up The Media with Journalism, unsurprising really, it’s a long time since there’s been of the latter in the former.
Posting links and tweets on a blog does not a journalist make.
…at least it takes a war to make the truth the first casualty…btw…what is Fionnan pretending to be these days?
A ringpiece?
Brilliant, Duncan..
It’s irony Jim but not as we know it!
And life’s too short to listen to 26 and a half minutes of podcast stuff.
Deleting mentions of Broadsheet’s links to the Independent from under a story about controlling the narrative is kind of funny.
Especially given how innocuous and out-of-date those links actually are.
ALL wars are based on propaganda and right now, both sides are in full flight. To suggest one is doing better than the other means one is winning surely?
Unless the game is to bring in some sort of censoring legislation but you can be certain that when this thing is over, it will not be removed.
The smoking gun here is those Bio Labs and if they are holding what the likes of Tulsi Gabbard claims, then Russia will be handed the mother of all PR coups. There is clearly a reason why they have not gone in all guns blazing- time will tell.
Both sides do it but you’re rootin’ for Putin.
Which foreign countries do Russia have biolabs in, Nigel? Not that overseas labs owned by Russia justify the US doing it, either, that’s another logical fallacy.
If you have pretensions of being the good guys, you can’t then define your standards by what the bad guys do.
I’m not the one trying to justify anything. That would you two pro-war twits.
No, Nigel, nobody is pro-war, you’re just being disingenuous, at best. The pro-war side justify it by demonising Putin, while encouraging the veneration of the ludicrous Zelensky, a coke-addled fake, utterly unconvincing to even the most terminally dogmatic promotors of Liberal Hegemony, though clearly he fools some midwits.
I think the inevitable surrender of Ukraine should happen before the conflict pushes us closer to nuclear war, while our governments & media urge escalation of the conflict by sending arms & fighters. If you support this, it makes you the reckless, reactionary hawk.
There has been an ongoing war in Ukraine since 2014, as I’m sure you know, right? It has claimed the lives of up to 14,000 people, mostly civilians. This is just the final, inevitable phase of that war.
Did you support Zelensky’s shelling of Donbass, the atrocities committed by Ukrainian neo-nazis against ethnic Russians or how about the “organised” attacks by the same militias-turned-soldiers on LGBT groups?
If you don’t, how can you oppose the only viable solution, the partition of an already neatly-divided region that’s never been a real nation? I see no morality in your position, certainly not enough to justify you calling anyone else pro-war, not that I think you need any moral certainty before throwing hysterical accusations at people who apply some objectivity, before rooting, mindlessly, amorally, for Uncle Sam, which is exactly what our State & Media establishment are doing.
NIgel has his Ukrainian mask on K Cavan- it’s the current thing you see, and the current thing must be defended at all costs.
That by doing so he is supporting a far right government and an army of racist homophobic Nazis is will be conveniently ignored because they are not like those awful Canadians nobody can find- they are the nice Nazis.
Such is the logic.
Interestingly I did read recently the US would not be too bothered if Zelenskyy did meet his maker, because a lot of their dirty secrets would go with him. He is also very unpopular with the Ukrainian public apparently, so maybe the old saying will apply- if they don’t bury him out of love, they’ll bury him out of stink.
‘nobody is pro-war,’
You and SOQ, to name two, are actively supporting the war.
‘The pro-war side justify it by demonising Putin’
Putin started the war.
‘If you support this, it makes you the reckless, reactionary hawk.’
Support what? If Putin can’t force Ukraine to surrender I ure as hell don’t stand a chance.
‘Did you support Zelensky’s shelling of Donbass’
Did you support Putin sending in mercenary units to create the seperatist conflict?
‘That by doing so he is supporting a far right government and an army of racist homophobic Nazis ‘
When you have to constantly grossly inflate the Nazi presence and influence in order to justify a military invasion, then you’re a slimy pro-war propagandist, on behalf of a notoriously hompphobc regime
Grossly inflate how? Because it doesn’t suit your narrative? They are all over the bloody place and the country has a history from the second world forward. Go watch Ukraine on Fire and tell me what is grossly inflated.
That you are repeatedly hyping an non existent Nazis element in Canada while constantly playing down the Ukrainian forth Reich proves you have an agenda- because nobody could be that stupid.
Enough of the BS.
You’re minimizing the Nazis in the convoy because you agree with them while hyping the Nazis in Ukraine to justify an invasion.
Nigel, since this started, you’ve been rattling your sabre, now you’re trying to sidle away from the Zelensky Regime’s Neo-Nazis. Ukrainian neo-nazis were in cahoots with the CIA throughout both coups, neither could’ve possibly happened without these heavily-armed thugs. The fact that Zelensky, rather than taking them on, took them under his wing and into his army, was maybe just cynical Realpolitik but he did it anyway & the Ukrainian state is paying their wages, they are actually a part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The pics of Zelensky ”at the front, with his troops” appearing currently in our media are from his visit to the Neo-Nazi’s civilian shelling operation in Donbass, two years ago.
For God’s sake man, go & watch ”Ukraine On Fire”, for a start, then maybe Prof. John J. Mearsheimer’s lectures from several years back, all on Yale University’s Youtube, which predicted where we are now & explains how we got here, you haven’t a clue & you’re making a fool of yourself with your received opinions & ignorance, you have so little knowledge that debating you is rendered facile & pointless. All the stupid name-calling can’t make up for actually knowing what you’re talking about. These guys are real, actual Nazis, not the ones Dolly sees under every bed but her own & you, Nigel, you support them & your ignorance cannot excuse that.
“The smoking gun here is those Bio Labs”
It really isn’t, you dupe.
You have absolutely no way of knowing that,
Tulsi Gabbard has challenged Mitt Romney to prove those labs do not contain dangerous pathogens- what are the chances of him doing that do you think? If there is nothing to hide then why not?
The irony of this exchange is that Gabbard is a Democrat and Romney is a Republican of course.
This really is déjà vu from two years ago when we suggested there was a US involvement in the Wuhan lab- same characters shouting no of course.
‘Tulsi Gabbard has challenged Mitt Romney to prove those labs do not contain dangerous pathogens’
How about she challenges herself to prove they contain anything that would justify an invasion?
It’s not a challenge – some of the labs will indeed carry stocks of pathogens, some of which would be classified as dangerous. For research purposes. Possession of pathogens for research purposes is not illegal. Removing them before the Russia – a state that had a massive bio-weapons programme and whose promise to destroy all stocks has not been verified – gets its hands on them isn’t controversial, nor is it a sign of a cover up. Destroying them or getting them out of the country before they fall into the hands of a rogue regime seems to be a sensible move. The World Health Organization has advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens, it didn’t take Gabbard to come up with the idea.
What do you think Ireland should do with the pathogens that it holds? Or any other country on earth that holds stocks? Or are you only bleating about Ukraine because you picked up your usual package of garbage from certain quarters and feel compelled to keep running with it, promoting a justification for Russia’s illegal war in the process?
Do you REALLY care about states holding stocks of pathogens or are you just water carrying for Putin?
If there is a risk of one of those things getting released into the centre of Europe then too bloody right I care, as should every other right minded person.
Why did the US government first deny the existence of these bio labs in Ukraine? And if they are so safe, why there and not on US soil? They are behaving like they something to hide.
Russia has been handed a major propaganda boost by all of this and if there is nothing to it then the simplest way of dispelling such suspicions is to come clean.
But already they have moved onto the blame game claiming that if such gets into the hands of the Russians, then they will release them, which is complete nonsense.
Are these US Bio Lads really so far in advance of what the Russians have? I doubt it, and more to the point, the chances of Russia realising such so close to its own border are next to none.
Yeah, like you cared about Covid 19.
The US never denied their existence. They never even denied they contained pathogens. You also recently claimed that the US never denied there were bioweapons in the labs, but that was wrong, too. You’re just wrong, wrong wrong.
‘Russia has been handed a major propaganda boost’
Russia is firing shells and rockets into citites full of civilians. They’re scrambling to come up with something, anything, to justify themselves, but the biolabs are back in territory they control, nowhere near the cities.
‘the simplest way of dispelling such suspicions is to come clean.’
This is just stupid.
Come clean about what?
Yes they did- the US state department denied its existence.
Go do your bloody homework before spouting such guff.
You claimed the US never denied the labs were making bioweapons, but you were wrong about that, so I think you are the one with the shoddy homework.
Ferg, it’s one thing to “carry stocks of pathogens”, as you so blithely & hilariously express it, in your own country but why are there US biolabs in Ukraine? Nothing to with it being the poorest & “most corrupt country in Europe” (The Guardian), with a puppet government, run by a comic actor, installed by way of not one but two CIA coups, I suppose?
Obviously, I won’t accuse you of going in to bat for the CIA like some sort of Neocon who believes in American Exceptionalism.
Biolabs exist all over the world. In them global threats are researched, as well as ‘local’ threats arising from specific ‘local’ issues. They are run for the benefit of the countries hosting them, not for the U.S. Doubtless networks of researchers exist and information and findings are shared. It’s routine and it happens all over the world.
Weaponising pathogens is not the same as researching pathogens.
We know that Russia and the USA have weaponised pathogens, as have some other countries. Verifying whether their stocks have been destroyed or not is another issue:
https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2021/july/bioweapons-samore.html
Pathogens have escaped in Europe before – you must have missed it…
https://janetparker.birminghamlive.co.uk/
More gaslighting from the resident contrarion.
And what benefit could Ukraine, a destitute, lawless & deeply corrupt region, with multiple ongoing seperatist conflicts possibly gain from US biolabs operating on its territory, Ferg?
The benefits to the US are obvious & undeniable but what’s in it for Ukraine?
What benefits?
Apart from having facilities to conduct research into diseases that affect your population? Or newly emergent global diseases? I’m pretty sure that even you, if you furrow your brow really, really, hard and think for, oh, I dunno, maybe ten years or so, can actually see a simple answer to that question.
And destitute, you say? Why, all the more reason for them to have accepted the funding to enhance and secure their labs, which is what the American money was for.
Do you think it might just be possible that the wealthier countries might sometimes lob money at poorer regions just to help them to professionalise their facilities so that deadly pathogens aren’t being tramped all over the world or falling into the hands of people with bad intentions?
Have you tried breaking into any of Ireland’s biolabs yet? Or do you mean to tell me that you haven’t even begun on a conspiracy theory to explain them away?
I’d say that there are a lot of ‘first time I heard about it’ stories passing before your eyes every time you log on, it must exhaust you trying to nail new information on to your pet conspiracy theories.
The word mothaolach has been banned from the foclóir too – I bet you know why.
If it is just research into diseases that affect your population or newly emergent global diseases then they will have no problem in itemising such. But there is documented evidence that it is way more than that.
ANY neighbouring country has a right to protect themselves from such. The irony is that is Ukraine was actually in NATO- such would not be allowed. It really is the wild west.
That little weasel Fauci is very quiet these days of course- afraid he would let something slip I expect.
So you’re saying the invasion was because of these labs? I thought you said it was because of all the nazis..
Hey, jungleman, why don’t you creep away, you creep, the intelligent people are having a conversation..
Yourself and SOQ are the opposite of intelligent. It’s not my fault that there is no consistency to you truthers’ reasons for supporting Putin.
It really is, you dupe..
…the only smoking gun is the ones Russia is using to murder innocent civilians in their homes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/60711705
…you offer Tulsi and Tucker as ‘evidence’,are Diamond and Silk not available,a one term retired congresswoman and a chat show host, both long associated with Russian propaganda.
The BBC that broken tool of the opressors. During the destruction of Lybia the BBC published a front page photo of thousands of Lybians marching in Tripoli against Ghadaffi. Except it wasn’t, the placards were all in support of their leader. Same with Iraq, photos showing angry mobs that in one instance weren’t even in the correct country, Tunisia where citizens were demonstrating against bread prices.
Both sides are using propaganda and all is suspect. The truth is we haven’t a clue as to what’s really going on over there.
…yeah Tulsi and Tucker are beyond reproach.
WaPo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/11/how-right-embraced-russian-disinformation-about-us-bioweapons-labs-ukraine/
NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/us/politics/us-bioweapons-ukraine-misinformation.html
Your getting played pal by a bunch murderin Russkies,duped much,is that why you stay in reading yank right wing trash all day?
and we’re not likely to find out with spelling like “Lybia “, “Lybians” and “Ghadaffi”
Stephen, we don’t do that stupid nonsense here. You’re prone to a few spelling errors & mangled syntax yourself.
Cut it out.
Carlson & Gabbard, “long-associated with Russian propaganda”!? Are you having a laugh, Johnny?
Ludicrous, nonsensical rationalisation.
The Kremlin Is Reportedly Thrilled With Tucker Carlson’s Ukraine Coverage
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3nkv8/the-kremlin-is-reportedly-thrilled-with-tucker-carlsons-ukraine-coverage?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=220314
The BBC is a joke, johnny. The other night they showed video footage of a Ukrainian soldier giving instructions to civilians on how to fire their AK47’s. The idiots hadn’t even the cop-on to check the soldier’s insignia, which made it clear he was from a Neo-Nazi brigade. Most of the foreign idiots who volunteered to fight there have been placed under the command of these fanatics.
If anyone knows what’s really going on, it’s Tulsi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w12Edjj4Juw
LOL
The Ides of March have come.
For day that’s in it, would somebody please see to things at the Kremlin
You’re just lost in a sea of bad takes, theo. Biden may very well face impeachment after the mid-terms, the only reason he’s still in office is Harris’ utter incompetence.
That’s the best that reality can offer you, apologies.
C’mon man!
https://www.instagram.com/kremlinbelfast/
I haven’t been to The Kremlin in years- full of srt8 ‘edgy’ kids with pronouns.
You’ll find me swinging from the rafters of Libertine when I am in Belfast town.
How can anyone believe one side over the other, it’s a crappy state of affairs when you can’t take journalism at face value anymore.
As someone who was reared in the north during the troubles, I can assure you that it was always like this. The only difference is that now we have the internet and hopefully can source more independent reporting.
One thing which has been noticed about Ukraine is the lack of ordinary people uploading their own accounts onto social media, but that may be be due to safety concerns- especially with so many right wing thugs tramping around the place.
Do you speak Ukrainian?
There have been many, many Ukrainians posting online, maybe a language barrier prevents you finding them?
Or maybe the places you hang out in online are highly unlikely to be frequented by Ukranians.
You don’t need to speak Ukrainian dumbo- there are translating services available. Although is very difficult to VPN into anywhere around that region at the moment.
Maybe you don’t really want to find them – it would perhaps challenge your sanitised version of what’s going on in Ukraine.
Why do you think that pregant woman was killed the other day, along with her unborn child? Haven’t you got good Russian sources who can explain that it was ‘necessary’ because they ‘knew’ that the child was going to grow up to be a man who built a time machine and came back to our times and gave Putin a dirty look?
Even you must cringe at yourself sometimes, when you think of the effort you’ve been putting into denying all the death and destruction that’s actually taking place.
It is widely reported that there is a serious lack of video content coming out of Ukraine right now but if you are so certain that is not correct then can you recommend a few channels? Thanks.
But you won’t now will you-? Second guessing people’s intentions to justify your spoon fed nonsense is more your style.
I wouldn’t recommend anything to you because you’re an obnoxious, malicious, dishonest and repulsive individual. I’m not surprised that this isn’t clear to you, you’re a liar who never engages in good faith, no matter how many times your lies are exposed you trail the same debunked trash back in here again and again. You’re stuck with a Putinbot script and facts and truth mean nothing to you.
Outside of that you’re simply unpleasant, so no, there’ll be no cordial exchange of sources, no developing chit chat. Ask your lesbian friend for advice.
But here, from today, check out these destroyed Russian tanks, as a one-off treat, like.
https://twitter.com/MirAS27763933/status/1503769406362595333
You won’t be recommending something to me because you have no idea what you are talking about.
I am not the one questioning other people’s motives darlin- so take your personal attacks and… if that is all you have then you have already lost.
You’re repulsive and malicious and spiteful and utterly dishonest.
I think I have a very good idea of what I’m talking about.
You, on the other hand, have had to ignore a great deal of reality to cling to your ugly justification for the slaughter of innocents. It’s actually pathetic to see a lame one-trick pony getting down with the Putinbots and parading his lack of humanity, honesty and human decency.
You’re a lying, odious shill – what kind of reaction do you think you deserve?
Imigh leat ag spraoi duit féin.
I obviously support the current translate google thing too?
https://www.tiktok.com/@heavensirin/video/7074624558904478977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7c3wRzUUjs
“I am not the one questioning other people’s motives darlin“
You regularly comment that anyone who disagrees with you is being paid to do it.
‘especially with so many right wing thugs tramping around the place.’
The Russian army.
The Russian Army are not Nazis genius, they are not the ones waving the swastikas in case you haven’t noticed.
Then again it was you arguing that there was no racism in Ukraine and that the reason black people were been dragged off trains was because of passport issues- in fairness, BLM is so last year, and you do need to keep with the trends.
What makes you think there are no Nazis in the Russian army.
Thee is a huge difference between a few Nazis in their ranks and a state approved and fully funded battalion of them. It is the equivalent of a KKK battalion in the US army.
https://www.tiktok.com/@yigibo/video/7072049316214344965
Normal people do not have ‘to each his own’ or ‘to each what he deserves’ tattoos. If anything the Russians are more likely to be communists than fascists- not that I approve of that either.
The hypocrisy and double standards involved in smearing decent truckers while deliberately ignoring these animals, display a lack of critical thinking which is absolutely mind boggling.
What makes you think they are not state approved.
‘The Russian Army are not Nazis genius,’
Not what I said.
‘Then again it was you’
This is the third or fourth time you’ve said this and it’s still not true – that was another poster – though they certainly didn’t claim there was no racism in Ukraine, you big hairy liar.
‘while deliberately ignoring these animals,’
Again you are desperately lying for the sake of pro war propaganda. Their presence does not justify Putin’s invasion.
@ Tom J- because they are not organised into sperate battalions and they are not then funded as such?
That is not to say that they are the only ones of course, as confirmed by the black and Indian people desperately trying to get out of the place- far right politics is imbedded all over Ukraine.
The irony being that those people would probably be safer under the occupying forces- Russia was the only super power to oppose apartheid in South Africa after all.
How would you know what way the Russian army organises it’s battalions, and Nazis and Fascists are not the same.
No woke person ever used racism to justify an invasion but here you are.
I know quite a bit about the Russian Army, here’s one, they have no NCOs. It’s an acknowledged weakness they inherited from the Soviet Army. Most of the former Soviet republics have a similar set-up, though not all.
Here’s another, they have, unlike the Ukrainians, no Nazi battalions.
So that you understand, these Nazi battalions are Nazis for their own reasons but historically, it’s because they see Nazism as the opposite of Communism, it’s natural enemy & they regard the Russian Army as the Soviet Army. They hate the USSR, because of the ”Terror-Famine” or Holodomor, where Stalin starved 5 to 6 million Ukrainians to death, along with huge numbers of Georgians & Russians. Nazi Germany had an army of 13.6 million & many of their battalions, under the Waffen SS, were drawn from Eastern European populations, so there’s been Ukrainian Nazis soldiers for longer than there’s been an actual Ukrainian state, since that only came into being in 1991, though it was ”founded” by Stalin in 1917, as an Autonomous Republic, so the USSR had more UN votes. Prior to that, parts of it were part of the Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth, Tzarist Russia and of other neighbouring states. Ukraine did not exist in the 17th, 18th or 19th century and it is formed from two distinct nations, even now, a glance at their recent Presidential Election results make that undeniably obvious. The heat map cuts the country in two, very distinctly.
The print media is in a dreadful state, Gavin. They are in a bad place financially, because they’ve failed to get young, internet users on board. Some journalism jobs pay half what they used to, no exaggeration, so no-one sticks their necks out or actually investigates anything. Transcribing government press releases is about as far into journalism as most journalists today will ever go. The owners are so desperate for money that integrity & the public interest have vanished & there are plenty of wealthy individuals to replace the missing shekels from readers, in return for hagiography, of course.
Thus you get Bill Gates being quoted about vaccines, which he knows literally nothing about, because he pays well & strict adherence to the government line, because they control the State’s massive advertising budget.
RTE are exactly what you’d expect if the Civil Service had a TV channel, because that’s what they are.
Meanwhile the variety & depth on the internet has exploded, moving in the opposite direction. The newspapers have had a small life-extension because of the state of the world right now but they’ve not long left & no stories to tell.
Chinese embassy in London says the US claim that Russia asked Beijing for military help in Ukraine is “malicious disinformation” – RTRS
As Bismarck famously remarked, never believe anything until it is officially denied.
Though given HK is heading for a Covid lockdown as are huge areas of mainland, Chinese tech stocks are falling off a cliff at the moment and the property market is an imploding Ponzi scheme China is no fit shape for a sanctions war with the west.
As the great Kenneth Williams said in Carry on Cleo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6BJJe9JV_A
one of the greatest lines ever.
Marc Antony’s address to the forum after Caesar’s assassination, as indelibly performed by Marlon Brando in 1953 – you could see he was a contender even back then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=101sKhH-lMQ
The propaganda units of the UK and US are hardly a secret; nor is the fact the newspapers are given stories to print via intelligence agencies.
Is it any wonder there is a push back from Russia with some of their own.
They are a bit more honest about it, RT, Sputnik, or Southfront, has a pro Russian bias, colour me shocked.
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/11/uk-government-launches-information-warfare-network/
The original Nazi Jew bogeyman, George Soros, is profiled tonight on RTE 2 @ 23.20 https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/listings/television/#!/rte2
The conspiraloons among you should enjoy/hate it.
RTÉ is such a gorgeously innocent version of Ireland, especially the IT network manager otherwise known as the hoover- sure nothing could possibly be compromised.
Your hairy ass is out the window luv- Marcus de Brun is due an apology.
Apologise Daisy Chainsaw.
Marcus De Brun is a crank for people to laugh at, little more than Gemma O’Doherty with a stethoscope.
Gavin – I hope you have a ‘notify’ on this thread and you get to read this; I wish to apologise sincerely for lumping you in the same sewer as Nigel shortly after registering to comment on this site – no excuses, I got it wrong, sorry.
Now, having been here a little longer, I have NO difficulty stating that Nigel and his fellow traveller Fearganainm are two gallopin’ gobpoos who, if as they do claim to be ‘informed’, turn Darwinian evolutionism on its head.
There are nice gobpoos (can’t help it) and nasty gobpoos. These two are b1oody nasty.
I’d like to try the old racism myself Maura but I wouldn’t have time for it in the evenings
‘Mad’ by name and mad by comment – incoherent dahling!
Village magazine has been at it for years. They even have OLigarch-lover Conor Lenihan writing in it.