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Showing posts with label Press Credibility. Show all posts
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January 19, 2016

Swedish Media Censoring Migrant Crime Stories 16 Years

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Swedish Media Censoring Migrant Crime Stories 16 Years

Google Translation
Swedish to English

Reporters angles not to promote SD

Published January 16, 2016 at 07:32  |  Sakine Madon

Blinds journalists information and news for not favoring SD? The claim is dismissed as tin foil hat theory. But journalists who I am in contact with testifies problems.

Jesper Strömbäck, professor of media and communications, said the other day: "The media would cover up any berries in my estimation powerful lure of conspiracy theory." (Summary, 12/1). Sometimes opt out information about news values, he points out.


And it is true in general. Meanwhile, for example Skånska Dagbladets then editor Jan A Johansson, the journalist Björn Hagers book "Party Problem", where SD acknowledges that data has been omitted to avoid a "hell damage to society".

The other day I asked the question of social media: "You, who worked as / journalists. Have you been part of the editorial staff wanted to downplay or avoid substances because 'can benefit sd'? "Journalists of various ages, men and women, with different backgrounds and from different media, approached him. Those who responded publicly on Twitter gave mostly no answers, they had not encountered it. Those who approached him privately gave a more distressing picture.

A journalist who has conveyed the news on integration and immigration for many years expressed that "this subject is super sensitive". There is a younger generation who think black and white, according to the person: "If something the interviewee says complicates the thesis and one's own worldview you cut it out of the story." When the journalist himself has let different voices to be heard, it has led to attacks from other journalists. Nowadays, I am very cautious reports, tell the person. "Can not be bothered to have enemies," is the explanation.

Another journalist that contact has been working on a few different media newsrooms. "Before the last election in 2010, when I remember especially a completely bizarre discussion, the reporters at the coffee machine stood talking about 'how should we respond to the Sweden Democrats, we can not take them as an ordinary party" he says. And testifies to the directives from the new boss to "take it easy" when he examines the integration-related topics.


The call to be careful recur[s]. One person has been worshiped be there when asked about problems at an accommodation for unaccompanied youths arrived at the speech. Another person reported that a senior colleague with strong political views have stopped reportage about mess at an asylum accommodation. Others describe a caution with the choice of words, of news or signalement [comment:  description] in order not to encourage xenophobia.

A journalist who has worked in several major editorial says that in all workplaces has been a spoken or unspoken policy not to promote SD and xenophobia. And remember especially honor the murder of Pela Atroshi: "We did not write a line about it."


These journalists are no foil hats. On the contrary, highlights several that most journalists and news executives are honest people. Yet the problem is there.

The country's media editorial offices need to consider a lap: we should explicitly be against SD? If not; how do we ensure that journalism was shot? It is easy to shout "conspiracy theory" to any criticism. The harder it is to see their own role in that trust in the media falls, while the SD sites celebrating victory after victory.

https://archive.is/agVtX



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COMMENT

What kind of questions is:  should we explicitly be against SD (ie Sweden Democrats), which is a pro-nationalist and anti-immigration party?

Who are journalists to decide whether they will 'back' given political parties or not, and how is this remotely considered the right thing to do?

Their job is to deliver information to the public so that the public may make informed choices; and not to decide for the public in advance what is 'good' for the public or otherwise.
However, the press does the OPPOSITE of its role:  it DENIES the public information.  And when the press does throw a few crumbs of information at the public, it comes along with truckloads of mind-bending propaganda that most people would not recognise for what it is, because most people do not have the time to widely research every detail of what they are being fed (or the ability, therefore, to pick up what they are being denied) by the press.

In this warped Swedish politics, press & intelligentsia world, keeping Sweden open to what (in my view) amounts to a genocidal immigration policy, that has already resulted in various negative social impacts, is considered a positive and resistance to genocidal immigration policy is considered undesirable and 'xenophobic'.

It appears the problem of censorship or suppression comes from top down as well as sideways, from colleagues who disapprove and attack those that permit other voices to be heard.

The problem of censorship or suppression, of information that the public is entitled to, goes well beyond the censoring Swedish press:  'liberal' ideology and propaganda has permeated all Swedish institutions and is espoused by all mainstream political, academic, media and cultural figures, in what is a hysterical, self-sustaining ideological grip.

Just as potential press 'dissenters' (ie those that perhaps might stray in some way to challenge accepted 'reality' or  ideology & so forth) are silenced from above and attacked by colleagues, other professionals are no doubt likewise at risk of suppression and attack, and are precluded from voicing alternate views (were they willing to take the risks involved, and were they given a platform to do so) for fear of the social and economic consequences.

Another thing that is not mentioned here is the potential for violent consequences:

(a) street riots, which Sweden has already seen in its no-go suburbs of immigrants.

(b) the potential threat of individual murder (as well as Charlie Hebdo type attack) from minorities with a custom of threatening the lives of those they do not agree with.
If point (b) sounds far-fetched, look at the Netherlands politician Geert Wilders (Party for Freedom) who has 24/7 security due to the death threats:  "Death threats regularly arrive at his office ... " [Newsweek].

Pela Atroshi is an Iraqi Kurdistan female honour killing victim (here).

As nothing was written of Pela Atroshi's 1999 murder:
which was planned in Sweden by 11 members of her  Iraqi Kurdish tribal clan/family
and executed in Iraq
after she was lured to Iraq
on the basis of arranged marriage
the Swedish press has been censoring (ie suppressing) immigrant related issues for at least 16 years, if not longer, given this statement:

"And remember especially honor the murder of Pela Atroshi: "We did not write a line about it.""



Sweden
Pela Atroshi
Iraqi Kurdistan - Honour Killing 1999

From the Pela Atroshi article, it looks like the Australian and Swedish authorities' collaboration goes back a long way.




December 02, 2015

WikiLeaks - The New York Times - US Government Mediated News & Other 'Free Press' Shockers

Media
Selling Unicorns❄
Corporate-Serving Media
In Service of Aggressive Neoliberal Foreign Policy
|  Manufacturing Consent
Bias.  Compliance.  Censorship.
Disinformation.  Distraction.  Diversion. 
Suppression.  Smear.


censorship & disinformation
is denial of informed consent


Dishonourable Mentions

The New York Times

The New Yorker
The Washington Post

LINK to other Media Bad Boys | here



WikiLeaks
The New York Times

more

WikiLeaks
The New York Times 
US government mediates
its WikiLeaks redacted stories
freedom of information documents show
Source | WikiLeaks | here
USG FOI | Emails PDF |  here



other


The New York Times
published military “expert” C.J. Chivers report
purportedly based on rocket trajectories etc
& asserting gas shells could only have been fired by Syrian army positions
--> Ghouta attack
"became the pretext for a warmongering campaign by the White House and the US and European media"

--> Obama
"threatened immediate air strikes"
“Obama’s change of mind had its origins at Porton Down, the defence laboratory in Wiltshire ... sample of the sarin used in the 21 August attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas used didn’t match the batches known to exist in the Syrian army’s chemical weapons arsenal."
*** "US military leadership also knew that White House claims that there could be no other source for the sarin gas than the Syrian army were false"
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/07/syri-a07.html



American Media
Refusals to publish
Journalist Seymour Hersh

The New Yorker
The Washington Post
refused to publish
Seymour Hersh first report on Ghouta gas attack
US press largely silent re Hersh report
US press as at July 2014 "blacked out latest exposure"
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/07/syri-a07.html



The Washington Post
The New Yorker
Refused to Publish an Article on Obama Admin Syria Lies
Michael Krieger | Posted Monday Dec 9, 2013 at 11:00 am
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/12/09/how-the-washington-post-and-the-new-yorker-refused-to-publish-article-on-obama-admin-syria-lies/

LINK to other Media Bad Boys | here

September 07, 2015

The Associated Press ('AP') Sues FBI | FBI Spoofing AP News Story & Hacking Targets


Reporters Committee, AP sue for records about FBI's impersonation of journalists

Press Release | August 27, 2015

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and The Associated Press are asking the U.S. district court in Washington, D.C. to require the Justice Department and the FBI to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and release records regarding the FBI's practice of impersonating members of the news media.

The lawsuit argues that AP and the Reporters Committee “are statutorily entitled to disclosure of these records, which they seek so that they may inform the public about the nature and extent of the FBI’s impersonation of journalists and news organizations. Defendants have improperly withheld the records requested by Plaintiffs in violation of the law and in opposition to the public’s strong interest in obtaining information regarding a law enforcement practice that undermines both the credibility and independence of the news media.”

The lawsuit stems from an FBI operation in 2007, during which agents created and published a fake AP news story in order to trick a criminal suspect into downloading surveillance software onto his computer, software that enabled the Bureau to track the suspect's location.

When the FBI’s impersonation of the AP came to light in October of 2014, the Reporters Committee and 25 news organizations immediately sent a letter to the attorney general and FBI director calling it "unacceptable." AP also wrote to the attorney general protesting the FBI’s use of a fabricated AP news story "in the strongest possible terms."

Reporters from AP and attorneys from the Reporters Committee submitted detailed FOIA requests to the FBI seeking information about this and any other program in which agents posed as journalists or in which false news articles were used to deliver tracking or other surveillance software. None of the requested records have been released.

"We cannot overstate how damaging it is for federal agents to pose as journalists," said Reporters Committee Litigation Director Katie Townsend. “This practice undermines the credibility of the independent news media, and should not be tolerated. Yet while the public clearly has a strong, compelling interest in knowing more about the FBI’s use of this tactic, the FBI seems determined to withhold that information. We have been left with no choice but to look to the court for relief."

[...]

SOURCE
http://www.rcfp.org/reporters-committee-ap-sue-records-about-fbis-impersonation-journalists
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COMMENT
I don't know how much credibility what they call the 'independent' news media actually has, given its corporate ownership and establishment agenda bias, as well as its documented historical readiness to serve the government and corporate interests.

However, that the FBI is misrepresenting itself as news organisations is nonetheless a problem.

That information sought via FOI requests is being denied, indicates what a sham 'democracy' is in America, and demonstrates how totalitarian the American authorities really are - despite the propaganda about exporting democracy to 'save the world'.