Why Americans Don’t Matter to American Media or Politicians

If Vladimir Putin is not Satan himself, how can so many newspapers and newsrooms claim he is? The man Americans trust as their president, and all of his men and women, why they say he’s the root of all evil too!  So, Russia’s president has to be evil, he has to be responsible for everything bad on Earth, right? 

After you read this, ask yourself one question. “Just how stupid do the politicians and mass media moguls think I am?”

Vladimir Putin is a very powerful man indeed. To have spurred a media and political campaign of such proportion, and hate news of such magnitude, he has to be a fearsome entity to somebody.

Since Edward Snowden more or less “defected” to Russia, the people he implicated have been on the heels of Russia’s president. And relentlessly. A New York Times editorial, saving a Syria war, and wanting a Ukraine neighbor “Non-NATO” – Putin has only really acted like any good leader of Russia would. What you see, read, and hear now is a “put up job” of corporate lies aimed at starting a war. A war none can win except the industrialists. And we are already in it. Why the headlines already ordain it almost.

{The Omaha.com (owned by Berkshire Hathaway) news outlet online AP headline reads; “U.S.: Russia is firing across border into Ukraine.”}

Where Were You When the World Went Mad?

The latest act of “Putin Must Die” is by far the most interesting, the most horrific, and by far the most dangerous. The downing of Malaysian Air MH 17 is the subject of tens of thousands of news stories in the western world each day now. Not unlike the smear campaign against Putin’s Sochi Olympics, the Obama administration and the NeoCons are milking MH 17 dry to sling mud on Putin. Even with a growing mountain to evidence the contrary, media such as Forbes this morning prints headlines like; “Why Putin Shot Down MH-17.” 

You read that correctly, all of your with brains left in your head. Even without a shred of verifiable proof Russia had anything at all to do with the airplanes demise, without so much as a crash investigator’s insinuation, and even without proof a missile was even fired at all really, Forbes and every Associated Press outlet out there STILL blames Putin. News has become a tabloid in total. Here’s what Forbes contributor Greg Satell offered up an hour ago:

“While investigations continue, at this point most people accept that the missile that shot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 was supplied by Russia, came from an area that its separatists controlled and involved training—if not outright participation—from the Russian military.”

A lot of people will read that in the next few days. Then, they may do a Google News search of “Putin” for instance, to find the following headlines:

CNN – Hillary Clinton: Putin ‘bears responsibility’ in downing of MH17

The Wall Street Journal – White House Says Putin ‘Culpable’ in Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 …

CNN – Motyl: Putin, just evil enough

The Independent – A day in the life of Vladimir Putin: The dictator in his labyrinth

CBS This Morning – Putin’s inner circle sheds light on his “sinister, lonely life”

Newsweek – Putin’s Daughter Reported to Have Fled Home in Netherlands

Readers, make no mistake here, somebody (or somebody-s)very rich and very powerful is trying to hurt Vladmir Putin. There’s nothing but evidence showing some Washington involvement available, and still the coal is being stoked into the western press boiler room. It’s fantastic! Unparalleled! Stupendously ridiculous. But it’s happening.

{Another Berkshire Hathaway newspaper, the Tulsa World, ran with the prevalent AP headline; “US: Russia is firing across border into Ukraine.”}

 

How Is It Possible

The board of directors of the Associated Press essentially control the preponderance of news citizens see in the United States. Here who those controlling parties are, along with their principal interests in the media. Beyond the control these media people exert, Six corporate conglomerates control almost everything you see, read or hear about world events in the US, these are; Disney, CBS Corporation, News Corporation, Viacom, Time Warner, and Comcast.

It’s fair to suggest here, that the relatively small number of influencers of your news, they represent a“cartel” of information distributors with unparalleled influence. I make mention of Berkshire Hathaway so many times in this report for one reason. Warren Buffet’s company (BH) has Terry J. Kroeger on the AP board, and BH helped bail out AP board chairperson Mary Junck’s Lee Enterprises out of bankruptcy not so long ago. To a large extent, whatever AP broadcasts to these hundreds of local and national newsrooms, this is what most Americans see. So, if ANYONE exerts undue influence on one or more board members of these news consortium, the end result is as opinionated as it is news worthy in my opinion. Does Berkshire Hathaway exert undue pressure? Who can know this but the heads of BH or those leveraged?

The truth for those seeking any sort of truth as to media bias against Vladimir Putin and Russia, must be derived from the extremely one sided rancor and sensationalism of recent reports, the “coincidence” of mirroring the State Department lies and misleading information, and the tendency of late for lobbying and influence from abroad to sway editorial and news. A case in point in the last few years is the Israeli-Palestinian reporting cycle, which was studied by CUNY professor of journalism, Eric Alterman and many others. According to Alterman;

“…debate among Middle East pundits, “is dominated by people who cannot imagine criticizing Israel”. In 2002, he listed 56 columnists and commentators who can be counted on to support Israel “reflexively and without qualification.”  – Wikipedia excerpt – 

Turning to international mainstream media, studies also show a huge bias depending on topic from world leaders like BBC and others. As for BBC, a study of BBC television news coverage from Glasgow Media Group documented differences in the language used by journalists for Israelis and Palestinians. I’ve made note of similar differences when BBC discusses Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, the situation with investigating MH17, and in particular where Vladimir Putin is concerned. So called “emotive language” is utilized, as well as the bleak omission of counter reports from Russian and other sources. On the downing of MH17, the British press has largely omitted ANYTHING that leads to an argument other than Russia being completely responsible. Not even satellite imagery or emerging reports of Kiev admissions seem to matter. 

How can this type of media control happen? Only money and monumentally powerful influence can alter the truth on this scale. Turning back to Berkshire Hathaway for a moment, Gazprom, the Ukraine connection to Europe’s natural gas supply, President Obama’s natural gas focused climate plan, the opening of 30,000 new fracked oil wells in the last couple of years, and Buffett’s company’s (Buffett seen below in the Oval Office, is reportedly worth nearly $60 billion) interest in natural gas and natural gas transportation, bear watching here.

As Bad As It Gets

This report, from RIA NOVOSTI for instance, never even made a dent in the western propaganda. Despite the logic of the story, and the source directly pointing at Kiev culpability, not even a whimper was heard via Thomson Reuters, AP, BBC, or any other media outside citizen bloggers and independents. At the other end of the spectrum, a story early on showing a pro-Russian separatist holding a child’s toy, it was taken out of context by thousands of media outlets to condemn a man as an animal. When it was shown the frame was from a video revealing the rebel’s reverent and wholly appropriate feelings toward a child victim of MH 17, that story was squashed.

{The New York Times front page from the late edition last night has the headline; “Russia Steps Up Help for Rebels in Ukraine War.” ]

The partial text reads:

“Rather than backing down after last week’s downing of a civilian passenger jet, Russia appears to be intervening more aggressively in the war in eastern Ukraine in what American and Ukrainian officials call a dangerous escalation that will almost certainly force more robust retaliation from the United States and Europe.”

Finally, this detailed story by Pravda highlights a good number of other possibilities, if cold hard facts about the MH 17 incident. With Obama and the State Department still churning out accusations, unfounded accusations so far, only the Russians seem to be taking a moderate stance reporting. Allegations have only been made toward Kiev mostly. Of special signnificance here, the Russians point out the shape and characteristics of holes punched into the Malaysian Airlines fuselage. To wit:

“If surface-to-air missiles create round holes in the fuselage of the target, and air-air missiles create arrow-shaped forms, then why does the MH 17 have arrow-shaped forms in the fuselage? Why does the downed aircraft show cladding damage characteristic with pin and shrapnel warheads (air-to-air systems), much more characteristic of R-27 TOPOR or R-73 missiles used on the Ukraine military MIG-29 and SU-27 aircraft?”

From Washington we have pictures of Ukraine separatists taken out of context, alleged admissions of guilt and recorded evidence already rendered fake, images of Buk Gadfly systems proven fake, lies from Kiev on military aircraft in the area, lies about Ukraine/Kiev operated Buk systems in the area, a resigned Ukraine PM, and of course a media frenzy of unparalleled proportions. Unbiased and interested readers should read this “false flag” report.

The stream of stories, the emerging character of the Kiev authorities only alluded to by some press before the east erupted in violence, the US backed regime there has taken on a dark character. RT freelance correspondent Graham Phillips (above via TwitPic), was taken prisoner a second time these last days. Accused of only “working for RT the enemy” Phillips was just detained, then dumped out on the Polish frontier somewhere. Soldiers of Ukraine at Donetsk airport beat his camera man, interrogated he and Phillips, then unceremoniously banished Graham from the country for three years with no official documentation.

The reason I mention this is, as far as I know, no western journalist has been harmed by the pro-Russian separatists that I can discover. Despite the alleged ferocity and even west professed drunkenness of the separatists, have so far never been associated with violence toward journalists.

An Honest Story Could Kill You

Earlier this year, Russian journalist Anton Voloshin and his colleague Igor Kornelyuk were killed by Ukrainian military mortar fire. Russia’s Sergei Dolgov, who was an editor at newspapers Hochu v SSSR, is believed to have been tortured and killed by pro-Kiev elements. Anatoly Klyan, a cameraman for Channel One, was killed in an overnight attack by Ukrainian forces on a bus carrying journalists and soldiers’ mothers. Italian photo journalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian interpreter were killed in a ditch by Ukraine security forces mortar fire back in May. So as you can tell, covering the other side of the Ukraine upheaval story is proving extremely hazardous for storytellers. 

The news we are fed, here in Germany, and in the rest of the west, it’s become as unreliable as any tabloid. Worse still, the people who try and ask the right questions, even viable answers to “what’s really going on in the world” – we’re subject to extreme criticism, undue scrutiny, and as you see, even a death penalty for some. Meanwhile, the Associated Press affiliate run by AP Chairperson Mary Junck’s Lee Enterprises in Sioux City Iowa…. well, those readers get a headline, an AP picture of pro-Russians in Donetsk on a tank, and no proof of the headline ‘”US: Russia is firing across border into Ukraine” whatever.

Now there’s continuity and consistency for you. The State Department and the press, ad nau·se·am. How stupid do they think you are?

Mighty, pitifully, and deadly stupid.