Des récits bricolés à partir de contenus frelatés

Le 19 mai, Le Berry républicain exhale un « parfum de liberté », tandis qu’un « souffle d’espoir » s’engouffre dans L’Alsace. « Le grand jour » se lève au Télégramme, « Le jour J » illumine Nord Éclair, et La Voix du Nord fait « les premiers pas vers la vie d’avant ». « C’est (re)parti ! » au Bien public, « Ça s’arrose ! » au Courrier picard, et La Dépêche trinque même « À notre santé ». « On se retrouve dehors », propose Sud-Ouest… et « Bas les masques », suggère Var-Matin. Bref, La Provence, et la France médiatique avec elle, exulte : « Enfin ! »

Enfin le retour à la normale ! Les reporters d’images font le pied de grue devant les centres commerciaux, les télés usinent du micro-trottoir sous les stores bannes et le choeur des éditorialistes entonne le « tenir ensemble » jupitérien. Sans oublier cette entrevue caféinée entre le Président et son Premier ministre, multi-médiatisée, et dont BFM-TV a initié la propagande au gré d’une « priorité au direct » qui restera dans les annales : « [Devinez] qui est en train de boire un café en terrasse ? Mais c’est Emmanuel Macron avec Jean Castex ! Les voici tous les deux attablés autour d’un café. » Tant il est vrai que l’« actualité » des rédactions parisiennes gravite autour de l’Élysée, jusqu’à l’absurde (p. 11

Note sur : Médiacritique(s) N°39 – Juil.-sept. 2021 : Retour à la normale

https://entreleslignesentrelesmots.blog/2021/08/05/des-recits-bricoles-a-partir-de-contenus-frelates/

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Wikipedia: NaturalNews

Natural News (formerly NewsTarget, which is now a separate sister site) is a far-right, anti-vaccination conspiracy theory and fake news website known for promoting alternative medicine, pseudoscience, and far-right extremism.[1][2][3]

[4]The site's founder, Michael Allen "Mike" Adams, gained attention after posting a blog entry implying a call for violence against proponents of GMO foods, and then allegedly creating another website with a list of names of alleged supporters. He has been accused of using "pseudoscience to sell his lies".[5] Adams has described vaccines as "medical child abuse".

[6]The website sells various dietary supplements, promotes alternative medicine and climate change denial, makes tendentious nutrition and health claims,[7] disseminates fake news,[8][9][10] and espouses various conspiracy theories and pro-Donald Trump propaganda.[11][12] These conspiracy theories include chemophobic claims about the purported dangers of "chemtrails",[1] fluoridated drinking water,[13] anti-perspirants, laundry detergent, monosodium glutamate, aspartame, and vaccines.[1][7][14] It has also spread conspiracy theories about the Zika virus allegedly being spread by genetically modified mosquitoes[15] and purported adverse effects of genetically modified crops, as well as the farming practices associated with and foods derived from them.

[16]As of 2014, Natural News had approximately 7 million unique visitors per month.

[4]In May 2020, Facebook banned Natural News content from its platform after discovering that the site was boosting its popularity using content farms in North Macedonia and the Philippines, a form of spamming.[17] Natural News bypassed the ban by republishing its content on a large number of topic-specific domain names, including trump.news, extinction.news, mind.control.news, and veggie.news.[17][18] The Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 496 domain names associated with Natural News as of June 2020.[18][19]

There is a NaturalNews pod on Diaspora (share.naturalnews.com), and members of that pod are without exception in my experience dedicated to spreading disinformation and propaganda, which is why I strongly advocate a block-on-sight policy for them.

The Wikipedia link has considerable additional background.

On the Wikipedia Reliable Sources page, Natural News is one of only 18 blacklisted sites of 351 entries. (The page is a useful guide to site reputation for numerous frequently-used sites, including many which appear in Diaspora posts.)

#NaturalNews #Wikipedia #media #credibility #propaganda #disinformation #MichaelAllenAdams #MikeAdams

The CIA's 3-Decade Effort to Mold the World's Views (1977)

This is a six-part series on CIA media influence and propaganda by veteran NY Times intelligence reporter John M. Crewdson which ran from December 25--30, 1977, in the New York Times. The initial article sets the scene:

For most of the three decades of its existence, the Central Intelligence Agency has been engaged in an unremitting, though largely unrecognized, effort to shape foreign opinion in support of American policy abroad.

Although until recently the C.I.A. counted a number of American journalists among its paid agents, with a few notable exceptions they do not appear to have been part of its extensive propaganda campaign.

Instead, the agency has channeled information and misinformation through once‐substantial network of newspapers, news agencies and other communications entities, most of them based overseas, that it owned, subsidized or otherwise influenced over the years.

The C.I.A.'s propagandizing appears to have contributed to at least some distortion of the news at home as well as abroad, although the amount and nature of misinformation picked up by the American press from overseas is impossible to determine.

The full series:

• "The CIA's 3-Decade Effort to Mold the World's Views" (1977-12-25) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/25/archives/the-cias-3decade-effort-to-mold-the-worlds-views-agency-network.html
• "Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A." (1977-12-26)
  https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html
• "C.I.A. Established Many Links To Journalists in U.S. and Abroad" (1977-12-27) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-many-links-to-journalists-in-us-and-abroad-cias.html
• "Colby Acknowledges U.S. Press Picked Up Bogus C.I.A. Accounts" (1977-12-28) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/28/archives/colby-acknowledges-us-press-picked-up-bogus-cia-accounts-tells.html
• "U.S. Correspondents Give Views on C.I.A." (1977-12-29) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/29/archives/us-correspondents-give-views-on-cia-4-at-a-house-hearing-say-any.html
• "Ex‐Envoy Says Risk of Exposure Negated C.I.A. Propaganda Value" (1977-12-30) https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/30/archives/exenvoy-says-risk-of-exposure-negated-cia-propaganda-value.html

The author wrote extensively on CIA and FBI matters for the Times in the 1970s and 1980s. A DDG search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anytimes.com+%22John+M.+Crewdson%22+%22c.i.a.%22&ia=web

Crewdson's bio is interesting, see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Crewdson

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27933989 (specifically the 1st article)

#JohnMCrewdson #CIA #propaganda #media #MediaManipulation #MediaInfluence #NYTimes