Akin to the idiom “the fox is guarding the henhouse”, National Public Radio (NPR) is setting up a “Disinformation Reporting Team”.
NPR is now in lockstep with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) who initiated the “Trusted News Charter” which also claims to be a ‘disinformation’ enterprise. The charter’s members include Google/YouTube, Twitter, Reuters, Meta (Facebook), The Washington Post and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). With a cast of characters like that you can be assured the henhouse is totally surrounded by foxes as well as their litters.
Of course the current federal government made efforts to create a “Disinformation Governance Board” which was to be led by Nina Jankowicz, until someone discovered a video of her singing the disinformation song to the melody of Mary Poppin’s “Supercalifragilistic”. That performance immediately divulged her leftist politics and unambiguous inability to pursue fairness and political equality.
Over the course of several years, I have uncovered significant disinformation stories of climate change advocacy from each of the “Trusted News Charter” members. The common denominator between all members is the promotion and proliferation of progressive politics and their wheelbarrows of cash.
NPR, BBC and CBC are all taxpayer funded, while the tech monopolies , under Section 230 of the United States Communications Decency Act (CDA) have carte blanche to do as they please – being owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezo’s, I consider the Washington Post now allied with the tech companies.
Often a firm’s censor or prohibitor will cite a deficiency of contextual information or invoke a community standards violation for a censoring action and not rebut any of the facts of a specific article. Further, they will often find one ‘expert’ or authority that denies the validity of an argument and an accusation of falsity arrives with all their hopes of forever discrediting the article as well as the author.
Projectionism is an interesting concept in the world of politics and those that serve its partisan and propagandized needs. Essentially, the process is to condemn the opposition for what the condemner is actually doing and if the opposition complains then they are, in turn, accused of projectionism.
Disinformation is merely a more subdued word for censorship, suppression or revisionist action. This was the intent of the Disinformation Governance Board and is the objective of Trusted News Charter and certainly the objective of NPR’s Disinformation Reporting Team.
It is not only disinformation from the media, but as well the articles that are given priority in comparison to the concerns of the people. In a recent piece by Batya Ungar-Sargon of Newsweek referencing a Rasmussen Survey, the people were most concerned about high gas prices, inflation, the economy and violent crime, yet the media was focused on climate change, abortion rights, Ukraine and the capital riot investigation. These are all in order of priority for both groups. This clearly demonstrates just how out-of-touch the media is and why both readership and viewership continue to decline. Furthermore, based on the media’s target issues, one can easily diagnose who they are endeavoring to assist.
We can expect more and more failures with anthropogenic climate change actions and predictions, coupled with much louder screaming, or alternatively censorship from the disinformation outlets, the likes of which are mentioned in this article.