Journalism

Journalism As Subversion

March 25, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Journalism, Resistance

As the mass media, now uniformly in the hands of large corporations, turn news into the ridiculous chronicling of pseudo-events and pseudo-controversy we become ever more invisible as individuals. Any reporting of the truth—the truth about what the powerful are doing to us and how we are struggling to endure and retain our dignity and self-respect—would fracture and divide a global population that must be molded into compliant consumers and obedient corporate subjects. This has made journalism, real journalism, subversive. And it has made P. Sainath—who has spent more than two decades making his way from rural Indian village to rural Indian village to make sure the voices of the country’s poor are heard, recorded and honored—one of the most subversive journalists on the subcontinent.

Canada’s Spy Agency Reviews Millions Of Vids & Docs Daily

March 24, 2015 Amber Hildebrandt, Michael Pereira and Dave Seglins, www.cbc.ca Educate! Canada, Journalism, Snowden, Surveillance

Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has learned. Details of the Communications Security Establishment project dubbed "Levitation" are revealed in a document obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and recently released to CBC News. Under Levitation, analysts with the electronic eavesdropping service can access information on about 10 to 15 million uploads and downloads of files from free websites each day, the document says. "Every single thing that you do — in this case uploading/downloading files to these sites — that act is being archived, collected and analyzed," says Ron Deibert, director of the University of Toronto-based internet security think-tank Citizen Lab, who reviewed the document.

Whistleblowers Wanted: Mexican Journalists Seek Tips

March 18, 2015 Jo Tuckman, www.theguardian.com Resist! Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Mexico

In a country rife with corruption, criminality and abuse – and where saying the wrong thing in earshot of the wrong people can get you killed – Mexican journalists can have a hard time obtaining the kind of solid information required to sort out rumour from reality. Now an alliance of eight Mexican media outlets and civil society groups is courting potential whistleblowers with a new digital platform that promises to protect the anonymity of sources with the help of sophisticated encryption software. Mexicoleaks describes its mission as the construction of a “Transparent Mexico”, and participants say they hope it will help them document political corruption, human rights abuses and other misuses of institutional and economic power.

Snowden Releases Statement Following ‘Citizenfour’ Oscars Win

February 25, 2015 Lauren Duca, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Journalism, Media, NSA, Snowden, Surveillance

The Edward Snowden documentary "Citizenfour" won Best Documentary at the Oscars on Sunday night. Director Laura Poitras accepted the award with Glenn Greenwald and Lindsay Mills, Snowden's girlfriend, by her side. "The disclosures that Edward Snowden reveals don't only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself," Poitras said in her acceptance speech. "When the most important decisions being made, affecting all of us, are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control. Thank you to Edward Snowden, for his courage, and for the many other whistleblowers. I share this with Glenn Greenwald and other journalists who are exposing truth." The film tells the story of Snowden's 2013 National Security Agency leaks.

Op-Ed On Venezuela Slips Past NYT Factcheckers

February 20, 2015 Steve Ellner, www.fair.org Educate! Cuba, Journalism, Media, Socialism, Venezuela

A February 15, 2015, op-ed on Venezuela by Enrique Krauze seems to have slipped by theNew York Times' factcheckers. Krauze's thesis (a tired one, but very popular with Venezuelan and Cuban right-wingers in South Florida) is that Venezuela has not only followed "the Cuban model," but has recently outdone Cuba in moving Venezuela further along a socialist path even as Cuba enacts economic reforms. This idea is not merely an oversimplification--as it might appear to the casual observer of Latin American politics--but is largely misleading. To bolster his case, Krauze--a prominent Mexican writer and publisher--includes numerous false statements and errors, which should have been caught by the Times' factcheckers.

3 Ways NYT Does Not Understand #BlackLivesMatter

February 17, 2015 Leah Hunt-Hendrix, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Journalism, Media, Racial Justice, Social Change

Historian David J. Garrow tells Vega that the current movement bears little resemblance to the "clear goals" of the 1960s civil rights movement. "You could call it rebellious," he suggests, "or you could call it irrational." In this dismissal, he echoes Oprah Winfrey's similarly condescending remarks calling for the movement to develop "leadership," remarks Vega also saw fit to highlight. Notwithstanding its current hallowed reputation, at the time, many commentators portrayed the civil rights movement as "rebellious" and "irrational." Apparently, we have learned little about movements in the decades since. We need to address the myth that movements last only as long as their media moments and develop a better grasp -- and more respect -- for the quiet, persistent periods of organizing that go into changing the flawed structures of our society. The road is long, and the path is winding, but our role -- as the media and the public -- should be to seek understanding rather than to proliferate inaccuracies.

Al-Jazeera Journalists Leave Egyptian Prison On Bail

February 13, 2015 Patrick Kingsley, www.theguardian.com Educate! Egypt, Freedom of Press, Journalism

A court in Egypt has freed two imprisoned al-Jazeera English journalists on bail, nearly a fortnight after their Australian colleague, Peter Greste, was deported. The decisions means Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have been allowed to walk free for the first time in 14 months. They were arrested in December 2013 on trumped-up charges of helping terrorists and spreading false news. Adel Fahmy tweeted jubilantly on Friday morning that his journalist brother had been released after posting bail. Baher Mohamed was also freed, his family told the Guardian soon afterwards. Fahmy had been ordered to put up 250,000 Egyptian pounds (£21,000/$US33,000) for his freedom, but Mohamed and several students also tried alongside Greste have no fee to pay.

Chapel Hill Shooting: Three Young Muslims Have Been Executed

February 12, 2015 Shabbiyah Pervez, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Faith, Journalism, Media, Muslim, Racial Justice, Shooting

Just as I was getting my kids ready for school this morning, I heard my phone beep. I glanced down, and saw the words "Muslims Shot Dead in Chapel Hill". I froze, and felt a familiar chill run down my back. I rushed to Twitter in a desperate attempt to find out more. Who were these three people? Why were they killed? Are we at a point where Muslims are no longer safe in their homes? Or could this have been a random attack? I was secretly and maybe naively hoping it was the latter. The attack would have happened around 10pm in the UK. When stories break at this time, the British press might have sent their latest editions to print, but they are still usually picked up by their night teams, who monitor news around the world while everyone else is asleep.

Climate Scientist Wins $50,000 In Libel Lawsuit

February 11, 2015 Emily Atkin, www.nationofchange.org Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Journalism, Law, Media

A prominent Canadian climatologist won his libel lawsuit against The National Post on Friday, after a judge decided that the newspaper had published several articles that were both inaccurate and defamatory to his character. British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Emily Burke said that Dr. Andrew Weaver should be awarded $50,000 in damages from the Post, which she said unfairly diminished Weaver’s credibility as a climate scientist by publishing articles that falsely painted Weaver as incompetent. The articles claimed that Weaver, a former member of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was “untrustworthy, unscientific and incompetent; and that he distorts and conceals scientific data to promote a public agenda and receive government funding.”

Some Other Tall Tales Brian Williams Might Want to Apologize For

February 6, 2015 Jim Naureckas, www.fair.org Educate! Journalism, Media, Wars and Militarism

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian William has apologized for falsely claiming (NBC, 1/30/15) that "during the invasion of Iraq…the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG." "I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago," he told his audience on February 4 (Stars & Stripes, 2/4/15). "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another." As long as he's in a confessional mood, Williams might as well admit that he didn't see "a lot of people shooting at people to make dead bodies," nor would people have killed him for his car if he hadn't been surrounded by feds–none of which appeared in his original reporting.

Venezuela: A Coup In Real Time

February 4, 2015 Eva Golinger, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Democracy, Journalism, Venezuela

These examples are just a snapshot of increasing, systematic negative and distorted coverage of Venezuelan affairs in U.S. media, painting an exaggeratedly dismal picture of the country’s current situation and portraying the government as incompetent, dictatorial and criminal. While this type of coordinated media campaign against Venezuela is not new – media consistently portrayed former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, elected president four times by overwhelming majorities, as a tyrannical dictator destroying the country – it is clearly intensifying at a rapid, and concerning, pace. The New York Times has a shameful history when it comes to Venezuela. The Editorial Board blissfully applauded the violent coup d’etat in April 2002 that ousted President Chavez and resulted in the death of over 100 civilians.

Editor Of Major Newspaper Says He Planted Stories For CIA

February 3, 2015 Ralph Lopez, www.digitaljournal.com Educate! CIA, Germany, Journalism, Media

Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a "propagandist," an editor of a major German daily has said that he personally planted stories for the CIA. Saying he believes a medical condition gives him only a few years to live, and that he is filled with remorse, Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's largest newspapers, said in an interview that he accepted news stories written and given to him by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war.

CIA Whistleblower Faces 100 Years In Prison

January 30, 2015 Andrew Emmet, www.nationofchange.org Educate! CIA, Journalism

A former CIA case officer has been convicted for telling a New York Times reporter details concerning a reckless CIA operation that potentially sped up Iran’s nuclear advancement. Although the case against the CIA whistleblower was largely circumstantial and lacking evidence, former case officer Jeffrey Sterling faces a maximum sentence of 100 years in prison for speaking to New York Times reporter James Risen. Under threat of arrest, Risen tenaciously refused to reveal his sources to the government. After joining the CIA on May 14, 1993, Sterling eventually rose to the rank of case officer and began working with the agency’s Iran Task Force. Between November 1998 and May 2000, Sterling had been assigned to a mission conspiring to deliver flawed nuclear blueprints to the Iranian government codenamed Operation Merlin.

How To Leak To The Intercept

January 29, 2015 Micah Lee, www.firstlook.org Educate! Journalism, Media, Whistleblowers

This publication was created in part as a platform for journalism arising from unauthorized disclosures by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Our founders and editors are strongly committed to publishing stories based on leaked material when that material is newsworthy and serves the public interest. So ever since The Intercept launched, our staff has tried to put the best technology in place to protect our sources. Our website has been protected with HTTPS encryption from the beginning. All of our journalists publish their PGP keys on their staff profiles so that readers can send them encrypted email. And we’ve been running a SecureDrop server, an open source whistleblower submission system, to make it simpler and more secure for anonymous sources to get in touch with us.

New York Times Lost In Its Ukraine Propaganda

January 28, 2015 Robert Parry, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Journalism, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Possibly the worst purveyor of this Cold War-style propaganda has been the New York Times, which has given its readers a steady diet of biased reporting and analysis, including now accusing the Russians for a resurgence in the fighting. One way the Times has falsified the Ukraine narrative is by dating the origins of the crisis to several months after the crisis actually began. So, the lead story in Saturday’s editions ignored the actual chronology of events and started the clock with the appearance of Russian troops in Crimea in spring 2014. The Times article by Rick Lyman and Andrew E. Kramer said: “A shaky cease-fire has all but vanished, with rebel leaders vowing fresh attacks. Civilians are being hit by deadly mortars at bus stops."

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