In the age of media manipulation how much can we afford to take on trust?
It may be hard for some to believe the BBC was guilty of the degree of blatant fakery suggested by RT, but at the same time we have to...
We help the Guardian fix some of its reporting on Syria
by BlackCatte Martin Chulov needs a little help getting the narrative straight on Syria. Here are the portions of his article in today’s Guardian we think most in need...
No, Corbyn doesn’t need to win over the MSM – he needs to talk directly to the people
by BlackCatte Corbyn’s best endorsement, both of his integrity and his potential power, is the media hate being poured on him; and his best – in fact his only...
OffGuardian tells Jessica Valenti why ‘Comment is Free’ matters (because she apparently doesn’t know)
by BlackCatte The Guardian is unraveling. Having tried to manage its own readers with draconian moderation, it now admits even that policy is a humiliating failure and – today...
the Guardian mods are terrified the ‘Putinbots’ will turn us all into pod people
by BlackCatte We urge everyone to check out the Guardian’s latest and strangest attempts to build a wave of terror in its readership about Putinbots. In the thin guise...
Luke Harding : the hack who came in from the cold
Catte Black Luke Daniel Harding (born 1968) studied English at University College, Oxford. While there he edited the student newspaper Cherwell. He worked for The Sunday Correspondent, the Evening...
Why has one small child’s horrific death been turned into a media event and war cry? – UPDATED
As we predicted the ghastly tragedy of little Aylan is now unquestionably being exploited with psychopathic cynicism to re-launch the call for war in Syria. The lies about chemical...
It didn’t take them long to prove us right…
by BlackCatte If there was any doubt about what constitutes at least part of the agenda behind the shameless media exploitation of the refugee crisis, it’s been entirely eliminated...
The Guardian: “bomb Assad and save the refugees”
by BlackCatte The Guardian is currently providing us with a good example of what is often called the “problem-reaction-solution” method of controlling public discourse. Step One: Find, create, emphasise,...
“Turkey made me do it” – the next stage in backstopping the unraveling ISIS narrative
by BlackCatte In today’s Independent, Patrick Cockburn, reliable purveyor of backstopping, sets out the latest fallback position for the west’s increasingly discredited “ISIS narrative.” Viz: “it’s all Turkey’s fault.”...
Dear Guardian editors: this is why no one believes you anymore
by BlackCatte Dear Guardian editors, especially the Anonymous Perpetrator of Sunday’s Guardian view on Ukraine – While this is just the latest on the conveyor-belt of state-promoted Stalinist ‘alternative...
Huxley to Orwell: contrasting dystopias
When George Orwell published his seminal work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he asked his publishers to send a copy to Aldous Huxley, whose own dystopian masterpiece, Brave New World, had appeared...
Are we safer now?
by Catte A 17 year old boy from Virginia, USA has just been sentenced to 11 years in a federal prison (which means no parole) for allegedly putting info...
The Guardian’s frantic Corbyn-hate — now it’s just sad
What Corbyn actually said… Some women have raised with me that a solution to the rise in assault and harassment on public transport could be to introduce women only...
Agenda screen cap: August 22 2015
Just a brief glimpse of the ongoing narrative creation and control as revealed by the front page of the Guardian. So, what do we have here? 1) Despite the...
The tragi-comedy that is “Brown Moses”
Bottom line is Eliot Higgins, aka BrownMoses, aka one-man ‘research group’ Bellingcat is funny. He just is. And there’s nothing much his would-be promoters can do about that.
The philosopher of surveillance
by Peter Maas at the Intercept ARE YOU THE SOCRATES of the National Security Agency? That was the question the NSA asked its workforce in a memo soliciting applications...
What a difference a decade makes
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Socks, sandals and ISIS: the lame tragedy of the Guardian’s anti-Corbyn campaign
My greatest problem with the Graun's propaganda is that it's bad, and yet thinks it isn't. Even more so than the lamentable coverage of Russia and Ukraine, the...
When Donald Trump admitted to buying Hillary Clinton…
by BlackCatte The establishment is turning on the appalling Donald Trump. But is it Trump’s grotesque racism and misogyny that are going to condemn him, or the fact he...
