Shaky claims and shaggy lion stories: a look back at a few great smears
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 8 2019 21:04
A review of a few particularly memorable inventions from the imagination of police, media, and far-right trolls.
Venezuela: A look at fake news and our own arrogance
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 11 2019 16:30
Fake news about Venezuela is a lesson wrapped in a lesson of why we are not in a position to decide the fates of other countries.
How to Write a Press Release
A basic guide to writing press releases, compiled by Rachel Perrotta using edited press releases from Good Kids Mad City (GKMC).
Your Revolution Is Not My Revolution: Thirty Years After May ’68 – François Lonchampt and Alain Tizon
A complete English translation of a book first published in France in 1999, a post-mortem on May ’68, discussing the various ways that the most popular demands voiced in May were recuperated by capitalism in its post-1968 “revolution from the right” (Pasolini) and incorporated into a consumerist lifestyle of selfish hedonism, pseudo-individualism, phony libertarianism and permitted rebellion (the “triumph of situationism”) as part of the restructuring of the global workforce and the creation of a “new man”, concluding with a call for “a new civilizing phenomenon” and “a revolution of the spirit” similar to the movement led by Christianity during the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Stupefaction – Encyclopédie des Nuisances
A 1985 article denouncing the fake “communication” disseminated by the mass media of our time that is really nothing but a unilateral flood of “information” or “socially harmful noise” in which nothing is called by its real name, as a force of stupefaction and for the creation of well-informed ignorance, where, amidst the generalized falsification of reality, “a view of the whole can never be formed”, and even self-evident truths “dissolve in the surrounding cacophony” in which they recede into the distance of unverifiable hypotheses, as exemplified in the endless media speculation concerning the Moro kidnapping.
Pundits outraged as Assad does to Ghouta what the US did to Fallujah
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 2 2018 15:14
As pundits decry war crimes committed by the Assad regime in Eastern Ghouta, a look to how the punditry viewed the US' 2004 assault on Fallujah
No whites allowed after 8pm? Behind the media circus of Birmingham’s ‘no-go’ areas
Submitted by QQ on Aug 23 2017 14:23
On 17 August, numerous national newspapers and news websites, published a story about “racist graffiti” directed towards white people in Saltley, a majority Pakistani area of inner-city Birmingham. The piece, originally published by the local Birmingham press, goes on to claim that this corroborates a broad trend of “white working class Brummies” fearing parts of the city had become “no-go areas” for them.
Al Ditty – Working Class Hero
A tribute to a white Minneapolis sanitation worker who was fired and committed suicide after leaking plans for a police raid on the Justice for Jamar Clark protest encampment outside the 4th Precinct police station in North Minneapolis.
Hillary Clinton’s complaints about the spread of “fake news” belie her contributions to it
Submitted by Soapy on Feb 18 2017 15:03
The 2008 Clinton campaign played an instrumental role in spreading rumors that Barack Obama was a Muslim not born in America
Critics respond to Trump’s comments on Putin with surreal hypocrisy
Submitted by Soapy on Feb 6 2017 04:10
Critics attacked Trump after he drew a moral equivalency between the actions of Putin and the U.S.
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