[Peace-discuss] What's so special about Jimmy Dore these days?

[Mildred O'brien]

All due respect to Amy and DN! for past journalist accomplishments, but some of the latter DN reporting and POV has not been objective or useful regarding Middle East especially in Syria) and Russia.  Perhaps this reversaI is due to  unreliable  sources of sources, or to what I seem to detect her feminist IP in defense of Hillary for the 2016 Democratic loss and subsequent trumped-up [sic] blame for it on "Russiagate" by another femme fatale, Speaker Nancy Pelosi in pursuit of a link to Russia-Trump all the way to 2 failed and wasteful impeachments, without criticising the two flawed Democratic women.
Midge 

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From: J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
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Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] What's so special about Jimmy Dore these days?

I wrote:
> There are a lot of shills and establishment-friendly repeaters who go along with
> establishment narrative & fake news. Russiagate, Brazil's "Operation Car Wash" 
> exposé, exposing the fake Syrian gas attack, the ongoing torture and imprisonment
> of Julian Assange, and a proper view of recent economic scandals (including 
> #ForceTheVote, Amazon labor organizing/union creation/union busting, and what 
> happened in the CARES Act) are a few of the biggest stories of the past 5 years.
> But the establishment media has covered them all badly (and some not covered at
> all, on purpose). CNN, BBC, (MS)NBC, Democracy Now, Disney, PBS, The Young Turks,
> Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Intercept are some of the
> establishment propagandists who will distract you or flatly ignore important
> stories.

In https://youtube.com/watch?v=TZRomf7vkWg ("Former Employee BLASTS 'Democracy Now' 
For Pushing Establishment Propaganda") Aaron Maté and Jimmy Dore pointed out how 
Democracy Now (DN) is just another Russiagator with a self-debunking "Russian hackers 
targeted election systems in all 50 U.S. states" story 
(https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/26/headlines/gop_blocks_election_security_bills_as_senators_warn_russia_targeted_all_50_states) 
which Aaron Maté called "stenography".

I don't agree with Maté when he said at 4m 49s in 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TZRomf7vkWg:

> Aaron Maté: [...] it's like they've forgotten everything that made them so great!
> You know, which was exposing all this stuff. Now they're peddling it! And it all
> happened in the Trump era. It all happened in the Russiagate era. It happened, you
> know, and again -- I don't think it's because they sold out to money or whatever
> else, I just think Trump broke a lot of people's brains. Russiagate was presented
> as the thing that was gonna bring Trump down. It was presented as the explanation
> for Trump's victory and then the answer to his presidency because it was going to
> do him in because Mueller was going to find a secret conspiracy. And people like,
> unfortunately, Amy Goodman and Democracy Now got duped by it and got duped into
> going along with it and into promoting the most vile world views that they used to
> once expose. It's crazy and it's not just with Trump and Russia, they also did
> that with Syria too; their coverage on Syria has been just awful.

I think that this explanation requires more psychological justification than has been 
backed with evidence.


Danny Haiphong has criticized DN on DN's China coverage in 
https://blackagendareport.com/democracy-now-provides-progressive-cover-state-department-propaganda-campaign-against-china 
which begins:

> The show has become a reliable platform for uncritical regime change propaganda,
> demonizing targets of US empire from Syria to Nicaragua.
> 
> “DN often acts as a force multiplier for the State Department.”
> 
> The U.S. has claimed a humanitarian “Responsibility to Protect” to justify
> military operations in the name of saving civilian lives from evil dictators. Most
> notable have been the brutal U.S.-led wars in Libya and Syria which destabilized
> entire regions in the name of “civilian protection” and “promoting democracy.”
> These operations relied heavily on self-described human rights NGO’s and media
> outlets to cultivate support among liberal sectors of the US intelligentsia.
> Sadly, Democracy Now has been among the most influential and insidious outlets
> carrying water for the humanitarian interventionist agenda.
> 
> The flagship program of the left-wing Pacifica radio network, Democracy Now (DN)
> and its founding host, Amy Goodman, are regarded as standard bearers of grassroots
> progressivism. However, in recent years the show has become a reliable platform
> for uncritical regime change propaganda, demonizing targets of US empire from
> Syria to Nicaragua while sending a correspondent to embed with US-backed “rebels”
> in Libya. Now that China is in the crosshairs of the US, DN is playing host to
> virtually any piece of humanitarian agitprop that Washington can conjure up, while
> publishing a regular serving of sharply negative stories about Chinese government
> and society.
> 
> “DN is playing host to virtually any piece of humanitarian agitprop that
> Washington can conjure up.”
> 
> A review by The Grayzone of every China-related report and interview Democracy Now
> aired in the past year found that 3 out of every 4 painted China in a decidedly
> negative light, often echoing narratives emanating from the US State Department.
> Perhaps its most inflammatory and factually questionable report appeared this
> February amid an escalating wave of anti-China propaganda.

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