Three episodes downloaded onto my stream this afternoon. They were for
Friday, Monday, and Tuesday, I think, although I can't be sure because they
never give dates. I have no idea what happened to the rest of last week.
However, on the Monday episode, Max Blumenthal reports on how volunteer
editors on Wikipedia are listing The Grayzone and several other websites as
"deprecated sources" which means that anything on their website shouldn't be
quoted in news articles because their information is, according to their
government aligned, centrist editors, incorrect. The volunteer editors are
from groups that have an interest in keeping certain information from the
public. There are people from the Venezuelan right wing opposition, and Neo
Cons. The person in charge of Wikipedia has been involved in government
propaganda efforts and all of the editors are supporting pro US government
foreign policy. They are not neutral fact finders. The Wikipedia page on Max
Blumenthal vilifies him. I've been reading this kind of stuff about
Wikipedia for a while now which is why I've become mistrustful of them, just
as I am mistrustful of Google results on many subjects. Phillip Cross is a
Wikipedia editor who attempts to discredit every anti-war source of which he
becomes aware. Ben Norton had a video up on The Grayzone the other day,
describing how Twitter is now label tweets from state sources from
government accounts which the US considers enemies. However state sources
from Israel or the BBC, or from Canada, or all of our own government state
twitter accounts, remain unlabeled.
Miriam
