This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump says the press corps are the “enemy of the people.” The press corps, in turn, say Donald Trump is “presidential.” Where the people find themselves in this dance is unclear. We’ll talk about what media really looking out for the public interest might look like with author and FAIR associate Norman Solomon, national coordinator of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.
Transcript: ‘We Are Conditioned by Mass Media to Choose Up Sides’
cc photo: Daniel Cima/Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
Also on the show: It’s been a year since the murder of Berta Cáceres. Court documents leaked to the Guardian support the idea that the killing of the Honduran environmental, indigenous rights and feminist activist was planned by military intelligence specialists linked to Honduras’ US-trained special forces. Such “extrajudicial” killings in Honduras have spiked since the 2009 coup, in which the US played a key role—though that role is beyond obscured in press coverage that presents the US as the solution to violence in that country. We’ll talk about that with Beverly Bell of the group Other Worlds Are Possible.
Transcript: ‘There Will Not Be Change as Long as US Sends Military Aid to Honduras’
Why won’t you make a public announcement showing videos of what truly is going on over in Germany and Sweden. Many people aren’t aware of how important the vetting process is regarding immigrants. It’s a new day. People aren’t just coming here for freedom and safety. Many are coming here to destroy our country and have said so. Please make America aware of the dangers.
In Sweden women are afraid to go outside because of sexual harassment and rape and the Swedish gov is telling the press not to report it because they want the world to continue to believe they are a utopian society. Didn’t Stalin go the same? In Germany women are being assaulted and raped on the streets and made to work as prostitutes. During a big holiday celebration last year over a hundred women were assaulted and several were raped and the press didn’t report it. Social media did. An immigrant male said the women asked for it because they wore perfume and revealing clothes. Merkel turned a blind eye to it all. The immigrants said they are going to come to America and make everyone serve alkah and make our daughters wear the head gear and breed us out. Obama made the Christian organizations provide birth control. Notice he didn’t make the Muslim organizations comply to the edict. Be fair and be honest. Tell Americans the truth.
Are you German? No? Swedish? No?
Who are your German and Swedish sources? Are you just repeating rumors or something from some far right tinfoil hat blog?
No I’m not but I’ve watched the videos taken by people who live in areas that can be found on the Internet. They are quite compelling. And there was a reporter from Sweden I caught on tv while channel surfing and she pretty much confirmed it all being that she lives in Sweden. So sorry, I can’t recall her name. But with research she more than likely be found on Internet. I don’t believe everything on Internet but anyone can see those videos are not manufactured. You can find some by putting ‘immigrant attacks on women in Germany and Sweden.’ Also my husband is military and the stories our friends who travel overseas tell are so horrific and never heard on the news. One story is, they were told not to fire on taliban unless they shoot at them first. That men having sex with boys 11-15 is a part of thier culture and stay out of it when the boys cry for help. I know it sounds unbelievable but I always say investigate for yourself. Knowledge is power.
You can find the report on that German holiday around Christmas, it’s a big holiday, where over s hundred women were sexually assaulted and several were raped during the celebration and merkel did nothing about it. The powers that be don’t want to admit that allowing vast numbers of invetted immigrants was bad on economy and neighborhoods. Of course not all are violent but like any place you have those who are.
look up sexual assaults in Germany. People are now fighting back.
So, “Peaceful”…
No links provided, no sources provided. Just “the internet”. Oh, and your “husband [who] is military” and your travelling friends who tell “stories”. Right.
How did you get FAIR as your trolling assignment for the day? Will you be back with more entertainingly unhinged rants?
I should warn you now. FAIR is meant for all who care about understanding media from the standpoint of both textual and institutional analysis, but its audience is most likely of progressive persuasion.
As a rule this tends to disincline gullibility. FAIR’s fans, frankly, are just harder to fool than, say, the kind of people who get their media criticism diet from Facebook posts, Alex Jones, and so on. If you are going to come here with the kind of stuff you just submitted, be advised that you may find your efforts bearing very little reward. Maybe you should visit The Blaze and try your luck there.
Just tryin’ to be helpful. You’re welcome.
You are the one trolling and you are the one who is short sited and name calling. How arrogant for you to assume my acquaintances are liars. Especially when they have put their lives on the line for our country and protect our freedom and saw first hand the things I espoused. It’s obvious your uneducated because in school I learned that there are several powerful families who control the press. Soros is one of them. You are the type of person the press and enemies of America appreciate. You’re gullible and easy to fool and lead by the nose. Here is a place to express ourselves and we can agree to disagree without bring condescending. Have a good day. It’s obvious you need one.
I don’t do Facebook but you know slot about it.
One more thing if I may. You said this site is only for people who are of like minds and think like you. No opposite thinking allowed. Hmmmm… Isn’t that discriminatory and didn’t communism and nazism start that way. All points of view should be welcomed and an a intelligent back and forth conversation should ensue where people learn from each other. At least caring and intelligent ones. That’s what’s wrong with this world. Too many angry people. My intention was not to insult but to inform. You are still entitled to your opinion.
Superb reporting! Thank you so much. She’s brilliant. Solomon too.
An exponent more near millions are fleeing for their lives US bombs. In Libya. In Syria. Whereever else it has been left to George Bush’s successors to pursue The Project for the New American Century.
They certainly smack of the tinfoil brigade Gracious. Her credibility is zero from henceforth. Too much of value to read on the Internet to waste precious moments of it on the literary equivalent of vomit.
So are you. God help us.