MEDIA SCOUNDRELS

Yamamoto, who is responsible for “News Feed Reduction Strategy,” also authored a post where he said Facebook should address  “…quite a bit of content near the perimeter of hate speech.” Said the Facebook insider, the “perimeter of hate speech” means “things that aren’t actually hate speech but that might offend somebody. Anything that is perceived as hateful but no court would define it as hate speech.”
The insider believes Yamamoto’s plans appears to be political in nature, rather than in response to abusive behaviors, “[i]t was clearly kind of designed… aimed to be the right wing meme culture that’s become extremely prevalent in the past few years. And some of the words that appeared on there were, using words like SJW… MSM… the New York Times doesn’t talk about the MSM. The independent conservative outlets are using that language.”

P. GREANVILLE—Editor’s Note:  Yesterday, on 23 June 2019 the CBS flagship program 60 Minutes rebroadcast a segment on climate change concerning a highly important topic: the US govenrmnet is being sued by young Americans for gross negligence (and actual aggressive contribution to) global warming. One might imagine that a respectable news platform like CBS would make every effort to faciltate dissemination of this critical message, but if you think that way you would be wrong. CBS is first and foremost a BUSINESS enterprise, and as such it dances to a different, often contradictory and downright antisocial tune. This simple fact was confirmed when we went looking this morning for the video clip corresponding to this story. a clip lasting about 12.5 minutes: It was nowhere to be found, except on CBS’s own sites, or available in various versions in severely abridged snippets unworthy of duplication by citizen journalist sites.

NOAM CHOMSKY—It should be a major headline every day that, alone in the world, the most powerful country in human history is not only refusing to participate in the efforts to deal with an existential crisis, but, in fact, is acting to exacerbate the crisis, pouring funds and money into more use of fossil fuels. Try and find an example in history of any political organization that was dedicated with passion to trying to destroy the prospect for organized human life. Even the Nazis were not doing that!

PETER KOENIG—By engaging Iran in a war, Washington knows they would also engage Russia and China – and that’s what they want. The two super powers are their last stronghold to conquer. And people who are narcissistic and full of themselves, as are the characteristics of neoliberals and neofascists, who want to run the show, they do not see their own limits – they see only their own power with impunity.
Its like a drug for them. They act under addiction… addiction for power and dominance. They are even ready to destroy themselves for power and dominance.