{"id":121524,"date":"2019-04-25T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=121524"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:40:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:40:31","slug":"cia-mockingbird-media-fox-guarding-the-msm-hen-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=121524","title":{"rendered":"CIA <i>Mockingbird Media<\/i> Fox Guarding the MSM Hen House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_79514\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5cc0f6d3fc7e93bb368b459e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79514\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79514\" src=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5cc0f6d3fc7e93bb368b459e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-79514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Pixabay \/ rawpixel<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h2>Media trust ranker NewsGuard launches in UK by greenlighting tabloids, adding ex-NATO chief to board<\/h2>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>NewsGuard, the trust-rating outfit that continues to approve of US media that spread the Russiagate conspiracy theory, has expanded operations to the UK and added a former NATO chief to its advisory board.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing its UK debut on Wednesday, NewsGuard bragged about including Anders Fogh Rasmussen to their advisory board, describing him only as \u201c<em>former prime minister of Denmark<\/em>.\u201d While he did serve in that capacity between 2001 and 2009, his most recent public office was secretary-general of NATO (2009-2014), which NewsGuard omits from their tweet \u2013 but not from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsguardtech.com\/our-advisory-board\/\">Advisory Board page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NewsGuard announces UK Launch to tackle misinformation; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmy_wales?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jimmy_wales<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndersFoghR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AndersFoghR<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sambrook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sambrook<\/a> join global advisory board. <\/p>\n<p>Full details <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oqa4nur41T\">https:\/\/t.co\/oqa4nur41T<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uVkC4aTRbU\">pic.twitter.com\/uVkC4aTRbU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NewsGuard (@NewsGuardRating) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsGuardRating\/status\/1121081328965947392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen\u2019s colleagues on NewsGuard\u2019s board include former US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/427967-richard-stengel-propaganda-talk\/\">self-described<\/a> former \u201c<em>chief propagandist<\/em>\u201d for the US government Richard Stengel.<\/p>\n<p>Other new additions to the board are Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Richard Sambrook, former \u201c<em>Director of Global News for the BBC<\/em>\u201d who now provides \u201c<em>editing and editorial guidance<\/em>\u201d for NewsGuard\u2019s \u201c<em>nutrition labels.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those labels rank news outlets \u043en a number of categories, which are then combined into a trustworthiness score, expressed as a green checkmark or red \u201c<em>x<\/em>.\u201d There is a certain pattern in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/448555-newsguard-app-fake-news\/\">which kinds of outlets<\/a> get the former and which get the latter.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkDiStef\/status\/1121062888914001920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1121062888914001920&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F457468-newsguard-nato-russiagate-fake-news%2F<\/p>\n<p>Three major UK tabloids \u2013 The Sun, the Daily Mirror, and the Daily Star \u2013 all got an overall \u201c<em>green<\/em>\u201d rating, for instance. While NewsGuard claims to be rating outlets rather than individual articles, if you have their extension installed in your browser (and it comes by default with Microsoft\u2019s Edge), you\u2019ll see a NewsGuard symbol next to actual story headlines in your searches.<\/p>\n<p>Media critic John Nolte of Breitbart \u2013 in the \u201c<em>red<\/em>\u201d category just like RT \u2013 pointed out on Monday that NewsGuard\u2019s seal of approval can be found on nine of the top 12 debunked stories pushing the \u2018<em>Russiagate<\/em>\u2019 conspiracy theory. He provided screenshots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blacklisters at Microsoft\u2019s NewsGuard Still Label Most Debunked Russia Hoaxes as \u2018Credible\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xmjJ5qkiAf\">https:\/\/t.co\/xmjJ5qkiAf<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BreitbartNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NolteNC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Allum Bokhari (@AllumBokhari) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllumBokhari\/status\/1120774657026793474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even after the 448-page report by special counsel Robert Mueller spelled out \u201c<em>no collusion<\/em>\u201d between US President Donald Trump and Russia, multiple mainstream media outlets that have pushed this conspiracy for almost three years have refused to apologize or correct their reporting, claiming instead it was \u201c<em>mostly<\/em>\u201d proven correct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>That big, green checkmark of approval still sits next to some of the most misleading stories in history<\/em>,\u201d Nolte wrote, adding, \u201c<em>In all my decades of following the media, I have never seen a more Orwellian attempt to mislead people by deliberately labeling lies as truth and truth as lies<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/457468-newsguard-nato-russiagate-fake-news\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/457468-newsguard-nato-russiagate-fake-news\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}