{"id":2596,"date":"2018-08-28T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2018-08-28T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:49:47","slug":"news-is-not-your-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"News Is Not Your Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/notyourfriend\/notyourfriend.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/notyourfriend\/notyourfriend650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"635\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>While the US Left was busy filling every pair of BVD&#8217;s in the drawer <\/strong>over Alex Jones, Facebook was busy suppressing Leftist media outlets like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/ali-abunimah\/why-did-facebook-ban-electronic-intifadas-ad-killing-gaza\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Intifada<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/opinion\/Why-Did-Facebook-Purge-TeleSUR-English-20180816-0016.html\" target=\"_blank\">TeleSur<\/a> &#8212; with the blessing and assistance of right-wing think tank and NATO lobbyists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/facebook-partners-hawkish-atlantic-council-nato-lobby-group-protect-democracy\/242289\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic Council.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rightists own pretty much all the major media in this country, drench the airwaves in toxic right-wing talking points, and scream the loudest about &#8220;censorship&#8221; while, in the meantime, Leftist journalists and publications &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/16\/new-facebook-alliance-endangers-access-to-news-about-latin-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">doing the job that journalists should be doing<\/a> &#8212; take most of the heat from rightists and centrists in the major US media and political establishment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/notyourfriend\/facebookfakenewsbillboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/>&#8220;Fake News Is Not Your Friend&#8221; shout the oppressively bland billboards in our cities; it&#8217;s perfectly obvious now that the subtext here is actually just &#8220;News Is Not Your Friend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;11 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/notyourfriend\/notyourfriend.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 762kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the US Left was busy filling every pair of BVD&#8217;s in the drawer over Alex Jones, Facebook was busy suppressing Leftist media outlets like Electronic Intifada and TeleSur &#8212; with the blessing and assistance of right-wing think tank and NATO lobbyists The Atlantic Council. Rightists own pretty much all the major media in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[929,266,527,927,292],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","tag-atlantic-council","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}