Post by BhismaPost by Luca Morandini- Parlare di Novichockcome "gas" e' fuorviante,
Prendo atto delle correzioni, evidentemente National
Geographic non è una fonte accurata come quelle che citi tu.
Con tutto ciò, mi ero domandato come una setta di pazzi
giapponesi avesse potuto autoprodursi in un laboratorio fatto
in casa il Sarin per l'attentato alla metropolitana di Tokyo
negli anni '90 [1] mentre per l'agente utilizzato a Londra --
se le analisi sostenute dagli inglesi sono corrette -- è
stato possibile circoscrivere quasi immediatamente la
responsabilità ai Russi.
Mi pare che il quadro storico delineato da NG, malgrado le
imprecisioni, renda conto di questo, anche se secondo
dichiarazioni russe il Novichok sarebbe producibile anch'esso
con relativa facilità.
[2]
[1] https://goo.gl/4NwCSD
[2] https://goo.gl/thKpyN
Non è detto che i media USA siano fonti fededegne oltre ogni
dubbio...
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas
which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept
without question … Anyone who challenges the prevailing
orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising
effectiveness.”
George Orwell, 1945, ‘The Freedom of the Press’
When leading media platforms in new technology and innovation,
that proclaim to be the cutting-edge in tech and digital
culture commentary, earnestly promote establishment narratives
in deference to the US intelligence community, embrace a
pattern of dumbing down which is increasingly conspicuous, and
now, given the ominous proliferation of technological
trajectories which all of us will be required to adapt to
while approaching the third decade of the twenty-first
century: does a hyper-liberal bias pose as much of a problem
in tech journalism as it does in the larger sphere of
corporate mainstream press?
And when it is verging on the kind of mainstream media
malpractice seen in recent months, when major outlets would
rush to judgment over anti-Russian stories, why might this
become a more harmful problem in tech reporting than you might
think?
At a time when mainstream media has become an extension of the
military-industrial complex, when those who espouse freedom,
civil liberties, and human rights have given in to mass
surveillance, censorship, and perpetual war ��" by hyper-liberal
tech journalism I refer to the abundance of popular media
publications online (and in print) that collectively share a
focus on a less-formal alternative to traditional journals in
how they cover emerging technologies, innovation, multimedia,
and science.
My focus will be on a number of the popular (large audience)
platforms such as Wired, The Verge, Motherboard, Ars Technica,
and MIT Technology Review. Their editorial and proprietorial
bias, I posit, is increasingly unconcealed when they avoid
skepticism and embrace questionable initiatives like that of ��"
Bush-era neocon & neo-liberal interventionist partnership ��"
the Alliance for Securing Democracy, who assert that in “2016,
American democracy came under unprecedented attack. The
government of the Russian Federation attempted to weaken the
pillars of our democracy.”
At the time of writing, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
are stating without evidence that “there is no doubt that
Putin ordered the Russian government to mount an unprecedented
effort to undermine U.S. democracy and influence the outcome
of the 2016 U.S. presidential election on behalf of Donald
Trump.” And the Democratic National Committee have previously
responded to those suggesting an alternative to their
narrative with the line: “any suggestion otherwise is false
and is just another conspiracy theory…”
And so it is with this acceptance of an apparent Russian
interference, without plausible evidence to back up such
claims, and without exploring evidence to the contrary, that
the liberal bias of these platforms is defined.
Collectively, these publications have an exceptional reach. But
to many it is not surprising what passes for journalism in
tech when, for example, the CIA and NSA seed-funded and
oversaw the evolution of Google. The reality that companies
like Google and Facebook are so closely aligned with US
intelligence is not featured much in our controlled news
feeds; just as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who also owns the
Washington Post, is rarely mentioned in connection with his
$600 million contract with the CIA.
Of course this makes sense because these corporations control
the largest part of what we read, see, and hear online. And it
is noted often across independent media that in the US six
mega-corporations (Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, News
Corp., CBS Corporation, and NBC Universal) own the mass media,
controlling the newspapers, magazines, television networks,
studios, and the music and entertainment industries.
Considering all of this, how has tech journalism fared in the
first year of Donald Trump’s presidency? A useful lens through
which to begin studying this question is with one of the
biggest stories to be covered in tech journalism during that
time.
.....
It is important to keep in mind that warnings about fake news
often come from those who have misinformed us, and continue to
misinform us, of events in Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, and Syria.
Those loudly accusing Russia of ‘disinformation’ are the same
Western states pushing the most reprehensible campaign of
disinformation in living memory ��" that being the dominant
narrative around the conflict in Syria.
.....
Stenography journalism is one thing, but to see Russophobic
hysteria really take hold on these platforms then look to the
in-depth analyses on Russia’s technological capabilities as it
wages its sophisticated warfare on unfortunate Westerners. For
this there is Wired and MIT Technology Review. This is when
the narrative states that ‘their’ intelligence agencies are
dangerous whereas ‘our’ intelligence agencies are benign; and
the focus must be on ‘their’ war crimes instead of on ‘our’
war crimes.
.....
Ed Hannan is an independent Media and Culture Analyst,
Photographer, Designer, Musicologist and can be contacted
through his various social media pages.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/garbage-in-garbage-out-technology-journalism-as-a-microcosm-of-the-mass-media-crisis-93bd8a4ac37b
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