One of Venezuela’s media assets that I’ve identified is Mark Crispin Miller.
He’s a professor of media studies at NYU and in addition to his work with TeleSUR English, he is interviewed in the documentary Orwell Rolls in his Grave.
Given this and the recurrent invocations of George Orwell throughout the literature associated with Kultural Marxism, I thought I would give a quick look through his website and see if he had anything to say that I might be able to add to my case study on Orwellian Irony. I was not disappointed!
I found this link to a re-posted article about NewsGuard, a company which is working with different news organizations to do the analytical work previously done by newspaper and magazine editors prior to the Internet Age.
What I find most ironic is that the article does not at all engage with the substance of what NewsGuard does – basically checks it’s credibility, reliability transparency by determining if the website, amongst other factors:
- Regularly publishes false content
- Gathers and presents information responsibility
- Regularly corrects of clarifies errors
- Handles the difference between news and opinion responsibly
- Avoids deceptive headlines
- Discloses ownership, financing and potential conflicts of interests
- Clearly labels advertising
- Published names of the authors
Instead of actually stating what is going on, the article Mark Crispin Miller linked to (by another “journalist” associated with the Kultural Marxism network, Whitney Webb) instead engaged in fear-mongering.
What’s even more ironic than this, in light of the fact that he’s a professor?
I left a post raising some of the issues that I see as missing from the article and pointed out a factual inconsistency.
Individuals like myself are genuinely concerned with ensuring that honesty, integrity, and professionalism are values that are upheld within the media and journalism industry and the claim of conspiracy that this is all a matter of “big Silicon Valley tech companies in league with the U.S. government” that are trying to “censor” people is absurd.
Mark Crispin Miller’s response?
Not to allow the comment to be posted.
He’s certainly welcome to make that choice as his website is his platform, but so too am I free to share a portion of my comments below to show the sweet, sweet Orwellian irony of a 9/11 Truther refusing to let counterfactual evidence onto his website.
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