{"id":5858,"date":"2018-12-23T05:59:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T05:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arielsheen.com\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2019-04-15T19:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T19:51:57","slug":"commenting-on-ben-nortons-retweet-of-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/23\/commenting-on-ben-nortons-retweet-of-newsweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Correcting Ben Norton’s Retweet Commentary of Newsweek"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TeleSUR’s links to Russia’s maskirovka projects are\u00a0now being admitted by those that are part of Venezuela’s\u00a0Kultural\u00a0Marxism network (with some editorial assistance that adds integrity to Ben’s reporting via redaction).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Newsweek is finally starting to catch on to what I’ve already been saying now for over a year: TeleSUR is a shameless ASS (Anti-Social Socialist) propaganda network.<\/p>\n

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In reality, this isn’t “news”. The two countries have been partners for a long time – both in the matter of sales of military technology and media.<\/p>\n

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The two countries have been involved in a media partnership since 2015.<\/p>\n

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Ben Norton’s Original Tweet, for context.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Given Ben Norton’s cosy relation to the Maduro regime, it’s unsurprising that he would share misinformation to his followers on Twitter.<\/p>\n

What is surprising is that he would post something<\/a> that so clearly shows his poor ability to read and interpret texts. If you read the original article on\u00a0Newsweek<\/a>, it’s clear that the author of it, Cristina Maza, never claims that TeleSUR is Russian.<\/p>\n

If Ben Norton reads articles like this – which is written at an 8th grade reading level – one can’t but wonder what else he’s getting wrong in his “reporting”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsweek is finally starting to catch on to what I’ve already been saying now for over a year: TeleSUR is a shameless ASS (Anti-Social Socialist) propaganda network. In reality, this isn’t “news”. The two countries have been partners for a long time – both in the matter of sales of military technology and media. The … Continue reading “Correcting Ben Norton’s Retweet Commentary of Newsweek”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98,23],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telesur-english","category-venezuela","tag-ben-norton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8e7kf-1wu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5901,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions\/5901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}