Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
April 9th, 2014Via: Reader Supported News: Ever since Bill Clinton sat in the Oval Office, Washington and its European allies have worked openly and covertly to extend NATO to the Russian border and Black Sea Fleet, provoking a badly wounded Russian bear. They have also worked to bring Ukraine and its Eastern European neighbors into the neoliberal […]
Leaders of Teaching Hospitals Have Close Ties to Drug Companies
April 3rd, 2014Via: ProPublica: Pharmaceutical company payments to doctors extend far beyond rank-and-file clinicians — and deep into the leadership of America’s teaching hospitals, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center examined the boards of the 50 largest drug […]
This Is a Generic Brand Video
March 26th, 2014Vis: Dissolve.com / Vimeo: This Is a Generic Brand Video from Dissolve on Vimeo. Research Credit: JL
The Most Popular Show In America Is Basically NSA Propaganda
March 25th, 2014Via: Business Insider: NCIS and its sibling NCIS: Los Angeles are the top-rated dramas on television, a distinction they have held for several years. Next season there will be a third iteration, which ones hopes will be titled NCIS: Spinoff. As Quartz’s Jason Lynch notes, viewers love these formulaic procedurals—while critics ignore them. But what […]
Bloomberg’s Censorship of China Story
March 25th, 2014Via: New York Times: Ben Richardson, an editor at large in Asia at Bloomberg News, announced his resignation on Monday, citing the company’s handling of an investigative report in China late last year. He is the third reporter or editor to leave the organization since several news organizations reported last November that Bloomberg had declined […]
Turkey Tries to Block Twitter
March 22nd, 2014Via: BBC: Some users trying to open the twitter.com website are apparently being redirected to a statement by Turkey’s telecommunications regulator. It cites a court order to apply “protection measures” on the website. This comes after PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “wipe out Twitter” following damaging allegations of corruption in his inner circle. The […]
UK Government Wants ‘Unsavoury’ Web Content Censored
March 18th, 2014Via: Wired: The UK minister for immigration and security has called for the government to do more to deal with “unsavoury”, rather than illegal, material online. James Brokenshire made the comments to the Financial Times in an interview related to the government’s alleged ability to automatically request YouTube videos be taken down under “super flagger” […]
Obama Administration Cites ‘National Security’ More Than Ever to Censor, Deny Records
March 18th, 2014No more secrecy: Your what hurts? Via: AP: The Obama administration more often than ever censored government files or outright denied access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press. The administration cited more legal exceptions it said justified withholding […]
Russia Blocks Access to Independent News Sites
March 14th, 2014Via: EFF: Russia’s government has escalated its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the slimmest excuse of preventing unauthorized protests and enforcing house arrest regulations. Today, the country’s ISPs have received orders to block a list of major news sites and system administrators have been instructed to […]
Obama Is Complicit in Suppressing the Truth About Torture
March 5th, 2014Via: The Atlantic: President Obama is complicit in suppressing the truth about CIA torture of prisoners. That’s clear from the fact that the Senate intelligence committee’s $40 million, 6,000-page torture report is still being suppressed 15 months after being adopted.
