1 "Onto the stage stepped the online media personalities of Robert Fisk, from his vantage point in Beirut and Joshua Landis from his perch in Oklahoma. These 2 men, sitting so far removed from the actual events, pretended to know everything going on in Syria. British and...https://twitter.com/VanessaBeeley/status/1014148841468198913 …
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2 American readers were swayed by their deliberate one-sided explanations, while actual Syrians living inside Syria, who read in English online, were baffled. Syrians were wondering how Western writers could take the side of the terrorists who were foreigners...
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I don't get Landis' inclination to fudge news for the benefit of the State Dept./MIIC positions. I don't consider him to be totally owned, but the bias is there...
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moderately owned, because he sometimes seems reasonable? that how we manufacture consent, as Noam told us (and exemplifies)https://twitter.com/Cukullen/status/1167734626183303168 …
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