Name: How a Trump media dump mainstreamed theory that Chinese lab manufactured coronavirus - The Grayzone
Brand: thegrayzone.com
SKU: thegrayzone-com-22
Availability: OnlineOnly

critic

How a Trump media dump mainstreamed theory that Chinese lab manufactured coronavirus - The Grayzone

preview

With an apparent cue this April from a Trump administration desperate to shift the blame for its feckless coronavirus response, Fox News and the Washington Post have fished the story out of the right-wing’s political wet market and polished it off for public consumption.Though neither outlet published a single piece of concrete evidence to support their claims, the story has gained traction among even fervently anti-Trump elements of the political establishment.Having spent the past four years railing against the “fake news media” and “deep state” elements in the national security bureaucracy for their campaign to paint him and his allies as Russian collaborators, Trump is now employing the same tactics he condemned to ratchet up conflict with China. By planting fake news about Chinese evildoing through anonymous US officials and dodgy document dumps, the White House appears to hope that an escalated conflict abroad will paper over its failures at home.Trump’s deployment of conspiracy theories about a Chinese lab not only mirrors the tactics his opponents used to ramp up the Russiagate narrative, it recalls the successful disinformation campaign neoconservatives in the George W. Bush administration enacted when they planted a seemingly explosive revelation about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction with New York Times correspondent Judith Miller.The august reputation of the Times conferred legitimacy on the bunk WMD story, enabling the Bush administration to sell the invasion of Iraq to the Beltway political class across partisan lines. Miller was ultimately exposed as a fraudster and went to jail to protect her neocon sources, but not before thousands of American service members were killed in Iraq and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died in the chaos they spawned.Today, as the Trump administration ratchets up its propaganda war against China to a disturbing new level, a neoconservative columnist at the Washington Post is filling Miller’s shoes.Rogin’s article came in for strident criticism byMSNBC host also appeared to be taken in by Rogin’s conspiracy:&nbsp;(NED), he served asIn his zeal to spread Cold War conspiracism, Rogin conveniently neglected to mention the disclaimer.While countless journalists have been driven out of mainstream media for challenging pro-war narratives, the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin has made a career out of publishing sensationalist and often factually challenged neoconservative propaganda dressed up as reporting.After a at a Japanese daily newspaper and the embassy of Japan, Rogin earned his name carrying water for the US national security state. At the Daily Beast, he teamed up with fellow neocon Eli Lake on a claiming al-Qaeda’s “Legion of Doom” gathered together for a “conference call.”An obvious product of leaks by national security hardliners seeking to paint Obama as weak on terror, Rogin and Lake were to qualify the non-existent “call” as a “non-telephone communication” after it came in for mockery and criticism from national security experts.Two years later, Rogin another fake story featuring photos of a column of Russian tanks resupplying pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. The photos turned out to be years old, and depicted Russian tanks in South Ossetia.Rogin’s upward failing trajectory led him next to Bloomberg, where he and fellow neocon cadre Eli Lake were rewarded with to continue publishing stenography for foreign policy hardliners in Congress and the State Department.Since Rogin joined the Amazon-owned Washington Post in 2017, he has former White House national security advisor John Bolton to follow through on his “Troika of Tyranny” label with regime-change operations against socialist states in Latin America; on the US killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to call for Washington to murder Syrian President Bashar al-Assad; for the US to support extremist militias in the al-Qaeda-controlled Idlib province of Syria; and a former Obama official should be prosecuted in federal court for lobbying for the private Chinese communications firm, Huawei.At the start of what became a years-long to denigrate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for her opposition to the US proxy war on Syria, Rogin was compelled to publish a after accusing Gabbard of acting as “Assad’s mouthpiece in Washington.”Despite his long record of gaffes and feverish rhetoric, Josh Rogin has managed to mainstream a conspiracy theory dismissed by scientists as pure bunk. Embedded at a paper that has built its brand on opposition to Trump, he provided the Trump administration with the perfect vehicle to deliver New Cold War propaganda to the public. As the Post’s motto warns, “Democracy dies in darkness.”Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling ,&nbsp;, , and . He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including&nbsp;. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.Human Rights Watch está orgullosamente asumiendo el crédito por sanciones devastadoras contra Nicaragua, mientras busca…International media outlets spent weeks falsely implying Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega died of coronavirus... until…Labour Party officials undermined Jeremy Corbyn's leadership by trying to lose races and exploiting an…Millions of dollars of free earned advertising from his brother on CNN can not cover…The director of far-right Bolivian coup leader Camacho's presidential campaign threw a slander-laced tantrum against…A look at recent USAID schemes from Pakistan to Syria shows US empire can be…

With an apparent cue this April from a Trump administration desperate to shift the blame for its feckless coronavirus response, Fox News and the Washington Post have fished the story out of the right-wing’s political wet market and polished it off for public consumption.Though neither outlet published a single piece of concrete evidence to support their claims, the story has gained traction among even fervently anti-Trump elements of the political establishment.Having spent the past four years railing against the “fake news media” and “deep state” elements in the national security...

public

Journalist. Grad student. Focus on imperialism and Washington's new Cold War on China.

Ajit Singh

Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America's state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.

https://thegrayzone.com/author/max-blumenthal/

Max Blumenthal

Independent news and investigative journalism on empire || En español:  @GrayzoneES  || Videos: https://youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ

How a Trump media dump mainstreamed theory that Chinese lab manufactured coronavirus - The Grayzone

No article scores yet.

CRITIC REVIEWS

PUBLIC REVIEWS