Putin & Trump and Journalists

[Mark Thibodeau]

Show me evidence that the White Helmets have "produced hundreds of
fake photographs" of children being pulled from the rubble, please.

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> 'The real reason that reporting of the Syrian conflict
>> has been so inadequate is that Western news organisations have almost
>> entirely outsourced their coverage to the rebel side.'
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> This is certainly true but does not go far enough. The "activists",
> "civilian defense workers" and "citizen journalists" who provide information
> to the Western media are not only embedded with the rebels but have been
> prepared for this job and are paid enormous sums by the West to perform it.
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> The Western mainstream media duly report everything these embedded citizen
> journalists or first responders tell them as fact. The White Helmets have
> produced hundreds of fake photographs of children "pulled from the rubble".
> Even if it isn't explicitly mentioned, through their publication by
> supposedly respectable newspapers like the NYT, the Guardian or Die Zeit
> these fake photographs have become documents of Russian and Syrian barbarism
> in the public perception. Politicians then quote from the newspapers and add
> some buzzwords: Guernica, Ruanda, Srebrenica. A German talkshow host even
> managed to mention the Holocaust...
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> This is war propaganda of the highest order, provided as a public service by
> an enormously sophisticated and well-oiled propaganda machine. It is Frank
> Wisner's "mighty Wurlitzer" on steroids.
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> http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/how-white-helmets-became-international-heroes-while-pushing-us-military
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> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/aleppo-fake-footage-children-five-peopele-arrested-egyptian-police-a7486541.html
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> http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/24/middleeast/mannequin-challenge-white-helmets-syria/
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> http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/09/20/exclusive-aleppo-media-centre-funded-by-french-foreign-office-eu-and-us/
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> (Beeley is partisan, so take that last link with a grain of salt as far
> as her take on the actions of the Syrian government are concerned. Her
> research on the sources of funding for the White Helmets and the Aleppo
> Media Center is solid. Please note also that, while many of the photographs
> taken by the White Helmets are certainly fakes, some are not. Nobody denies
> that many children have actually been wounded and killed during the bombing
> of East Aleppo.)
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