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[Mark Kohut]

And as Mahnke so gently shows, Thomas thinks his sarcastic slamming of two
major US newspapers shows how the REAL TRUTHS are
not reported. What he is not smart enough to see, because of his
self-chosen blinders of understanding real reporting---did he ever learn
where his early Vietnam reporting hero Sy Hersch published (and got back-up
from?)---is that the NYT and WA PO have not published (yet)
this "story"  of why the Ukrainian spokesperson was 'fired' because they
seem to have never published her unconfirmable "propaganda".
They used other reliable sources for what they have written about
atrocities and carefully indicate the epistemological statuses. Her firing
is
not "news" to them.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:57 PM Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> I took you to imply that the New York Times has reported that Russia has
> used mass rape as a weapon of war, although perhaps I misunderstood you.
> Curious, I searched the Times. The only articles I see note allegations of
> multiple rapes, but do not suggest they are fact, and also note allegations
> about similar conduct by Ukraine. FWIW.
>
> Sent from an iPhone; pls xcse typos.
>
> > On Jun 10, 2022, at 3:25 PM, Thomas Eckhardt via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
> >
> > For those who get their information from Twitter:
> >
> > The claim that Russian troops committed rapes of women and children "as
> a weapon of war" has been debunked. The human rights commissioner
> responsible for these claims has been relieved from her duties:
> >
> > "The top Ukrainian official who was fired for spreading misinformation
> has admitted that she lied about Russians committing mass rape in order to
> convince western countries to send more weapons to Ukraine."
> >
> >
> https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ousted-ukrainian-official-breaks-silence-admits-she-lied-about-mass-rape-russians?fbclid=IwAR2zCEO5-Fq05ERpMUHkSqkb-b2JMs5xJ0mrWbgS1hYLTOl2yzEIge-WgBk
> >
> > Don't tell me that Zerohedge provides "Russian misinformation" - tell me
> that they are wrong, and prove it.
> >
> > Horrible things happen in war, and I don't doubt that there are
> atrocities happening on both sides of the conflict. This claim, however,
> was false. It was atrocity propaganda of the most blatant kind. Kudos to
> the Ukrainian parliament for insisting on factual evidence.
> >
> > No, you won't read this in the NYT or the WP.
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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>