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Joint UK-Canada Event Littered With Insidious Undertones

OffGuardian already covered the Global Media Freedom Conference, our article Hypocrisy Taints UK's Media Freedom Conference, was meant to be all there was to say. A quick note on the obvious hypocrisy of this event. But, in the writing, I started to see more than that. This event is actually"creepy.

Let's just look back at one of the four "main themes" of this conference:

"building trust in media and countering disinformation"

"Countering disinformation"? Well,that's just another word for censorship.

This is proven by their refusal to allow Sputnik or RT accreditation. They claim RT "spreads disinformation" and they "countered" that by barring them from attending.

"Building trust"? In the post-Blair world of PR newspeak, "building trust" is just another way of saying "making people believe us" (the word usage is actually interesting, building trust not earning trust).

The whole conference is shot through with this language that just feels---off.

Here is CNN's Christiane Amanpour:

"Our job is to be truthful, not neutral--- we need to take a stand for the truth, and never to create a false moral or factual equivalence."

Being "truthful not neutral" is one of Amanpour's personal sayings, she obviously thinks it's clever.

Of course, what it is is NewSpeak for "bias".

Refusing to cover evidence of The White Helmets staging rescues, Israel arming ISIS or other inconvenient facts will be defended using this phrase they will literally claim to only publish "the truth", to get around impartiality; and then set about making up whatever "truth" is convenient.

Oh, and if you don't know what "creating a false moral equivalence is; here I'll demonstrate:

MSM: Putin is bad for shutting down critical media.

OffG: But you're supporting RT being banned and Wikileaks being shut down.
BBC: No. That's not the same.
OffG: It seems the same.
BBC: It's not. You're creating a false moral equivalence.

Understand now? You "create a false moral equivalence" by pointing out mainstream media's double standards.

Other ways you could mistakenly create a "false moral equivalence":

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[Republished from Off-Guardian] 

Kit Knightly is co-editor of OffGuardian. The Guardian banned him from commenting. Twice. He used to write for fun, but now he's forced to out of a near-permanent sense of outrage.


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