The Diabolical Main Stream Media

The main stream media in the US has become a non Constitutional diabolic agency.  While thumping their chests claiming that they have rights to publish what they want, they ignore the purpose of the Press defined in the US Constitution.  That purpose is to inform the Public, not to lie to the public.

What the Press is not supposed to do is manipulate the public by fabricating narratives and cherry pick content to support those fabricated narratives.  Yet this is what the majority of broadcast media has become.  This narrative fabrication is primarily the media supporting the Progressive Left, but it's not theirs alone to own.  Main Stream Media in the US today is almost all Progressive Left, so it's the easiest to find.

MSM lies and manipulates opinion in three very diabolical way.

Method One: Complete Omission of News
Media cherry picks stories in general.  If major news happens which does not fit their narrative, they simply don't report the story.  Instead, yesterdays talking points are repeated and reinforced.  Sadly people don't know what was omitted.  An allegation of trust brought up yesterday may very well be corrected today if the story were known, yet if the narrative is to generate distrust the story never makes print or broadcast.

Method Two: Injecting allegations for facts and providing insinuation that the allegations are facts.  Most people rely on a single source of News.  Allegations being substituted as facts, and treated as facts, provides and unrealistic view.  This method is diabolical primarily because of the amount of media collusion we see today.  MSNBC and CNN for example run the same stories with different people presenting them.  Even if a person is to watch or listen to more than a source of "news" they will hear the same story.  Confirmation bias is much easier than contemplating new thoughts, and the media knows this.

Method Three: Cherry Picking information and presenting it as fact, without context or full set of facts.  This is the most diabolical type of lie because there is a thread of truth in the stories.  If you happen to read transcripts and listen to full speeches of Donald Trump during the Primaries and General election, these are easy to see.  Unfortunately, there is a tremendous amount of bias placed on anyone looking or listening to full sets of facts by this same agency.  People are literally bullied into not looking into facts, and bullied for having a different opinion.

At this point in time, the monopolized main stream media deserves no protection under the Constitution when printing or broadcasting propaganda.  While many of the people on MSM are not actually journalists, they call themselves names and behave as if they were journalists.  I question whether or not these commentators do so out of guilt.

I remember a time when the Journalists in this country at least pretended to abide by the Journalist's Creed, but sadly many of the people claiming to journalists behave just like the commentators.

The creed as authored by Walter Williams, first dean of the Missouri School of Journalism.

I believe in the profession of journalism.

I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of a lesser service than the public service is betrayal of this trust.

I believe that clear thinking and clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism.

I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.

I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible.

I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one’s own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another’s instructions or another’s dividends.

I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that the supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.

I believe that the journalism which succeeds best — and best deserves success — fears God and honors Man; is stoutly independent, unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power, constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always respectful of its readers but always unafraid, is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance and, as far as law and honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an equal chance; is profoundly patriotic while sincerely promoting international good will and cementing world-comradeship; is a journalism of humanity, of and for today’s world.

The real issue with the leaks of General Flynn

There is a major difference between the hacks of the DNC and Hillary Clinton, and the hack resulting in the leaked transcript of General Flynn.  This difference should alarm all Americans.  As an IT security expert for nearly thirty years I will display the difference and try to simplify the two hacks.  The difference in this case is that General Flynn's hack is an inside job, initiated and acted on by at least one rogue agent in the US Government.  The leak is not the first inside job by someone inside the Government, and until the administration and FBI can find the culprit or culprits probably won't be the last.

Of course the Democratic Party, and Corrupt US Media have turned this all into a political garbage fest, and they will wallow in it for as long as possible.  They already stink, and seem to enjoy the smell.

Hillary Clinton's illegal server (sorry if you don't like the adjective but it was) was found to be running un-patched version of Microsoft's Exchange.  This was according to the FBI analysis of the server.  The particular version was vulnerable to exploits with simple tools available as a commodity for hackers.  Claims of "There is no evidence it was hacked" are as moronic as you can hear.  The goal of a hacker on a high value target, like the Clinton mail server, is not to get caught.  The hackers would have setup a persistent connection to move data off of the server at will, and most likely in real time.  Leaving love notes, or "ha ha we hacked you" would result in removing access and patching the server.  The majority of hacked servers run for months without knowledge, and in most cases high value targets run for years without the hacker being detected.

The hacking of her server was not just likely, but the FBI released reports stating that it probably was.  It was an amateur setup as well as illegal.  No special software was needed, and very little skills were needed.

The DNC email hack was even worse, but before we get there: I have yet to see any proof, or even evidence, that the Phishing mails were related to Russia.  What was related to "Russia" was a hackers name on software used to break into boxes and some emails.  Unfortunately for the people claiming "Russia did it", these tools were also released to the hacker community by the developer.  Not a Russian, but a Romanian, and quite possibly a group instead of an individual.  The Federal Government did NOT claim Russia did it, because the FBI was denied access to analyze the servers, even though they requested it.  There were two independent agencies paid by the DNC to perform the analysis, meaning they could have easily been incentivized to claim a foreign intelligence agency was responsible for political purposes.

I did some analysis myself of the hacks.  The answering server for the Phishing emails was located in France, and Name Services information was also hosted in France.  The purchase of the Domain was in France, the the admin was listed in the US.  That does not mean France or the US were involved, because with Internet technology it's very hard to say.  To be frank, you need to catch hacks in the act and be able to back trace their connections.  It simply means that there is no indication that "Russia did it."  Claims to that fact are quite simply dishonest and lack any fact.

The amount of work and knowledge it takes to generate official looking emails for Phishing is trivial, and I could teach anyone to do it in 5 minutes.  But I don't.

As with Hillary's server, this was an amateur job and simply poor security.  No special skills were needed, and no special software.

Now lets jump to the leaks coming out of the White House, why and how they are different.  Wiretapping US Citizens is against at a half dozen Federal Laws.  The "leaks" from the White House came from Wiretaps which were done without warrant.  The act of wiretapping an Official in office is considerably worse.

In addition to the illegal wiretapping, the calls were transcribed.  What is interesting here for people to know is that the transcripts have not been leaked.  What was done is fragments were cherry picked and allegations made.  If there was actually wrong doing, the proper action would not be to leak to the Press "anonymously" but to turn the information over to the US DOJ for processing.  If there was actual wrong doing, the transcripts which were cherry picked for allegations would have been leaked to show beyond a doubt that there was wrong doing.

For the people worried that President Trump and his Administration talked to ambassadors in foreign Governments, including Russia, don't be.  There is nothing illegal about that act, and every prior candidate and their team has done the same.  In 2008 Candidate Barack Obama sent an ambassador to Iran to talk to the Mullahs and told them not to negotiate with then President Bush because his administration was coming into office and would give them better deals.  Candidate Barack Obama flew to dozens of foreign countries to gain support for himself and his campaign, including nations Hostile to the US.

Lies by omission are the absolute worst kind of lie, because people have no chance to know the truth without the full set of facts.  Lies by omission are what the Main Stream Media in the US has become exceptional at.  Yes, that is right.  They are professional liars, and there is plenty of evidence and reporting already out there to back that assertion.

If you happen to still believe anything you hear on main stream media, I have pity on you but will ask you to open your eyes and find facts.  What we are seeing is an open attempt to destroy the administration that the people elected.  It may take a few minutes longer to fact find, but you will find virtually none on TV or Radio.