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Mainstream news dominated by Hong Kong while Yellow Vests largely ignored says Pilger

basil_hallwardAug 21, 2019, 4:43:27 PM
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Veteran foreign corespondent John Pilger, who has reported from, most of the world's trouble spots in the past fifty years launched a blistering attack on mainstearm print and broadcast news organisations in an interview with RT;s Going Underground talk show.

Western media now operate in an echo chamber of  authorized news and opinions opinions according to Pilger.  Just look at how differently protests in Hong Kong and France are covered, the veteran journalist said.

“The news is dominated by Hong Kong, and yet 29 miles from England is France and this extraordinary rebellion of the ‘yellow jackets’ that has produced an equally extraordinary violence from the state and has been virtually ignored,” Pilger complained to his hosts on the Going Underground program.

The explanation of course is that the US and its allies are in a state of virtual war against China, the goal of which is to “maintain supremacy in all areas of human affairs,” he said.

Absolutely correct, and of course in order to keep public opinion in line with the narrative it is necessary to spin the news to give an impression that everything id hunky dory in the nations of the western alliance.

I have to admit that along with my friends who put out a little News Blog titled The Daily Stirrer, I have been remiss in reporting the continuance of the Yellow Vests protests in France. The case is that since the last big demonstration on May Day this year, reports out of France have dried up (and as my daughter moved back to Britain to start a new job our local source is gone,) and what we could report is very similar every week. But in spite of the lack of detailed information we know France is in far greater chaos socially that Britain in the run up to Brexit.

See the full John Pilger interview on RT

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