2023-05-24

Worthy

Covid silence and how the media works

This is the broad context for the media silence on covid. It’s over, and they helped make it over. And if something’s over, it can’t be news. The dynamic is slightly different for the climate crisis, where there is no denial about it being an ongoing event, so we do get sporadic coverage. The omissions here are often of a subtler form and consist primarily of failing to platform research and experts who advocate solutions that do not conform to a capitalist economic growth agenda.
Australia’s Creepy Covid Cops: On the heels of an expose down under, new documents show how America’s Five Eyes partner cast a broad net over pandemic-related speech.

show a stricter, more nakedly dystopian approach to speech control than we found in communications from American intelligence agencies in earlier Twitter Files reports. The pucker factor will be high when you read that content-zapping requests down under came from something called the “Social Cohesion Division” of the DHA’s “Extremism Insights and Communication” office.

First-ever photo of the GRU hacker unit commander wanted by the FBI
Russian fighter jet intercepts US bombers on first day of European deployment
Speaking of the Russian Navy - CDR Salamander

The US Navy decided that this was the warship they wanted to represent the US Navy and the nation it serves. This was an act of commission - of intent - as conscious of an act as that which ensured that in the last few years that warship was not manned, trained, equipped, or maintained at a level which would allow for basic maintenance. Even as she got ready to get underway, no one stopped her. No one tried a last minute fix. The whole evolution has an ambiance of, “Who cares. Send her.”