USA: only 23% trust the media

Only some 23% of US citizens trust their media, according to a recent poll by Gallup. 

Among non-elderly age segments the trust is even lower: only 20% trust TV news among those under 65 (same for all age segments in this group), while the elderly trust TV only at levels of 30%. Similarly the less educated segments are somewhat more credulous (28% trust TV news) than the more educated ones (14-15%). 

While the average of trust is similarly low towards TV and newspapers (23%), the structure of trust towards the written media is more complicated along age and education segments.

While Gallup claims that the trend has "worsened" since 2007, in fact the distrust trend began around 2001, remaining somewhat stable since 2007, when it reached its lowest value: 22%, just barely below the current one.

Bulgaria: 50,000 march through Sofia against mafioso totalitarian slide

The protest began gathering 7000 people but soon their numbers soared to 50,000. The protests before the Bulgarian Government have been going on for four days already. 

Protesters denounced the government as "mafia" and "trash", demanding their resignation. They also blocked a major road junction. 

The protests were triggered by the appointment as top chief of the secret services of the controversial capitalist and deputy Delyan Peevski, who controls most of the mass media in the Balcanic nation.

Peevski soon resigned but this has not calmed the popular anger, which perceives the government as a mafioso gang opposed to the popular interest. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Greece: state TV occupied by workers and citizens

The Greek state TV (ERT), which was shut down overnight by government decree, has been occupied by citizens and workers and reaching at least to much of Athens, which holds 40% of the population of the Mediterranean nation. 

Thousands gathered around ERT

Dissident economist Yanis Varoufakis tells at his blog how he was interviewed for the first time in years (he was blacklisted) in the state television. He also mentions how thousands and thousands were gathering around the TV station in what may well be yet another glorious chapter of the Greek popular uprising against the dictatorship of Capital. 

Greece closes state TV overnight

From Yanis Varoufakis' blog:

ERT (Greek state tv-radio) is dead: A blacklisted person’s lament

A few hours ago, the Greek government announced that state television and radio channels would be silenced at midnight. No public debate, no debate in Parliament, no warning. Nothing. ERT, the Greek version of the BBC, will simply fold its tent and steal into the night. As probably the only Greek commentator to have been blacklisted by ERT over the past two years, I feel I have the moral authority to cry out against ERT’s passing. To shout from the rooftops that its murder by our troika-led government is a crime against public media that all civilised people, the world over, should rise up against.

It was two years ago that the then Greek Minister of Propaganda (official title: ‘Minister for the Press’ and Government Spokesperson’) ordered the producer of an ERT(Greek state) television program never to invite me again on state television. How do I know? He did so in my presence...

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In view of the above, you may think, dear reader, that the government’s decision to close down ERT tonight would leave me cold; even enthuse me. Not in the slightest! For whatever the faults of our public broadcaster, however suggestible its producers may be to government officials, our public media are the only chance we have of news, current affairs and cultural programs that run through audiences as a civilising force. Our only possibility of programs that are provided for their contents’ worth, packing values that are irreducible to prices and advertising revenues.

Naturally, public media can be terrible. Just like public schools and hospitals, even the public system of justice and the courts, can be awful. Still, public media offer us (like public schools, courts and hospitals) a shot at civilising our social world. Without them, we are at the mercy of the Rupert Murdochs of the planet who, having heard of the Greek government’s decision, are surely getting nasty ideas on how the Greek model can be exported to Britain (BBC beware!), to Australia (ABC you are next!), to everywhere there is money to be made from dismantling public media.

So, coming from the heart of one that has blacklisted for two years by ERT, I must say: At the stroke of midnight tonight, when ERT television and radio channels go silent, we shall all become poorer citizens. All over the planet.

→ full article at Yanis Varoufakis' blog. 

Pathetic: Erdogan's welcome image was photoshopped to make it look less empty

If there was any doubt about Erdogan being finished, this clarifies it pretty much: the lackeyish media had to photoshop the image of his 'welcome back' act at the airport, so few people was in it:

This is just the swan song of a pathetic dictator (elected maybe but dictator anyhow). The need to resort to pathetic tricks like these are always a clear symptom of the weakness of the system.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

The media treats Nazi violence much worse than individual or "terrorist" attacks

An interesting remark by Yesca (Castilian revolutionary youth movement) upon the murder of Clément Méric:

It is very curious how the mass media give these issues very low profile and priority in comparison to the coverage provided to attacks of "lone wolves" or Muslim fundamentalists. The far right has demonstrated once and again its dangerousness for the working people, attacking especially the most conscious and combative individuals on social and labor rights. We are not talking of isolated cases, but of a continuous trickle of aggressions, attacks and murders by well organized groups, which are widely ignored or even protected by the resorts of the State. That is maybe the reason why the deaths of antifascists are dispatched with such a minimal media repercussion.

Source: Madriz Rebelde[es].

Syria: Meissan warns of NATO plans to take over TV waves

Research journalist Thierry Meissan thinks that NATO will take over Syrian TV media, maybe as soon as June 15, using only electronic means. That way:

... the Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, President Al-Assad fleeing, the rebels gathering in the big city centers, and a new government installing itself in the presidential palace.

Source and more details: Voltaire Network.

London "terrorist attack" clearly a farce

While the mainstream media continues with their mercenary pipelining of such obviously manipulated information, I can't but find more and more evidence that the Woolworth attack was a blatantly obvious farce. 

First of all a second video has surfaced with the footage of the alleged attacker speaking to a camera without any sign of blood on his hands, so now it seems it was not dry paint as I first imagined but mere mediocre photoshopping. 

"Blood" here, nothing here... it must be magic!

I just watched this video a moment ago but has now become "private" (censorship?) In any case you can watch it at Webguerrillero by the moment (embedded soon enough).

Second there are plenty of images of the apparent victim without a single drop of blood apparent. Furthermore: no blood is seen on the road (where the body lays) nor on the nearby sidewalk. However later, when police and emergency services were already there, a track of blood appeared out of nothing on the sidewalk, just in front of the crashed car. 

And nope, that late track of blood is not either blood from the "shot" attackers, because they were "shot" (no blood again, no videos either except a messy police air video and the police report) at another spot, on the road near the opposite sidewalk and what seems to be a small park of grass. 

The oil track of the crashed car seems the only thing legit in this ridiculous scam.

The level of incredulity is so high that even the usually conservative Huffington Post is questioning the official version as am unbelievable charade.

Truth Frequency Radio finds the false flag attack so extremely poor quality that they think that the Monty Python did much better in this gag:

In spite of all, our "free media" (ahem) keep repeating the official version, showing that they have nothing of free or even journalist at all, but making true Goebbel's motto: a lie repeated a thousand times is a truth.

Never mind our political leaders like that babyface of Cameron: they have been shamelessly lying all the time, they would probably feel ashamed of saying a single truth, even if accidentally.

Sources: Webguerrillero[es], Truth Frequency Radio.