Media Cog

Meredith Corp. and Koch Money Buys Time Inc., ‘Left’ Goes Bonkers

21st Century Wire says…
News broke Sunday night that Meredith Corp., publisher of Better Homes & Gardens and other popular magazine brands, agreed to purchase all of Time Inc.’s assets in a cash deal valued at $2.8 billion.
Grabbing all the headlines is the $650 million investment from Koch Equity Development (KED). This is the private equity firm of Charles and David Koch, aka the “Koch Brothers.”

Pay to Play Censorship? Facebook Wants to Charge Publishers Access to Their Newsfeed

Ever since the defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016, Silicon Valley firms like Google and Facebook – all of who backed Hillary Clinton and ploughed huge sums of money into her losing campaign – have been on a mission to try and marginalise and disappear alternative news content which runs counter to the mainstream party line.
Zuckerberg: Sold-out his use base for fame and fortune.
Now Facebook wants to charge publishers and businesses who want their content to be visible in the site’s News Feed section.

‘Man Bites Dog’: New York Times Does Some Actual Journalism

What this story shows is that while there are some conscientious journalists at the New York Times who have made a concerted effort to discover the truth about President Trump’s somewhat outlandish claim that the Cuban government have deployed sonic attacks against US diplomats in Havana – the paper’s editors also ran with the predictable mainstream conspiracy theory that Putin might be behind this malicious high-tech assault on US foreign service officials.

Media’s ‘Blame Russia’ Smear Campaign Now Being Used to Discredit Corbyn and Labour

MEDIA MEDDLING: Jeremy Corbyn is now being smeared by Tory MP Michael Gove with the help of pro-war media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
21st Century Wire says…
As the wheels continue to come off of the Russiagate bandwagon, establishment media operatives are now resorting to more desperate tactics to try and defame any dissenters who veer away from the official party-line on all things Russian.