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Friday, September 4, 2020

YELLOWJOURNALISM PANDEMIC-- Goldberg & The Atlantic--ELECTION 2020

        "...a so-called four-star general with second-hand information from yet another source who 'declined to comment.'..."
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LATE BULLETIN--2300 HRS PDT-- The Yellow Journalism Pandemic sweeping across mainstream media--Other media entities are coming out with similar unsubstantiated reports regarding the scandal, using the same tactics of non-existent anonymous officials:

Melania joins fights back against Trump called war heroes 'losers'

President Trump called US soldiers killed or injured in battle 'losers' and 'suckers', several senior administration sources disclosed to the Atlantic The Atlantic report says Trump cancelled a visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Paris in 2018 because he was worried about his hair in the rain He reportedly asked: 'Why should I go to that cemetery?

     " Fox News independently confirmed all of the details in the Atlantic's report, with their national security correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, appearing on the network to say her sources had told her it was entirely true. Griffin said that she was told the president did indeed decide he didn't want to attend the rainy ceremony commemorating U.S. war dead in France. 'The president drives a lot,' Griffin said she was told. 'The other world leaders drove to the cemeteries. He just didn't want to go.' Two former senior officials also confirmed to her that he disparaged war dead. According to Griffin, one of the former senior Trump administration officials told her:''

THIS JUST IN--1930HRS/PDT-- "Stand by Your Man"...

US first lady defends Trump over alleged 'losers' quip

Melania Trump on Friday defended her husband against allegations that he referred to US Marines buried in a WWI cemetery in France as "losers" and "suckers." On Thursday The Atlantic reported -- citing four anonymous sources who said they had firsthand knowledge of the discussions -- that President Donald Trump had referred to US Marines buried in a World War I cemetery in France as "losers" and "suckers" for getting killed in action.

"It has become a very dangerous time when anonymous sources are believed above all else, & no one knows their motivation. This is not journalism -- It is activism. And it is a disservice to the people of our great nation," she tweeted.


     Incline Village, Nev. (EOC)--Apparently, the right to a fair trial applies only to criminals. Politicians don't get that same luxury, whatever anybody claims they said or did, is true, with the accuser the luxury of remaining anonymous. We went through all of this not too long ago with the so-called "whistle blower" scandal that resulted in the impeachment of the president. That impeachment arrived D.O.A. in the Senate. There was no accountability after that for the allegations that led up to the process. Again we are faced with the same dilemma, one of the president's alleged insult of American servicemen and women. 


     A close reading of the article written by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic reveals just how shallow the claim is that the president made the alleged comments;
     "In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, 'Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.' " (1)
Note the usual tactic of quoting "senior staff members," one of the tactics employed by yellow journalism. 

yel·low jour·nal·ism noun noun: yellow journalism; plural noun: yellow journalisms journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. "equating murder and dismemberment with smoking pot is the worst yellow journalism" 

     Several paragraphs down, the author of the jaded Atlantic article, makes the same accusation regarding a different visit; 
     "But according to sources with knowledge of this visit..."
Again, the claim cannot be verified by any names. What has the Associated Press Stylebook have to say about anonymous sources?
     "anonymous sources: Whenever possible, we pursue information on the record. When a source insists on background or off-the-record ground rules, we must adhere to a strict set of guidelines." (2)
Those rules include but are not limited to the information not speculation, reliable, approval from news managers. The rules are strict and straightforward and anyone who has had journalism boot camp understands how they are violated often and flagrantly. 
     Most of the article by Goldberg has focus on the Trump-McCain falling out and it offers no detailed information at all on who blew the whistle; no names, faces, followups, a deliberate attempt to smear the Commander-in-Chief.  Further on in  the article, it refers to a so-called four-star general with second-hand information from yet another source who "declined to comment." 
    The mainstream media immediately latched on to it like gospel, the opponent outraged by the comments, whether they were true or false didn't even matter.

Trump says he thinks John Kelly behind claim he insulted dead troops

President Donald Trump speculated that 'it could have been a guy like a John Kelly' who 'bad-mouthed' him in the Atlantic magazine Trump furiously denied a report he referred to fallen troops as 'losers' Kelly is a former Marine General who served as White House chief of staff and whose

    No opportunity for the president to be given the benefit of the doubt to respond to anonymous, dubious no-name "ex-officials" even while the author of the Atlantic piece violated all the rules of journalism ethics and etiquette.
    In yet another attempt to further shame the president and further his crusade, Goldberg appeared on TV and announced that Washington "insiders" were in disbelief;

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Says Administration Insiders Are in 'Disbelief' Over Trump's Attitude Toward Veterans (Video)

The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg said Friday morning that those close to President Donald Trump are in "disbelief" about his stance towards veterans and military service. In a bombshell piece published Thursday night, Goldberg reported that Trump had referred to veterans - including former POW and senator John McCain - as "losers" and "suckers."

The article fails to name any of these insiders who are in disbelief...
     A look at Goldberg's profile shows the collusion he has with the others on board out to assassinate the president's character; 
      "Goldberg's book, Prisoners, was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy." (3)
It doesn't take an anonymous source to see the lineup at his profile is a well-chosen rogue's gallery of the main characters in the conspiracy. All of the above are notorious for using the "anonymous source" technique and it is almost always passed off at face value as true.  Other profiles around the web  of the author aren't so kind.

Cited
2. anonymous, AP Stylebook 55th Edition, Basic Books, NY, 2020-22, Page 18.




The Press Pass issued to James L'Angelle, Cyberstorm, by White House press bureau when President Clinton visited McClellan AFB in Sacramento, 1994

Eyeless on Campus on Twitter:


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Friday, August 21, 2020

PANDEMIC PTSD-- Dr. Fauci's Psychoanalysis--A HOT LZ

     "...forced to wear facial protective covering as indicative of triggering the traumatic Zero Dark Thirty moment..."
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     Incline Village, Nev. (EOC)--Dr. Fauci, in some capacity the point "medico," (a term not included in the Associated Press 2020-22 Stylebook, 55th Edition) for response to the coronavirus emergency, has encouraged throughout the pandemic not to "despair." (1) The immunologist is confident the population will survive. From the outset, Dr. Fauci has juggled charts and graphs, while waving his hands illustrating surge versus mitigation, from the podium at the White House press briefings, but that certainly doesn't make him a mathematician. Any more than using words like "do not despair" qualifies him as a psychologist. The world needs no more patriarchal reassurances from those who lack the qualifications to give guidance.


     Next, there is the so-called "Bin Laden assassin," the hero Navy SEAL who has been claiming credit for liquidating the Al Qaeda arch-villain during a raid a long time ago when Obama was still president. Recently, he found himself standing tall in front of the Admiral for spouting off on social media that wearing a mask is something only done by (term omitted due to its derogatory nature). In addition, the ex-sniper just found himself under  the Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 86, AWOL, or is that just plain 86-ed, from flying on the airline where he made an (term omitted) out of himself in front of the American public he has sworn to protect and defend. (2) 
     Dr. Fauci, in his new role as psychoanalyst, might detect a certain hidden guilt complex in the SEAL lingering from the "Zero Dark-Thirty" raid that's left an indelible mark on the sailor after all these years. It's known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, and was first diagnosed in soldiers during the Vietnam War era. The online source for the American Psychiatric Association describes PTSD as;
     "a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence or serious injury." (3)
Of course it had other names in other wars, but it's the same symptoms, by definition. There is no telling if the Bin Laden raid was the only true near-death encounter the sailor had  but it would be the one that would generally fit the category of a PTSD related experience. 
     In an even more recent episode of yet another soldier who appears to misunderstand his role in being a defender of the American people, Turning Point USA spokesperson Rob Smith reacted to Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti's decision to cut the power on the Hollywood Hills covid-spreading party house, after fair warning;

Los Angeles mayor cuts power to Hollywood part house amid coronavirus pandemic

Turning Point USA spokesperson Rob Smith calls action 'authoritarian' and cites Democratic control as the reason for people moving out of cities.

Author of "Always a Soldier," Rob Smith, in an interview on Fox News on Friday said;


     "Well not only do they want to control the spread of covid, but they want to control every aspect of your life." 
It is unclear in this quote just who "they" are, which is the usual convenient cop-out for fear-mongering and anti-authority rhetoric, he didn't come out of the closet and finger the mayor as responsible. Whether it's just plain standard party propaganda from Turning Point USA or bona fide paranoia on soldier Rob Smith's part, is uncertain. If the latter is true, Dr. Fauci might consider this another case of wartime induced PTSD.
      Smith went on to call out the Democrats as "authoritarian" and responsible for "controlling most of our major cities." Again, controlling what is unclear unless it infers controlling the spread of the killer virus. Turning Point USA characterizes itself as a "Student Movement for Freedom." (4)  Any number of online references show that Smith is a decorated war hero but it is ambiguous as to whether he is currently enrolled in college. Smith's  background at Turning Point only shows an Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Infantry Badge, which calls into question his status as highly decorated. (5) This may be another case for Dr. Fauci's expertise in the field of psychoanalysis. Of course, in the case of Smith, there was also the Gulf War Syndrome, but the symptoms are more physiological. (6) Still, there is lingering doubt as to Smith, as in the case of the Navy SEAL above, of his apparent self- infatuation, possibly brought on by being a spokesperson or person of interest in today's social media driven culture. At the Mayo Clinic website, several symptoms of PTSD are given; 
      "...distressing memories of the traumatic event, severe emotional distress or physical reactions to something that reminds you of the traumatic event, avoiding places, activities or people that remind you of the traumatic event, negative thoughts about yourself, other people or the world." (7)
These are but a few that might indicate the behavior of the sailor on that Delta flight but for a closer look, The New Yorker published a standup after action report following the Bin Laden raid in 2011; 


      "That night, he wore a shirt and trousers in Desert Digital Camouflage, and carried a silenced Sig Sauer P226 pistol, along with extra ammunition; a CamelBak, for hydration; and gel shots, for endurance. He held a short-barrel, silenced M4 rifle. (Others seals had chosen the Heckler & Koch MP7.) A “blowout kit,” for treating field trauma, was tucked into the small of James’s back... He wore a noise-cancelling headset, which blocked out nearly everything besides his heartbeat." (8)
The story, written by Nicholas Schmidle, also notes the team wore night-vision goggles. If Dr, Fauci were to psychoanalyze the sailor who lost it on the Delta flight, he might discover the similarity to being in the confined space of the aircraft resembling the Chinook helicopter, with a veteran in a USMC baseball cap snoozing nearby and forced to wear facial protective covering as indicative of triggering the traumatic Zero Dark Thirty moment. There has been no report if the SEAL was under medication at the time or had too many drinks on the plane that caused him to go on his twitter rage. 
    Two cases alone do not signal a red flare in a hot LZ in the case of combat veterans somehow having trouble coping with covid. Normally soldiers back from the bush in-country dive for cover when a car backfires on a busy boulevard. But then again, with the pandemic possibly still in its incubating stages, the world may be a long way from getting back to "normal."


"Medico," M*A*S*H, "Major Ego," season 7, episode 9, (1978)    https://www.allmovie.com/movie/mash--major-ego-v281232, 
Bin Laden compound photoillustration  by John Ritter from the New Yorker story.

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