Times Herald-Record editor 'Fake News' lecture, caught contradicting his own claim?

Times Herald-Record editor 'Fake News' lecture, caught contradicting his own claim? (pizzagate)

submitted 7.5 years ago by jpickle

I attended a public 'Q&A lecture' at Orange County Community College titled Fake News, with Steve Israel and Barry Lewis, two editors of Times Herald-Record, after seeing it online and knowing it had to be interesting. By the time the event started, a lecture hall was packed with 50-60 people. After a brief lecture, consisting of introductions from staff and hosts, and few crude anecdotes of 'fake news' stories and websites on a projection screen, the Q&A section of the event began. I was not given an opportunity to ask the panel a question by the moderator for the remaining hour. Despite raising a hand every turn of the 'call for questions', I was seemingly skipped over. Interesting that almost every person called on spoke with little hesitation, quickly reciting all-too-familiar statements lamenting the state of public trust in 'the media', and other similar platitudes. I glanced a handwritten sheet of paper on the desk of a nearby selected commenter, interesting how apparently only those who came prepared to speak were called on. As the event concluded, I was able to meet and exchange a few words with Barry, which I later remembered and recorded, and were included as a partial transcript in a message to his public email address (sent from a burner account), starting a 5 message total conversation, which is not likely to continue after a 5 day silence, which is screencapped here.

Why does it matter? For a journalist to claim they have knowledge of the "source of the pizzagate story", after a (blatantly staged) Q&A panel/lecture on 'fake news', then to refuse to acknowledge provided links contradicting the mainstream narrative, including a link to a thread in this sub, after coming across as very defensive about presumably being recorded, is further circumstantial evidence of relatively smaller media outlets' (recordonline.com Alexa Rank: 50,391) collusion in this many headed syndicate cover-up, not just as misinformation parrots.

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samhara 7.5 years ago

I picked up an interesting book. There are screen shots which would contribute to the idea presented here.

"The Powers That Be: Processes of Ruling Class Domination in America " by William Domhoff

The portions I read explain a lot. There are two ideologies : One that is among the rulars and one that they feed to those they subjugate. This book is almost 40 years old but is absolutely in tune with today. Stuff doesn't change; it just "came to a head?"

The CFR "Committee on Foreign Relations" and the "Council on Foreign Relations" are actually Propganda organs to disseminate the opinons of the elite.. It's a network. The top insiders are most influencial. The Committee is of a lesser status than the Council . They work on propagating their point of view through many organization.

Foreign Relations : top-level leaders. Foreign Policy Assocaiton : "League of Women Voter " types.

They do this because they know their interests are not the interests of most people. They proactively disseminate their policy choices via various orgs.. Teachers, "local elites" , discussion groups, advertising,

They work on generating public support for their programs. And support for wars and "Internationalism" which traditionally was unpopular.

Their policies further their goals of world domination and so they have to hide their personal motivations [pretending what they are doing is "for the good of all"] since their policies would be unpopular for ordinary people.

Here's on the web excerpts.

excerpts from the book

The Powers That Be

by G. William Domhoff

Vintage Books, 1978 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ruling_Elites/Powers_That_Be.html

It explains how all these people could be set - up in this little college in Orange County with their "programming"

Read it because Domhoff explains it much better than I could.

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anonOpenPress 7.5 years ago

Nice that you joined, pretty interesting. The outcome sounds as expected from a such forum - some editors are unfortunately under instructions when talking about sourcing. But did you manage to mention the word "pizzagate" in loud to the audience?

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jpickle 7.5 years ago

I had no chance to address the audience during the event, or while most were filing out. Pizzagate was mentioned directly in my second question to Barry, few were listening.