New York Times CEO Delivers Speech on Eradicating Fake NewsBy Kurt Nimmo Thompson threw around the idea of government censorship of fake news. What can we do about it? The first thing that springs to some peoples minds is some form of censorship or regulation. I note in my book how the 17th century British political thinker Thomas Hobbes came, at least in part, to blame extremist sermons and tracts tracts which could be mass-produced and disseminated widely within hours thanks to the still relatively new technology of printing for Englands descent into civil war. He later argued that the war might never have happened if a few thousand of the extremists had been rounded up and executed. Now, while I dont suppose that even the sternest critic of fake news would advocate the death penalty, there are certainly some who favor a kind of functional censorship, with fake news sites identified and taken down, and fake news somehow filtered out of search and social media by human or algorithmic means. Thompson then admits this is unrealistic. Besides, there is a thing called the First Amendment. And who said that the public should only be allowed to read the facts anyway? The First Amendment essentially says they should be allowed to write, distribute and read anything they damn well please. If some of them turn out to prefer churning out and eagerly consuming lies and fantasies, so be it. He then suggests a Ministry of Truth, of sorts, run by corporations, but admits this is worrisome. If we imagine the tools that might be used to excise fake news from the web and social media a mighty algorithm combing every sentence, every image for any trace of falsehood, aided perhaps by legions of human scrutineers employed by some of the worlds biggest corporations they sound suspiciously like the means of control employed by the worlds most repressive regimes. They are probably not practical and, even if they were, they would be worrisome or worse in our free societies. Thompson then falls back on a solution imposed by the state by using food labeling as an example. Imagine a supermarket where the products had no nutrition information printed on them, and no one was prepared to vouch for quite where they had come from, and the owners told you they couldnt really take responsibility for the quality of anything. Would you feed your children food purchased from that supermarket? Nutrition information on food products was mandated by the FDA in 1994. Is this what Mr. Thompson is advocating? A new government agencya ministry of truththat will decide what is fake and what is not fake news? He then praises his own newspaper and admits it screws up occasionally (he does not mention the Iraq lies published by the Times with an end result of 1.5 million dead people). If readers find misinformation and lies, he says they can always write a letter to the editor. You can see who wrote the story and, if you think its inaccurate or biased, you know who the editor is, and the publisher, he writes. Finally, the CEO of the Times uses the fake news meme to push subscriptions. Its like any quality product. If you want real journalism, you as a consumer will have to pay for it. So subscribe. Subscribe to your local paper, or The New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal, or the Washington Post, or, if youre feeling particularly flush, to all of the above. At The Times, were making real progress, with audiences and subscriber numbers larger than at any time in our history, as well as big gains year over year in digital revenue. We still post healthy profits. Hmmm. This appears to be fake news. In May, the Times reported a $14 million net loss for the first quarter of 2016. The net loss for the quarter was roughly the same as in the first quarter of 2015. Total revenue fell about 1 percent, to $380 million, from $384 million in the first quarter of 2015. Kurt Nimmo is the editor of Another Day in the Empire, where this article first appeared. He is the former lead editor and writer of Infowars.com. Donate to ADE Here. The NYT and other newspapers are doomed by technology driving peoples habits. Radio is suffering the same fate, and to a lesser extent but still substantial is TV. Just look at the NFL ratings slide. Unfortunately, the digital age makes it easier for the elites to censor and send information down the memory hole. Theres shadow banning now too. Jon Rappoport described how the new technology makes it easier to customize news for each person to further compartmentalize us. Stay vigilant. What Mark Thomson is saying is that anything that is not Islamist/Globalist friendly will be silenced, censored and otherwise excluded from legitimate participation and conversation. The owners do not want a well informed public let alone independent thought. You can put lip -tick on a pig NY Times readers were royally primed for the fake news CIA mind control operation via The Agency a detailed article in the nyt magazine edition. The article detailed actual sourced identified Russian-based fake news stories created to mimic US MSM news report releaseslooking very much like a joint CIA-FSB operation to plant fake news seeds highly bizarre attempts, clearly *designed* to look fake enough to be detected. A harbinger of a major 0p. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html Too bad the alt sphere didnt immediately jump on The Agency to deconstruct the motives. We could have unraveled the fake news psy op before it left its crib. Absolutely pathetic. Im tempted to give this delusional flake the benefit of the doubt and assume that hes just doubling down on the project your own faults upon the opposition technique, but he is obviously just a self-important, entitled little boy whos about to find out that Santa isnt real after all. He actually thinks this situation will raise his stature to the level of Ministry of Truth because the election results are unacceptable to him. The NYT is dead along with all the top fake news papers and boob tube channels. wish that were true, Sally, but TPTB have their icy cold hands all over the worlds central Banks and now theyre entering the last phases of capturing the worlds natural resources theyve already heavily infiltrated most alt media with their diabolical tentacles.Mark of The [Digital] Beast is next So does this mean Thompson is going to deep throat a 44 mag? Fake news is as old as writing and government. Nations of, by and for the people? I think not. We now live in a world run by death cults in religion, policy, industry. Its that simple. For those than know the Euro is a fraud of private ownership, paneuropa (.org) a creation of financial interests and high level elites in Europe and the US. Unless one reads old documents, books, manuscripts, cartoons, and anything else, written around the time of the event or events, and gets multiple points of view, what we hear is most likely propaganda, indoctrination, sprinkled with a smattering of truth, loaded with outright lies. The NY Times was instrumental, with other MSM for the wars of the 20th century, as one can find out about the first reading Smedly Butlers War Is A Racket. Its 12 pages but 12 pages to difficult for most to even attempt to read. This is why we defend the lies we live for to our demise. Man has no natural enemies so there are some that scheme using our natural ignorance. A BIG false news product that most believe is that the US (a country essentially without a name?), is of, by and for the people and governed by the people as if its citizens were the owners. The US since the Bank of North America, essentially been a corporation, run by special interests. The 3rd Bank of the United States known as the Federal Reserve, run by its governors and privately owned, are the owners of the United States. Since the Organic Act of 1871 the US has had a governor. It was broke, is broke but its assets are vastly more valuable than the pittance of debt it owes, and its payment of interest is simply unconscionable, a law that in a true court, would be thrown out. HISTORY OF THE BANKS UNITED STATES, FROM THE TIME OF ESTABLISHING THE BANK OF NORTH AMERICA, 1781, TO OCTOBER, 1834 : NOTES AND COMMENTS, R, K. MOULTON On the 3d of January, 1791, Mr. Strong, The bill was supported by Mr. Ames, Mr. The utility of banking institutions was said AYES39. NAYS19. Opinion of Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State. The power of the government then to create To establish such a right it would be necessary The corporation expired on the 4th of March, On the 28th of February, 1817, a further Note: The Southern States that had paid for war costs were, under Many other countries as the US, are owned entities of elite, special interests, whos central banks collateral is the country. When researching derivatives, the asset management, processing (SWIFT, DTSS, et. al.) asset/capital ownership, et. al. the amount of nearly one QUADRILLION dollars, (and probably much higher off the books), and its movement, can only be achieve by the MSM false news it spews out for public consumption. War is a business, interest of the debt of a sovereign people is a scam. Weve all been had, arguing about irrelevant points, creating more debt by fabricated differences and manufactured divisions that should have never happened. The level of power to destroy life exceeds the wisdom of those that use it. Policy makers, religion used as a front, military, intel and alphabet soup groups are a mirror of our public failure, unwillingness and inability to see that the vast majority of us would like to live in peace and see each other as neighbors. Perhaps humanity was doomed to failure from the start. It was just a matter of time. When l first saw the the headline about fake news. I assumed NYT was closing their doors. Maybe he should close down his own newspaper, as in leading by example. Thmpson ,while at the BBC,covered up the paedophile scandal there for years.He has zero credibility. Yep, all promotions for the sickos 