23-02-2015, 09:55 AM
Paul Rigby Wrote:[quote=Paul Rigby]
Eric Draitser received an email from blogger Bryan Hemming in response to the above piece:
Quote:Hi Eric,
Having read your latest article in counterpunch, I thought you might be interested to read my own little piece of armchair research into Bellingcat, published on my blog last September 10th, where I did a bit of digging into its funding: 'MH17 - Brazen censorship by The Independent.'
As for Shaun Walker, The Guardian archives appear to have been tampered with since you last looked. In There's Goes The Guardian Lying About Ukraine...Again! you mention a Guardian article Russian military vehicles crossing the border into Ukraine by Shaun Walker published on August 15th 2014 where he claims to have witnessed a Russian armoured convoy crossing the border into Ukraine.
You say: "There is only the word of The Guardian's reporter Shaun Walker, who conveniently could not get a photograph or video of the alleged military vehicles crossing into Ukraine." As you correctly point out, the original article did not contain a photo of the convoy Walker claims to have seen. Yet, magically now it does. And Shaun Walker is given the credit for having snapped it. There is something a little disturbing about that claim, as to judge from the photo he would've had to have been driving one of the armoured vehicles in the convoy, or riding in it. Yet according to Roland Oliphant of The Telegraph, he and Walker had spotted a Russian armoured convoy driving through a hole in the fence, which separates Russia from Ukraine, at the dead of night.
I know very well the original didn't include the photo because I happen to have posted an article dealing with that very point on my blog. Shaun 'wish I'd brought my camera' Walker was published on August 17th 2014, the date can be verified from wordpress site records. Not only has the Walker article been tampered with but so has the headline. Now posted as Aid convoy stops short of border as Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine (the link is exactly the same as it is in my original article) it does contain a photo of a convoy, credited to Shaun Walker. Yet that photo did not appear in a Guardian article until November 12th 2014, when it accompanied a different article by Shaun Walker under the headline Russian tanks and troops crossing into Ukraine, says Nato commander. The photo of the convoy Walker claims to have witnessed, and was previously in the article, has been replaced by a video.
By removing the photo from the November 12th article to insert it into the August 15th article The Guardian brazenly attempts to give the August article credibilty it didn't formerly possess, as Walker didn't produce one shred of evidence to back his claim at the time. I know the photo wasn't there because I wrote another article about it called Shaun Walker is caught invading Ukraine by his own camera, which I posted on November 13th 2014.
This manipulation of the article by the placing of a photo which was not there previously is an exercise in deception. It demonstrates that The Guardian is content to alter evidence on extremely serious matters that threaten world peace and security.
Bryan Hemming
Draitser's Facebook posting is here: https://www.facebook.com/EricDraitser1/p...0258530348
Hemming's blog on the subject, How the Guardian changes history, is here: https://bryanhemming.wordpress.com/2015/...d-history/
Very disturbing, but not very surprising. Yet it does show us the ethical standards in MSM journalism we are faced with these days. Lying and deceiving are SOP at the government level, so journo's reason why not theirs too. Or maybe they have to revise articles in the line with policy?
I always make a point of posting the full article with pics etc., for this exact reason. I have seen so many articles disappear from the face or the earth, or suffer re-editing (at least to the way I remembered them) that I just don't think anyone can trust electronic journalism to be anything but underhanded. It's the "Ministry of Truth" doing their "historical revision" and rewriting "past newspaper articles, so that the historical record always supports the party line" (see HERE).
Who, 30 years ago would've thought Orwell's 1984 would become a reality in the west. I certainly didn't.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14