Excellent reporting by a Canadian journalist, Eva Bartlett.
The western media can't handle the truth, they believe in staging news to make it more dramatic to let their governments look so holy. Watch any news or American tv series it all got the same foundation: the government is good and superior. Exposing the corruption from the government, like wikileaks did, does not fit on that foundation.
The western press reporting on "fake news" is in itself fake news. The "fake news" stories are the outdated main stream medias final grasp at retaining the influence it once had.
Eva, remember that some female journalists have been killed for their reporting on Syria, I am sure you know whom I mean, so take care. Keep up with your honest Job. There are not many honest journalists like you. Be proud of yourself for not having been sold out!
They have started attacking Eva from the intelligence community in Britain and the USA. Watch out Eva, these intelligence murderers are reckless and immoral.
‘If I write in line with Russian media, it’s because we both tell the truth’ – Eva Bartlett to RT
Published time: 17 Dec, 2016
A Canadian journalist who blasted the mainstream media’s
coverage of the Syria crisis at the latest UN event, told RT how her own
reports have been accused of being biased on the side of the Russian
and Syrian governments.
Eva
Bartlett, a freelance journalist and human rights activist who has her
own blog on RT.com recently sparked debate by giving an emotional speech
at the UN. During a press conference arranged by the Syrian mission to
the UN, she blasted the Western mainstream media’s coverage of the
Syrian war as “compromised,” saying that their local sources are “not credible”
and, in the case of Aleppo, not even real. The journalist, who has been
covering events in Syria during the years since the civil war first
broke out there, noted that while there are “certainly honest journalists among the very compromised establishment media,”
many respected media agencies simply seem to avoid fact checking. The
harsh response she has drawn for her unforgiving criticism of fellow
members of the media is quite baseless, however, Bartlett told RT.
“Some people have taken issue with the things I said because I
was basically criticizing much of the corporate media reporting on
Syria, and instead of actually digesting what I said and criticizing the
details of what I said, people have gone to the usual tactic of trying
to smear who I am and imply that I am an agent of either or both Syria
and Russia,” Bartlett said, adding that it’s been openly implied
she is on the payroll of the Syrian and Russian governments. The fact
that she is an active contributor to RT’s op-edge section has also been
jumped all over.
“The fact that I do contribute to the RT
op-edge section apparently, in some people’s eyes, makes me compromised.
I began contributing to the RT op-edge section when I lived in Gaza,
and this was not an issue for people who then appreciated my writing,” she stated. Bartlett also denied the notion that the Syrian government paid her to speak at the UN.
“It
was not the Syrian government which arranged for me to speak at the UN.
It was my request, and I requested this because… I thought this was
actually a good opportunity to share with a wider audience what I’ve
seen on my independent visits to Syria.
“The only thing
it had to do with the Syrian government was the Syrian ambassador… to
the UN agreeing to facilitate this [opportunity],” she said.
According to Bartlett’s UN speech, the corporate media is effectively reporting information that is the “opposite”
of what is actually happening on the ground, whereas her reporting
comes from personal interaction with the Syrian people during her now
six trips to the war-torn state.
“What I am writing, and what I’m reporting, and who I am citing are Syrian civilians whom I’ve encountered in Syria.
“If
people do not wish to hear the voices of Syrian civilians and if they
want to maintain their narrative which is in line with the NATO
narrative – which is in line with destabilizing Syria and vilifying the
government of Syria and ignoring the overwhelming wishes of the people
of Syria – then they do this by accusing me of spreading propaganda,” the journalist stressed.
As
the West sees RT as a propaganda media outlet for the Russian
government, Bartlett’s connection to RT has been used as a basis for
accusing her of fake reporting because it differs from the picture of
the Syrian crisis being presented by the Western mainstream media, the
journalist claimed.
“The fact that I’m writing about what I
see in Syria when I am on the ground in Syria, when I talk with Syrian
civilians – and I sometimes contribute to Russia Today – suddenly this
is an issue.
“I am a freelance journalist, I write for
whomever I want. I submit an article to Russia Today’s op-edge section
and they decide whether or not they are going to run it – that’s how it
works,” she explains, noting that the reason that her reports are in
line with those in the Russian media might be because both are accurate.
“The
fact that my writing is in line with the Syrian people… in some respect
aligns with Russian media reports, does not mean that I’m reporting
Russian propaganda, and it does not mean that what Russian media is
reporting is propaganda. It happened to be that I report the truth as I
see it on the ground, and some Russian media happen to report the truth
as they see it on the ground.
“Why do we not see these
accusations when a BBC journalist goes to Syria and reports what I often
believe to be not the full story? Why are they not accused of working
for the State of England? Why are Al Jazeera journalists not accused of
working for Qatar?” Bartlett asked, adding that all of these “loaded accusations” are slung at her in order to discredit what she has to tell.
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