New York Times CEO calls for ad networks to ban alternative media
BY ALEX THOMAS - 12.13.2016 @3:50 PM EST

Call to cut off ad revenue for alternative media is next level attack on free press

(INTELLIHUB) — Speaking to the Detroit Economic Club, Mark Thompson, President & CEO of The New York Times Company, has called for ad networks to cut off advertising to websites they deem to be spreading “fake news“.

Over the last month we have seen disinformation piece after disinformation piece attempt to label legitimate alternative news outlets such as Intellihub and Infowars as fake news. Both CBS and Salon have routinely and directly called Infowars fake news while lumping them in with sites that are openly satire.

Over the last month we have seen disinformation piece after disinformation piece attempt to label legitimate alternative news outlets such as Intellihub and Infowars as fake news. Both CBS and Salon have routinely and directly called Infowars fake news while lumping them in with sites that are openly satire.

Now, in the next wave of attacks against the alternative media, we have Mark Thompson essentially calling for this website and others like it to have ALL funding cut off.

“As for the digital giants, I believe they need to think hard about transparency and accountability. Their ad tech and ad networks help make fake news so lucrative – here too they need to help the whole industry cut off the advertising revenue which enables the fake sites to flourish,” Thompson said.

He continued, “These great, profoundly creative enterprises like to think of themselves as engines of progress, capable of bringing people together and making the world a better place. One can applaud that and still believe, in the matter of their handling of news, and especially fake and distorted news, that they are inadvertently enabling malign and destructive forces and that, unless they do something, they – and we – will pay a heavy price for it.”

Make no mistake, this isn’t some milk toast call to ban ad networks on obvious fake news websites.

When you have dozens of media outlets declaring multiple alternative news outlets as fake news one can easily deduct that this call is for directly shutting down real news outlets that report information from outside the establishment bubble.

Remember, the New York Times itself has published countless stories that could easily be dubbed fake news. From Saddam’s phantom weapons of mass destruction to sitting on what would have been groundbreaking information on NSA spying, the Times has a history of reporting for and helping the globalist establishment.

At this point it is extremely important that supporters of the real alternative media stand up and loudly declare that they will not allow their favorite news outlets to be censored and or destroyed through lack of revenue. This is absolutely an information war and instead of reporting the truth, the corporate media is now taking the position that those that do should be shut down.

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Luke Rudkowski, who is no stranger to CG, nor AMTV
We Are Change. Luke has expressed the same as CG, he is reminding
all viewers, that it's possible, He and WE are Change could disappear if the Upper Crusty's
get their way. IE: CENSORSHIP to be simply a gradient of what they truly are attempting.
Which is? ONE GLOBAL Media - Think V for Vendetta

He uploaded moments ago, his reaction to the above prescribed Ban
of Alternative Media, by Thompson, NYT's CEO - Luke rightfully on Fire

Thanks for the links. I think it's safe to say that any person who doesn't go along with the established mainstream narrative is going to be up against some serious opposition. Expect the assault to be intense. The next few months in particular will see governments trying to impose all sorts of new laws and regulations as to what can be broadcast (NATO and the EU are already trying to enforce a blanket ban on anything they consider 'pro-Russian'). I suspect news broadcasters like RT and Sputnik to be purged from access within the next year (they will ask ISP's to block them the same way they do with torrent sites).

The second wave of attack will focus more on alternative media sites such as AMTV and Corbett Report. They will be a lot more cunning when dealing with smaller independent media outlets, and for that reason we all need to be vigilant. I suspect they will try to use a more psy-ops based approach and try to break the resolve of people who run those outlets. Watch out for Assange-style smear campaigns, character assassination plots and assume that we are all being monitored by mass surveillance technologies. Oh, and keep your eyes open for any drones hovering in the sky. I'm not even joking around here - Charles Hugh Smith, one of my favorite writers who just so happens to have been on the 'fake news' alludes to this here: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-day-after-i-criticized-clinton.html

One last thing - One of the things we need to do is to keep track of key individuals, elite-backed organizations and funding sources (e.g. Soros and his ilk). We need to continue shinning a spot light on the sources behind the censorship. For example, PropOrNot has been shown up to be a collaboration between the CIA and Ukrainian fascists. See the link below.

PropOrNot Website Exposed As CIA And Ukrainian Operation:
https://investmentwatchblog.com/propornot-website-exposed-as-cia-and-ukrainian-operation/

Thank you, Jean Michel for your informative written and links above.

I found an interesting independently written report, posted today, investigation on who is " PropOrNot"

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=60266

a snippet of the report, it is very lengthy http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=60266

As part of its McCarthyite tactics, PropOrNot has developed a plugin to help readers censor material from the websites it has blacklisted. It calls that its YYYCampaignYYY.

In that effort, it lists an official address of 530-B Harkle Road, Suite 100, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505. That’s one of those agent addresses that serve as a virtual address for the creation of limited liability corporations that want to keep their actual principals secret.

The address has dozens of businesses associated with it. There should also be a corresponding business listed in the online archives of the business registry at the Secretary of State of New Mexico. However, no business with the words Propaganda or PropOrNot or YYY exist in the New Mexico business registry, suggesting PropOrNot is using a double cloaking device to shield its identity by registering under a completely different name.

PropOrNot’s Twitter page provides a “tell” that its report may simply be a hodgepodge compilation of other people’s research that was used to arrive at its dangerous assertion that critical thinkers across America are a clandestine network of Russian propaganda experts.

Its Tweet on November 7 indicates that the research of Peter Pomerantsev, a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute in London, who has also been cooperating on research with the Information Warfare Project of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, D.C, inspired its efforts.

According to SourceWatch, the Legatum Institute “is a right-wing think tank promoting ‘free markets, free minds, and free peoples.’ ” SourceWatch adds that the Legatum Institute “is a project founded and funded by the Legatum Group, a private investment group based in Dubai.” According to the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine, the Center for European Policy Analysis previously indicated it was an affiliate of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA).

We can see why they might want to remove that affiliation now that the Koch brothers have been exposed as funders of a very real network of interrelated websites and nonprofits.

According to Desmog, NCPA has received millions of dollars in funding from right wing billionaires like the Koch brothers and their related trusts along with the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation (heir to the Mellon fortune) along with corporations like ExxonMobil.