Fakes from Ukraine that wound up in Western news sources
This article linked above claims, based on a fake report form Kiev, that the Patriot can shoot down the hypersonic Kinzhal.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-kinzhal-missiles-shot-down-weapon-ukraine-1786785
This article linked above claims, based on a fake report from Kiev, that the Patriot can shoot down the hypersonic Kinzhal.
One of the many problems with this report is that, while Ukraine claims to have shot down 6 Kinzhals on May 16, Russia did not fire that many. Russia rarely fires more than one of these expensive missiles at a time.
Further, the unpredictable meandering trajectory and enormous hypersonic speed of this missile makes it impossible to shoot down. So far, none have ever really been intercepted — Ukrainian lies to the contrary.
It is to Newsweek’s shame and disgrace that none of its journalists even tried to do a skeptical sci-tech-based investigation of this obviously fake news from Ukraine. The report of the shoot-down is tantamount to a travel reporter claiming Eskimos are hunting rhinos at the North Pole using pea shooters.
Other mainstream outlets are no better. The recent Pentagon leaks show that the US has been vastly under-reporting Ukrainian war casualties while vastly over-reporting Russian casualties for several months now.
Here again, there is no excuse for this shoddy reporting of war casualties, because it has been known for some time, even to Western military experts, that the Ukrainian forces are firing one artillery shell to every 10 shells fired by the Russians, and that the Russians have overwhelming air superiority – in fact, Ukraine has actually had no air force to speak of since Feb 24. Russia destroyed all major Ukrainian air fields on the very first day of the special military operation and knocked out all but a handful of Ukrainian military aircraft. Plus, Russia keeps destroying air defense systems, with the latest instance having been reported on May 16 with the destruction of a Patriot system in Kiev.
So, seriously, does it take a genius to figure out that Ukraine can’t prevail over Russia? Conversely, doesn’t it take an incompetent fool of a journo to keep repeating the Ukraine lie that Russia is losing?
I mean, sure, US news media can always blame Ukrainian fakes for contaminating Western news reports, but there is no law written requiring all US intel agents and news sources to regurgitate every report that comes out of Ukraine while dismissing as fake every report from Russia!
If the grassroots ever grows a brain, US msm will all lose most of their readership and subscribers.
The Ukrainians denied the Patriot system was destroyed, of course, but Western officials are admitting it happened and are assessing the extent of the damage.
Newspeak: a purposefully ambiguous and confusing language with restricted grammar and limited vocabulary used in Oceania, according or Orwell, “to diminish the range of thought.” For example, in newspeak, the term plusgood had replaced words better and great.
Oh, I meant News (sic) Week. On the CIA's reading list:
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00845R000200830008-7.pdf
And this guy, another tool, but that old CIA and the "Press"
After leaving The Washington Post in 1977, Carl Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. His 25,000-word cover story, published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977, is reprinted below.
https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977
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Quoting Carl:
Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were Williarn Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Tirne Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the LouisviIle Courier‑Journal, and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald‑Tribune.
By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.