{"id":9893,"date":"2016-11-25T22:39:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9893"},"modified":"2024-09-11T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T21:17:55","slug":"bummer-fail-make-wash-posts-list-russian-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/25\/bummer-fail-make-wash-posts-list-russian-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Bummer! I Fail to Make Wash. Post&#8217;s List of Russian Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Washington Post<\/strong> published a breathless front-page piece today alleging that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say\/2016\/11\/24\/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html\">Russia is behind a fake news barrage <\/a>that corrupts U.S. democracy. I didn&#8217;t make the list but many places that have posted my writings did &#8211; Counterpunch, <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Antiwar.com<\/a>, Infowars, LewRockwell, Ron Paul Institute, Daily Bell, We Are Change, etc. Happily, the Post article &#8211; which was based on shaky anonymous sources &#8211; is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/11\/25\/smear-mongering-a-mea-culpa-for-the-age-of-mccarthyism-2-0\/\">shot to pieces <\/a>by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/802166331743338497\">savvy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/11\/25\/russian-fake-news\/\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/washington-post-promotes-shadowy-website-accuses-200-publications-russian-propaganda-plants\">critics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll have to try harder next year to make the <em>Post<\/em> Thanksgiving Foreign Agent List.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, as far as being a Russian agent &#8211; I don&#8217;t even like vodka.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald &amp; Ben Norton of The Intercept just posted the<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/11\/26\/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group\/\"> best rebuttal <\/a>I have seen of the Post piece: &#8220;The Washington <u>Post should be very proud: it staked a major part of its news story on the unverified, untestable assertions of this laughable organization<\/u>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post published a breathless front-page piece today alleging that Russia is behind a fake news barrage that corrupts U.S. democracy. 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