The Barnes Review....SERIOUS tinfoil! Help?

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Has anyone seen this site?

http://www.tbrnews.org/index.htm

It's got some really serious stuff....including this:

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/controling.htm

Ummm....I'm not sure what to make of this....lemme get a quote to fill yall in...

"During the middle of March, 2003, tbrnews received an email from a man who claimed to be a mid-level executive with a major American television network. He stated in this, and subsequent, emails that he was in possession of “thousands” of pages of in-house memos sent from his corporate headquarters in New York City to the head of the network’s television news department. He went on to say that these memos set forth directives about what material was, and was not, to be aired on the various outlets of the network.

This individual claimed he was developing serious doubts about the strict control of media events and decided that he would pass this material along to someone who might make use of it.

There was the question of his job security. If someone published his name, it would be certain he was not only fired but blackballed throughout his profession."

This guy anonymously sent The Barnes Review site 1,497 pages of supposed memos sent from a major media companies corporate headquarters to their news division, detailing "do's and don'ts" of reporting stories soon to be coming out. Of course, the article goes on to tell how TBR was trying to check the validity of the memos, i.e. trying to match the dates of the memos with the dates of when news had come out. That seemed to check out, but was insufficient because the guy could have just wrote the memos after seeing the news....
So then they requested memos from the guy BEFORE the stories came out....supposedly, the guy has actually been doing this...according to TBR they've been able to post stories before they are released to the media in the allegedly doctored form....

Does anyone know anything about this? About this story in particular, or about this site? I'm extremely interested in this. Although the possibility of this being legitimate seems extremely remote, as TBR mentioned the simple DEPTH of the memos is impressive, and I must say that the memos' instructions are extremely consistent with what I've seen coming from the media. I HIGHLY suggest people have a look at this. I don't know what to think, myself, but I'd like to hear what you all have to say about it.

:wtf:

[librechik]

1. get out the salt

but that doesn't mean the "story" isn't true. I work for a big news organization and we too get memos on questions of style. Especially during the war.

I suppose some orgs are more demanding about content than others up front. There are so many filters though, that every script winds up being sanitized down to near-nothingness before it gets on air.

My advice: read a lot of different sources and don't swallow any of them unquestioningly.

TBR is one of the more radical sources, and I would suspend judgement on anything it prints--I can't use it for anyhting except my own entertainment, frankly.

[Zorba607]

2. nope

much as I might want to buy it, these guys are really just holocaust revisionists.
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Fake_whistleblower_memos_on_media_bias_in_the_Iraq_war

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4. Anti-Semite? OUCH....

...Alright, now what about that site? ;)

[Eloriel]

3. There's an old saying

(And I can't remember it -- but maybe this will be close enough):

It may not be factual, but it's true.

I've seen that site before, when the memos first came out. If they're a hoax, IMO they're still "true enough," if you get my drift. It doesn't take much smarts to see how our news is managed IF you take advantage of all the information and analysis available at DU over an extended period of time.

So are they managing the news exactly as these purported memos "show" or are they managing the news in some other way?

:shrug:

Does it matter? THE NEWS IS BEING MANIPULATED AND MANAGED. That's true, real AND factual.

Eloriel

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5. The consistency of those memos is uncanny....

Could just be a very intelligent person analyzing and taking notes on the news....In any case they're making Noam Chomsky look retarded.