Racial Madcow can slander Lin Wood and anyone else to its heart's content, just as carlson & its comrades on faux can outright lie about Our President while suppressing every truth imaginable. These things are on so-called "news" outlets, but why can't they be "discliplined" or sued?
H.R. 5736 Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012: The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (SMMA) was buried in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act for good reason – because it repealed the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act. The Smith-Mundt Act is also known as the U.S. Information and Education Act, which authorized the State Department to engage in propagandizing foreign countries as a form of public diplomacy.
Former CIA as an analyst and spokesperson Marie Elizabeth Harf called a halt to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich when he mentioned George Soros’ role in supporting Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA terror…
… Put simply, our government was permitted to lie to people in other countries, but not to us here at home.
This prohibition was lifted in 2012, when the SMMA was signed into law by ~~President~~ Obama, allowing the same propaganda disseminated by our government to foreign publics, to now be released in the U.S. for the very first time.
And yes, our government is also now allowed to create propaganda tailored specifically for U.S. public consumption, using any media as it sees fit, while remaining anonymous as the source of the material being reported.
This covert activity by our government's state department (Public Diplomacy) and Public Affairs department can only occur with corporate media's full complicity, for which it is well compensated, thanks to the tax dollars appropriated by the SMMA. It means that when our own government's propaganda is presented to we the American people as news, we are none the wiser that it is scripted, orchestrated, and fully supported with the invisible USBS (United States BullS—) seal of approval…
Traditional “news,” based on reliable, verifiable fact-based evidence is slowly giving way to “newz” – an ersatz form of information dissemination via broadcasting and/or publishing that enjoys specialized immunity for libel, misinformation, false or fraudulent information, misrepresentation, and anything else previously prohibited by the SMA. If serving a national security purpose(s), the media cartel has a government-sanctioned license to lie.
This certainly explains a lot of newz masquerading as legitimate news these days. Revoking the restrictions once enforced under Smith-Mundt has opened the floodgates on active, former, and retired federal government defense, military, and intelligence agency personnel, hiring on as experts by broadcast and cable news networks, in an attempt to bring gravitas to what amounts to no more than a continuum of guided speculation.
Congress expressed concerns over corrupted information by media while considering the SMMA, but instead of inserting protections, it left the legislation wide open for interpretation.
Consumers of news can't deny the departure from traditional fact-based news as of 2012. What else explains the growing amount of grossly unsubstantiated and/or blatantly biased reporting, the unprecedented anonymous or hearsay sourcing, or the glaringly irresponsible lack of citing sources at all? Just two decades ago, such unprofessionalism in journalism would have been a career breaker, and rendered complicit news organizations moot. … https://archive.vn/tRxIp https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/smith-mundt-modernization-act-2012
HENCE OANN must pay legal fees for their defamation suit against Racial Maddow: A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow's Viewers Know She Offers Exaggeration and Opinion, Not Facts
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers
Fox News Smacks-Down Newt for Daring to Mention Soros
In an amazing –and likely unintended– reveal, former CIA analyst and spokesperson Marie Elizabeth Harf, demanded Newt Gingrich stop talking about Soros in mid-sentence causing a long, cringe-worthy pause. Of course Newt was speaking about Soros financing the DAs who refuse to prosecute the violent BLM and Antifa rioters. Listen for yourself: Wednesday September 16th 2020. https://archive.vn/wip/Y3BWn
https://www.clearnfo.com/fox-news-smacks-down-newt-for-daring-to-mention-soros/