24 Jan, 2024 12:29

Belgorod plane attack: Kiev deliberately shot down plane carrying its POWs, Moscow says

74 people, including 65 Ukrainian service members, were killed in the crash in Belgorod Region

Kiev's forces knowingly downed a Russian plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war that crashed on Wednesday, killing all on board, in order to pin the attack on Moscow, the Defense Ministry has said, adding that Kiev had once again shown its “true colors”.

In a statement following the incident, the ministry revealed that a Russian IL-76 cargo plane had crashed in Belgorod Region, claiming the lives of 65 Ukrainian POWs, as well as six crew members and three Russian soldiers.

The Defense Ministry claimed that the “Kiev regime committed a terrorist act” by targeting the plane, which was transporting POWs for a further prisoner exchange, from the Chkalovsky military airbase near Moscow to Belgorod.

Russian officials stated that the plane had been hit at 11:15am local time byUkrainian air defense forcesstationed in Kharkov Region, adding thatthe military had registered the launch of two missiles.

Confirming that everyone aboard was killed in the attack, the ministry said that theUkrainian leadership was well aware of the flight and its mission. It noted that Moscow andKiev had agreed to conduct a prisoner exchangelater on Wednesday near the Russian border village of Kolotilovka in Belgorod Region.

Nevertheless, the Nazi Kiev regime [carried out this attack] in a bid to accuse Russia of killing members of the Ukrainian military. By committing this terrorist act, the Ukrainian leadership showed its true face, disregarding the lives of its citizens.

Russian officials stated earlier that the attack used either US-made or German air defense systems, with State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin urging Kiev’s Western backers to finally realize that they are backing a “Nazi regime.”

Russian MP Andrey Kartapolov said a second plane had been carrying another 80 captured Ukrainian troops, which was swiftly diverted from the danger zone after the first aircraft was attacked.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has so far declined to comment on the incident, saying only that it was looking into the matter. However, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for Kiev’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR), confirmed that Russia and Ukraine were indeed scheduled to carry out a prisoner exchange on Wednesday, adding that it had since been canceled.

Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda initially reported, citing unnamed defense officials in Kiev, that the Il-76 was destroyed by the country’s military. Later, however, it removed the mention of Kiev’s role in the attack.

https://www.rt.com/russia/591206-ukraine-deliberately-shot-down-plane/

24 Jan, 2024 12:24

Time for West to realize it is helping Nazis – top Russian MP

Moscow officials have claimed that Kiev downed a plane carrying its own POWs using German or US-made air defense missiles

US and German lawmakers must finally realize that by sending weapons to Kiev, they are helping a “Nazi regime” that has stooped to knowingly killing dozens of its own prisoners of war, Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said on Wednesday.

The lawmaker’s comments came shortly after the Russian Defense Ministry reported the crash of an IL-76 cargo aircraft carrying 65 captured Ukrainian service members, as well as several crew and accompanying personnel, in Belgorod Region bordering Ukraine. The soldiers were being transported to the area to be exchanged, officials said.

Russian MP Andrey Kartapolov claimed that Kiev knew about the impending exchange and the flight route, but attacked the plane anyway. He stated that theIL-76 had been downed by three missiles fired from either a US-made Patriot or German-made IRIS-T air defensesystem, and suggested that further prisoner exchanges were out of the question for the time being.

Commenting on the tragedy, Volodin advised the Russian parliament to draft an appeal to the US Congress and German Bundestag, so that those lawmakers could “finally understand who they are funding.”

“This is a Nazi regime, nurtured by [US President Joe] Biden, [French President Emmanuel] Macron, [German Chancellor Olaf] Scholz… they must understand their responsibility,” he added, urging Western legislators to impeach the aforementioned leaders.

Volodin claimed that Kiev had shot down its own troops in mid-flight: “Their mothers, wives, and children were waiting for them. They also killed our pilots… defenseless, who were on a humanitarian mission, using American and German missiles.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/591204-west-helping-ukraine-nazis/

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24 Jan, 2024 15:05

Kiev attack on POW plane ‘insane barbarism’ – Moscow

Ukraine tried to set Russia up by sacrificing its citizens, the Foreign Ministry has said

Kiev’s downing of a Russian cargo plane carrying dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war is “an act of insane barbarism” that calls into question the possibility of further diplomatic engagement between the two countries, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official has said.

On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Kiev had shot down an IL-76 cargo aircraft carrying 65 captured Ukrainian service members as well as several crew members and soldiers of escort over the border of Belgorod Region.The captives were soon to take part in a prisoner exchange with Kiev. Russian officials also claimed that Kiev used Western-supplied air defense systems to shoot down the plane.

Rodion Miroshnik, Russia’s ambassador-at-large for Ukraine’s crimes, condemned Kiev over the attack, warning that the perpetrators would be brought to justice. “By violating the agreements,they killed our pilots and escort soldiers and wrote off their own citizens,” he said.

”The Ukrainian dictatorship,” the diplomat continued, sacrificed their own service members to “demonstrate ‘Russia’s bloody nature.”’ In practice, however, Kiev only revealed its own “Nazi inhuman core by conspicuously sending to kingdom come those for whom it supposedly ‘fought’ and was waiting for,” he stated.

According to Miroshnik,the incident also casts serious doubt on the possibility of future agreements between Moscow and Kiev. “They are certain to violate the guarantees that they are giving if they have not already; there is no doubt about it.”

Ukrainian officials have so far declined to comment on the incident, saying they are still investigating the matter. However, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for Kiev’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) spokesman,confirmedthat Russia and Ukraine werescheduled to conduct a prisoner exchange on Wednesday.

Commenting on the incident, Russian Senator Viktor Bondarev told the ‘Vmeste RF’ TV channel that the crew of the Il-76 was able to report “external impact” after the attack. He also suggested thatthe plane’s pilots– whom he described as highly experienced –managed to steer the aircraft out of the populated areato avoid civilian casualties.

He added that while the Il-76 was equipped with decoy flares, its crew did not use them becausethe plane was flying over friendly territoryand far from the frontline.

https://www.rt.com/russia/591215-kiev-plane-downing-insane-barbarism/

24 Jan, 2024 15:14

Leading US newspaper announces major layoffs

The Los Angeles Times will fire at least 115 journalists amid heavy financial losses

The Los Angeles Times announced on Tuesday that it would lay off at least 155 employees, or a fifth of its newsroom staff. According to its owner, the paper has been losing up to $40 million per year.

The latest round of layoffs is among the most severe in the newspaper’s 142-year history, and comes after 74 newsroom staff were sacked in July. The Los Angeles Times Guild, a trade union representing the paper’s journalists, said that 94 of its members were among those let go.

The union said that it pushed the paper’s owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, into agreeing to voluntary buyouts instead of layoffs, but that he refused.

However, in an article announcing the layoffs,Soon-Shiong said that the union soured negotiationsby choosing to go on strike last week and refusing a buyout deal that would save all but the most senior staff from being sacked.

Soon-Shiong and his family purchased the ailing newspaper in 2018 and managed to reverse more than a decade of losses and headcount reductions. However, advertising revenue was falling across the entire media industry, and ever since the Covid-19 pandemic, the LA Times had been running up losses of between $30 million and $40 million per year, he said.

Soon-Shiong partially blamed the paper’s editorsfor the dire financial straits, claiming thattheir decision to stop printing sports scores last summerled to thousands of readers canceling their subscriptions. (KEK! Oh it couldn’t have been from the far left “fear and hate porn published daily on PDJT?” Pathetic excuse. He will never admit that their hatred for America was the cause.Due to this excuse, guaranteed whistleblowers will come out with a lot of dirt on the owner.)

The LA Times is not the only major media company to slash its workforce in recent months. ABC News, Buzzfeed, CNN, Conde Nast, NBC News, and the Washington Post have all cut staff members over the last year, with more than 2,600 jobs lost in the news industry in 2023. Across the broader media sector, 20,342 jobs were cut over the same period, according to a recent report.

(Report to follow)

https://www.rt.com/news/591216-la-times-layoffs-firings/

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Opinion | Media industry cuts top 20,000 in 2023, report finds

The news sector alone has lost 2,681 jobs so far in 2023 — more than it did in all of 2022 or 2021.

By: Angela Fu, Ren LaForme and Tom Jones

December 8, 2023

The news industry has seen 2,681 job cuts so far this year, according to a report by employment firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas released Thursday. That number includes broadcast, digital and print.

The news sector has lost more jobsthis year through November than it didin all of 2022 or 2021. Media, of which news is considered a subset, has experienced 20,342 cuts, the highest year-to-date figure since 2020, Challenger reported.

Dozens of news outletshave executed layoffs this year, including TheWashington Post, NPR, BuzzFeed News, Vox and The Texas Tribune. On Thursday alone, KCRWin Santa Monica, California, started offering buyouts, andCondé Nast announced layoffs at Wired, according to unions representing journalists in those newsrooms. (Isn’t Condé Nast owned by a bunch of Pedos?)

Lee grows digital revenue, still ends year on a loss

Lee Enterprises ended its fourth quarter with a $1 million loss despite growing digital revenue, the company announced Thursday.

In the quarter ending Sept. 24, Lee — thefourth-largest newspaper chainin the country, operating in 75 markets — saw its digital revenue grow 14% year-over-year to $73 million. This growth was largely driven by an increase in digital subscriptions. The company reported a total operating revenue of $164 million.

“These strong performances in digital revenue are pushing us down the path of thriving, recurring profitable digital revenue which bolsters our confidence in achieving our long-term goals,” CEO Kevin Mowbray said during an earnings call with investors.

Lee is trying to develop sustainable digital revenue to combat industrywide declines in print revenue. As part of its investments in digital, the company made $100 million in cuts during fiscal year 2023, most of which targeted its print business. Those cuts included layoffs, furloughs and a reduction in print days at the majority of its daily newspapers.

The earnings report comes as journalists at The Southern Illinoisan prepare for their last day at work. In October, Lee sold the paper toPaxton Media Group, which plans to lay off the entire unionized news staff. In selling to Paxton, Lee ignored an offer from a local investor to match or exceed the purchase price and honor theSouthern Illinoisan workers’ contract, according to a group of 12 unions at Lee’s papers. (12 unions?)

“If this is the road Lee Enterprises intends to travel, where it guts newspaper holdings and passes on what’s left to disingenuous buyers who will disinvest in local news coverage, then all the communities where Lee ownsnews organizations have reason to fear for the future,” the unions wrote. “This is not a plan for long-term growth. In fact, it’s no kind of plan at all.”

Lee stock closed at $9.17 a share Thursday, down 16.64% from the previous day.

(Fake News being dismantled)

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/media-industry-cuts-top-20000-in-2023-report-finds/

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They hate Paxton Media because they buy out media, cut the union jobs, bring the media to more local news, and the are not left wing slants. The group makes the companies more profitable. And CPI (see who funds below) is always trying to take them down:

Quote from:Lee grows digital revenue, still ends year on a loss

The earnings report comes as journalists at The Southern Illinoisan prepare for their last day at work. In October, Lee sold the paper toPaxton Media Group, which plans to lay off the entire unionized news staff. In selling to Paxton, Lee ignored an offer from a local investor to match or exceed the purchase price and honor the Southern Illinoisan workers’ contract, according to a group of 12 unions at Lee’s papers.

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/media-industry-cuts-top-20000-in-2023-report-finds/

Paxton Media Group

Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers and a TV station, WPSD-TV in Paducah.David M. Paxton is president and CEO.

Company type: Family-owned

Industry: Publishing

Products

Newspapers, Media

The company owns 32 daily newspapers and numerous weekly newspapers, mostly in the southern United States.Daily circulation totals 350,000.

History

Paxton Media Group traces it roots to 1896, when a group of investors headed by William F. Paxton launched.

Business practices

Paxton Media Group was criticized when it fired nearly 25 percent of the employees of The Herald-Sun, many of them longtime staples of the newsroom, the day it assumed ownership.

•Allegations of lackluster and biased reporting by Paxton Media Group's holdingsbecame news, again, with the dismissal of charges against the suspects in the Duke lacrosse rape case.In December 2016, Paxton Media sold The Herald-Sun to The McClatchy Company==.

"Paxton Media Group LLC". The Center for Public Integrity.

• Archived from the original on October 25, 2007. - List of Paxton Media Group's daily newspapers

Morgan, Fiona (January 18, 2006). "Inside The Herald-Sun: One year after a traumatic takeover by the Paxton Media chain, Durham's hometown newspaper offersmore local content, but less news". Retrieved April 18, 2007.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxton_Media_Group

Center for Public Integrity

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose stated mission is "to counter the corrosive effects of inequality by holding powerful interests accountable and equipping the public with knowledge to drive change."With over 50 staff members,CPI is one of the largest nonprofit investigative centers in America.It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

The Center for Public Integrity

The CPI has been described as an independent watchdog group.The Center releases its reports via its website to media outlets throughout the U.S. and around the globe. In 2004.As of December 21, 2018, CPI was rated as 3 out of 4 stars overall by Charity Navigator, an independent nonprofits evaluator.

Mission

The mission of the center is"to protect democracyand inspire change using investigative reporting that exposes betrayals of the public trust by powerful interests".

Organizational structure

Funding

A list of CPI's donors may be found on the organization's official website. CPI's annual reports are also available on the organization's website.[14] CPI ceased accepting contributions from corporations and labor unions in 1996.In 2010, CPI had $9,264,997 in revenue and $7,708,349 in expenses.

CPI reports receiving foundation supportfrom a number of foundations, including theSunlight Foundation, theEthics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, theFord Foundation, theJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, theJohn S. and James L. Knight Foundation, theOmidyar Network, the Open Society Foundations, and thePew Charitable Trusts.[37] TheBarbra Streisand Foundationreports that it has funded CPI.[39]

In July 2014, the Laura and John Arnold Foundationdonated $2.8 million to CPI to launch a new project focused on state campaign finance.

Ideology (Extreme)

In relation to a story in February 1996,CPI was characterized as a "liberal group"by the Los Angeles Timesand The New York Times.[Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a progressive media watchdog,has described CPI as "progressive."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Public_Integrity

I hope to God that PSJT doesn’t pick Tim Scott as VP. He’s a traitor.

Trump wouldn’t do this, right anons?