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The Washington Post’s QAnon Segment Was Something Out of 1984
The Post’s attempt to discredit Q fell flat. A closer look exposes the agenda of a modern-day Operation Mockingbird.
February 20th, the Washington Post released a video segment entitled How QAnon, the bizarre pro-Trump conspiracy theory, took hold in right-wing circles online. The clip, just five and a half minutes long, can be viewed here:
While the QAnon phenomenon has seen an uptick of mainstream media coverage in recent months, the Post’s video segment is the highest-profile exposure QAnon (or just “Q”) has seen in legacy media since its genesis in October 2017. Originating when a few cryptic intel “drops” emerged from the depths of the dark web, Q has since delivered an irregular stream of posts and postulations generating widespread interest on social media where citizens track and decode the drops in real time. Q’s popularity within the American body politic has flourished so quickly that TIME magazine labeled it one of the most powerful influencers in digital media when it was barely a year old, still nascent and largely anomalous.
While Q’s unconventional and interactive format contributes to its popularity, its content is the driver of this snowballing public interest.
As can be gleaned from reviewing a few drops, Q is a person or team identifying as Q that posts primary-source content online to provide intel and clues regarding ongoing current events. What makes Q unique is that it covers topics that are deliberately not being reported by mainstream news media, often because it directly incriminates them. While its posts feature a variety of themes and media, a primary objective of the Q operation is to expose in real time how mainstream media works as an arm of America’s Deep State shadow government.
By now, it is well known that legacy media worked hand-in-hand with the Democrats to rig the 2016 primary in Hillary Clinton’s favor as Barack Obama’s administration initiated clandestine operations to sabotage Donald J. Trump around the same time. Since then, the Post and other politicized media entities have been employing propaganda, targeted leaks, and other strategies to undercut Trump at the Democrats’ orders, despite the implications of conspiring to usurp a duly-elected U.S. president. This includes the tactic of using coverage of the crooked Mueller probe to allege wrongdoing by Trump in the absence of any evidence, and in place of reporting on the real collusion racket, that of the Democrats.
The politically savvy would not need to be told why a QAnon video produced by the Post would be a hotly-anticipated release. The outfits represent the media fronts of the two opposing sides of the information war playing out in American politics: on one hand, the Washington Post, a CIA-controlled publication that played an integral role in the Clinton-Obama coup against Trump; on the other, Q, an information dissemination campaign that serves to expose corruption in media and how the fourth estate has been used to undermine American democracy.
The roots of big media’s allegiance to the state traces back to the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird of the 1950’s. Originating when the CIA began paying journalists to report fake stories to promote the views of intelligence agencies, Mockingbird has never been officially discontinued. While the specifics of modern-day Mockingbird remain secret, plenty can be deduced about the agenda of the Deep State by analyzing what information is available.
A Q drop released a week before the WaPo segment prompted readers to do some such research, asking rhetorically why it is the Post that is leading the mainstream media’s attacks against Q. Some digging connects the dots: Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, bought the Post for $250 million in 2013 just after Amazon won a $600 million CIA contract; the $250M price tag was less than half the amount Bezos had just tendered from the CIA. The CIA Director at the time? John Brennan, one of the central figures of the Clinton-Obama coup.
The Post may consider its ties to the CIA to be common knowledge, considering the blatant conflict of interest is never mentioned in their reporting. The CIA’s preference to keep its influence in media under wraps presents an ethical dilemma for publishers, where journalists should disclose relationships that may compromise the objective nature of the source, but often don’t. Accordingly, the onus falls on consumers to research journalists and news outlets to determine if their reporting can be taken at face value, or if it might be fulfilling an ulterior motive.
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