{"id":358085,"date":"2018-04-23T21:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/clinton-lauds-efforts-to-censor-alternative-media\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T21:27:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:27:06","slug":"clinton-lauds-efforts-to-censor-alternative-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/clinton-lauds-efforts-to-censor-alternative-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Lauds Efforts To Censor Alternative Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crooked Hillary whines about \u201cliving though an all out war on truth, facts and reason\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>April 23, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hillary Clinton continues to blame everything and everyone apart from herself for not being elected President. In a speech this past weekend, Hillary complained that the \u201cweaponization of false information\u201d by the alternative media cost her the election, and lauded efforts to crackdown on the spread of what she called \u201coutright lies against our democracy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor anyone who thinks that our country isn\u2019t vulnerable to propaganda or attempts to suppress free expression, you only have to look at the 2016 election, which was a case study in the weaponization of false information and outright lies against our democracy,\u201d Hillary told an audience at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York City.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U_zEBjhEYwk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hillary added that \u201cwe are living through an all out war on truth, facts and reason,\u201d and complained of a \u2018false equivalency\u2019 in media coverage of the 2016 presidential election that was \u201ccorrosive\u201d and had a \u201cleveling effect that opens the door to charlatans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, she whined about the Clinton propaganda machine not being able to effectively and exclusively control the flow of information to Hillary\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hillary Clinton goes after &#8220;false equivalency&#8221; in media coverage of the 2016 election: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RlusWEAEb3\">pic.twitter.com\/RlusWEAEb3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SopanDeb\/status\/988201540040224768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hillary further whined that \u201cmainstream political coverage was\u00a0influenced by the right-wing media ecosystem and other factors to depart from normal journalistic standards.\u201d<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Clinton then lauded fresh efforts to censor alternative media sources, saying that in the future it will help to \u201cavoid errors that helped Trump into the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow thankfully, in the races since 2016, coverage has been more straightforward and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-clinton-lauds-efforts-to-censor-alternative-media.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crooked Hillary whines about \u201cliving though an all out war on truth, facts and reason\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comApril 23, 2018 Hillary Clinton continues to blame everything and everyone apart from herself for not being elected President. In a speech this past weekend, Hillary complained that the \u201cweaponization of false information\u201d by the alternative media cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}