Articles by John Kempthorne
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Factchecking the Factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and Media Access
John Kempthorne | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – US-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective. When social critic Noam Chomsky pointed out how unprecedented this was, Newsweek‘s “factchecker” (26 Jul 2022) declared his criticism “clearly untrue”—a determination that did more to confirm the ideological strictures of US media than to debunk them.
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