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| + | AFP journalists [[Leo Ramirez]], [[Hector Retamal]] and [[Sebastien Ricci]] were the source of one of the first propaganda stories starting the scare campaign in the [[COVID-19]] [[deep event]]. Reporting from [[Wuhan]], [[China]], on February 8, 2020, AFP published a story about a dead elderly "man laying on the road, not far from a hospital. He still had his white face mask on".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200414133550/https://correspondent.afp.com/life-time-coronavirus-epicenter</ref> | ||
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Not to be confused with American Free Press, which can also be abbreviated AFP.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. It is one of the 3 agencies (together with Reuters and Associated Press) that dominates international news. Agency reports from these 3 are the basis for maybe 80% of international news in corporate media.
The CEO in 2020 is Fabrice Fries, the Global News Director is British Phil Chewynd.
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COVID-19
AFP journalists Leo Ramirez, Hector Retamal and Sebastien Ricci were the source of one of the first propaganda stories starting the scare campaign in the COVID-19 deep event. Reporting from Wuhan, China, on February 8, 2020, AFP published a story about a dead elderly "man laying on the road, not far from a hospital. He still had his white face mask on".[1]
The story gave numerous false impressions; for example, the official death toll in Wuhan, a city of 18 million, was the low number of 3000 in total; and if the man had breathing problems, why did he have a face mask on. Covering itself with disclaimers like "We’ll never be able to confirm that he actually died from the virus", almost every corporate media in the world nevertheless chose to run it[2]. In their reporting they strongly gave the impression people were falling like flies in the streets, reinforcing the message with anonymous witness statements like "A woman standing near the man said she believed he had died from the virus...It’s terrible...These days many people have died.”
A Document by Agence France-Presse
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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| Document:Canada PM Justin Trudeau’s government in crisis after minister quits over corruption probe | Article | 13 February 2019 | Justin Trudeau Meng Wanzhou Jody Wilson-Raybould SNC-Lavalin Great Man-Made River Project | A Canadian minister’s sudden resignation on 12 February 2019 turned vague allegations of interference in the criminal prosecution of an engineering giant into a deepening political crisis for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norbert Häring | “A fact-checking scene coordinated from the United States, paid for by the EU and supported by the federal government ensures that all media are supplied with narrative-faithful agency reports on important topics, which they disseminate, and remain true to the narrative prescribed from above in their own reports and comments. From this point of view, it also explains why the fact checks are often so openly tendentious and the arguments are borderline retarded. It's not primarily about convincing someone with these fact checks. Its main function is to announce to the media landscape what are the topics on which a narrative must be respected and what this narrative is.” | Norbert Häring | June 2024 |
| John Laughland | “People experience a strong psychological reluctance to accept that political events today are deliberately manipulated. This reluctance is itself a product of the ideology of the information age, which flatters people’s vanity and encourages them to believe that they have access to huge amounts of information. In fact, the apparent multifarious nature of modern media information hides an extreme paucity of original sources, rather as a street of restaurants on a Greek waterfront can hide the reality of a single kitchen at the back. News reports of major events very often come from a single source, usually a wire agency, and even authoritative news outlets like the BBC simply recycle information which they have received from these agencies, presenting it as their own.” | John Laughland | 2010 |
Employee on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
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| Hubert Beuve-Mery | Company Director | 1970 | 1978 | Attended Bilderberg 1970 |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:The Propaganda Multiplier | media analysis | 2016 | Swiss Policy Research |
