The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 26th February 2016
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With regard to your comments on the ‘changing’ news environment.
RNZ 6pm tonight reported an open source independent UKblogger ‘finding Russian troops fired the missile bringing down MH17’ as an actual news item. [Eliot Higgins/bellingcat]
Reported the blogs finding AS news.
A suspect, open source blog, with no ‘power to Government’ or stamp of institution or Air crash Investigation or International Justice – gets to be the authority on The 6pm Friday night news, definitively BLAMING Russian Federation troops for the war crime of civilian passenger jet shootdown !
No spokesperson from the Hague or Washington or the NTSB; nor the NATO gravity centers of this terror event. No General. No Secretary of STATE . No President OBAMA, no;
but Eliot Higins of Bellingcat.
Because he would know.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/01/26/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-1-percent
Today’s ‘The CNN-Telemundo Republican debate’ transcript, annotated,
if you are interested….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/25/the-cnntelemundo-republican-debate-transcript-annotated/
P.S : If you click on the annotated (yellow) parts, you get some interesting comments.