"We saw that in the Canadian mainstream media’s denunciations of Consortiumnews.com for running an article
that pointed out that Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland had
misrepresented her family history to white-out her maternal
grandfather’s role editing a Nazi newspaper in Poland that demonized
Jews and justified the Holocaust.
Virtually every mainstream outlet in Canada rallied to Freeland’s
side when she dismissed our article as Russian disinformation. Only
later did a few newspapers grudgingly acknowledge
that our story was true and that Freeland knew it was true. Still, the
attacks on us continued. We were labeled “Russian disinformationists,”
with no evidence needed to support the slander and no defense allowed.
Though arguably a small example, the Freeland story reflects what is
happening across the Western mainstream news media. Almost every
independent-minded news article that questions the establishment
narratives on international affairs is dismissed as “Russian
propaganda.” The few politicians, academics and journalists who don’t
march in the establishment’s parade are “Moscow stooges” or “Putin
apologists.”"
More here - https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/13/when-disinformation-is-truth/
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