(WMR)—Vice Magazine, the online “news” site founded in 1994 in Montreal as the “Voice of Montreal,” has become a major influential media outlet. But the online magazine also appears to be doing the bidding of Western governments in aiming its fury at Russia, North Korea, and other countries with which are receiving full barrages from the neoconservative propaganda industry.
That Vice would be tied to neocon propaganda efforts comes as not a surprise. In 2013, News Corporation’s Rupert Murdoch acquired a 5 percent stake in Vice.
Vice was involved in basketball celebrity Dennis Rodman’s bizarre visits to Pyongyang, North Korea and covered his meetings with Kim Jong Un. Vice “reporter” Simon Ostrovsky, the latest U.S. media darling since “60 Minutes” swimsuit model Lara Logan was caught reporting a story about Benghazi that was made from whole cloth, is making the rounds talking about his detention by the “terrible” pro-Russian secessionists in eastern Ukraine.
Essentially, Ostrovsky and the Vice crew that accompanied Rodman to North Korea are nothing more than provocateur poseur journalists whose capers put into danger legitimate journalists who cover events around the world. It is clear that Vice reporters are nothing more than a pack of circus clowns whose mission is to embarrass targeted world leaders and sow dissension.
Russia and aspirant nations like Abkhazia, which is fighting for its survival against a Republic of Georgia bent on reabsorbing the nation and meting out “revenge justice,” neocon-style, are the current targets of opportunity for the Vice propagandists. One of Vice’s latest stories is titled “Abkhazia is yet another country that doesn’t exist,” even though Abkhazia is recognized by Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Nauru and Google Voice includes Abkhazia on its list of independent countries. Vice is propagating the U.S. State Department line that any country trying to rectify decisions made by Joseph Stalin and other Soviet communists during the USSR era does not exist. When Vice states that Abkhazia is “yet another country that doesn’t exist,” it is also referring to South Ossetia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Odessa, Donetsk, and Kharkov. It is pure propaganda sent out every day in State Department press releases and faxes. Vice republishes the propaganda without batting an eyelash.
As examples of Vice’s commitment to seriousness, it broadcasts a “news” show on HBO. The executive producer is a comedian, Bill Maher. The show’s consultant is none other than New World Order poster boy Fareed Zakaria.
In its zeal to carry Washington’s and the neocons’ water, Vice, which is starting to edge out the Obama sycophants at The Daily Beast, is trying to prove which is the better media prostitute.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).
