The woke mob goes after the Guardian!

In News Thud, Paul Goldberg brings us news from Britain.

Many on the right saw this day coming as the mainstream media celebrated those on the far-left censoring and “canceling” right-wing outlets but, now the same mob has turned its sights on the mainstream media.

One of Britain’s flagship newspapers The Guardian is facing calls to shut down after thousand sign a petition calling for the newspapers to cease operating over its stance during the 19th century supporting the Confederate states during the American Civil War.

...Despite the Guardian being a huge supporter of Black Lives Matter a petition launched on change.org to the Independent Press Standards Organization has been signed by more than 12,000 people – growing by the hour – calling for the paper to shut down over its view on slavery during the 19th century.

The paper was founded in 1821 by John Edward Taylor, who made money off cotton plantation slavery. When he died in 1844, the paper continued to making money off slave backing cotton mill owners who paid to advertise in the paper.

In one instance, The Guardian had published an article that said working-class mill workers who went on strike because they refused to touch plantation cotton – in support of black American slaves – should be forced back to work and made slaves themselves.

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Walking it back

Ace of Spades writes today,

The Media Continues to Buy Into Any RussiaGate Hoax-Claim, No Matter How Implausible
—Ace of Spades
Yesterday's #FakeNews was a bombshell Guardian report that Paul Manafort had had "secret talks" with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in March 2016.

This is part of the FusionGPS narrative that there was "collusion" between Trump and Assange (who in turn, colluded with Russia) about the DNC hack.

Apparently, the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Assange is a permanent guest, did not bother to have Paul Manafort sign the guest register, and this heavily-video-surveilled embassy had no videotape of his arrival. And no foreign intelligence agencies proffered any videotape of Manafort's visit.

After Wikileaks and Manafort completely denied the claim, and Wikileaks threatened to sue, The Guardian began stealth-editing the the story to walk it back, adding in #JustKidding words like "apparently" and "sources say" and changing verb tenses from simple declarative past to conditional would have past in order to signal a level of doubt and lack of verification that the original Fusion produced hit carefully researched piece lacked.

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