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Introduction – Dec 29, 2018

UNHCR Ambassador Angelina Jolie visits the Port of Pireaus the day before the fighting

Angelina Jolie visits the Port of Pireaus in her capacity as UNHCR Ambassador. Click to enlarge

Angelina Jolie may be a Hollywood movie star but many also see her as being groomed as a possible leader, maybe even for high office, by the globalists.
Not only has she supported a host of politically correct charities and campaigns, including the Clinton Foundation, she’s also helped the United Nations Millennium Project to support gender equality. All of which sounds very well intentioned until you look at some of the other contributors to the same causes that Angelina Jolie supports.
These include:
Madonna
Bono
George Soros
Special Advisor to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (who was closely tied to the global elite), Jeffrey Sachs.
Bill Clinton
George Clooney
The list goes on but you get the picture. For those listed the various causes and campaigns they support are as much a means of promoting themselves as they are for helping others. Where charity is an exercise in public relations; so that being seen to do good enables them to burnish their own public image as well as help the needy.
Indeed, in many cases one suspects that Public Relations may be the main reason for their participation.
Call me a cynic but I do not see Madonna, the Clintons or George Soros as being paragons of virtue. Nor do I see Bono or George Clinton as being much better. No matter how much charity work they do, people who advertise their good deeds should not be taken at face value.
However, it does seem entirely appropriate that the BBC should hire Angelina Jolie to produce a TV program that will “educate” children about fake news. After all the BBC and the rest of the corporate media have been relentlessly publishing fake news stories for the past two decades. With stories about Syrian Chemical Weapons attacks, (or here, here and here) the BBC have become adept in dealing in fake news.
So now they’ve employed Angelina Jolie to expose others involved in exactly what they are past masters at. Like a thief caught red-handed with stolen goods pointing at someone else and claiming: “he did it”.
If nothing else this suggests that the BBC and the rest of the corporate media are getting seriously worried about the rise of the independent, online media. They are being exposed for what they really are: liars and propagandists.
So now they’ve resorted to educating/propagandising/indoctrinating/lying about “fake news”. And just in case it doesn’t work with adults, they’ve directed their latest campaign at kids.
This looks like desperation and we don’t think that it’s going to work. Too many people are beginning to wake up from their media induced delusions. Ed.

Angelina Jolie will combat fake news as producer of new BBC World Service 10-show education series to introduce children to truth rather than opinion

Henry Martin – Mail Online Dec 28, 2018

Angelina Jolie will join the BBC for a series of special programmes to introduce young people to truth rather than opinion.

The Hollywood star and United Nations special envoy is to work with the BBC World Service as a producer for a series of educational shows for children.

Jolie will seek to improve media literacy with the partnership on the new programme, Our World, with the piloted current affairs show planned to span 10 weekly episodes.

The actress and humanitarian campaigner has spoken of the need for reliable source in a media landscape clouded by fake news.

Angela Jolie, pictured left with presenter Justin Webb on Radio 4's Today programme. The Hollywood star has spoken of the need for reliable source in a media landscape clouded by fake news. Click to enlarge

Angela Jolie, pictured left with presenter Justin Webb on Radio 4’s Today programme. The Hollywood star has spoken of the need for reliable source in a media landscape clouded by fake news. Click to enlarge

She said: ‘There has never been a time when it was more important to introduce the next generation to objective, impartial news and factual explanation of the events and issues shaping our world.

‘Children today are exposed to a lot of opinion, but not necessarily to information that is fact-based and reliable.

‘As a mother, I am very pleased that the BBC World Service is taking this step. It is also important to me that the project is global, and will help young people in different countries to be connected to each other and to have greater awareness and understanding of the news on an international basis.’

The programme will be aimed at children aged seven to 12, and will attempt to offer an international awareness, as well as providing the tools to critically assess media.

The BBC announced it will seek to spread the programme format around the world to increase the number media literate young people.

BBC World Service director Jamie Angus added: ‘No parent can completely isolate their child from fake news. But what we can do is give kids the tools to distinguish the genuine from the false and encourage them to develop critical thinking.’

Listeners of Radio 4’s flagship Today programme have reacted to Angelina Jolie‘s guest editing stint where she hinted at a move into politics.

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