Lyn Gerry writes: "Yesterday a post from the goodlight.net message board which was
forwarded onto several lists claimed that Amy Goodman had been
hospitalized for an emotional breakdown.
THIS WAS DELIBERATE DISINFO AND IS COMPLETELY AND
UTTERLY FALSE.
Amy was seen by her frends last night and is expected at WBAI
shortly, where she will greet picketers who have come out in
support of Democracy Now, the banned and fired, and the freeing of
WBAI and Pacifica.
I would caution everybody to take material published on
goodlight.net with a grain of salt. There is no fact checking and
furthermore as posts are anonymous there is frequently
disinformation posted there. Web forums in general suffer from this
frailty and are a pretty unreliable source of news.
Pacifica management has a history of use of disinfo in this struggle
and I advise activists to beware. When I say "disinfo" I am not
talking about the routine lies and spin control contained in official
press statements.
The "disinfo" is material that is being used tactically aginst the
resistance movement, usually either to:
1)create dissenion in our ranks with "damaging revelations"
designed to cast suspicion on other activists
2) expose sources of leaks among their ranks by distributing a
"scoop" to targeted groups to see of the "news" makes its way to
the public and by what route.
3) "news" designed to take the time and energy of activists away
from effective action, such as this present hospitalization ruse
4) "news" designed to provoke emotional reactions or rash
statements that can them be used to portray the movement as
poorly informed, hysterical and not credible.
Be on guard! This is a battle with very high stakes.
Lyn"
