THE DEFENCE AND SECURITY MEDIA ADVISORY COMMITTEE (DSMA): HOW THE SPOOKS CONTROLL THE PRESS.


 

The DSMA Committee is a uniquely British institution – at once operating in plain sight but virtually hidden from public view due to media omertà, issuing non-binding “advice” reporters almost invariably obey. As the 2015 internal review notes, no other country has “any comparable system” to the UK’s D-Notice regime. However, it appears some officials in Canberra were seeking to emulate the system, asking Australian media to “give notice ahead of publication” so authorities could opine on it – an arrangement strongly resembling the advisory component of the D-Notice system......Minutes of an April 2023 DSMA Committee meeting note the body’s deputy secretary lamented the “extreme sensitivity (in national security terms) of some of the material” that the Committee prevented from being reported by the British media over the past six months. He added that some of this material “had been of the most sensitive nature he had seen” since joining the Committee. of an April 2023 DSMA Committee meeting note the body’s deputy secretary lamented the “extreme sensitivity (in national security terms) of some of the material” that the Committee prevented from being reported by the British media over the past six months. He added that some of this material “had been of the most sensitive nature he had seen” since joining the Committee.

During this same timeframe, The Grayzone published a series of reports on London’s secret, central role in the Ukraine proxy war. These incendiary exposés received significant international attention, and were reported on by media outlets the world over – apart from Britain......Though social media’s “partnership” with traditional British media has been effectively cemented, the Committee still views it as a problematic area that has evaded its system of narrative control.The 2015 internal review contains several lengthy passages identifying “new digital media” as a threat to the system’s very existence, citing WikiLeaks releases of Afghanistan and Iraq war files and Snowden’s leaks as examples. These revelations were said to “demonstrate the difficulty of exercising any kind of restraint through the [D-Notice] system” in the online age. of an April 2023 DSMA Committee meeting note the body’s deputy secretary lamented the “extreme sensitivity (in national security terms) of some of the material” that the Committee prevented from being reported by the British media over the past six months. He added that some of this material “had been of the most sensitive nature he had seennce joining the Committee.During this same timeframe, The Grayzone published a series of reports on London’s secret, central role in the Ukraine proxy war. These incendiary exposés received significant international attention, and were reported on by media outlets the world over – apart from Britain.........Despite what the DSMA Committee perceives as the “reluctance” of “resistant” social networks to engage with the Committee, they remained undeterred in trying to court them into the system. The DSMA Secretary told Politico the future news landscape will necessarily entail “continued increase in social media” and online publications, “so we need to get into this game.” Given the Committee has so effectively infiltrated every major newsroom in Britain, exploiting its censorship system to influence the coverage of international events, it is almost certain to escalate its push for social media suppression.


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