"Punch BBC, Kick CNN",
The independent female journalist was placed on the "assassination list"...
Author: Xu Ye
Editor: Rui Su Lingyun
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This is Ava Bartlett's "face-punching feast" for the Western mainstream media.
Not long ago, some people on the Ukrainian side claimed that the Russian army dug a large pit in the Donetsk region with a length and width of 30 meters, and then used trucks to pull the bodies of more than 9,000 civilians and poured them into the pit. CNN, The Guardian and other Western media immediately piled up to hype up and put together the so-called "Russian army to create a 'mass grave'" explosive news.
As a veteran independent journalist, Bartlett smelled unusual.
She rushed to the village of Mangush, the "place of the incident" in the report, and after investigation, she found that all this was indeed fake news concocted by the West!
After posting the investigative video, Bartlett tweeted: "The West says Russia has made 'mass graves,' which is fake news, and I know because I went to see it." ”
Over the years, Bartlett has not less than contradicted the Western media, which can be called "punching the BBC, kicking CNN", and not forgetting to take the time to criticize Twitter, Facebook and other online platforms.
Because of the number of people who have offended so much, she was put on the "assassination list" by a certain website...
But this "fierce sister" is not afraid at all, even more rigid, directly posted: "My birthplace of the United States & Canada, where I grew up, has always been on the wrong side!" ”
Criticize the Western media for lying
Bartlett found that what the Western media called "mass graves" was actually an ordinary cemetery used by local people.
Two staff members in charge of the burial told her that the place was specially designed for the burial of ordinary people, and that a deceased person would be put into a coffin and then buried alone. Each tombstone has the name and time of birth of the deceased, and only some of the unidentified tombstones are marked with numbers.
The "mass graves" reported by Western media are actually ordinary cemeteries, and the tombstones are marked with information about the deceased.
The video of the live investigation is in front of us, but there are still people in the West who do not want to believe it, only because Bartlett is accompanied by a reporter, Roman Korsalev from Russia Today Television (RT).
In the face of conspiracy theorists' smear and attacks, Bartlett responded positively: he never collected money to do anything.
She also wrote back: "Back in 2014, when I went to Syria and wrote reports there, the crap of 'you are Russian so-and-so' began. ”
This is indeed not the first time That Bartlett has been hacked for exposing the truth.
The most classic famous scene took place at a United Nations press conference at the end of 2016.
When it was her turn to speak, she opened her fire and poked at the essence.
"Today, in the United Nations General Assembly, the representative of my country (Canada) drafted a resolution, not for human rights or for the Syrian people, the fundamental purpose of which is to shirk responsibility and slander the Syrian government and Russia. ”
After shelling the United States - "I hope the United States can stop supporting terrorism and stop financing terrorism." ”
In the meantime, she also bluntly stated that the Western media were "lying from the beginning to the end" in their coverage of Syria. Another reporter in the audience couldn't hang his face and couldn't help but ask: "Why do western media lie?" How can you call us liars like that? ”
Bartlett replied: "In the establishment media, which is implicated by many interests, there must be some honest journalists. Then, she turned sharp and asked, "You tell me the name of an organization in eastern Aleppo, Syria?" ”
After waiting for 3 seconds, the other party did not answer. Who has more say is already obvious.
At this time, she went on to reveal that the Western media had no reliable source of information in Aleppo, and that the international organizations it relied on were also very catty .↓↓
Bartlett cites the example of the White Helmets, an organization that claims to be a civilian rescue force that is best at fake performances and even uses injured children as props.
You must remember this picture ↓↓
In August 2016, 5-year-old boy Omran was injured in the fighting and sat in an ambulance with a bloodstained face. The "White Helmets" group claimed that they saved the child from an attack created by the Syrian government, and through the propaganda of the Western media, many people were once touched.
Bartlett was one of the few journalists who interviewed the boy's father. As a result, the other party said: It is not at all as reported by Western media, the "White Helmet" is to take advantage of his absence from his son and use his son to take a photo, which is the exploitation of the child.
Some people commented that one of Bartlett's most important contributions as a journalist was to expose the true nature of the "White Helmets".
He almost died in Syria
Bartlett was born in Michigan in 1977 and grew up in the governor of Ontario, Canada. Little is known about her family.
But she allegedly speaks French, is good at diving, has passed a piano level 10 and has reached black belt in taekwondo. One sentence to sum up: both literature and martial arts.
She worked briefly as a French translator and then as an English lecturer in various places. It wasn't until 2007 that she went to Palestine and began documenting what she saw in the Middle East, which may have allowed her to find a cause she truly loved.
Bartlett (infographic).
She spent 8 months on the ground, attracting the attention of the Zionists for her "work", where she was arrested three times and eventually deported and barred from returning to Palestine.
Even so, Bartlett's enthusiasm as an independent journalist was not dispelled.
She crossed Palestinian waters by boat and tried to enter the Gaza Strip. Approaching Gaza, a gunboat threatened the small boat she was in to turn around. Despite several twists and turns, she eventually reached Gaza.
Since then, she has lived in Gaza for three years (late 2008-June 2010, 2011-March 2013), living like a local resident: living near refugee camps, taking public transport outside the door, enduring extreme power outages and water shortages...
She wants to be able to report on the civilians — in her view, the Western media never cares about the civilians, and exists to create public opinion.
In 2014, she began to focus her reporting on the situation in Syria. Since April of that year, she has traveled to Syria 15 times to report in different cities. At one point, she almost died.
At that time, the explosion sounded half a kilometer away from her, and smoke filled everywhere. About five minutes later, a bomb flew over and landed just 15 meters away from her. Fortunately, she escaped. But a day later, the mother of one of her best friends was killed by a bomb attack.
"It's a tiny part of the daily suffering that locals suffer." She said sadly.
Bartlett (infographic).
These reports attracted many supporters to Bartlett. Ken Stone, a spokesman for the anti-war group Hamilton Coalition to Stop War, for example, argued that her reports were "more accurate than what people see every day in the mainstream Western media."
In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Martha Gellhorn Journalism Award, which was won in 2011 by WikiLeaks founder Assange.
In March of the same year, she was awarded the "International Journalism Award for International Reporting" by the Mexican Journalists' Press Club.
In March 2017, Bartlett won the Journalism Award.
She was also the first to receive the Serena Shim Award. Serena Shim, an American journalist who infiltrated a group smuggling weapons to Syrian terrorists, was killed in a car accident in 2014. The purpose of the Serena Shim Award is to "recognize non-mainstream journalists who continue to tell challenging truths in difficult times".
Self-disclosure is included in the "assassination list"
The more popular Bartlett became, the angrier the Western media that had been punched in the face by her became, so much so that there were many voices deliberately smearing her.
People who can be war correspondents are naturally not gas bags who can't bear to swallow their voices.
She used her expression to spit cnn is "clown" ↓↓
Speaking of the BBC's legendary "neutrality", her backhand is a disgusting + vomiting expression ↓↓
·“ The BBC also dared to criticize and discredit independent journalists like Vanessa Beeley and me. The BBC's legendary 'neutrality'. ”
Seeing that the Canadian media said that she was "worried that canada's training regiment in Ukraine might inadvertently help neo-Nazi groups", she immediately drew the point - "unintentionally "️, the connotation of the other party is lying ↓↓."
In addition to traditional media, Bartlett has not forgotten to be tough with online platforms.
Last February, one of Wikipedia's founders lamented: "Gone are the days when Wikipedia committed to neutrality." ”
She posted: Wikipedia has ever been neutral?
"Wikipedia refers to me as a 'blogger', apparently to question my credentials as an independent journalist." She also said that much of the above content was blackmailed her false information, "My supporters told me that they contacted Wikipedia, questioned my defamatory article, and successfully made changes." However, in a very short time, the entry almost returned to its original form. ”
Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram were also badly rated by Bartlett: rules double standard.
"Legitimate accounts that criticize the United States will be banned by them." For example, in early 2020, after the Assassination of Iranian General Sulaimani by the United States, as long as the post expressed sympathy or commemoration of Sulaimani, it will be deleted.
"However, accounts on these platforms that openly support suicide bombers, ISIS and al-Qaida abound and remain intact."
Bartlett (infographic).
Sometimes, Bartlett also targets Western politicians.
At the end of last year, Britain's Supreme Court ruled in favor of Britain's long-term freezing of Venezuelan assets and continuing to withhold the latter's 31 tons of gold deposited in the Bank of England's Bank of England. She wrote a long, lively title— "Britain Tells Hungry Venezuelans, Your $1.7 Billion In Gold Is Ours Now."
In March this year, she saw reports that the White House had found 30 Internet celebrities on TikTok to introduce them to the progress of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and couldn't help but tweet: When did Netflix make this into a drama?
Bartlett (infographic).
There are not a few people who take Bartlett as a thorn in their eye.
She once revealed that she had long been targeted by a website called "Peacemaker" and was "blacklisted" by it.
The website was created in 2014. In recent years, many journalists, politicians, and even art workers have been blacklisted by them for various reasons. Previously, it was reported that in 2015, a journalist who was included in the blacklist was assassinated.
Netizens often remind Bartlett in the comments section to "pay attention to safety", but she still loves to go to the most dangerous places in the world, looking for the truth that has been covered up by western media conspiracies.
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