December 17, 2016
"Fake News," Censorship and Democracy
"Fake News," Censorship and Democracy
The mainstream media pull out all the stops to delegitimize Trump...
The real “fake news,” courtesy of the media...
Then Charles Hugh Smith shows you how the internet is undermining traditional media… and why it’s got the media hopping mad...
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
December 17, 2016
Dear Reader,If you thought the mainstream media couldn’t disgrace themselves further after their 2016 presidential election partisan undoing, you were dead wrong…
The Washington Post sinks deeper into the sewage literally every day.
In an effort to delegitimize President-elect Trump, the Post recently ran a story on the proliferation of “fake news.”
In it, the paper reported on hundreds of “fake” websites pushing “Russian propaganda” critical of Hillary Clinton and the ruling class… all supposedly designed to win Trump the election.
But there was just one problem…
The source the Post used for the story, PropOrNot, was unreliable … and the paper was just forced to admit its story on fake news was, well, fake.
You could laugh this off as the latest failure of an inept, ethically bankrupt media.
But as you’re about to see, this proliferation of fake news by the leading U.S. media operations is far more dangerous to your portfolio than you think…
To be clear, I’m not arguing that fake news doesn’t exist. It’s all over the internet. But it’s always been with us.
To be clear, I’m not arguing that fake news doesn’t exist. It’s all over the internet. But it’s always been with us.
Discerning the difference between truth and fiction is why we were given the faculty of reason.
If you read a web article about Yoko Ono having a love affair with Hillary Clinton and choose to believe it’s true, that’s on you.
The only reason we’re hearing so much about this false reality epidemic now is because the mainstream media are using it as an excuse in the midst of its collective nervous breakdown.
You see, they’re still trying to figure out how the unwashed masses didn’t follow their instructions precisely and vote for Clinton.
The proletariat had to have been duped. They could not have possibly made an alternate choice.
So now we are in Bizarro World, where MSNBC’s Brian Williams lectures about the dangers of “fake news.”
This is the same teleprompter reader who was relieved of his duties on NBC’s Nightly News for making up a story of him coming under rocket-propelled grenade fire while on assignment in Iraq — all fake.
That’s like Hillary Clinton lecturing about the impropriety of using a private server to transmit classified information.
The fact is we’re now living in a multilayered reality where the biggest perpetrators of fake news are the ones most loudly decrying its existence.
Remember the Newsweek story about U.S. military members flushing a Quran down the toilet at Guantanamo Bay?
Never happened.
Or the YouTube video that caused the Benghazi attacks? That’s 100% Clinton fiction that never happened either.
How about Rathergate, where Dan Rather and CBS News aimed to influence the 2004 presidential election with a phony story about George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service relying on falsified documents?
Or Rolling Stone’s recent University of Virginia rape hoax story?
Sadly, there are thousands more to choose from. The fake news phenomenon would be just another sad chapter in the decline of societal mores and mainstream media if it weren’t so diabolical.
Read on for more insightful information about “fake news.”
Regards,
Michael Covel
for The Daily Reckoning
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