Why the mass media broadcasts tons of ‘fake news’ and is not held accountable simply because there is no one to hold them accountable. Donald Trump has come closest to being a force to hold them accountable because of the fact that he has tweeted outside the mainstream media and indicated just how damaged their reporting and stories are.
This morning, in an illustration of a graphic example, the national news networks carried a story about how Obama and Trump were at odds (in a battle) over who would have won an election wherein Obama ran for a third term against Trump. That ‘battle’ between them was fake news. Excerpts were shown by these media outlets supposedly confirming this disagreement but the excerpts did not support that. They showed a roundabout answer by Obama when he was asked the question and then Trump’s tweets about it were just as roundabout.
There was no controversy or battle except what the giant pervaders of fake news put in front of the public. The media war against fake news is really a war of control. They want that ability to give you their message and they don’t want anybody else horning in on their shaping of it, including Twitter or Facebook or the Internet. The networks and cable news stations have all become giant purveyors of fake news. It is in finally figuring out that this has become the case across the nation and the world that has brought us all to kneeling at the feet of Donald Trump!
Rather then calling it fake news, one prefers to refer to it as psyops. When you see a conglomeration of news agencies reporting the same tidbits of news with little difference in it’s presentation, that is planned news presentation! While it may be fake in nature, it always has a purpose.
One remembers reviewing news broadcast after returning from Vietnam and being astounded by the deliberate misrepresentation of events that took place during the Vietnam War. It was deliberate distortion of what occurred in that war, for an indirect purpose of the left wing media and politicians. It was also successful in deliberately misleading the American public of all the facts about the war. It served it’s purpose by dividing our citizens and continues to do so to this day!
Psyops is a agreat name for most of the news today. The North Koreans have no electricty or running water or indoor toilets and a en economy that’s a joke
but we are dead set on going to war and bombing them right off the planet. The War on Terror is growing old and boring and there’s not enough in the way
of casualties to justify it. Welcome to North Korea.
Semper fi,
Jim
One big difference though Jim, while the people of North Korea are still living in the dark ages, their leader is totally insane. He is the one that is sending missiles out over Japan and threatening to attack Guam and the mainland of the U.S. The media cannot manipulate that fact as the foreign media is reporting what is actually happening, along with the Pentagon.
My guess is that special ops will take out Kim Jung Un if they can get to him before he does target the U.S. or one of it’s allies. He has committed himself to the point of no return and has nothing to lose because he could care less about the people of North Korea. Actually, they would be a whole lot better off without him.
If you are going to point the finger of blame, point it in the right direction which is Kim Jung Un.
Neither the foreign media nor the Pentagon print or say or video a damned thing we don’t want them to.
I was CIA for all those years and I am sure sorry that with my experience I cannot convince anybody of anything
because no matter what they say they believe that tube. It’s just the way it is.
Semper fi,
Jim
Yes, am well aware of the power of the tube, but one has read some written reports out of South Korea as well as D.C.
The latest hint, was that China is going to go in to N.Korea and takeover the situation there, within a few short weeks. They don’t want any major damage done in N. Korea, because of all of it’s mineral assets that they need and want. In the process they will eliminate the threat of a major war in that area, which the U.S. cannot due without heavy loss of civilian lives.
Nuclear war does not just bring loss of civilian lives. Any kind of deliver of atomic or nuclear weapons
would take a huge military toll, as well. Thanks for the comment on this issue J.
Semper fi,
Jim
What a can of worms this is. It is truly frustrating to behold what the nightly news has become. The mainstream media has lost itself to the level of the Enquirer at best. True journalism is dead and we are reduced to an uninformed public. When the powers that be find a way to silence the internet we may as well be living in the stone age. This isn’t a new trend it has just become so prevalent it can no longer be ignored.
The more technology that becomes involved the more control can be used to
modify and change what we used to call news. What really happened has become ‘what do you want
to have happened,’ but only for those with real power. Chris Christy is able to send two assistants
off to prison when everyone knows they would never have come up with the bridge incident or implemented it on their own.
Bannon walks away from the voter fraud mess. Nunes lies and violates every House ethics rule and walks free. And so on.
Do not go to a gas station and drive away without paying at the lower level though, or you will certainly do time…
Semper fi,
Jim
I guess I do not see this issue so much as “fake news” as I see it as useless drivel more befitting Entertainment Tonight, or some afternoon talk show. It is disconcerting to me that even during our 30 minutes of national/international nightly news the talking heads can not find 20 minutes of relevant issues that we could benefit from hearing about. Thanks for posting thought provoking material.
K, you are right on about everything. We have reached a point where intellect has to be disengaged every time you
turn the news on. Idiotic two second sound bites. Teasers used to keep you tuned and then not really satisfied in the end.
The weather delayed because it’s the only truth you are going to get. Old people, who’ve learned, only watch the weather and then
go to bed!
Thanks for the cogent come back and comment of your own.
Semper fi,
Jim
So what are solutions?
I have been fighting this issue for sometime.
One thing for sure is that the more local news is the better
it can be “managed” for accuracy.
That being so, how much time should we spend fretting about National and Global, over which we have little to no effect?
Or should we focus on being watchdogs of our local institutions over
which we can exercise a degree of “power”
Go local.
You have no national power, not in the news, not in the economy
and not in voting.
You can only have local power to have your vision heard or considered.
Neither you nor I created it this way.
When I was in 6th grade I ended up in the cloak
room for asking this question when the floor was opened up:
“Sister, why was everything already owned by the time I got here?”
The same is true for the news. It is owned because it allows for the control
of other people through interpretation and manipulation.
And deception, of course.
Go local,
Semper fi,
Jim
The low information folks can react dangerously to the mainstream bs; riots, etc.
Our news media today are completely irresponsible.
Spot on Vern. The irresponsibility of the press today is overwhelming, and it may well be for our culture.
That some cold, calculating, heartless and unpatriotic men and women have taken it over is angering but more sad than
angering.
Semper fi,
Jim