By
George
Sontag
Today,
too much of what we see and hear as facts in our media are
deliberately obscured. Many
reporters no longer attempt to report, but instead give their
audiences their
version
of what happened. First we need to get
our definitions in order to speak truthfully;
- Fake News :counterfeit or sham ideas, facts, or allegations reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast.
- *Note-Fake News is more often the injection of agenda driven opinions and conclusions of the author or editor.
- Propaganda : ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect. - Websters
There
were days, long past, when reporters reported on the news. This means
they listed the facts surrounding events and reported them allowed
viewers or listeners to make up their minds to form their own
opinions. That is not the case in today's world where facts don't
matter. We are living in a world
that
has shifted from just reporting the facts, to stating opinions and
perceptions while also focusing on feelings. A world in which
so-called journalists have moved from reporting news to spewing
opinion disguised as fact in order to push their own agenda or an
agenda that they have been told to push.
How
we have arrived at a point where supposedly respectable outlets have
created a world where Vladimir Putin has managed to become the
richest
man in the world (Washington
Post),
who controls Donald Trump (Huffington
Post)
and masterminded his election victory (Vanity
Fair)
despite battling Aspergers (USA
Today),
and cancer (The
Week),
and also traveling through
time? News
media organizations in Western countries have no qualms about
repeating unfounded, reckless claims of an imminent invasion of
Europe by the Russian
military, even threatening to ignite WWIII. Any conflicting reports
that go counter to the narrative are branded as “fake” and the
drums of war pound louder and louder to try to delegitimize the
truth.
Fake
news is not exclusively, as the media is trying to label it, only false
reporting, although that IS part of it. The majority of “fake news”
are agenda driven opinions and conclusions interwoven in the facts of
a reported story. In other words, “fake news” IS propaganda and
it is happening in every major media outlet in the western world.
We
live in a world of manipulation and propaganda, handed down to us by
the global
elite. They
are very good at what they do. Right now, they have us right where
they want us – believing the half truths and outright lies. They
are dividing our nation and the world to
to cause chaos which will further line their pockets with the wealth
that only wars can bring.
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