Yellow Journalism in America

by

       George Sontag

      It is a basic rule in journalism that when an allegation is in serious doubt – or hasn’t been established as fact – you should convey that uncertainty to your reader by using words like “alleged” or “purportedly.” That is journalism, not what Americans experience today. What’s transpired over the past few years is something that’s never happened when it comes to the world of information. Our free press was quietly snatched up by a small group of people. The corporations they run that now control over 90 percent of the information we hear and see in all western media.

      These are the elite, also known as “the Shadow Government,” a combination of the largest corporations working with the “Deep State” to enrich themselves and multiply their profits. They have an agenda. It is world Corporate Socialism and the destruction of a middle class in the western world. Multiple mainstream media journalists and news anchors have come out publicly stating that mainstream media is constantly receiving funds from big corporations and governments, as well as creating fake news stories to serve their interests. The CIA’s “Operation Mockingbird” was designed to infiltrate media and sway public opinion decades ago and it still continues to this day.

      The wheels came off the bus with the election of 2016. Their candidate of choice, against all odds, lost and that could not stand. Someone outside the western sphere of influence must be responsible and it had to be our every day boogieman for the last seven decades – Russia. They were going to prove it and reverse the election, disqualifying President Trump and giving the office, by default, to Hillary Clinton. THEY would get to the truth.

                                        "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Vladimir Lenin.

      But the entire U.S. news media abandoned that principle in their avid pursuit of Russia-gate. It is a fact that the entire U.S. news media vote Democrat approximately 85+% of the time. Their hysteria over Russia’s alleged role in the election of Donald Trump has obliterated normal reporting standards leading to a rash of journalistic embarrassments. The media’s deliberate inability to report the truth while repeating excessively, corporate propaganda, has both disgraced the profession, divided the nation, and energized Trump’s supporters. 

 

"With U.S. media outlets overwhelmingly owned by for-profit conglomerates and supported by corporate advertisers, independent journalism is compromised.”

                                                                               - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)

       Here is how one media outlet does NOT report real news They only spread their corporate propaganda. More than several months after a devastating report from the media watch group FAIR, top executives and prime-time anchors at MSNBC still refuse to discuss how the network’s obsession with Russia has thrown minimal journalistic standards out the window. Moreover, in all of 2017, MSNBC only aired one broadcast on the U.S.-backed Saudi airstrikes that have killed thousands of Yemeni civilians. This is a huge story outside the US. An analysis by FAIR has found that the leading liberal cable network did not run a single segment devoted specifically to Yemen in the second half of 2017. And in these latter roughly six months of the year, MSNBC ran nearly 5,000 percent more segments that mentioned Russia than segments that mentioned Yemen.”

      "The U.S. media’s approach to Russia is now virtually 100 percent propaganda,” the late independent journalist Robert Parry wrote at the end of 2017. Parry added that “to even suggest that there is another side to the story makes you a ‘Putin apologist’ or ‘Kremlin stooge.’ Western journalists now apparently see it as their patriotic duty to hide key facts that otherwise would undermine the demonizing of Putin and Russia.”

       The release of the Mueller report should shed some light on the truth but there are those who will not be satisfied with the truth, they want their “own” truth that will justify their actions and goals. If they don’t get it - look for more “investigations.” Things have not changed, in fact, when in comes to mainstream media distorting information and telling lies, they have gotten much worse in recent years. It’s time to wake up. It is highly encouraging that more people are starting to see through these lies. It’s time to turn off your T.V. and do your own research if you are curious about what is happening on our planet. Read news from outside the western sphere of influence. Get ALL the facts you can and use critical analytical thinking to come to your own conclusions. Our country depends on it.