Nevertheless, it was the kind of nonsense that anyone who’d spent more than a few days in a decent journalism school could debunk fairly rapidly.
Notwithstanding this, the [Washington] Post published regardless. And it's hard to understand what its editors were thinking.…
It’s time for editors at The Independent, Chicago Tribune, Daily Mail, Associated Press, USA Today and The New York Times to take a dishonorable bow. Because they have all, without proper examination, spread WaPo’s ‘fake news’ this week.
In fact, only USA Today even remotely considered the possibly that they’d all been hoodwinked by referencing an RT editorial which punctured the balloon. Meanwhile, Mediaite - a relatively influential press affairs site - went the full Joseph McCarthy by more-or-less smearing Ed Schultz and Larry King, both associated with RT America, as treasonists.Trashing the brand, or what's left of it after the bogus reporting in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq based on false pretenses, fixed policy, and a manufactured narrative.
Right now, the narrative is “fake news” and Russia’s alleged part in it. However, when I personally think of made up stories which caused genuine and lasting damage, it’s the infamous Iraq ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction' pretext that springs to mind. And which media concern did more than basically any other to promote this falsehood? Why it was The Washington Post, with an incredible 140 front page stories, and 27 editorials pushing for America’s illegal invasion, which left close to one million people dead and continues to leave a trail of destruction across the Middle East.
Now, that sort of “fake news” is far from harmless, isn’t it? In fact, it's clear how The Washington Post has been showing us how to make phoney reportage go "viral" for years.Anyone that takes anything in the mainstream media news at face value is a fool.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." And Aesop's Fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
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Bryan McDonald
Just watched Donald Trump's spectacular speech in Cincinnati OH. He has renamed the MSM, although he doesn't know it or say it.
ReplyDeleteIt's EDP. Exremely Dishonest Press.
Start using it everybody. lol.
I see this whole fake news thing not as an attack direct at Russia but rather not too subtle subterfuge to delegitimize Trump as POTUS. He is street smart so I am quite sure that's the way he reads it too. This is seriously beyond dishonest.
ReplyDelete"Anyone that takes anything in the mainstream media news at face value is a fool."
ReplyDeleteAgree, 1000%