Robert Parry — What to Do About ‘Fake News’

It's not too difficult to see where the furor over "fake news" is going from the direction that the use of "terrorism" took post 9/11. The push for combatting terror result in the indefinite suspension of constitutional rights and civil liberties, and the charging of domestic dissenters with "terrorism."

Now the furor over "fake news" has emboldened the government to suppress news, news organizations and news reporting that it does not like.

A pushback is coming to the Internet’s success in giving the world access to diverse opinions and dissenting information. Politicians, mainstream media and technology giants are taking aim at what they call “fake news,” reports Robert Parry.

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What to Do About ‘Fake News’

Robert Parry

Moon of Alabama — "Fake News" About Trump Continues Unabated

Since Rupert Murdoch turned the news industry into a branch of the entertainment industry ("infotainment") and the US government sponsored an information war and psyops most "news" is fake news. Karl rove had already told us that "perception is reality." Whoever shapes perception shapes reality, This means whoever stays in front of the news cycle creates the perception of reality through spin and propaganda, as aspects of fake news. This was just following a well-established path in marketing & advertising and PR that began with the publication of Edward Bernays' Propaganda in 1928 and the enormous success of Joseph Goebbles in Nazi Germany. Caveat emptor.

Moon of Alabama
"Fake News" About Trump Continues Unabated

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