{"id":344258,"date":"2018-01-17T22:58:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T21:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=344258"},"modified":"2018-01-17T22:58:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T21:58:32","slug":"media-lies-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/media-lies-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Lies About Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

A major new Gallup report that was issued on January 16th headlined \u201cAmerican Views: Trust, Media and Democracy\u201d<\/span><\/a> (it\u2019s issued in conjunction with the Knight Foundation) and it finds that \u201cInternet-only news websites\u201d are the least<\/i>-trusted of all newsmedia. <\/span><\/p>\n

54% trusted \u201cYour local newspaper.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

52% trusted \u201cNational network news.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

51% trusted \u201cMajor national newspapers.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

46% trusted \u201cCable news.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

38% trusted \u201cNews aggregators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

36% trusted \u201cInternet-only news websites.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

How did you learn that Saddam Hussein was \u201conly six months from developing a [nuclear] weapon\u201d<\/span><\/a>? It was from the U.S. President, and from all of the stenographic \u2018news\u2019media, which was all of them, but especially the most-trusted ones: newspapers, TV, radio, and magazines. They enabled George W. Bush to invade and destroy Iraq, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did you learn that Libya should be invaded? It was from the same ones. They enabled Barack Obama to invade and destroy Libya, and Syria, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did you learn that dictatorship ended in Ukraine in February 2014\u2019s \u201cMaidan revolution,\u201d instead of that that democracy ended in Ukraine then, and that it was instead a U.S.-engineered coup d\u2019etat<\/span><\/a> which happened there, no authentic \u2018revolution\u2019 at all. And this major-media lie thus \u2018justified\u2019 and led to the destruction of Ukraine, by U.S. President Obama<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fake \u2018news\u2019 that affected history the most came from newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio. But the truth (such as you\u2019ll see documented at those last links, the first of which is to a news-report which was produced by a lone individual from observers on the ground who had uploaded from their cellphones etc.) was available only<\/i> at \u201cinternet-only news websites\u201d \u2014 the type of sites that Americans respect the least.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why do the public trust most the worst liars, the pumpers of the most viciously fake \u2018news\u2019? They do it because they\u2019ve been taught to believe the most-successful newsmedia the most.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been taught that in order to be successful in newsmedia, the newsmedium needs to be reliably truthful, instead of to pump what the billionaires want you to think \u2014 to manipulate your mind and warp your view of reality the way they want.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of those lies came from the owners and advertisers of the U.S. newsmedia and of the U.S. Government (which are the same owners and advertisers), the people who control the \u2018best\u2019 (i.e., worst) Government that big-money can buy \u2014 and does buy<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The only newsmedia that enable the reader to click onto a link and come directly (or at least indirectly) to allegations\u2019 sources, are online news-sites that have the journalistic integrity to demand their writers to provide the links for all contentious allegations that are being made, so as to enable the reader to verify (or else invalidate \u2014 but the reader is doing this; no one is imposing<\/i> such judgments upon the reader) what the allegation\u2019s source is, and thus to evaluate it on his or her own. TV doesn\u2019t do that. Radio doesn\u2019t do that. Newspapers (even online ones) don\u2019t do that. Magazines (even most of the online ones) don\u2019t do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t they do that? TV, radio, and print media can\u2019t. The bad online media don\u2019t do it, because their<\/i> owners don\u2019t want<\/i> to empower their audience; they want to persuade their audience to believe what the owners and the advertisers want them to believe. <\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the way to success in the news-business: to shape the \u2018news\u2019 in order to fool the public in the ways that the owners and advertisers want the public to be fooled. It\u2019s salesmanship; it is PR; and, in America \u2014 where it\u2019s often taught in some of the same academic departments, \u201cCommunications,\u201d which teach both PR and \u2018journalism\u2019<\/span><\/a> \u2014 it is the management of the public\u2019s perceptions, in the ways that the owners and advertisers want.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the only way to get around it is to click onto links and find out what the real story is. Any merely passive access to \u2018news\u2019 is simply an invitation to being fooled, being manipulated by wealthy people\u2019s ulterior motives, which are very private.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is how America has come to be the way it now is \u2014 increasingly private, decreasingly public.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse A major new Gallup report that was issued on January 16th headlined \u201cAmerican Views: Trust, Media and Democracy\u201d (it\u2019s issued in conjunction with the Knight Foundation) and it finds that \u201cInternet-only news websites\u201d are the least-trusted of all newsmedia. 54% trusted \u201cYour local newspaper.\u201d 52% trusted \u201cNational network news.\u201d 51% trusted \u201cMajor national […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":285742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[30,96,541,1017,839,691,526,755],"class_list":{"0":"post-344258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"tag-big-brother","9":"tag-cover-up","10":"tag-media","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-news-media","13":"tag-polls","14":"tag-propaganda","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}