{"id":355773,"date":"2018-04-08T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T07:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-why-americans-should-ditch-mainstream-media\/"},"modified":"2018-04-08T08:36:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T07:36:01","slug":"presstv-why-americans-should-ditch-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-why-americans-should-ditch-mainstream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Why Americans should ditch mainstream media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A \u201csmall psychopathic elite\u201d is exploiting the mainstream media to stoke\u00a0fears and\u00a0deepen political division in the United States\u00a0in order to solidify its complete dominance over American politics, says an author and political analyst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walt Peretto made the comments in response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/04\/07\/557661\/Madeleine-Albright-global-fascism-Trump\"><em>New York Times<\/em> op-ed<\/a> by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in which she lambasted President Donald Trump for fomenting fascism in the US and across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why the powers &#8212; that should not be &#8212; have brought this despicable person out of her cave to write this op-ed is to further solidify the political psychological division between the left and right ideologies in the United States,\u201d Peretto told Press TV on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlbright is the same creature who once said in a nationally-televised interview that her American foreign policy in Iraq that led to the deaths of an estimated 500,000 children \u2018was worth it,\u2019\u201d he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/08\/557792\/Why-Americans-should-ditch-mainstream-media\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201csmall psychopathic elite\u201d is exploiting the mainstream media to stoke\u00a0fears and\u00a0deepen political division in the United States\u00a0in order to solidify its complete dominance over American politics, says an author and political analyst. Walt Peretto made the comments in response to a New York Times op-ed by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355773","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}