Media Lies and the Liars who Write Them

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Recently, a poll asked people how much trust they have in mainstream media. The result was shocking. Let’s remember that mass media are part of large conglomerates that belong to the entertainment industry, which in turn are owned by larger corporations. Can you imagine the force and the power behind organizations like CNN, FOX NEWS, the BBC or The New York Times? That is why it is shocking to learn that only 6% of the people who participated in the poll -two thousand in total- said they trusted mainstream media news. “Over the last two decades, research shows the public has grown increasingly skeptical of the news industry,” the report from the American Press Institute explains. Surely people have reasons not to trust. Do you remember David Rockefeller’s ‘gracious’ recognition of media collusion with powerful elites? If not, here it is: The result of the latest poll reflects the fact that people know the media has long abandoned the role it was supposed to play. It is not surprising to know that people have turned their attention to grassroots media, or have become citizen journalists themselves. One of the values that the media has lost along the way is accuracy and this is one of the values that the public requires in order to trust any news outlet. However, the opposite is seen on television and read in newspapers, as news media inject their spin to a trending topic or simply choose to ignore it completely. Social media, although it is far from being a reliable news source, has provided the public with alternatives to at least have options to the master spinners. Although most social networks are controlled by the same large corporations that run mainstream media, there is a very clear difference: they do not control content. Social media users and alternative media have taken the internet over to democratize access to information. With revenue, viewership and circulation way down, you would think that mainstream media would feel an obligation to change, but that has not happened. The reason for that is simple. They do not need people’s money to survive. Besides, they have also invaded social media and used the Internet to have a presence all over the world. Mainstream media, although dependent on advertising, does not really suffer when revenue or circulation is down because their funding goes well beyond cash generated by ads or subscriptions. That is why the liars continue to lie. Let’s take the current political campaign in the United States as an example to illustrate how the media lie and how the liars are empowered to continue lying. On Wednesday, Donald Trump had his first speech on foreign policy at a hotel in Washington, D.C. Despite Trump’s straightforward statements, the media still found ways to spin his ideas and find ‘contradictions’ where there are none. The newspaper LA VANGUARDIA from Spain, spun Trump’s speech with a story headlined as follows: Trump proposes an American military withdrawal from the world and a return to isolationism. Meanwhile, EL PAÍS, another Spanish newspaper spun Trump’s statements with an article as follows: Trump proposes a mix of heavy-handed and isolationism in foreign policy. So-called world leaders have expressed concern about Trump’s statements and views on America’s role in the world. On Wednesday, Trump answered those concerns directly and clearly, but them and the media continue to lie about it. One of the most memorable quotes was Trump’s standing on globalism. “We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism.” Another quote that made headlines was Trump’s position on US endless interventionism: “We’re rebuilding other countries while weakening our own. Ending the theft of American jobs will give us resources we need to rebuild our military, which has to happen and regain our financial independence and strength,” One of Trump’s signature issues is trade and he could not have been more direct about it: “And under my administration, we will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs.” These type of statements is what globalists are so concerned about because it seems that under Trump, the figure of the nation-state is above any supranational adventure. Despite Trump’s clear statements his speech is somehow confusing to New York Times intellectually castrated editors. Let’s take another example to illustrate how the media lie while keeping in mind that the role of mainstream media is not to inform the public but to manufacture consent. Most mainstream media are directed by intelligence agencies that infiltrated the news business a long time ago. This is a confession that comes directly from a journalist who was approached by an intelligence agency to write news articles that were favorable to their interests. His name is Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He made the confession to RT in 2014, when he also described how journalists are bribed to lie, deceive and produce news to favor the image of entities like the CIA, Mossad or MI6. Mass media infiltration by the CIA and other secret intelligence agencies is one of the reasons why news media continue to lie. It is organizations such as the CIA the ones that, in many cases, control the editorial line of a news outlet. Mainstream media have become an arm of the ministries of propaganda or the ministries of truth that operate in governments. Most news media report only the ‘official’ story, the ‘official’ version […]

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