The practical power to decide what is news combined with overwhelming reach and repetition, allows effective censorship and dissemination of biased and fake news a.k.a. propaganda. Such has been the exclusive power vested in and practiced by the dominant liberal media . . . and they do not want to give up their hegemony over what is to be known. They are out to curtail the competition, not protect the truth.
John Dietrich writing at American Thinker tells of Sharyl Attkisson’s new book: (excerpt)
Sharyl Attkisson’s The Smear gives insight to how news is made today. It goes a long way in convincing readers that they should believe only a small portion of what is released by the government and reported by the press. This leads to a very cynical view of the news and confirms Otto von Bismarck’s claim that “Nothing is proven until it is officially denied.” Attkinsson gives an account of how massive the smear industry is.
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Donald Trump’s victory has increased the need of the left to limit the amount of information available to the public. The effort to eliminate “fake news” is a project led by people like Barack Obama, David Brock, Mark Zuckerberg, Angela Merkel and countless other members if the establishment. Attkisson points out the problem with restricting news: “it relies on some of the very organizations that have gotten caught in compromising situations.”
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The internet has made it extremely difficult to spread fake news. Dan Rather learned this when he attempted to pass off a memo that he claimed was created in the 1970s. It was immediately recognized as a fake because it was created with a computer font that did not exist at the time. The “dossier” claiming to show Trump connection with the Russians is similarly an obvious fake
We would add that “net neutrality” an avenue for government regulation of the internet, is something to be opposed as it feeds the denizens of the swamp.
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