Monday, October 16, 2017

David P. Hamilton — Understanding the ‘Fake News’ Hysteria


It's about controlling the narrative.
For the most part, “fake news” is a fake concept designed by the corporate news media to discredit those who challenge the official U.S. hegemonic narrative. The typical MSM fake news accusation starts with some egregious fictionalization and then morphs over to the real targets: the subversives, those who would dispute foundational elements of the official history or its recent approved updates.

The New York Times building in Manhattan. (Photo credit: Robert Parry)
These subversive elements are likely to question important myths, such as the necessity of the nuclear incineration of Hiroshima or – before the Iraq War – Saddam Hussein possessing WMD, and hence must be silenced.
There are people in this world who write what they know to be fiction and try to pass it off as fact. Many of them work for the CIA and related institutions. Then, there are satirists like The Onion who write fictionalized truth. These professional prevaricators are not what draws the ire of the corporate “news.”...
Are the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, et al, lying knowingly? Not exactly. The news media doesn’t have to invent the lies, only repeat them. They are mainly the stenographers of governmental agencies that provide the raw material to be quoted, invariably substantiating the validity of the official position. The owners of those news outlets likely believe that narrative, but mainly they want you to believe it.
The pundits and talking heads of those news media, the on-camera personalities, must think within the parameters the official narrative or they wouldn’t have been hired to the position of highly paid spokesperson for it....
How objective can you be about issues of income inequality when you’ve been the top .0001% for six or seven generations? And if one dare to go off the reservation, the next thing you know you’ll be working for RT for a lot less money like Ed Schultz.
Consortium News
Understanding the ‘Fake News’ Hysteria
David P. Hamilton

2 comments:

Kaivey said...

Years ago there was a left mainstream media. John Pilger got his documentaries on TV and the BBC put out documentaries about the Israeli sinking of the USS Liberty and Operation Gladio, but not anymore.

Kaivey said...

Awesome article, if only we could get this out into the MSM. Imagine if a newscaster fed up with the lies showed photographs of the US working with ISIS on Mainstream TV at prime time. But this is what should be on the news.