Update
Here is a decent 5-minute summary video from Prager University:
May 24, 2017
Here is an interesting update from recent polling:
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the mainstream press is full of fake news, a sentiment that is held by a majority of voters across the ideological spectrum…
That number includes 80 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats. Eighty-four percent of voters said it is hard to know what news to believe online.
March 31, 2017
Today we call it fake news. It was all fake news during the Obama Administration but there was a difference. The media had transformed into something different, worse, and more insidious. They became active Obama-collaborators. They stopped conducting themselves as the fourth estate. The media didn’t report on the most obvious corrupt administration in U.S. history, or the failures of Obama and his administration. Instead, numerous reports indicated Obama had one the most scandal free administration ever. The media and Obama were hand-in-glove, committed and organized to undermine the U.S. Constitution, destroy the rule of law, and attack common sense and American culture.
December 18, 2016
As a user of Feedly as my daily news reader, I am able to efficiently aggregate multiple news sources of my choosing. Hence, I subscribe to over 200 sources (ranging from mainstream media to obscure special-interest blogs) from around the world. This provides me with a wide range of viewpoints on newsworthy topics. Over time, I’ve come to observe many common trends or ‘flavors’ of how these sources interpret events.
I must say that I see tons of irony in hearing the mainstream media calling out “fake news”. These ubiquitous organizations (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times) have been behaving as an American version of Pravda for more than 20 years. As Bill Whittle recently observed:
Maybe all this fuss is to turn us away from the realization that EVERYTHING we hear from the main stream media, from the earth is dying hysteria to mom-and-pop bakeries in Oregon is ALL fake news, reported by, presented by, edited by and spun by the mainstream media, which has devolved into the publicity department for the Democratic Party in General and the progressive movement in particular.
I think it’s fairly safe to observe that the ‘democratization’ of information via the Internet is finally having the appropriate impact on the news monopolies. The recent election results have shown these organizations that their spin on the news no longer has the influence that it once had.
