Screen capture from Fallout 4/BGR
We're inarguably in the midst of an information war, and — though the battle cry against Fake News comes loudest from the corporate press —
it is the corporate media who claims the most egregious track record of publishing false information.Although it would seem these corporate-owned presstitutes have forgotten entirely the storied muckraking roots of journalism, a far more likely explanation for these lies and falsehoods contends their coziness with politicians and government officials inserts specific bias — if not flagrant
propaganda.
Recent
Red Scaremongering plastered across mainstream media headlines has intimated The Nefarious Russians responsible for everything from
hacking the election in favor of Donald Trump to
hacking into the power grid of Vermont — yet
none of these allegations have been unassailably proven.Despite cooler heads prevailing after President Obama used these baseless claims to
impose sanctions, expel 35 diplomats, and bar entry into two compounds owned by Russia, this brash spate of corporate Fake News constitutes a treacherous game of Russian roulette.
President Vladimir Putin — though
refusing to volley diplomatic tit-for-tat after Obama's aggressive moves —
has expressed exasperation with the United States' constant anti-Russia haranguing, and alluded to a proportional or decisive response.Thus, corporate media must be held to strictest account and called out for feckless reporting — such as a recent lackadaisical blunder by
CNN.
Screen capture from CNN report on "Russian hacking"
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