{"id":22862,"date":"2017-02-20T16:46:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22862"},"modified":"2017-02-20T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T21:46:58","slug":"theres-a-difference-fake-news-and-junk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22862","title":{"rendered":"There’s a Difference: Fake News and Junk News"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a Difference: Fake News and Junk News<\/a><\/h3>\n

Media junkies on the tragic path to extinction believe the junk news, non-junkies see through the manipulation.<\/i><\/p>\n

The mainstream media continues peddling its “fake news” narrative like a desperate pusher whose junkies are dying from his toxic dope.<\/b>\u00a0It’s slowly dawning on the media-consuming public that the MSM is the primary purveyor of “fake news”– self-referential narratives that support a blatantly slanted agenda with unsupported accusations and suitably anonymous sources.<\/p>\n

Many of these Fake News Narratives are laughably, painfully bogus:<\/b>\u00a0that President Trump is a Russian tool, to take a current example. (That President Obama was a tool of the neocon Deep State–no mention of that. According to the MSM, America doesn’t even have a Deep State–har-har…the joke’s on you if you are credulous enough to swallow this risible absurdity.)<\/p>\n

But the real danger isn’t fake news–it’s junk news.<\/b>\u00a0Junk News (the title of a 2009 book by an Emmy Award\u2013winning journalist–\u00a0Junk News: The Failure of the Media in the 21st Century<\/a>) —is related to Junk Science and Junk Food.<\/b><\/p>\n

Junk science is presented as “science” but cherry-picks data to support a specific but unstated agenda–an agenda that requires downplaying or overlooking conflicting data.<\/p>\n

One common example of junk science is the approval of new medications by the FDA.<\/b>\u00a0If you actually dig into Phase III data, you may well find that the “benefits” of the new wonder-drug are barely above statistical chance, and the potential interactions with commonly prescribed (or imbibed) drugs are ignored.<\/p>\n

This is how we end up with medications with an unfortunate side-effect: death<\/b>from misadventure, addiction, in combination with other commonly prescribed meds, etc.<\/p>\n

(For more junk science, check out how meds going off-patent magically get FDA approval for additional –and immensely profitable– patent protection.)<\/p>\n

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There’s a Difference: Fake News and Junk News Media junkies on the tragic path to extinction believe the junk news, non-junkies see through the manipulation. The mainstream media continues peddling its “fake news” narrative like a desperate pusher whose junkies are dying from his toxic dope.\u00a0It’s slowly dawning on the media-consuming public that the MSM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[127,2779,14838,496,512,570,4924],"class_list":["post-22862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-fake-news","tag-junk-news","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-news","tag-oftwominds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22863,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions\/22863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}