{"id":22941,"date":"2017-02-23T17:45:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T22:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22941"},"modified":"2017-02-23T17:46:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T22:46:03","slug":"unbelievable-how-mainstream-media-has-become-just-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22941","title":{"rendered":"Unbelievable How Mainstream Media Has Become Just Liars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/world-news\/press\/unbelievable-how-mainstream-media-has-become-just-liars\/\">Unbelievable How Mainstream Media Has Become Just Liars\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<div class=\"wp-video\">\n<p><span class=\"mejs-offscreen\">Video Player<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"mep_0\" class=\"mejs-container svg wp-video-shortcode mejs-video\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"mejs-inner\">\n<div class=\"mejs-mediaelement\"><video id=\"video-61824-1\" class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Chuck-Todd.mp4?_=1\" preload=\"metadata\" width=\"507\" height=\"380\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/video><\/div>\n<div class=\"mejs-layers\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mejs-controls\">Thomas Friedman of the New York Times demonstrates why mainstream media is just becoming so bought and paid for. You have to wonder if they should not be in prison for attempting to overthrow the government and start a revolution. Here he is still ranting about how Russia hacked the election and asserting that this is somehow a Pearl Harbor and 911 event. I suppose this is implying we should start world war III because Hillary lost.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Homeland Security and the FBI both said that Russia\u2019s hack of the DNC did not involve altering the vote. In fact, it was his own paper that reported on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/25\/us\/politics\/hacking-russia-election-fears-barack-obama-donald-trump.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">November 25, 2016<\/a>: \u201cThe Obama administration said on Friday that despite Russian attempts to undermine the presidential election,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/26\/us\/politics\/us-statement-on-reliability-of-election-results.html\" target=\"_blank\">it has concluded<\/a>\u00a0that the results \u201caccurately reflect the will of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55865 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids-300x204.jpg 300x, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids-768x522.jpg 768x, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids-440x300.jpg 440x, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids-600x408.jpg 600x, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids.jpg 877x\" alt=\"PulitzerHearstWarYellowKids\" width=\"457\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spaniards_search_women_1898.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61826\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-61826 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spaniards_search_women_1898.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spaniards_search_women_1898-768x723.jpg 768x, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spaniards_search_women_1898-600x565.jpg 600x, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Spaniards_search_women_1898.jpg 800x\" alt=\"Spaniards_search_women_1898\" width=\"332\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a>The constant lies and manipulations seem intent upon creating war exactly as took place with the Spanish American War. We have returned to yellow journalism which\u00a0is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. Pulitzer and Hearst went head to head. I remember grade school history class blaming the Spanish American War on fake news. There is one such story that male Spanish officials were strip searching American woman tourists in Cuba looking for claimed messages from rebels. This was the front page of Hearst\u2019s newspaper showing what has become known as \u201cyellow journalism\u201d whereby the illustration was by Frederic Remington published in the New York Journal, February 12th, 1897.<\/p>\n<p>Hearst\u2019s New York Journal was called out for this fake news by its rival Joseph Pulitzer\u2019s,\u00a0<em>New York World<\/em>, \u00a0reporting that this story was erroneous and its graphically illustrated strip-search of a woman aboard U.S. passenger steamer was fake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unbelievable How Mainstream Media Has Become Just Liars\u00a0 Video Player Thomas Friedman of the New York Times demonstrates why mainstream media is just becoming so bought and paid for. You have to wonder if they should not be in prison for attempting to overthrow the government and start a revolution. 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