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Don’t You Hate Spammy, Sensationalist Click-Bait Like this?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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So what’s the difference between “fake news,” spammy sensationalist click-bait and so-called “mainstream news” that serves the interests of the corporate-state? It’s getting hard to tell.<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We’re inundated with spammy sensationalist click-bait.<\/b>\u00a0You know what I mean–the little boxes containing eye-candy photos and headlines such as “you won’t believe how badly these stars have aged,” “7 tricks to losing weight during Thanksgiving,” “These children of celebs are so good looking your jaw will drop,” “9 surprising signs of dementia” and\u00a0outre<\/i>\u00a0classics such as “Hitler’s shocking final words.”<\/div>\n
The “news” is “shocking,” “secrets are revealed,” and “surprising facts” are promised.<\/b>\u00a0Authorities are always cited as unimpeachable sources, and the headlines are quasi-plausible. (Why wouldn’t good-looking celebs have good-looking offspring?)<\/div>\n
But the “authorities,” “facts” and “secrets” are all dubious.<\/b>\u00a0The spammy click-bait is self-serving to those promoting the sensationalist content, and to the media sites that promote the spammy content.<\/div>\n
According to\u00a0The New York Times<\/i><\/a>, unidentified sources in the spammy sensationalist click-bait industry report that \u201cWe have been told from major, major publishers that we have become their No. 1 revenue provider.”<\/div>\n
So the spammy sensationalist click-bait content serves the interests of those originating the bogus spam and the media that publishes it.<\/b>\u00a0Talk about a two-fer; no wonder this junk is everywhere in the Corporate Media.<\/div>\n
Though the Corporate Media denies it, of course, the lines between propaganda, paid content and actual reporting have blurred. The C.I.A. has played a major role in the Corporate Media for decades. If you doubt this, please study the following:<\/div>\n
The CIA and the Media<\/a>\u00a0by Carl Bernstein<\/div>\n
The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know<\/a>\u00a0This article by Professor James Tracy first published in August 2015 is of particular relevance in relation to the \u201cfake news\u201d campaign directed against the alternative media.<\/i><\/div>\n
Operation Mockingbird<\/a><\/div>\n
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Don’t You Hate Spammy, Sensationalist Click-Bait Like this? So what’s the difference between “fake news,” spammy sensationalist click-bait and so-called “mainstream news” that serves the interests of the corporate-state? It’s getting hard to tell. We’re inundated with spammy sensationalist click-bait.\u00a0You know what I mean–the little boxes containing eye-candy photos and headlines such as “you won’t […]<\/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":[127,15018,169,2779,496,4924],"class_list":["post-23290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-click-bait","tag-corporate-media","tag-fake-news","tag-mainstream-media","tag-oftwominds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23290","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=23290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23291,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23290\/revisions\/23291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}