{"id":65230,"date":"2023-04-05T05:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65230"},"modified":"2023-04-05T05:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:27:49","slug":"fake-news-curated-by-the-deep-state-government-spin-doctors-control-the-news-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65230","title":{"rendered":"Fake News Curated by the Deep State: Government Spin Doctors Control the News Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mediaObject\">\n<div class=\"mediaObjectPrimary\">\n<h3 class=\"articleTitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/fake_news_curated_by_the_deep_state_government_spin_doctors_control_the_news_cycle\">Fake News Curated by the Deep State: Government Spin Doctors Control the News Cycle<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/omid-memarian\/desperate-to-believe_b_57621.html\">We Americans are the ultimate innocents.<\/a>\u00a0We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.\u201d\u2014Former\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>reporter Sydney Schanberg<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s talk about fake news stories, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s the garden variety fake news that is not really \u201cnews\u201d so much as it is titillating, tabloid-worthy material peddled by anyone with a Twitter account, a Facebook page and an active imagination. These stories run the gamut from the ridiculous and the obviously click-baity to the satirical and politically manipulative.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with an ounce of sense and access to the Internet should be able to ferret out the truth and lies in these stories with some basic research. That these stories flourish is largely owing to the general gullibility, laziness and media illiteracy of the general public, which through its learned compliance rarely questions, challenges or confronts.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the more devious kind of news stories circulated by one of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/10\/03\/u-s-paid-p-r-firm-540-million-to-make-fake-al-qaida-videos-in-iraq-propaganda-program\/\">biggest propagators of fake news<\/a>: the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of the government and corporate media\u2019s carefully curated apoplexy over fake news, you won\u2019t hear much about the government\u2019s own role in producing, planting and peddling propaganda-driven fake news\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaullibertyreport.com\/archives\/revealed-the-real-fake-news-list\">often with the help of the corporate news media<\/a>\u2014because that\u2019s not how the game works.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because the powers-that-be don\u2019t want us skeptical of the government\u2019s message or its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/367557-ron-paul-fake-news\/\">corporate accomplices in the mainstream media<\/a>. They don\u2019t want us to be more discerning when it comes to what information we digest online. They just\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/truth-about-fake-news-corporate-media\/\">want us to be leery of independent or\u00a0<em>alternative<\/em>\u00a0news sources<\/a>\u00a0while trusting them\u2014and their corporate colleagues\u2014to vet the news for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake News Curated by the Deep State: Government Spin Doctors Control the News Cycle \u201cWe Americans are the ultimate innocents.\u00a0We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.\u201d\u2014Former\u00a0New York Times\u00a0reporter Sydney Schanberg Let\u2019s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There\u2019s the garden variety fake news that is [&hellip;]<\/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":[199,2779,379,6420,14545,29534,31177,655,1169,843],"class_list":["post-65230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-deep-state","tag-fake-news","tag-government","tag-john-whitehead","tag-narrative-control","tag-news-cycle","tag-nisha-whitehead","tag-propaganda","tag-social-media","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65230","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=65230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65231,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65230\/revisions\/65231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}