News becomes, by its very nature and essence, FAKE.
What else would you expect?
At that point, all the networks needed was a raft of executives and work-a-day drones who wouldn't bother to think about how, for example, intentionally misreporting the vital details of a war would result in the unnecessary deaths of thousands or millions of people. And what do you know? Such employees were readily available. Pump them up with a little bullshit about the Mission of journalism, wind them up, and release them. They'll carry out their functions.
You have a news network. Actually, you have a major corporation. And the overriding success of a corporation is in peddling product.
As long as the public keeps trusting. Blindly.
Should I continue for a bit? Why not? I'll offer the example I've most often cited in these pages over the past 20 years: the Starfield Revelation. It's based on my strategy of exposing facts FROM the mainstream in order to ACCUSE AND INDICT the mainstream. No woo-woo, no fringe, no aimless speculation.
On June 26, 2000, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a review by Dr. Barbara Starfield, who was a respected and revered public health expert at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Impeccable MAINSTREAM credentials, all the way up and down the line. The review was titled, "Is US Health Really the Best in the World?"
Starfield stated that the death toll in the US, in a given year, directly CAUSED by medical treatment, was 225,000. (106,000 as a result of correctly prescribed medical drugs and 119,000 as result of mistreatment and errors in hospitals)
With a few seconds of extrapolation, you would arrive at a figure of 2.25 MILLION deaths caused by the US medical system, over the course of a decade.
Now, I can't force anyone to register in their minds what that means. I can't force them to think. I can't force them to experience a shock to their system. But the facts speak for themselves. The US medical system kills 2.25 million people per decade.
Nine years after Dr. Starfield published her findings, I interviewed her. She told me the US government had never contacted her to consult on a plan to stop all this killing, and the US government had never put together a plan to stop all this killing.
What about the news media? Well, after the publication of Starfield's review, there were stories in the press. For a little while. Then they disappeared. None of those stories expressed great shock or indicated that deep journalistic investigations were on the way.
In other words, the press did a limited hangout. That's a term that comes straight out of the intelligence agencies, and it means you expose a piece of a story, not the whole sordid tale, and you move on, assuming that the (blind and trusting) public will be satisfied. And incurious.
Because, as you, the reader, can no doubt realize, mainstream news execs COULD HAVE rolled up their sleeves and said, "This is one of the biggest scandals we've ever seen. It's horrendous. The cost of human lives is on the level of a war. But it's happening in the HEALING profession, and no one in government has been doing anything to stop the war. We're going to put our most relentless people on it. They're going to wave the Starfield report in front of the noses of every person on Capitol Hill. They're going to go to the White House. They're going to interview doctors and medical school presidents and journal editors and the families of people who have died in this healing war. They're going to invade the FDA and find out why that agency has seen nothing and done nothing. They're going to go to the pharmaceutical companies and pound on doors until those people start to talk. There are MANY GUILTY PARTIES here, and we're going to find out and prove who they are. We're going to force it. We're going to get people to roll over on each other, come hell or high water, and we're going to keep climbing up on the ladder of influence and control and CRIME. We're going to publish an ongoing chronicle of our findings, week in and week out, for as long as it takes. We're going to launch a sh*t storm""
You get the idea.
That's called journalism. It's the kind of journalism you can do when you have large resources and dedicated personnel.
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