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Put Media Scoundrels Out of Business

By Stephen Lendman | December 15, 2106

The simple way is by ignoring them. Stop buying their publications – newspapers, magazines and other material.

Why waste good money on rubbish. Tune out their fake news broadcasts. Why put up with their antics?

If enough people follow this advice, they’ll wither, die and disappear. They feature managed news misinformation deception, not full and accurate coverage of what’s vital to know.

So far, it’s readily available from reliable independent sources, mostly online. Go there exclusively. Walk away forever from rubbish not fit to print or broadcast.

Western media never were reputable and trustworthy. In recent years, they’ve sunk to lower than ever depths – especially coverage of Washington’s geopolitical agenda, its imperial wars of aggression called humanitarian intervention and democracy building, its toppling of independent foreign leaders for pro-Western puppets, and the 2015-16 US presidential campaign, one-sidedly supporting Hillary over Trump, a disgraceful display of partisanship over unbiased reporting.

These events and numerous others display deplorable advocacy and willful deception, legitimate journalism abandoned entirely, “the media” exclusively serving powerful interests at the expense of truth and full disclosure on vital world and national issues.

One of Gerald Celente’s top 10 trends for 2017 is the fourth estate’s death, saying “(t)he daily newspaper dies in 2017. (Polls show) trust rates well below 10 percent.”

US presidential race coverage perhaps lost them all credibility. Their revenues are down, Celente explained. They’re losing money, laying off staff, dying a slow death.

Celente: “The industry is closing in on a decade of dramatic cutbacks in reporting and editing power.”

“According to estimates from The American Society of News Editors and Poynter Institute, those reductions add up to about half of all newsroom jobs being eliminated in less than 10 years.”

Expect more cutbacks, continued abysmal reporting – truth, accuracy, integrity and journalism the way it’s supposed abandoned entirely.

Celente added “when when upstart or existing alternative-news sites begin to make news, the mainstream media, taking their last breaths, will label it ‘fake news.’ “

Truth-telling today is called “fake news” or Russian propaganda. Managed news misinformation masquerades as the real thing in print and through the electronic media.

Why put up with it any longer! Walk away. Make a clean break and feel the refreshing difference – the way ex-smokers feel after licking the habit, never wanting to be hooked again.

Stephen Lendman can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.

December 15, 2016 - Posted by | Deception, Fake News, Mainstream Media, Warmongering | , , , ,

5 Comments »

  1. Go Steve!!
    My reading of the situation is that the msm downgrading will lead to absolutely nothing but bullshit from the 4th Estate – hell even the funeral notices and tv program guides will be bullshit if they can manage it:-) FWIW, we’re already at the critical point where the hatches/matches/dispatches are the only reason for the newsrags to be purchased – by the aged. Younger people don’t give a shit. Evidently.

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    John Poot's avatar Comment by John Poot | December 15, 2016 | Reply

  2. I regard MSM TV to be a “sewerage pipe” INTO my living room. I watch very little(if any) and quickly dismiss what I see as rubbish. As for the MSM Newspapers, when someone like Rupert Murdoch is so ‘popular’ with the ruling elites, as he is, that’s a warning sign that he cannot be trusted and his newspapers should only be used as toilet paper.

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    Brian Harry, Australia's avatar Comment by Brian Harry, Australia | December 16, 2016 | Reply

  3. Another way out of this lying mess is to REINSTATE the liable,fraud,slander,truth in advertizing and many other LAWS that have been breached as well as FCC rules broken every second of the day 24/7 BS rules.

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    NobodysaysBOO's avatar Comment by NobodysaysBOO | June 20, 2017 | Reply

  4. The problem is that it won’t actually harm them. They haven’t relied on their readers for a long time. Their main income is those who want their lies pushed to the public at large and some giant megacorporations under their control that will continue advertising even if there’s no readers at all.

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    Stop the media's avatar Comment by Stop the media | June 20, 2017 | Reply

  5. Dunno about other people, but I gave up on print media and television years ago. God save the Internet!

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    traducteur's avatar Comment by traducteur | June 20, 2017 | Reply


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