It was Communism, then War on Drugs, then Terrorism, all really well designed and extremely effective pr narratives. I always wondered what would come next in

It was Communism, then War on Drugs, then Terrorism, all really well designed and extremely effective pr narratives. I always wondered what would come next in the list, I think it might be "Fake News". It is a great PR concept - it is simple, fits in a hashtag, good for Twitter mud flinging, and also invokes powerful emotions: "External entities are brainwashing and controlling the citizens of my country". What happened to the media and how propaganda worked during this election cycle is interesting to study. It will probably be digested and analyzed for years to come. Mass media here has always been subservient to those in power, but it had to maintain this minimal facade of being "balanced" and "impartial". A lot of consumers didn't want to believe otherwise so it kind of worked out. But something happened, out of desperation or foolishness they have lifted the curtain too much. That was a fatal mistake. Too many people saw how the sausage was made, it became hard to ignore it. I am talking about telling people blatant lies and treating them like idiots, stuff like "these documents are illegal to read, it is different for the media, come to use for interpretation", "Wikileaks doctored all these emails", or "Russian hackers are hiding in the bushes in rural Wisconsin, with laptops and USB keys hacking voting machines" and so on. Another way, to interpret the "Fake News" phenomenon is to think of a cornered rat. How it will start biting and attacking because it sees no way out. It thinks it is the end and it has nothing to lose. Perhaps "Fake News" is such a response from the media. It lost control and it is a way of lashing out.