The Sinking of the USS Maine comes to mind--the Yellow Journalists egged the US into a war with Spain over an attack that never took place. Or perhaps it was a

The Sinking of the USS Maine comes to mind--the Yellow Journalists egged the US into a war with Spain over an attack that never took place. Or perhaps it was a false-flag type of deal. We'll never know. The tinkering with public opinion is what is unethical, and it doesn't matter if it is the NY Times (and its owners), The Washington Post, a tv network owned by GE, a blogger, a naive college student, or whoever, it is still unethical behavior. The media is all high and mighty about stamping out fake news while acting as the major purveyors of the same low quality, canted, and often times deliberately conjured out of whole cloth, non-information.