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That was not a good time when William Randolph Hearst could help start wars. But the same thing happened in the 90s when the big networks helped start the secon
by babesh 6y ago
That was not a good time when William Randolph Hearst could help start wars. But the same thing happened in the 90s when the big networks helped start the second Gulf War with fake news about weapons of mass destruction. I, for one, am tired of being fed fake news by those in power.
- pjc50 6y ago2000s for the second gulf war. I don't think that was really the newspapers on their own, they were being fed that by US intelligence services. Since there was basically zero ability to check the facts on the ground, they were left relaying lies - that had bipartisan popularity. > I, for one, am tired of being fed fake news by those in power. So am I. But the antidote to fake news from those in power is not even more fake news from random cultists and foreign intelligence services.