COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
“Fake news is 'killing
people's minds' claims Apple boss Tim Cook”
The entire idea of fake news is itself fake.
I cannot even understand the controversy, except for the
fact that it is promoted and featured around the clock by the corporate press
and its recent allies, America's multi-multi-billion dollar hi-tech online
industry.
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook all sleep in
the same bed with the corporate press and with America's intrusive security
establishment.
As long as there has been something called news, there has
been fake news.
The boy in the fairy tale calling out "wolf!" was
an early example. He was acting as town crier - an early form of press -
putting out a lie to serve his own interests.
Of course, these fellows are acting just like the boy in the
fairy tale in shouting "wolf!"
There has been nothing but misrepresentation and lies or
blissful ignoring by the corporate press from time immemorial about any matter
of vital concern to government.
What's new? Only that some of the independent and
alternative press are really starting to be listened to by large numbers, and
that is happening at the same time that the traditional corporate press is in
serious economic decline.
Much of what is in the independent and alternative press is
not true or accurate, but given the history of the corporate press, what's new
about that?
You have never been able to be fairly accurately informed by
having a paper, any paper, served you on a platter.
You must always dig and doubt because the motivations for
misrepresentation are boundless.
You don't write a term paper citing just one source for a
pivotal fact. You cross check.
It is no different with news. And the last people anyone should
trust to deliver truth on a platter are the folks at outfits like Google,
Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook, and I say that in view of their own
records of behavior in many things from how they treat information to how they
treat customers
