The Real Fake News Crisis in America Comes From Corporate Media
Outlets like CNN and MSNBC are platforming con artists, skewing the news, and immersing the country in a flood of lies.
This week, corporate media began touting a comeback for Andrew Cuomo and his brother, Chris, with no mention of the nursing home catastrophe, as if nothing bad happened over the last two years. (CNN)
“Misinformation” is all the rage these days — it’s the topic du jour. Polls suggest we all agree that it’s a problem, and lately liberals appear most mad at it — but seemingly only at certain kinds of misinformation that originate outside the corporate media sphere.
Notably, the ire is rarely directed at a corporate media machine that systematically rewards and praises the purveyors of misleading propaganda, and continues to flood the country with information sewage.
This selective outrage is a huge problem — because the only way to systematically combat misinformation is to construct a Fourth Estate that develops some trust with the audience. That trust will never be rebuilt if liberals pretend to hate misinformation while they patronize a media establishment that fortifies the pathologies that originally created a credibility crisis.
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