“Russia’s interference was the crime of the century.”
This is the leading header in today’s Washington Post. To call this rubbish hyperbole is a vast understatement; the Washington Post has now officially jumped the shark and has entrenched itself at the forefront of yellow journalism. If this article was written by the National Inquirer or even the Daily News, I would just shake my head in disbelief and move on. But the Washington Post is an institution that informs and shapes public opinion in ways matched by few in the media world, thus the hacks at the Post are committing an act of treason against reason itself and their depravity needs an call to action against their assault on the very notion of a free press.
To be honest, I stopped reading the Washington Post a long time ago. I now just scan their headlines and read a few sentences to see what the lie of the day is. I don’t mean to single out the Washington Post; the fourth estate as a whole, from Fox News to CNN, New York Times to Wall Street Journal and any news entity that is corporate owned or dependent, ceased being a source of news a long time. The Corporate State Media has become the official mouthpiece of the Federal government which in turn is the enforcer of the corporate agenda.
But today’s article titled “Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault” deserves a deeper scrutiny beyond just a generalized condemnation of the Corporate State Media. The news executives at 1301 K Street have morphed into a mix of Tokyo Rose and Joseph Goebbels as they publish outlandish lies and partisan talking points while pretending to be the arbiters of truth. The same entity that supposed to be keeping power in checks has instead become recorders of the government as they echo authority and refuse to speak truth to power. Their tagline is an exercise in chutzpah at its apex; “Democracies die in the dark” they say as they stab our republic with piercing disinformation and stabbing deception.
Jeff Bezos has become the 21st century William Randolph Hearst. This is no compliment, Heart was a shyster and a lying bilker who built a media empire by perfecting the art of yellow journalism. Yellow journalism is a clear and present danger not only to Democracies but to the very foundation of our republic. Hearst played a major role in pushing the United States into a major war with Spain as his newspapers jumped on the sinking of the Maine by peddling rumors and innuendos as established facts. They blamed the USS Maine’s sinking on Spain without any proof and cast the dye of war with the yellow ink that was running from the Morning Journal.
The Journal was an also-ran publication until they started printing wholesale lies about the USS Maine on their front page. All the sudden, the Journal became a lightening rod as their subscription grew to more than one million. Peddling fabrication and printing myth became a way of doing business for Hearst and his media empire. Nothing attracts emulation more than the sound of cash registers; shortly thereafter the rest of the established “fourth estate” followed suit and started to mimic the methodologies of the two-bit hustler Hearst.
If this was just about the Corporate State Media’s mendacity and their practice of pretending to be something that they are not, we could just shake our heads and move on. Except those who own media and shape public perception have in their hands a power akin to the Poseidon’s trident in their hands. Not only did the Spanish-American war start under a false pretense of the sinking of the USS Maine—a narrative that was thoroughly debunked by the 1974 Rickover investigation—the Corporate State Media would usher the United States into one war after the other since the Spanish-American War in 1898.
A lie from yellow press peddlers pushed America into World War I as the sinking of the RMS Lusitania became a pretext to the United State’s entry into a war that took innumerable lives in a war that was supposed to end all wars. Once again, news hounds and propagandists started publishing rumors and innuendos as facts and then sat back and counted their millions as millions were being chewed up and ground into dust by the military-industrial complex. There exists an axis of evil between reporters in news rooms, bureaucrats in DC and plutocrats on Wall Street; all three conspire together to enhance and perpetuate their power by keeping us perpetually in the dark. The very entity that was supposed to keep the powerful honest have instead cast their lot with the powerful in order to perpetuate injustice.
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“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” ~ Noam Chomsky
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Lij Teodrose Fikremariam
Originally from Ethiopia with roots to Atse Tewodros II, Lij Teodrose is a former community organizer whose writing was incorporated into Barack Obama's South Carolina primary victory speech in 2008. He pivoted away from politics and decided to stand for collective justice after experiencing the reality of the forgotten masses. His writing defies conventional wisdom and challenges readers to look outside the constraints of labels and ideologies that serve to splinter the people. Lij Teodrose uses his pen to give a voice to the voiceless and to speak truth to power.
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