Global Unified Media And 'War Of Words'

'War of the Words': A Global Media Production

Peggy Ryan

In the U.S. today, eight billionaires control our once free press, while their oligarch allies monopolize social media.  Their messages are not only uniform across all channels, but often repeated word for word.  And because it's every mainstream media channel, because nearly every social media site backs it up, fake news is the order of the day — fabricated stories, nonexistent sources, blatant propaganda presented as fact. 

So how could these information power brokers use this imperium?  Could the "news," say, take a story made from whole cloth, total fiction, and make it real, use it to damage and possibly remove a sitting president?  They could, and they did. 

For more than two years, media hammered the story that Trump and Vladimir Putin are best buds who conspired to rig the 2016 election.  Reporters interviewed experts, former and current government officials, to cloak the story in realism.  The DOJ even assigned a special prosecutor to investigate the crime.  It was clear: Trump and Putin stole the election from Hillary Clinton.

Except not only were the charges false, but the whole thing was just a fairy tale, a fantastical storybrought to life by media.  Eventually, the special prosecutor cleared Trump, and it's since been established that Hillary Clinton's campaign conjured up the scandal.  Yet how many Americans still believe the Russian hoax?

Could media use their superpower to, say, push for a civil war?  Could they sound the alarm of an enemy within plotting to riot, to overthrow the government?  They could, and they did.  They can, and they are.

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