The latest on "fake news"  I just found a story about a Macedonian who spends each night posting fake pro-Trump news online for money.

He claims to have earned up to $2,500 a day from advertising on his website, while the average monthly income in Macedonia is just $426.

Source and full article:     http://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/

This beautifully illustrates my point about the "Fake news" originating on the internet and twitter.  

If it appears on a regular news channel, it may represent a partisan viewpoint, but if it comes from an unregulated source - it can be just made up on the spot.

Obama's Treasury Secretary and His Wife Demanded A $25,000/Hr. Government Jet For Their Honeymoon.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/13/1698397/-Trump-s-Treasury-Secretary-and-His-Wife-Demanded-A-25-000-Hr-Government-Jet-For-Their-Honeymoon

oh sorry
I got that wrong
it should read
Trump's Treasury Secretary and His Wife Demanded A $25,000/Hr. Government Jet For Their Honeymoon.

fill the swamp
fill the swamp
FILL THE SWAMP

The Real News applies to many more things than just politics. It can be as basic as misreporting a clear sky when it is pouring down rain. Politics and world events are not the same thing.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/politics

Today's fare on Fox and CNN was truly pathetic. I am more inspired than ever to continue to try to set up an independent news channel. With the world on the verge of a nuclear war and all the other main problems we have to deal with it, Fox focused on the Emmy attack on Trump and other soap opera stories with no real solid news about anything important to America.

CNN was no better, and despite hopes they would finally get off the Trump tracking and surveys which they literally create - whine - whine - whine. People don't think Trump is presidential.

So what?

Really.  I don't think the news is news anymore. It is warmed up National Enquirer crap. Having failed to establish any Russian connection to Trump, after 3 days of violent protests in St. Louis by social justice warriors and the fact that conservatives cannot even speak on campuses without paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for security, the mainstream media have completely and totally failed to bring us The Real News.

I reminds me of when before the Beach Boys and Beatles hit the radio and swept the country with brand new exciting music, the fare on the radio was jumbled garbage.

That is what the news has become.

I used to really enjoy my daily fix of news with my breakfast and coffee. Now after two minutes I left both Fox and CNN - truly bored to death with their lukewarm coverage of nothing.

Yawn - the ads in my mailbox with sales - the junk mail is more interesting reading than Fox.

Medclinician

Any of us can get away with not being presidential, Med. The only one for whom it's a prerequisite is the President himself.

People posting just clouds the issue.  NO OVERSIGHT!  I will say it again: NO OVERSIGHT!!

Mainstream news IS verifiable.  They have oversight - even FOX!  They can chose to omit stories, or comment as they wish, but they can't make things up.  

ya know
ya can't even swing a dead cat without hitting some REAL NEWS  nowadays

Robert Reich: A Handful of Ultra-Rich Families Are Bleeding the Country Dry

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/robert-reich-handful-ultra-rich-families-are-bleeding-country-dry

"The richest 1 tenth of 1 percent of Americans now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.

Many of today’s super rich never did a day’s work in their lives. Six out of the ten wealthiest Americans alive today are heirs to prominent fortunes. The Walmart heirs alone have more wealth than the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined."

is that "real" enough ???

"

And it creates a self-perpetuating aristocracy that is antithetical to democracy.

The last time America faced anything comparable to the concentration of wealth we face now, occurred at the turn of the last century.

Then, President Teddy Roosevelt warned that “a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power,” could destroy American democracy."

democracy?

what democracy?

this country is VERY clearly a CORPORATE OLIGARCHY

Technophobe wrote: Mainstream news IS verifiable.  They have oversight - even FOX!  They can chose to omit stories, or comment as they wish, but they can't make things up.   Random members of the public can.  That was my point.

There are many example of completely false stories which never even happened. Perhaps sometime I will start a thread - in fact soon on "The Fake News".

Currently they at least have set up a Blog (Fox) on their main page on the U.N. Unlike a football game where we would be hearing commentators for a day before and after - there isn't even any discussion video up or news yet.

I guess they are trying.  I doubt anything positive coming out of it will get much coverage. They are too busy covering Hillary as she goes before sympathetic audiences saying she is going to ask for a recount of the last election and muttering about Russian collusion and 1001 reasons why it wasn't her fault she lost.

Right now we have a rough state North Korea who very likely will blow something up and soon.  The longer we wait, the worse it will be.

I would not want to be the one to make the call on this one.

The bottom line is we probably need to nuke Kim Jong Un with a deep bunker blaster followed by a sister nuke and vaporize the threat to world peace.

China will not like this. North Korea is a thinly veiled proxy for China vexing the U.S. and this would cause massive instability in the region. The fallout would not only poison North Korea, but South Korea definitely, China, and even Russia.

Millions of refugees will pour across the border into China - which they neither want nor need.

This could also turn into a pure non-nuke ground war with tends of thousands of high power guns aimed at Seoul. In two minutes - more bullets and rockets could be fired than many small nations even have.  Seoul will see the death of 20,000,000 people and the ensuing ground war will send our stock markets, communications, and most of the allied countries into a tailspin.

All the anarchists will come out in force as well as whatever mole terrorists with whatever they have as America will be vulnerable and our leaders will head for the shelters leaving the rest of us on the surface.

http://www.cracked.com/article_17318_7-clearly-fake-news-stories-that-fooled-mainstream-media.html

Medclinician

I do not think China facilitates NK to annoy America.  They do not want to annoy America - or anyone else.  They just do not want to have a huge influx of refugees, or to lose a trading partner; both are economically bad news.  CHINA CARES ABOUT THE MONEY!  It does not give a fig if NK threatens America, Japan, Guam or anyone else for that matter.  Only the money counts in China's eyes.  It is all that the current regime there has ever cared about.