{"id":57213,"date":"2021-03-22T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=57213"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:54:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:54:59","slug":"pinocchio-awards-nyt-and-wapo-compete-for-top-fake-news-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=57213","title":{"rendered":"PINOCCHIO AWARDS: NYT and WaPo Compete for Top Fake News Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>WaPo Challenges the NYT for Top Pinocchio Fake News Awards<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Stephen Lendman<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no simple task trying to outdo NYT fake news but WaPo is delivering its best shots.<\/p>\n<p>Both broadsheets long ago banished journalism as it should be from daily editions.<\/p>\n<p>Both stick to the official falsified narrative on major issues \u2014 featuring state-approved talking points.<\/p>\n<p>Both maintain close ties to the CIA and US intelligence community overall.<\/p>\n<p>Both are weapons of mass destruction of truth and full disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Their official editorial policy prohibits it.<\/p>\n<p>Following them for news, information and commentaries assures mind manipulation brainwashing over awareness of what\u2019s going on that affects our health, well-being, and freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>A national disgrace describes how they operate.<\/p>\n<p>Below are two WaPo entries to the pinocchio fake news sweepstakes.<\/p>\n<p>Like nonexistent Russian US election meddling, nonexistent Russian aggression, and nonexistent Iranian nukes or aims to develop them, the Big Lie about a Chinese Wuhan virus refuses to die.<\/p>\n<p>The above and many other Big Lies against invented US enemies and adversaries rear their ugly heads in America and West repeatedly, especially in establishment media reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to WaPo fake news, \u201ccovid hastened the decline and fall of\u201d Sino\/US ties (sic).<\/p>\n<p>Suppressed by WaPo and other establishment media is that covid was invented by US dark forces \u2014 pre-2020 called seasonal flu\/influenza.<\/p>\n<p>It shows up annually worldwide, unaccompanied by draconian harshness introduced last year as part of the mother of all public health scams.<\/p>\n<p>China had nothing to do with spreading covid to the US, West and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Establishment media Big Lies otherwise are part of the mother of all US-led Western mass deception campaigns to fear-monger mass hysteria and convince millions of people to unwittingly self-inflict harm on their health and welfare.<\/p>\n<p>According to WaPo fake news, China is engaged in an \u201caudacious and widespread influence campaign (against) sectors of American society (sic),\u201d adding:<\/p>\n<p>Beijing unleashed \u201cthe single greatest national security crisis\u201d on the US (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WaPo unleashed multiple anti-China Big Lies to contest for pinocchio fake news top honors.<\/p>\n<p>China embarrassed the US by how well it handled flu outbreaks with minimal economic fallout compared to protracted Main Street Depression conditions caused by dark forces against millions of Americans and countless others in Europe and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Like many times before, other nations are falsely blamed for US high crimes committed against them and humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Propaganda war rages against US invented enemies and adversaries \u2014 proliferated by establishment media, featuring deep state supplied talking points, Big Lies over truth and full disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the lying machine NYT,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>WaPo is one of the main offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Its second bite of a rotten apple in the same edition targeted Russia and Vladimir Putin personally, falsely saying the following:<\/p>\n<p>Putin \u201ctried to influence the 2020 presidential election (sic). We already knew this (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We clearly know that the above claim and similar earlier ones are Russophobic bald-faced Big Lies.<\/p>\n<p>No evidence suggests foreign interference in farcical US elections ever throughout the post-WW II period or earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Irrefutable evidence shows that internal dark forces time and again rig the process to turn out as they wish, clearly what happened in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Trump defeated Biden but the latter\u2019s ghost resides in the White House.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s almost invisible, the oval office most often empty.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other regime officials make domestic and geopolitical decisions in his name.<\/p>\n<p>Impaired by dementia, disabling his ability to handle affairs of state, he\u2019s largely oblivious to what\u2019s going on beyond information passed to him easily forgotten in short order.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a figurehead, far removed from the reins of power, an empty suit and mind unable to grasp things and make decisions.<\/p>\n<p>At home, ordinary Americans have no say over who serves in high office or how they\u2019re governed.<\/p>\n<p>Abroad it\u2019s as bad or worse. Throughout the post-WW II period, US dark forces interfered in scores of elections \u2014 along with staging numerous color revolutions, old-fashioned coups, and political assassinations to install subservient puppet regimes in power.<\/p>\n<p>Along with falsely calling model democrat Putin a \u201cdictator,\u201d WaPo accused close Trump ally Rudy Giuliani of complicity with him to aid DJT\u2019s reelection chances.<\/p>\n<p>House, Senate and Robert Mueller probes found no evidence of Russian US election meddling to help Trump triumph over media darling Hillary \u2014 despite countless time, effort, and millions of dollars poured down a black hole of waste, fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>WaPo compounded its long ago debunked Big Lie by falsely claiming that \u201cRussia (won\u2019t) stop meddling anytime soon (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WaPo, the self-styled newspaper of record NYT, and other establishment media clearly have no intention of shifting from managed news misinformation and disinformation rubbish to truth and full disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Manipulating the public mind for powerful interests is what they do \u2014 journalism as it should be nowhere appearing in their daily propaganda editions.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlendman.org\/2021\/03\/wapo-challenges-the-nyt-for-top-pinocchio-fake-news-awards\/\">https:\/\/stephenlendman.org\/2021\/03\/wapo-challenges-the-nyt-for-top-pinocchio-fake-news-awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"section section-post-related\">\n<div class=\"section_wrapper clearfix\">\n<div class=\"section-related-adjustment simple\">\n<h4><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo Challenges the NYT for Top Pinocchio Fake News Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}