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This travesty of "journalism" calls to mind the words of Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell speech:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."
And when huge media conglomerates, themselves a part of this same vast establishment, eliminate the very possibility of an "alert and knowedgeable citizenry," then long and bloody wars of aggression can be waged on blatant lies, and the "citizenry" will never be the wiser.
