It’s called free speech. He is allowed to lie if he wants to.
Really? The Mainstream showed a few years back that they were under no obligation to publish the truth. That basically means it is the welfare of the advertisers pocketbooks that is the important part to business of 'public news'. That's fine but I think that takes away their right to charge us any money to get those reports that are promoted as being something they are not. I can understand a fee to be applied to being told the truth about something but I do not believe we are required to pay the same, or even more, to be told a lie that prevents us from taking the right course of reaction in response to some action already in motion. Its similar to telling somebody being raped to smile as it is affecting the rapist ability to fully enjoy the moment.
The part that makes it more than a little vile is the ones claiming they have the right to lie to us for the benefit of others are also quite adamant about us not having the right to lie to them under any circumstances, or complain about finding out something is a lie when the effects cannot be undone even if there was a will to do so. You should be able to smell the stench of the hippocracy by now Walnut unless you are neck deep and loving every minute of it.
Every successful coup was started and finished by a military in revolt. More often that not it was over the order to kill its own citizens for complaining how they are being abused.
Alex should 'dive on the sword' on this one and plead no contest to 'knowingly lying to 'the audience' in order to pacify some people and sell a few bottles his brand of snake oil'. (I guess the one that controls temper tantrums is still a work in progress. Ozone can be produced for about $10 in used hardware, the power is about the same amount per year)
The sheer volume of class action lawsuits against mainstream media for promoting a lie and calling it the truth either means they are part of the lie (not good when the audience is a hostile mob with pitchforks) or they were duped and now their eyes are open so they would become witnesses rather than victims. (live to lie another day)
By the time a decade had passed all the names and details of how it worked would be part of court records and the 'fines' would cost somebody dearly as well as put others in a position to 'fix things up using an almost unlimited budget'. Do it at a global level through a functioning UN and you have a 'soap opera' that would be tuned in by the world for 20 years is lots of charges were laid using video evidence so the audience doesn't fall asleep.
