{"id":505494,"date":"2022-02-09T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2022\/02\/corporations-propoaganda-misinformation-cnn-cuomo-rogan\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:00:17","slug":"the-real-fake-news-crisis-in-america-comes-from-corporate-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/09\/the-real-fake-news-crisis-in-america-comes-from-corporate-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Fake News Crisis in America Comes From Corporate Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n\n\n

Outlets like CNN and MSNBC are platforming con artists, skewing the news, and immersing the country in a flood of lies.<\/h3>\n\n\n
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\n This week, corporate media began touting a comeback for Andrew Cuomo and his brother, Chris, with no mention of the nursing home catastrophe, as if nothing bad happened over the last two years. (CNN)\n <\/figcaption> \n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n \n

\u201cMisinformation\u201d is all the rage these days \u2014 it\u2019s the topic du jour.\u00a0Polls<\/a> suggest we all agree that it\u2019s a problem, and lately liberals appear most mad at it \u2014 but seemingly only at certain kinds of misinformation that originate outside the corporate media sphere.<\/p>\n

Notably, the ire is rarely directed at a corporate media machine that systematically rewards and praises the purveyors of misleading propaganda, and continues to flood the country with information sewage.<\/p>\n

This selective outrage is a huge problem \u2014 because the only way to systematically combat misinformation is to construct a Fourth Estate that develops some trust with the audience. That trust will never be rebuilt if liberals pretend to hate misinformation while they patronize a media establishment that fortifies the pathologies that originally created a credibility crisis.<\/p>\n

Consider the past week of media news, while\u00a0the Joe Rogan controversy<\/a>\u00a0dominated headlines:<\/p>\n