What was once thought to be a crisis actor, interviewed multiple times after the Boston Marathon bombings, appears to be a CNN Pentagon Correspondent posing as multiple different witnesses.
Most people would agree that they would appreciate being able to trust their local and national news to provide a balanced and honest representation of facts and events. The last few decades, however, has proven that to be virtually impossible to ask for.
Despite what is typically a polished and professional appearance, constant reminders of a blatant disregard for old-time journalistic standards and what now seems to be a perma-lean toward the establishment, at the expense of the people and its grassroots, has long since destroyed the believability of almost anything stated on major radio or television.
If it’s not an almost childlike bias toward either conservative or liberal values proudly emanating from entities like FOX News and MSNBC, major agencies from all points of view have been caught doing things like manipulating audio or video for political and other purposes, reporting and/or omitting specific stories or realities for the protection of individuals or establishments and more than a handful of other credibility-destroying examples.
Perhaps nothing epitomizes the circumstances better than a 2003 story from the, you–can’t–make–this–stuff–up, stack of news. When all hope of being able to count on the mainstream media for honest and accurate reporting was thrown out the window, after a federal judge ruled in favor of the establishment media’s ability to purposely misrepresent facts and openly lie to the public, without retribution or liability.