https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-o...

Fewer than 2,000 readers are on his website when Paris Wade, 26, awakens from a nap, reaches for his laptop and thinks he needs to, as he puts it, “feed” his audience. “Man, no one is covering this TPP thing,” he says after seeing an article suggesting that President Obama wants to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership before he leaves office. Wade, a modern-day digital opportunist, sees an opportunity. He begins typing a story.

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More bashing of the Independent media by the Washington Post, which picks the worst abusers and holds them up to tarnish the entire Independent Media. If the Washington Post reported on a black man who stole a car and implied that all black men are car thieves, I wonder what the reaction would be.

Dear Washington Post

I hear your rage and upset. I understand only 6% of Americans still trust you, and we here in the Independent media now command the majority of the American audience.

So, and despite some faux-repentant editorials, you do what you do best; launching a campaign against the Independent media, labeling us all the "fake" news.

I find this amusing since it was you, the Corporate media, that told us Saddam had nuclear weapons, that Assad was using Sarin against his own Alawite supporters in front of the UN chemical weapons inspectors literally on the day they arrived (the UN concluded the US-backed rebels did this), that there would be no more snowfalls after 2000, that Hilary was winning by 12 points, that a little radiation is good for you, etc. Your historical record is hardly better; torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin, Spanish mine in Havana Harbor, Lusitania not carrying weapons, and so forth. All of these headlines have been discredited by time.

So now you moan the rise of the Independent media. You should actually be very proud. You in the Corporate media created us with your lies to the people. You made us. We are your children, as unloved by you as we may be.

And as is always the case, sooner or later the children shall outstrip the parents.

Peace
FN