So that justifies a major mainstream media organ, guardians of our republic, going on a spree and reporting fake news to satisfy the hateful animus of its president?

Journalists tell us they're better than that. That they're honest and true and would never lie. And yet we have 100% incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.

I look at the front page of CNN and half the time it's all opinion, calling itself news. Or speculation about what so-and-so "could do" or a move that "signals an intent to." This is not news, designed to inform you about what just happened or is happening. If the goal is to shape your opinion rather than to inform you of facts...that's propaganda, and that's 90% of all TV and newspaper "reporting." And that's all controlled by a handful of mega-corps, who all have similar values and interests.

It's also important to remember that the people doing the reporting are not experts, and are not that smart. Journalism school is a not a rigorous, intellectually challenging endeavor. It's a bunch of not hideous looking people with 110 IQs pretending they can understand and explain the stuff 130+ IQ scientists, engineers, bankers and political manipulators are doing. With lots of phony trappings of authority, like fancy desks and suits, spinning globe computer animations, and pretentious names like "Guardian," "Intelligencer," "Observer" or "Standard," designed to present the image of omniscience. It's all a fraud, and you will generally come out of an hour of watching a TV news broadcast knowing more wrong things than you did before you started.