Click here to access article by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.
The author provides an excellent illustration of how mainstream news services violate basic standards of journalism by providing news items from government sources that cannot be verified.
Could it be that both mainstream media corporations and the government are owned and controlled by the same One Percent ruling class? Could it be that big media serves primarily as propaganda organs of the ruling class to manage the consent and dissent of citizens? Thus when citizens informed by such media go to the polls on election day to vote on candidates selected by capitalist controlled political parties and funded by industrial and financial institutions, can we believe that we are participating in a meaningful democracy?