fake news

The term fake news is a fairly new concept to enter into the discussions of bourgeois politics. Reason for this is quite simple. The world has changed. Journalism has become more international, and far more difficult to regulate by bourgeois governments. This results in a lot of challenging narratives from international media. Russia is often made out to be the boogeyman in all of this. Before it was known as communist propaganda, and in modern day, with Russia being a capitalist federation; It becomes revised into "fake news."

In truth, however, it is simply differing news. Often reporting stories that suit their interests rather than the interests of the west. Western governments controlled the content of mass media for a long time by letting the US government become shareholders in major publications. Now, of course, a new generation of media without the editorial gag order of the military industrial complex emerge after the cold war. It is then vital that the old media, still regulated by the US government, propagates a narrative that discredits them. As such, it is not so much a question of whether "fake news" sites report accurately, but rather which lie to believe.

There has also been a great deal of references both in pop culture and current events which have awakened a natural scepticism to the news. The US government therefore capitalises upon this mistrust by being the first to levy accusations to countering propaganda outlets.

But in reality, no matter what publication you read, there's always a bias. There has to be. Even this writing as of now is biased. The bias is inherent in the mere choice of reporting. The bias is in what the publication and its staff thinks is important to bring attention to in the first place, and what to overlook. Objectivity never comes from news media, because that's just articulated research. The objectivity comes from the research itself, which you yourself have to conduct. It's a tiring process, and you certainly can't cover every event of the world. Or perhaps even the key events of the world.

But to have a partial world view is based on entirely on objectivity is far better than to have an entire world view based partially on objectivity.