"Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half.' The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters." -- John Major

Throughout history, rulers have tried to hide the truth from their people, deeming it a crime punishable by death for failing to beliece what those in power wanted the people to believe.

For example, Socrates was killed in 399 BC for "Failing to acknowledge the gods."

William Tyndale was killed in 1536 for Translating the Bible into English so that everyone could read it for themselves, and no longer had to rely on the clergy to tell them what it said.

In 1616 and 1633, Galileo was tortured for saying that the Earth rotates around the Sun.

Scores of people have been killed over the centuries for spreading "fake news".

In 1773, Ben Franklin was fired as colonial Postmaster General for telling the American Colonists about what the British were really doing.

In 1933, the Nazis carried out numerous book burnings of "fake news". The targeted authors included Einstein, Freud, Kafka, Hellen Keller, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Proust, Upon Sinclair and H.G. Wells.



Mussolini had around 2,000 purveyors of "fake news" killed.

Stalin handled the peddlers of "fake news" by murdering them or throwing them into insane asylums.

China's Mao and other Communist leaders killed many for failing to sing the Great Leaders' praises.

In 1972, CIA director Richard Helms said anyone spreading "fake news" that contradicted the government would be labeled as "terrorists".

The extremely popular tv personality Phil Donahue's show - the most popular on MSNBC - was His canceled for questioning the Iraq war.

Many reporters have been fired, harassed, spied upon and even accused of terrorism for reporting stories critical of government actions or policies.

Which brings us to the present.

The following items link to sources.

Saddam's Nuclear Weapons

Assad Used Sarin Gas On His Own People

Humans Are Warming The Planet

Side Mounted Fuel Tanks

Radiation is Good For You

Food Lion

Israel's Attack on USS Liberty Was Just an Accident

Torpedoes in The Gulf of Tonkin

Spanish Mine in Havana Harbor

USS Iowa Explosion Was Caused by a Gay Sailor

Putin Shot Down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17

TWA 800 Was Destroyed By a Fuel Tank Explosion And The Hundreds of Witnesses Who Saw a Missile Hit the 747 Were All Drunk

John F. Kennedy Was Assassinated By a Lone Gunman

Robert Kennedy Was Assassinated From Behind by a Palestinian Standing in Front of Him Who Fired 14 Shots From a Gun That Held only 8 bullets

The Lusitania Was Not Smuggling Weapons to Britain When Sunk by the Germans

Vaccines Are Safe

GMOs Are Safe

Food Sold at Organic Stores is Just as Bad as Supermarket Food

Jaunita Broaddrick Was Not Raped

Gennifer Flowers Was a Flake

Vincent Foster Committed Suicide

Brian Williams Was Shot Down (And Other Lies)

If You Like Your Doctor You Can Keep Your Doctor

The NSA Does Not Spy on US Citizens

Common Core is Quality Education

Glyphosate is Safe

The Gulf of Mexico is Perfectly Fine After the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Mercury in Vaccines and Dental Fillings is Harmless

Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease but Statins Will Save You

The Stock Market Proves the Entire Economy is Working

94 Million Americans Out of Work Translates to a 5% Unemployment Rate

Illegal Immigrants Do Not Bring Disease Into the US But Unvaccinated Children Are a Danger Even to Vaccinated Children

Dr. William Thompson And His Confession of Rigging the CDC Report on Vaccines and Autism is an Urban Legend

Aspartame is Safe

Monica Lewinsky story ignored

Bush Said Al Qaeda is no Longer a Problem

Arnold Schwarzenegger groped six women

US Troops Gang-Raped Iraqi Women

Hillary Will Win the 2016 Election in a Landslide

Pearl Harbor Was a Complete Surprise

Rather: John F. Kennedy's Head Rocketed FORWARD From the Head Shot

Rather again: George Bush Got Special Treatment in the National Guard

Sarah Palin to Blame for Gabby Gifford shooting

Mitt Romney is a Homophobe

Mitt Romney is Racist

Gang-rape as Fraternity Initiation

8-Year Old Heroin Addict in DC...

Now, you all remember to believe the "Real" Media and ignore the "Fake" media when they point out these itty bitty trivial goofs, because Ignorance Is Strength!

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."

-- Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.

"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising".

former NBC news President Rubin Frank

"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference."

-- Edward R. Murrow

Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Sun, made this candid confession [it's worth noting that Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly]:

" There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.

If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. "