ON A SCALE OF 1-TO-10,
THIS SCORES 500

Once again, the week’s news has been dominated by a boisterous contest between President-elect Trump and the mainstream media. In my view, that’s an encouraging sign that we actually may have a chance to break, or at least to bypass, the existing media monopoly. The epitaph “Fake News” was created by the collectivist/Left media as a desperate attempt to discredit the alternative, independent media that has a nasty, inconvenient habit of telling the truth about those in power.

But, thanks to the audacity of Donald Trump and to the spunk and growing professionalism of the alternative media itself, the strategy of the Left has backfired. The bell is rung and it cannot be un-rung. The memory of millions of TV viewers who witnessed Donald Trump pointing at the CNN reporter and saying “YOU are fake news!” cannot be erased. 

As encouraging as that is, however, we must not be so fascinated by the theatrical quality of this contest that we forget to observe what else is going on under the radar. For that reason, I have included two items in this week’s featured news. The first two stories relate to the fake-news issue, but the third story is perhaps even more important. The reporter says that, on a scale of one to ten relating to importance, this story ranks 500.. When you see what it is, I think you will agree.

G. Edward Griffin
2017 January 13