By Ray DiLorenzo ——Bio and Archives--July 6, 2024
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Misinformation is the inadvertent spread of false information without intent to harm, while disinformation is false information designed to mislead others and is deliberately spread with the intent to confuse fact and fiction.
As you doubtless have guessed, we live in strange times. In presidential elections, especially when there is a party change, it is commonplace to see major or minor adjustments in policies to reflect the president's judgment or political party. It is not common to see the entire country in a state of disarray, witnessing drastic changes in a nefarious attempt to establish a new government and culture. Obama did it sub-rosa; Biden has done it flat out in our faces.
Misinformation, disinformation, or simply not reporting information is rampant in government and today's mainstream media and much of cable. Why are none of them reporting on vaccine deaths? Why do we have to rely on underground media? Why do these same outlets assume their reporting of past results of the 2020 election is accurate? When they look back and compare Biden's 'wins' in battleground states in 2020 with today's polling, are they being factual? Have we forgotten that Trump was comfortably ahead in the counting until about 11pm Eastern? Once the 'blackout' concluded, Trump found himself significantly behind. We will not forget or forgive. Our nation has been seriously harmed.
It seems permanent Washington has successfully put the questions of the last presidential election behind us. No one in the mainstream media........