MAKE IT OR FAKE IT?

There's a new scandal brewing that's doomed to be the undoing of any trust the public ever had in the news they choose to to listen to, to view or review on radio or TV or in the printed press, no less. It's been around for more years than you realize and now it's no surprise that it's reported on the internet but, of course, not as yet on traditional outlets that we trust. And what about commentators who turn out to be prevaricators, falsifiers and just plain dirty liars?

It's the surging emerging of a worldwide industry devoted to a service known internationally for faking news. That's right, they make fake news and these liars use the wires to report it as legit and not the you know what it rhymes with.

Germany called it the "big lie." If you repeat repeatedly and endlessly the public will be convinced it's true. The Nazis honed it to an art, but all the nations involved in the altercation better known as World War II. War were a part of it. It was best used to convince the losers they were winners, to prove the good guys were the sinners.

All nations lied and maybe in some cases it was justified to keep the public satisfied and hide the facts they denied because the truth was classified. Today fake news is used to hide the flaws in laws or pending legislations, the effectiveness of medications, the explanation of complications and implications of certain situations.

Fake news is used by parties in power to shower praise on their bosses, by corporations reporting profits and losses, by organizations involved in public relations.

The problem is, we read or hear what's real or fake, but how can we decide who told the truth, who lied?