SYRIA: Dr Bouthaina Shaaban on the Weaponization of Corporate Media

It was a truly historical moment, when the president-elect of the United States, in his first official news conference, refused to take a question from CNN, telling its correspondent that his channel propagates fake news. It indicates the beginning of the end for the Zionist corporate media, which has worked since the days of the Vietnam War as an advocate for wars, oppression, and colonialism.
It also indicates the advent of a new era in news media, in which both the news maker and receiver transcend the big media corporations, and replace them with more accurate and honest media outlets that are more in touch with reality and with the real interests of the people.
The corporate media and its representatives have played a key role in the unjust wars waged against Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Afghanistan. They have been partners to the crimes of destroying Iraq and Libya, and in waging wars on Syria and Yemen, and in covering the crimes of reactionary regimes.
The Gulf-funded media has been a key ally to all the wars of genocide and destruction waged against millions of people by spreading fake stories through false eyewitnesses and other fabrications such as the White Helmets.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on JANUARY 19, 2017.