You provide the story, and I'll provide the war. Familiar yes, but has the system really changed all that much since then? How much of our current mediascape is true? Just how many shapers of our reality are there? One-Hundred? Fifty? Twenty? Now another question, how much of what these writers write becomes fact? You know: Global Fact. This is something that happened. Period. That kind of fact.

Given that in the past media moguls created wars to sell papers, is it so far afield to ask if the reverend Sun Myung Moon or Ted Turner produced a press release then passed it off as a "leak" from the White House or Pentagon, what exactly would stop them from presenting it as news? Another hypothetical while you chew on that: Would any other news outlet - i.e. the 99 other hypothetical makers of our collective realities - ever, ever call bullshit? Or would they just roll with it, safe in the knowledge that maybe next time they'd get the "scoop".

This idea is no more far fetched than the notion that the Administration works the weekly news cycle to its advantage; See: Releasing unfavorable economic and environmental studies late on a Friday afternoon.

Paranoid yet? Don't be. Just turn off your fucking T.V.

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