There has been a lot of talk about fake news over the last month, most it coming from sites like CNN. Yes, there has been issues with fake news but should main stream media really be talking about ending fake news? There has been many cases in which the main stream media has also spread fake news and they have neglected to do any reporting about that.

    CNN once did a story on the election of Nana Akufo-Addo in the African nation of Ghana. CNN said that Ghanaians were starving and struggling to obtain day-to-day services saying that the citizens of Ghana have to stand in long lines to obtain essential products. However a twitter user from Ghana tweeted “I didn’t know Ghanaians stand in long lines to obtain products or struggle to obtain food. And I live there”. It turns out that it was true that Ghanaians were not struggling to obtain food and they did not have to stand in line to obtain essential items. They also misspelled “Ghanaians” and got the dates of the elections wrong.

    Perhaps the most shocking thing that main stream media has done is taken payment from governments to produce fake news stories. A three-time Emmy award winning journalist former CNN reporter, Amber Lyon, exposed that governments across the world pay CNN to write fake news stories. When CNN refused to air a story that she wrote about the Arab Spring in Bahrain, a violent against an oppressive government in the Middle East, she began to dig and see why CNN had refused to air her story. Amber found that  CNN is routinely paid off by the U.S. government and a number of other foreign governments to selectively report and air news stories from around the world.Bahrain’s government had paid CNN to make sure they did not report on the violent incidents happening, they did not want to public to know that peaceful protesters were being murdered in the streets and that its citizens were being tortured.

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