Spreading Gossip Ruins Lives, Especially When The Gossip Comes From The CIA

If you share a news article, it is your responsibility to research the veracity of the article, otherwise it is simply gossip. We might think gossip is harmless, but it ruins lives. And when it is gossip planted by intelligence agencies that exist to promote U.S. dominance all over the world, it could quite possibly ruin hundreds of millions of lives.

Here’s how a rumor starts. Some nefarious individual has an agenda and so whispers an idea into the ear of someone whose job it is to collect news. Now collecting news, like picking apples, is hard work, so both the apple picker and the journalist aren’t going to question too much when someone drops what they’re working to get right onto their lap. But if you’re a responsible fruit picker, you should give that apple a quick inspection to make sure it’s not rotten.

But the paid gossip thinks even a rotten apple is a juicy item. The only thing different between a gossip and a journalist at this point is that a journalist makes sure to be precise about the unverifiable information they receive.

The nefarious rumor starter knows which ears to whisper into first. They only speak to the most respectable news institutions, usually The New York Times and The Washington Post. They do this to give their rumors a veneer of legitimacy. And the NYT and WaPo, respected institutions that they are, will qualify the story they report by mentioning somewhere in the article that the entire story relies on anonymous sources within agencies whose job it is to create rumors to advance their agenda. Okay, they don’t say it quite like that, but they do admit—if you read it carefully—that they have no actual proof for anything they’ve said in the article.

But that’s just how a rumor is born, not how it spreads. Like some infectious disease in a country crammed with people who don’t believe in masks, it gets around quickly. First the other news outlets take the story and run with it. Because, as I’ve said before, why pick fruit when ripe ones are already falling onto your lap? Because the second tier gossips can’t stake claim to breaking the rumor…er, news, it is their job to put a twist to it. And in twisting it, the first thing they tend to do is drop the “according to unnamed sources working for agencies that exist to spread misinformation that supports their agendas” part of the story. You see, since they’re reporting second hand, they can now claim they got their information from The New York Times rather than from those unsavory rumor mongers who have been known to tell a whopper or two in their time that have led to a few million people dying in needless wars. 

Now it used to be when people got news, they paid for it. And having paid for a newspaper, they took the time to actually read it. That’s not how news works in the 21^st Century. Today people receive their news for free, and since it is free and abundant, they have no appreciation for it and merely take it in on a superficial level. Today, people get their news from headlines.

And since nobody pays for their sources of information anymore, the providers of information have had to look for other sources of income. Which is to say that the sources of information are no longer working for you, they are working for others whose intent it is to get you to believe what they want you to believe. To that end, they are more concerned about grabbing your attention than educating you. And they are more interested in providing cheap content than insightful articles. In short, our journalistic institutions have become click-bait farms. And gossip mongers, willing ears for those with stories to tell.

Once unsubstantiated rumors have been echoed through the establishment media in order to give it a perceived respectability, it is then bounced around social media by those who were told when they were young that gossip was just a sin but never really saw the harm in it. And from that point, the damage has been done. Because no matter how un-subtantiated the gossip is, it makes a mess. It's like throwing a mudball at someone in a white dress, you're never going to get the stain out. Start a rumor, and it will always be in the consciousness of the public no matter how wrong it was. Like pee tapes. Or Weapons Of Mass Destruction. 

Which is why your mother always told you, don't be a gossip. It hurts innocent people while those who started the gossip just sit back and smile.

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