“What do we mean when we say corporate media is fake? We mean it’s a carefully crafted con, a set of narratives, cherry-picked data and heavily massaged statistics (the unemployment rate, etc.) designed to instill the reader’s confidence in a narrative that serves the interests not of the citizenry but of a select few pillaging the citizenry … (But) we now inhabit a world where virtually everything is a con.” Charles Hugh Smith, It’s Not Just the News That’s Fake–Everything’s Fake, oftwominds.com