a texan living in the dombass sets you straight on three items featured in 'our free press' that were exactly the opposite of what you were told;

No, it's NOT "fake news." It's Nazi propaganda.

Someone who's over there demolishes three whopping lies about "Ukraine," with visual evidence beyond dispute

Mark Crispin Miller May 2

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This exemplary takedown of the “Ukraine” propaganda comes from Russell Bentley of Texas, now living in the Donbas (and some of whose interviews I’ve posted here):

There's a wise old maxim that says, "The first step on the road to wisdom is to call things by their right names." So, let's do that.

"Fake News" has been around a long while, The New York Sun's "Great Moon Hoax" of 1835 is a good (and amusing) example. An absolute falsehood and fantasy was published as fact to a credulous public who ate it up. This fake news story about the moon established The Sun as a major and highly profitable newspaper throughout the United States. Fifty years later, Hearst and Pulitzer were competing with each other for readership by publishing preposterous and sensationalist phony stories that became known as "yellow journalism", or as I simply call it, "urinalism". Because the media that publish such swill, and the hacks that write for them, are fit only for cleaning toilets. But those carefree days are long in the past, and fake news is no longer funny........read more.......