we have officially descended into tyranny when 'our news' gets to this level of doublespeak. i believe nothing i hear on the 'news' from 'our official' news rooms; 

 

Update:  This statement by the Iranian commander directly contradicts the claims of US Central Command, the US Treasury Secretary, and the London Telegraph: https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/10/04/777632/US-forces-fled-over-1000-km-from-Iranian-borders-says-top-IRGC-commander- 

Do “news reports” Have Any Value? 

Paul Craig Roberts

I have come to the conclusion that journalism in the West has been replaced by hired narratives and that reporters report the narrative that they are hired to tell.  It is a new form of vanity press in which interest groups hire a propaganda service to market their agenda.  

I will present a current example. On September 28 US Central Command denied that Iran had control of the Strait of Hormuz.  Central Command said the US sank the Iranian Navy and that “thousands of ships have passed through freely along with more than 1 billion barrels of oil just over the past few months.”

The previous day Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury said on Fox News that the Strait of Hormuz was open–except to Iranian oil “which we are not letting out”–and that 15-22 millions of barrels of oil are passing through the strait daily. In other words, the energy crisis is over and has been according to US Central Command during “the past few months” while we have had an energy crisis..

The London Daily Telegraph, once a respectable Tory newspaper, has become a “hire to have your story told” organization.  David Blair, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, wrote in the Telegraph 2 days ago that 

“It has taken a monumental effort by the US navy but the tankers are steaming through the Strait of Hormuz once again, carrying about as much oil as they did before Donald Trump launched his onslaught against Iran..........more........