Fake news indeed

In her letter (Fake News Against Trump, October 9), Sally McIntyre illustrates the self-fulfilling prophecy of those in the Fox News bubble having their political bias reinforced.

In Kiwi vernacular, she doesn’t know what she doesn’t know. She writes of ‘‘secondhand accounts against Trump relying on untruthful conflicted sources’’.

The words of Trump in his ‘‘Grab a p .... ’’ scandal, or those of his former henchman saying he was an accomplice to Trump’s payoffs to women, were not filtered by the media.

These and his multitude of factchecked lies were there to be heard by Ms McIntyre, if her ears hadn’t been blocked by political deafness.

Most countries, including New Zealand have an approximately central and objective media. The US has a Right-wing propaganda machine in Fox, Breitbart and Infowars.

Check out the routinely peddled conspiracy theories such as Obama was not a US citizen, Seth Rich was murdered by Democrats and all the other trashed fantasies.

This is not a coincidence as US politics lurched to the Right from the Reagan inauguration, when there was not enough room at Washington Airport for the Learjets.

A clue as to what was to follow over the next 40 years, with economic inequality now the worst of the Western economies.

New Zealand was going the same way, with Whaleoil and other National-affiliated sites, but now there is a chance to reverse 10 years of increasing poverty, unswimmable rivers and other degradation.

I try to be objective and look at the facts. Ms McIntyre should try it.

Rob James

Abridged – Editor