Journalism, and news in particular, are not always what it seems. Controlling information is a powerful tool of influence. There are three different kinds of news: true, wrong or false. All good journalists should always deliver true news, but sometimes we make an error, or two. Good journalists always correct these.
Sometimes news are deliberately wrong. False that is. Or propaganda. False news of particular interest to me are the Sedunnic psychological operations against particular factions during the Sporaltryuan Civil War, as stated in a recent release from the Headquarters of the Sedunnic Armed Forces.
Apparently Sedunnic psyops units hacked a major Sporaltryuan news site and published several false news articles. The aim, as they explained it, was to "convey news about an exaggerated Sedunnic military intervention in order to influence objective reasoning and mislead the faction leaders to relocate their forces from the front and possibly lay down their arms". The Headquarters are a little vague on what effect their shady operations might have had, simply stating that "we, and our allies were successful", any information at all on what's going on in Sporaltryus is hard to come by. Military or not.
All things considered, there may be two different kinds of news: good or bad. What is good or bad depends on who you ask, simply.
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