Why do I call the mainstream media “fake news?” To answer that I'll share a few incidents from my life that have shaped my perception. The late sixties were my teenage years. The Vietnam War was raging. Older family friends, neighbors and relatives were drafted to fight that war. War news was in the papers and on the TV every day. However what was reported did not line up with the stories that were brought back by the people who I knew that were in the war. It also didn't agree with wha...