I once got a copy of the Manila Bulletin from when the Philippines was occupied during WWII by the Japanese. The Manila Bulletin was a major newspaper like the New York Times and had built a solid reputation for good journalism, but during WWII the Japanese controlled the content. So in this copy I picked up there was a big front page story about how the glorious German Army had successfully repulsed an allied invasion and pushed the invaders back into the sea. This wildly trumpeted victory for the Germans is know as D-Day to us.
Obviously it wasn't quite the victory that the editors led their readers to believe.
The lesson is a media outlet is only as accurate and honest as its ownership allows it to be. So when you read a story it is best to ingest the information with a certain degree of skepticism, because you really never know what you are getting, or why.
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