Fake news? People journalism is rewriting the rules of media and is often the 'real deal.'

Standing Rock North Dakota -

a situation that was noticeably under reported by the big 6 USA media outlets?

The recent US elections encountered a new dynamic, that of 'People journalism.' Its been rumbling away quietly  in the background for decades.

People journalism is often written off by the mainstream media and governments as 'conspiracy theory,' a term I dislike. I prefer to call it 'reality' because it often is. If we take for instance the UFO subject, it has been variously talked down, ridiculed and laughed at in a concerted effort to rubbish the subject and anyone who dares utter or publish a word on it.

In my book, that's suppression and those that indulge in that get it coming back to bit them.

In late 2016, there was a situation in North Dakota, USA, where a company wanted to take an oil pipeline over American Indian territory lands of the Lakota, part of the Sioux nation. As a result, many from other tribes assembled to show their disapproval to support the Lakota people.

These were unarmed men, women and children who also attracted support from non-Indian peoples. They were faced and in some cases attacked by militarised Police staff. Yet, this did not make the national media for some time. Why were the big 6 media companies in America rather 'slow' to report this story?

Yet when this reached the greater audience of the world via the Internet, it was the sort of story to which the term 'fake news' may have been applied.

In the run up to the US election around the last quarter of 2016, a number of 'stories' came out through the alternative news network, from outlets such as Next News Network, Infowars and other independents, along with ordinary people's journalistic output.

With stories on the alleged goings on of individuals in government being very hot news, these stories which had some origins in WikiLeaks disclosures, in my view helped some people decide on hope they would vote.

Some of these news stories were on subjects of a very serious nature, you only have to look at the internet to see what these were, to realise that it was the forcing of stories to the surface by this underground journalism, that prompted the mainstream to eventually issue these as news items, but by this time they were often 'olds' by then.

However, the fact that these stories were often ran with in mainstream media outlets outside of the US, meant that the US had to eventually issue something on the subjects, rather than look foolish when they did go big and people wonder why no one had reported them?

Of course I am against false information being reported as fact and stories being warped away from the truth, as we should all be. People journalism is now bigger than the big media companies and they can no longer really control it.