Existing western standards for journalism tout “objectivity” based solely on so-called expert sources: corporate PR, politicians, and government agencies. We know those have been repeatedly shown to be suspect as factual sources: recall claims in 1990 about Iraqi soldiers killing incubator babies; in 2003 Colin Powell’s charges about Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs); and Hillary Clinton’s 2011 claims about “Viagra-fueled rapes by Libyan soldiers;” and recent Israeli claims that Hamas beheaded babies, among many other propagandistic distortions. Thus, the media atmosphere created by commercial media defines and advocates preferred actions and dominant ideologies as shown in US commercial media promotion of neoliberal markets, electoral politics, and the Israeli genocide. In each case, commercial media sided with government agencies, officials, and so-called academic and media experts to obscure the actual truths.