TMR Editor’s Note
There are two kinds of headlines used predominantly throughout the Mainstream Media. The first kind is used much more commonly. These are basically false headlines trumpeting falsified stories in order to promote a fraudulent line of thinking or disseminate a fallacious narrative. Virtually everything about the ‘news’ story is false plain and simple.

The second type of headline reflects the genuine fear or worry, on the part of the MSM elite, about a BIG story concerning a weighty and influential event, person or place. These fall into the category of real news stories and usually tell the facts of what really happened, although even these can dissemble a bit. For instance, completely unexpected or unpredictable events which dramatically affect a lot of people positively or negatively would qualify.

Then there is the little known third category of headlines. These contain both truths and falsehood, as do the stories that follow. The recent barrage of headlines concerning Vladimir Putin ‘absence’ is a good example of this rare journalistic phenomenon. Yes, he was gone from public view for 10 days (BIG news) and “No!” the ruling cabal wasn’t exactly sure what he might be doing. So, why then not take advantage of his inability to defend himself and splash every conceivable (and untrue) theory on the front pages of all the MSM news websites, newspapers and television broadcasts. Isn’t this what the MSM does best, mixing fact and fiction so that the sensationalized drama will enhance advertising revenues, distract the readership from what really matters, and blacken the reputation of their new arch-enemy … all because he needed to take a spiritual retreat.

This RT.com article below unwittingly captures this media phenomenon in a rather unique way. Hence, our special note to provide some context for the worldwide media circus that Vladimir Putin has been the victim of.

‘It’s boring without rumors’: Putin appears in public after week of MSM hysteria

RT.com

Life would be boring without rumors, Vladimir Putin said after appearing on public in St. Petersburg on Monday. Earlier, Western media succumbed to hysteria, asking “Where is Putin?” and suggesting the Russian president might have fallen ill.

Putin met his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev on Monday in his first public meeting open to the press since March 5.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov mocked the rumors about his boss’s alleged disappearance.

“Have you seen the president [Putin] crushed with paralysis and captured by the generals?” Peskov asked the journalists, smiling,” [He] just arrived from Switzerland where he was delivering babies, as you know.”

When a Western journalist asked Peskov about a foreign doctor attending the Russian president, the spokesman said the doctor in question “was among the generals who captured Putin.”

The Kremlin is not going to comment on Putin’s state of health, Peskov stated.

“We’ve said 10 times, we can’t comment anymore,” he told journalists, adding that the more comments that are released, the more fantastic theories are being invented.

Social media has been abuzz with tweets and blogposts about the mysterious alleged disappearance of the Russian leader.

After Putin canceled a meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel on March 11, sympathetic users suggested he may have been ill. This theory was denied by the Kremlin.

Austrian newspaper the Kurier insisted Putin is suffering from back problems, and an orthopedic expert has traveled to Moscow from Vienna to treat him.

Users who preferred the ‘Russian-invasion-is-coming’ mood wrote that Putin was preparing for a full-scale war.

Several tabloids speculated about Putin’s alleged problems at work in the Kremlin. They wrote that Putin had been overthrown by a coup or security agencies in Moscow. The Interpreter wrote that, while some Russians were posting photos on social media showing tanks near the Kremlin.

Among the speculative theories was that Putin’s alleged girlfriend, Olympic champion gymnast-turned-MP Alina Kabaeva, had given birth to a baby and that the Russian leader had abandoned the whole country for paternity leave. The UK’s Daily Mirror even reported that a baby girl, a love child, has recently been born at a clinic in Switzerland.

The New York Daily News went one further, and wrote that it’s not even the first baby of the couple, as they also had two kids together, according to Corriere Del Ticino, a Swiss newspaper.

Peskov called the mass media fuss just “spring madness.”

“No need to worry, everything is all right. He has working meetings all the time, only not all of these meetings are public,” Dmitry Peskov said Thursday in an interview with Echo of Moscow radio. He added that the president is “absolutely healthy” and joked that “his handshake is so strong he breaks hands with it.”

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Here is another link which sheds some light on the matter.

Is President Putin the victim of yet another CIA-fabricated internet hoax — ‘Putin is Dead’?