Posted on 12/05/2022 5:15:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers.
The current “media”—loosely defined as the old major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, the network news channels, MSNBC and CNN, PBS and NPR, the online news aggregators like Google, Apple, and Yahoo, and the social media giants like the old Twitter and Facebook—are corrupt.
They have adopted in their news coverage a utilitarian view that noble progressive ends justify almost any unethical means to obtain them. The media is unapologetically fused with the Democratic Party, the bicoastal liberal elite, and the progressive agenda.
The result is that the public cannot trust that the news it hears or reads is either accurate or true. The news as presented by these outlets has been carefully filtered to suppress narratives deemed inconvenient or antithetical to the political objectives of these entities, while inflating themes deemed useful.
This bias now accompanies increasing (and increasingly obvious) journalistic incompetence. Lax standards reflect weaponized journalism schools and woke ideology that short prior basic requisites of writing and ethical protocols of quoting and sourcing. In sum, a corrupt media that is ignorant, arrogant, and ideological explains why few now trust what it delivers.
Suppression
Once a story is deemed antithetical to left-wing agendas, there arises a collective effort to smother it. Suppression is achieved both by neglect, and by demonizing others who report an inconvenient truth as racists, conspiracist “right-wingers,” and otherwise irredeemable.
The Hunter Biden laptop story is the locus classicus. Social media branded the authentic laptop as Russian disinformation. That was a lie. But the deception did not stop them from censoring and squashing those who reported the truth.
Instead of carefully examining the contents of the laptop or interrogating Biden-company players such as Tony Bobulinksi, the media hyped the ridiculous disinformation hoax as a mechanism for suppressing the damaging pre-election story altogether.
I am amazed that there are true believers in what these leftist rags publish.
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How corrupt? They are so corrupt and demented it’s as if they all graduated from the Joseph Goebbels’ School of Journalism.
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Many conservatives still only consider a news story credible if it’s covered by the corrupt media.
Go back to late October 2016 and see if you can find the lunacy that was considered “journalism” on sites like Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse — specifically, their reports about the “Hillary Clinton arrest warrant.” It was so pathetic, I found it embarrassing just to see these nitwits destroy their own credibility.
They lie about the GOP, saying things that are not true
They lie about the Democrats by omitting the truth
They lie about the GOP
They lie about the Democrats
They lie
Nazis would be shocked at the level of gaslighting put out daily by the MSM.
They suppress the truth of the Biden corruption and then turn around and make up crimes about the Trump family. This is our country in a nutshell today. Simple and evil. Until that changes...we are so screwed.
Glassy eyed liberals robotically repeat the Soros paid propaganda machine’s talking points. They are taught a narrative, which is endlessly repeated, and reflexively parrot it back. Classic brainwashing.
I have a sister and brother believes every one of those to be true.
Even today drugery refuses to report on the 1st amendment violations and illegality per brandon and the swamp and the 50+ intel agents on the mini brandons laptop.
Gateway pundit and conservative tree house, were/are nothing like the present day MSM.
Still, if not covered wall to wall by the MSM it didn’t happen...to most people. And the corruptocrats know it.
So, the everyday low info drone remains content in his/her/it/them ignorance, looking forward to the next episode of whatever reality show they “know” is real.
The media is criminally corrupt, with zero accountability.
We should be demanding that the FCC suspend the broadcast licenses of all broadcast media that intefered in the election.
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