Sure, Big Media a whole lot of lying. So did Big Government. But New Media enabled us to counter the lies. Without New Media, nobody would have known that we were being lied to about the Wuhanic Plague.
In the 1970s, they would have gotten away with it, as they did with the "Swine Flu" swindle. I know, because I WAS THERE.
I'm not saying the situation today is perfect. It's not. And maybe it was better ten or twenty years ago. That's arguable. But the 1960s, '70s, and '80s were not some golden age of media transparency. Far from it. 2026 is better than 1976.
LOL,
Unless they deplatform you, ban you from a social media site, shadow ban you, or delete your posts because they don’t like what you’re saying.
I get what you’re saying.
You are right, to a degree. We can chat and share our ideas here on Covid while that nonsense was going on. The insurrection, even just calling it that was another such BS topic (it was a protest). The elections of 2020 were questionable and yet another topic where the MSM and big tech played a huge role in burying it. With Ukraine, our government, MSM and big tech allowed Ukrainian state propaganda to flood the US (still to this day) all while our government censors the other side (Over 40 Russian based media outlets are blocked, as is much of the Russian government and all you see is a small portion of what they actually produce) but with Ukraine you get FLOODED with this:
FR only reaches a small and niche audience of likeminded folks and it’s not what will pop up first when you do a Google search on a topic, nor is it plastered on the Yahoo, MSN, etc. homepage. The big guys and government control the horn.
Do you realize, Russia made NATO expansion THE key issue already all the way back in 1990? It was a REQUIREMENT for German reunification! They have consistently, repeatedly, stated that they do not want NATO expanding Eastward and we did it anyway. They complained when the central European states joined and they tripped a fuse when the Baltic states were admitted in 2004. After which they began rearming and in 2008 when we attempted to bring the Republic of Georgia into NATO they stopped us, with force. Their equivalent of a secretary of state has talked about, their President has talked about it (Yeltsin, Putin, Medvedev), it’s an issue in their media that is discussed at length over YEARS. And in October 2021 when Biden decided to give the green light for Ukraine to join NATO it was hardly even mentioned in our MSM, how can that be? Do you really think the ABSENCE of this topic in our media was an accident?
When this war started, if you ask the average American, they literally could not even give you Russia’s point of contention. The way it was presented is as if Russia is merely doing a land grab. All you heard was unsolicited qualifying remarks such as “unprovoked” and “war of aggression.” What do you think that did to perceptions?
Yes, you and I can voice our opinions about Covid in this dark little corner of the WWW called the FR, but even this post between you and I might get read by 4 people, but when Google changes their rankings to push certain stories down and others up, it makes MILLIONS read what they want.