Posted on 04/27/2021 6:37:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
As a 38-year-old American, I cannot recall a time in my adult life when the mainstream media peddled such blatant lies on a daily basis. As an amateur historian, I am also unaware of any period in modern American history in which the so-called news media routinely and unapologetically perpetuated falsehoods on such a grand scale.
Most Americans realize the mainstream media are biased. According to recent polls, Americans’ trust in mass media has hit all-time lows.
Before moving forward, perhaps we should review a few of the many lies perpetuated by the mainstream media over just the past few years.
Remember the years-long Russian collusion story that dominated the airwaves of CNN and MSNBC and the front pages of prominent newspapers such asThe New York TimesandUSA Today? Fake news. Never happened.
Remember the Covington Catholic High School story about a bunch of racist teenagers harassing an angelic Native American in Washington, DC a few years ago? Fake news. The opposite occurred.
Remember the bold-faced lie about Brian Sicknick being bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by a rabid mob of white supremacist insurrectionists? Fake news. Sicknick died of natural causes, due to two strokes, hours after the so-called insurrection. He was never hit with a fire extinguisher.
One more. Remember the tall tale about Georgia’s recently passed “Jim Crow 2.0” voting law? Fake news, again. The Georgia voting law has absolutely nothing do with Jim Crow and racism, but everything to do with ensuring electoral integrity.
I could go on and on, but the point is made.
So, why has the mainstream media abandoned all pretenses of political neutrality in favor of pushing lies?
Well, it could certainly have something to do with the fact that the vast majority of those in the mainstream media (as well as those in high places in academia, Hollywood, and corporate America) unashamedly hold leftist views.
This is not a hypothesis. This is a fact.
Consider. As of 2014, a long time ago in today’s media environment, just 7 percent of journalists self-identified as Republicans.
The Media Research Council has prepared an exhaustive study on this subject, titled “The Liberal Media: Every Poll Shows Journalists Are More Liberal than the American Public — And the Public Knows It,” which unequivocally shows media members skew to the left side of the political spectrum.
So, the mainstream media lies relentlessly and most members of the mass media are leftists. What could go wrong? Sadly, everything.
The media, once referred to as the Fourth Estate, because it wielded such power and influence over society, has officially gone rogue.
The American media (and most of the international media for that matter) are wedded to leftist ideology. Instead of informing the public with the stone-cold truth, the modern mainstream media peddle narratives.
Of course, these narratives are not fact-based, but feelings-based. And these narratives fall under similar themes: systemic racism is everywhere, climate change will doom the world, “assault weapons” are the scourge of society, etc.
We also should keep in mind that mainstream “journalists” also exhibit their blatant bias by what they choose not to report on. We can call this bias by omission. A few examples: the current border crisis, the gang violence epidemic in urban America, the decline of the nuclear family throughout America, etc.
Over the past year, the mainstream media have arguably lost whatever smidgeon of credibility they had left. The mass media’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic has been downright abysmal.
This does not bode well for the “healing” and unification that our country desperately needs. Unless and until the mainstream media return to reporting the truth, based on facts, the American people will remain hopelessly divided and woefully misinformed.
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Part of the plan.
It won’t fix itself.
Don't hold your breath. What we need is a solution to the Leftist activism, competition.
Bttt.
5.56mm
It’s not just the media. We live in a sea of lies.
TRUE!
The Narrative, per Yahoo headlines: “Police Shoot Man In Back Of Head”, implying execution. Pure and intentional evil.
I disagree. "Gone rogue" is far too nice. They are not just acting erratically or independently. The media is full-on acting counter to the best interests of the United States. The media is un-American and anti-American.
If the media is peddling some line, it is a safe bet the exact opposite is true and you would be far better off doing your own thing rather than whatever it is they are trying to coerce or condition you to do.
A person that watches the MSM and youtube can assume that all cops do is shoot unarmed black men. So they hate cops and join BLM.
A person that waches the MSM and youtube can assume that all crime is committed by black people and they are an uncontrollable mob, from McDonalds dining area fights to the knockout game, to “airport fights” to spring break riots. So they become racist against blacks.
I think both are on the rise, fueled by the MSM and youtube, and that is why I now carry in my car and on my person. The world is becoming MUCH more dangerous.
“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink”
― George Orwell, 1984
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Most Americans pay no attention to the nonsense that’s burped up from the main stream media. The main purpose is to give marching orders to the 40% of the countries useful idiots. Corporate America owns the media. There’s money to be made if you align yourself with the U.S. government.
Well sure they’re pushing lies, top to bottom, 24/7. But if you’re a Fearper, they are being totally truthful and factual when it comes to the one subject of WuFlu. Honest.
History is our guide
Sedition Act, passed on July 14,
gave Adams tremendous power to define treasonable activity including any false, scandalous and malicious writing. The intended targets of the Sedition Act were newspaper, pamphlet and broadside publishers who printed what he considered to be libelous articles
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We're gonna need bigger prisons.
The problem (in my opinion) is that too few control so much of our information, and the few that are in control all have the same ideological bent.
As someone else pointed out, what is needed is competition.
Well, it works. I know a number of people - all intellect and no intelligence types - who think that the MSM outlets are trustworthy fact-checkers and simply wouldn’t publish anything that isn’t true. They further think that Fox News makes up lies to help the GOP, and any further-right sources than Fox should be banned. It’s impossible to deprogram these people - and there are a lot of them.
Comcast, ATT, & Disney sold out America to China
There is quite a lot of “competition”.
The problem is, that it is all staffed by leftists.
Why? I think because all went to “journalistic” schools, indoctrinated by the same ideology.
They also get all the news from agencies like Reuter. Just copy and paste. Maybe those should be tackled first?!
Thats been the plan for several decades. Broadcast media, most social media companies and Universities should at least be required to run disclaimers:
*socialist democrat super pac -
Because thats exactly what they are. The problem is that most average, working class, self-reliant Americans don't realize that actual journalism is dead.
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