Your Default Assumption Should Be That Everything Corporate Media Says Is A Lie
The Federalist ^ | November 24, 2021 | John Daniel Davidson
Here’s the thing. The next time you read an article in the New York Times or the Atlantic, watch a bit of breaking news on MSNBC or a panel on CNN, or hear a report on NPR, your default assumption should be that what you are reading, watching, or hearing is not true. Either it is an outright falsehood, a distortion of the facts, or not the whole story. That should be your posture toward literally every piece of news you consume from corporate media from now on.
There is ample justification for such a posture. It’s justified by every single major news story in recent years — the Russia collusion hoax, the origins of the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter riots, Hunter Biden’s laptop, the debate over Covid vaccines, the January 6 riot, and especially the Rittenhouse trial, to name just a few. Every one of these stories, and many more besides, were dishonestly reported by a corrupt media establishment that you should never trust again.
They’re the gaslight media. They aren’t chartered to inform, they are chartered to persuade people of false things, for the benefit of certain elites. Also The Hill, the Washington Post, and dozens of other firms.
12 posted on 12/2/2021, 5:18:51 PM by coloradan (They’re not the mainstream media, they’re the gaslight media. It’s what they do!)
Don’t forget the Great Lie of the ‘92 Clinton campaign - “Worst economy in 50 years”, when it had clearly been far worse a mere 12 years earlier during the dying days of the Carter administration.
And people fell for it.