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.
Not all of YouTube. Try out OfficerTatum or Crowder — they both (and a few others) continue to point out facts that totally discredit the MSM’s lies.
Not enough, of course, as YouTube makes no attempt to be fair. But, why should they since they are owned by Google/Alphabet/CCP? It is the Chinese Communist Party calling the shots in media today, for several years.
Hey, I have a lot of favorites. Blue Collar Logic and Matt Christiansen are my favorites on political/cultural tropics.
Who owns the “mainstream media?”
Why are six corporations allowed to own 100% of the news publishing and television media outlets in the entire country?
Has any society ever survived a total domination of its propaganda ministries by a hostile foreign population?
All questions necessary to solve the problem, none will ever get answered at this point. We are down and soon out as a nation.
The only thing we can do is starve the beast.
Turn off these fonts of mis - and disinformation - CNN, MSNBC and all the other alphabet networks. Keep them out of your TV viewing habits.
Don’t support them in any way shape or form, with your time, effort or money.
Same goes for the NBA, MLB and NFL.
The media is a “trust”-just like the ones at the beginning of the 20th Century. Where is our “Trust Buster”?
Ideology-based hiring has consolidated the hold of the left in the media, in colleges/ universities, government and large companies. It is a huge, huge problem, but that problem must be addressed somehow if we are to even have a prayer of surviving as a nation of freedom.
April 27 2021 Facebook Jail for another 30 days.
Why, because I stated my opinion. I called the “Covid pandemic” a fraud.
Stating …. “Preventatives were out there.” “Cures were out there” “and the numbers were screwed up to push the fraud.”
Facts?
Preventative supplements were out there, Vitamin D3, Vit. C, Zinc and Magnesium were out there for about 10 cents per day dosage. Hundreds of reports verifying the positive and preventative effects were out there from medical experts and being reported.
Cures for the sickness were out there, also from medical experts. Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir. Given when diagnosed with the Covid it is generally gone within a week 60 to 80% of the time.
And the “NUMBERS?” - Look at the tragedy of thousands of sick people placed into senior living and nursing homes where so many more would knowingly become infected and die. So tragic that they passed away locked in isolation unable to have their family or friends with them as they died from the mistakes of those governors. And the reports are out there that more money was made from each of those deaths that could be attributed to Covid!
CNN is down to 1 million a night. Tucker the highest rated cable news show is at 4 million. What advertisers would even want to mess with either show? Are the spots that cheap?
CNN lost its audience (other than airports) years ago, but advertisers continue to prop them up.
I’m 50. They’ve always been biased at least in my lifetime. You could see the clear bias even in the early 80s. What they’ve become since Obama came along in 08 is open and avowed propagandists. They don’t care about even appearing to be objective any more. They don’t care about journalistic ethics or standards of professionalism (eg at least two sources before publishing any story) anymore.
They’re just the propaganda arm of the Democrat party now. They do not hesitate to outright lie or to suppress major stories if it doesn’t suit their political narrative.
Back in the 60s a wise man told me “you can’t even believe the page numbers in Time magazine”
The writer commits the same sin of omission that others do.
He fails to mention the root cause and the possible improvement in the news, if not the cure.
The schools of journalism in all of the major universities are staffed with liberals. The root cause.
The possible cure requires that the government stop all government grants of any kind for any purpose whatsoever, including student loans, to any university that does not clean up its journalism department. The universities must require the staff to teach the reporting of facts only and accurately. Opinion belongs on the editorial page, never ever on the front page or any other news page.
Just 6 companies control more then 90% of what we see and hear.
The media are propagandists for the Revolution! It’s way past bias.
Seems like the flames that engulfed the CH 8 NEWS building were started by multiple sets of trousers igniting after the chant was heard from the protestors in the street: Liar, liar - pants on fire.
If only
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
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