Posted on 03/16/2024 3:10:48 PM PDT by delta7
Virtually everyone I talk to thinks mainstream news is just propaganda. COVID drove a spike through the very heart and soul of the First Amendment. Even five years before, people generally respected the news. COVID appears to have been the death knell to mainstream news. This chart shows the results of Gallup Polls, and the trust in American media is down well below 40%. Our models warn that when confidence in government falls below 40%, governments begin to collapse. That magic number applies to the media as well.
Last October, the Pew Research Center reported that Americans follow the news less closely than they used to. I remember growing up, and my father and mother would first watch the nightly news, and then the shows would come on. Never did I ever hear my father call the news fake or propaganda. Indeed, back in 2016, 51% of American adults surveyed indicated that they do so “all or most of the time.” That number dropped to 38% in 2022.
According to Pew, we are witnessing the complete collapse of trust in media across gender, age, education, ethnicity, and party affiliation. The collapse is greater among Republicans and independents, dropping from 57% to 37%. Among Democrats, trust has declined from 49% to 42%.
Those who know my research are quite familiar with the process of a decline in the CONFIDENCE of government, and this is a Private Wave that peaks in 2032. During a Private Wave, we see people distrusting the government and moving to the private sector, so things like the stock market and real estate have risen because capital is moving from government bonds to private assets. The collapse in the media is part of this cycle. The media aligned with the government during the communist era – PRAVDA. While the name meant “truth” in Russian, the people knew it was all just propaganda. We now find ourselves heading in the same direction. The media will fall with the government as it did under communism.
Goodbye, and good riddance to MSNBC, ABC, FOX, CBS, NBC, and the leader of the pack in disinformation – CNN. PS: Newspapers will also follow. Better find a real career.
PS: Take Disney with you!
It wasn’t COVID. It was Trump.
I hope that title is correct and the MSM completes the job soon.
I agree, it was Trump who exposed them, Covid just put the final nail in the news coffin
In case new readers aren’t aware, Martin Armstrong is charismatic con-man who spent 11 years in prison for his financial felonies, and now seems to be harboring a desire for revenge against the West.
When the media realized it had the power to influence, it began its descent down the slippery slope, until its goal became exerting such influence to the exclusion of all else. As it became less and less credible, the power to influence deteriorated, and that was all it had. Technology undermined the monopoly it had held for decades. The public no longer believes, and has innumerable options. Adios, mainstream media.
For me, it Walter Cronkite and the Tet Offensive.
-PJ
We the People are driving the polls. Not the collapse.
They won’t die, they are government subsidized.
Propagandists are loosing their monopoly thanks to citizen journalists and honest discussions on internet forums with fact-check capabilities.
Hmm. I believe it was Trump that coined the phrase “fake news.”
I gave up on the “mainstream media” back around 1978. Started with Cronkite and TV media, then Newsweek, USN&WR, Scientific American, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics...nothing was untouched by propaganda and truth was lost. Today, truth “might” be found in “small media” (like FR), various blogs, podcasts and such.
How about we celebrate our victories AFTER they occur?
Bullseye!!
“In case new readers aren’t aware, Martin Armstrong is charismatic con-man who spent 11 years in prison for his financial felonies....”
That doesn’t preclude him from being right.
Ok, well, I didn't think it said all that, but I was hopeful.
I don’t even believe the alternate media any more. Sometimes I listen to a news show from India.
I have turned the reading sources I trust over listening to government-controlled corporate news. I haven’t watched the major media news program for about five years now.
“charismatic con-man”
The guy looks like he could croak at any minute...
Charismatic?
Lol.
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