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The Bottomless Well of Media Lies
When the art of fiction becomes the template for journalism, it is the end of journalism. Journalism is dead. The news as presented by popular media was sold out for a shallow, meaningless, callow world. Journalists collectively see themselves as America’s savior from the unwashed, when they are actually inhabitants of the rankest morass, dastards of their own creation. They are co-conspirators in a crime wave of peddling lies and ruining lives; and they do it with a heavy hand that would make a mob-boss jealous, using extortion and fear to maintain power.
‘Truth, holding a mirror and serpent’ by Olin Warner. Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, DC
As conservatives, we are used to the one-sided viewpoints and repetition-as-truth being spun easier than a spider’s web. But we know how fragile it really is. We know because of the voracity with which those who occupy the newsrooms and publishing offices are now lashing out. I’ve written about Bari Weiss’ resignation before in broader terms, but it is much more telling of the lack of character, the cowardice, and the pettiness, that the brutal anti-Semitic, cruel, unacceptable behavior she was subject to at the New York Times by her own colleagues – and her bosses did nothing to defend her. But to them, Ms. Weiss was a traitor to their cause. She refused to submit to an ideology that would imprison her intellectual honesty. Thinking and speaking against the dogma is an unforgivable sin.
Popular, mainstream media news and journalism are no longer professions. Together, it is a new identity class to be pursued by those who seek their own vainglorious fame. But it isn’t open to anyone. To rise through the ranks of the chattering class, one must declare religious allegiance to a monolithic ideological culture and pledge to proselytize in the name of their self-serving, progressive faith. Their thin veneer of viewpoint diversity, the pursuit of truth, and claims of holding the powerful accountable has been ungraciously wiped away, revealing thin-skinned, sanctimonious lemmings, more enamored with their own influence than being concerned with factual reporting. But the truth, much to the chagrin of progressives, has an inconvenient way of coming out.
And the truth is a mere hurdle when elections are at stake. And for the Democrats and their media propaganda wing, a Joe Biden win would be the crowning trophy with which to vanquish the Republicans and also a bludgeon to the conservative cause. From a sanctimonious pedestal, removed from the real problems of average Americans, journalists and newsmakers in the media business tell us who we are and what we are supposed to believe based on our race, sex, and age, all the while wailing about the President failing to be a unifier. Their single-minded, divisive political agenda is to coronate the rightful leader – Joe “The Great White Hope” Biden. And they are willing to lie to do it because for them the end justifies the means. For the leftist media, the price of a light slap on the wrist because of misinformation is worth the progressive cause. Joy Reid, Al Sharpton, Brian Williams, Dan Rather, all were caught in egregious falsehoods, but now enjoy the spotlight – and leftist credibility – once again.
The monopoly on the media must be broken if America is to survive. The blinkering elites strut about, basking in their humorless vanity, destroying reputations and lives like tossing cigarette butts on the sidewalk. But what is left in the ashes are real people. I see it in the burned streets of Minneapolis. It’s in the tears of people who lost their businesses and jobs. But the media has its own story to tell, and it doesn’t involve those people. They have a cause to promote. Nothing made that more apparent than when MSNBC anchor Ali Velshey so cavalierly stated on national television the rioters protestors were “not generally unruly.” He wasn’t going to report the truth on the ground. That wouldn’t fit the planned narrative justifying protests of a systemically racist nation. There is no room for truth in a world where the press is the judge, jury, and executioner. They are the gatekeepers of a subjective truth under which we the citizens are ruled.
But as the collective American media and institutional mind closes, an opportunity for disruption and change of course on the magnitude of the 2016 election, opens. People are hungry for the truth.
I believe most of us can see through the reports of America’s pending doom and are hopeful for a renewed faith in our future beyond pandemics, globalist foes, and economic ruin. We are tired of seeing the daily drumbeat of people like Paul Krugman and Thomas Friedman who root for our nation’s failure. They hope a steady serving of fear will give them power, at the same time using politically charged accusations to end civil conversations contrary to their own hollow assertions.
I’m finished just taking the lies. For too long, I’ve been quiet in my own disbelief of the absolute corruption in the media. When the major media outlets scrutinize the President about offhand remarks regarding Ghislaine Maxwell, I remember the media silence about Amy Robach’s bombshell about the main villain, Jeffrey Epstein. When the major news outlets try to pressure corporations to tow the social justice line, remember they need weak leaders to cave to their demands and hand over advertising dollars to stay afloat. Encourage young, smart, independent-minded kids to pursue careers where truth is objective and history is to be cherished. Object to government-sponsored censorship when communication bills regulating speech and tech startups are up for a vote. The big tech monopolies and mainstream media outlets’ lack of competition is the biggest threat to free speech and the marketplace of ideas. We can – and must- fight back against the triumph of the will that leads down the path of national ruin.
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It’s a simple task, yet for a majority they just cannot do it. Or don’t want to do it.
There are more ratings in stoking a narrative than actually reporting the facts. 9/11 was a special moment, confronted with extreme terror within days the coverage switched from covering the event to managing the response by the American people. While a certain amount of that is socially responsible, it is as easy to create a war with selective narratives as it is to carpet bomb the orange man bad message, but the media echo chamber went completely off the rails with Journolists to sync the narratives and newsreaders competing in the woke olympics on Twitter and Facebook. And, even as they did so, the ratings sank.
The CCP Virus gave them viewers again, so they push a lockdown forever narrative every time people step outside and eat a prepared meal or visit a park, lowering their ratings. California had LEOs chasing surfers to lock them in their rooms with the television on. Can’t have reckless surfers infecting our dolphin buddies. “Protesters” are exempt from lockdown because they crank up the ratings and make a great orange man bad backdrop. De Blasio is putting violent felons back out on the street as fast as he can thinking he can blame Trump for the lawlessness, but there the local coverage is finally calling him on it in pretty harsh terms.
So our Journolist newsreaders are busily shoving us into the lap of the Xi that has murdered over a half million people worldwide with his own personal virus. Telling us to elect our vegetable like good boys and girls. They are vile, corrupt, evil, if they have their way they will make the world safe for Chinese slaveholders while deriding the flag as a symbol of oppression.
In unrelated news, I just dumped a GLoP episode for the first time because they spent the first ten minutes in a visceral anti-Trump screed. Having just discovered that Trump is an undisciplined communicator and it is urgent that we hear them survey the many inadequacies of the bad orange man. TDS is pronounced tedious. Yes, call Trump on his mistakes. But don’t confuse it for interesting or novel, it’s been over four years of spotlight now. The irony of three professional communicators doing it so badly by repeated redundant renunciations of the poster child for communicating badly is rich but empty.
CBS was bought out by Viacom. It is hardly stand alone.
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As far as getting any perspective on any issue that has to do with pharmaceuticals, don’t hold your breath. It seems that every other advertisement on prime time TV and even cable channels happens to be for products from Big Pharma. Why? Consumers don’t watch 90 second long commercials for drugs and medical devices – we channel surf, use elderly TIVO devices to skip the ads or visit the kitchen for snacks.
But those ad revenue dollars represent tens of billions of dollars each quarter, and hold the news stations hostage, which is exactly why the various drug companies pay to have them run 24/7.
One reason that COVID is so hyper inflated is that it will bring a bonanza beyond any executive’s wildest dreams for whatever companies bring forth the COVID vaccine. And for those who don’t get in on that action, the fact that this will most likely be the most rushed into vaccine ever means more people will suffer after being vaxxed, from ailments ranging from migraines, multiple sclerosis, Epstein Barre, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic bowel and stomach problems and who knows what else.
But there are drugs for those conditions, so Ca-ching Ca-ching. That drug ad money pays for itself, in keeping TV news & radio Talking Heads from covering real news stories about the decline in US health care, the risks inherent in vaccines, plus helping scare the populace as a whole into wanting to get vaxxed for COVID.
In a society with a truly reputable Fourth Estate, the public would be marching on the state capitals demanding access to HCQ plus AZ plus zinc, or faviripavir or other remedies. Instead we are at a point that many people have no idea there are any remedies at all for COVID, so they possess a hysterical fear of the disease. Then they make life difficult for anyone who is not wearing a mask or who is not properly behaving according to anti social distancing restrictions.
You mean the bottomless well of media lies?
LOL! That’s hilarious!
I see what you did there.
How could you not when he attached a huge flashing light?
Hey, I waited two days!
Sure, but I know I saw it when you posted it. There was a reason I didn’t comment then. For future reference, you can save this for your proud punster alerts:
Thanks!
Last night I re-watched the Amy Robach interview as presented on Fox. Very decent info, but one of the comments pointed out that while the bottom of the screen scroll showed Amy mentioning how many times Dershowitz had visited the island, a fact proven by plane records, Fox clipped out that part of the interview. As though the audience did not read the scroll!
So all these stations protect their own. It would be nice to have a station where truth was presented but there is always a big slant, one way or the other.