One of the first things I learned the hard way when I launched full-time into my citizen journalist career was that most of the top people in the Mainstream New Media are…FAKING IT.
They don’t take time to actually go READ court filings or rulings or other things before going on camera or publishing a think piece where they manage to get multiple basic facts wrong.
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Back in the day covering SpyGate in 2017, I was at first amazed and then fascinated by how reporters and journalists, who were supposedly the cream of the crop, rising to the big chairs in the national news networks, the major newspapers, magazines and websites managed to literally end up babbling the dumbest crap imaginable because it was clear they didn’t understand how anything actually worked, and they had bothered to take the time to read the relevant documents before going on the air or hitting the ‘publish’ button.
Some of this was just sheer laziness, of course. But as the years have rolled by, it’s become clear to me these are actually propaganda outlets with the job of pushing narratives into the public consciousness.
So it doesn’t really matter how events really unfolded, or what some US Attorney or a Special Counsel said in a filing/final report, or what a judge actually ruled in a case. Why waste time actually reading stuff when you **already know** what NARRATIVE your bosses want to see put out for the audience?
So I’ve watched for going on 10 years at this point just how good the Fake News industry is at taking real events, omitting whatever is inconvenient to their precious narrative, and shoehorning what remains into the ‘narrative sausage machine’ and then feeding it to the public.
It’s not pretty watching how this works, and once I’d seen it, I couldn’t unsee it.
Recent events with the long-awaited release of the Special Counsel Robert Hur audiotaped interview with President* Joe Biden about his classified documents felonies, as well as the recent SCOTUS decision on Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport MS-13 and Tren De Aragua gang members from the United States have once again brought to the surface how nobody seems to know how anything actually works, and nobody is reading source documents.
SO I DID A VIDEO.
It’s up there at the top of the page. I would encourage you to watch all of it.
Moving forward as we establish the rise of a NEW MEDIA to replace the Old Guard Media as it collapses under the weight of it’s own lies, we need to focus on the recent trend of ‘social media influencers’ on the internet and how it’s negatively affecting the flow of accurate and truthful information.
Social media, especially when it comes to getting relevant and timely news about what’s going on in the world, can be a huge blessing.
However, it can turn into a huge curse if what almost always ends up going viral are hot takes by the ill or mis-informed driving clickbait to build brands and monetize hot takes that manage to constantly raise the visibility of false stories and fake narratives.
It was bad enough when we were getting it from the Fake News Media Matrix. Is it any better a situation if we allow ourselves to be constantly influenced and outraged by by a slew of ‘social media influencers’ who are winging it, not reading anything, not researching anything, and who are just making it up as they go along?
Let me know what you think in the comments!
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