Media Corruption
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Democrats' Push for State-Run Media Would Make Even Pravda Blush
The state of journalism in America is, to put it bluntly, bad.
Catastrophically bad. The mass layoffs continue in what outlet Axios described as a 'bloodbath' as media outlets cut budgets and shutter their doors.
Why? Trust in American media has plummeted to historic lows: only 32% report having trust in the media while 39% have no trust in the media at all. So Americans aren't reading the news because they don't trust the news. Which impacts advertising and revenue and the bottom line. If you don't make money, you go out of business. That's the economy reality.
And why has trust plummeted? Because the media are more concerned with being the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, and attacking opponents under the guise of 'misinformation' (which is really code for 'news and info we don't like). They don't hide their biases. Media rooms are overwhelmingly left-wing and Democrat.
People see this -- it clouds their coverage and reporting, which reads like editorials 95% of the time anyway.
Democrats’ welfare for journalists brings us closer to state-run media
More from The Washington Times:
This will be so much worse than Russia.
For the Left, the end goal is simple and clear: complete, unadulterated, unchallenged power.
Insane Leftists Frame Family Formation As Sinister Right-Wing Conspiracy
De Valle went on to suggest that the motives behind natalism seemed more political than practical.
“As the speakers chart their roadmaps for raising birth rates, it becomes evident that for the most dedicated of them, the mission is to build an army of like-minded people, starting with their own children, who will reject a whole host of changes wrought by liberal democracy and who, perhaps one day, will amount to a population large enough to effect more lasting change,” she wrote. “This conference suggests there’s a simple way around the problem of majority rule: breeding a new majority — one that looks and sounds just like them.”
She went on to suggest that there were ties to white nationalism and those who were afraid that the demographics would continue to shift toward a more diverse population.
“When I’m talking about nonviolent, I’m talking about you do have the right to take over the administration building,” Moore said,
“You have to take over buildings,” he added. “That is not violence.”
“I hope it continues,” Moore continued. “I applaud every student who has taken a stand at their campus, at graduation, whatever. This is the purpose of a democracy.”
He then blasted Mayor Eric Adams (D-NY) who he said had called out “outside agitators” to stop rising tensions on the Columbia University campus, where hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors have been arrested.
“You have to take over buildings,” he added. “That is not violence.”
“I hope it continues,” Moore continued. “I applaud every student who has taken a stand at their campus, at graduation, whatever. This is the purpose of a democracy.”
He then blasted Mayor Eric Adams (D-NY) who he said had called out “outside agitators” to stop rising tensions on the Columbia University campus, where hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors have been arrested.
Politico ran a deeply introspective, long-form, magazine-style story yesterday headlined, “The Collapse of the News Industry Is Taking Its Soul Down With It.” It got so close to the truth. But fortunately it avoided an unhappy accident with accuracy and vomited up a gigantic, self-pitying missive instead.
The Good Old Days of Non-Diverse, Swaggering Journalism
Weirdly framing the news industry’s controlled demolition as a loss of “swagger,” whatever that is, the article correctly observed the exodus of good reporters from corporate media to Substack. But instead of correctly identifying the real reason for the various departures — mostly they were facing cancellation for refusing to constantly agree with false government narratives — Politico instead diagnosed the problem as veteran reporters, used to wielding their toxic masculinity whenever they wanted, now being unable to “swagger” around soy-drenched, emasculated corporate newsrooms.
I am not making that up.
Here’s the closest the article got to explaining what in the devil it was talking about:
The only direct, non-psychological problem cited in the article was an alleged increasing fear of civil lawsuits filed by the targets of media’s hard-hitting investigative journalism. But — fake news alert — the story only cited a single problematic case: Hulk Hogan’s successful defamation case against tabloid Gawker for running a private sex tape. How Hogan’s case suppressed the rest of corporate media remains anybody’s guess; the article didn’t clearly say. Nor did it quote any of the veteran reporters, now self-employed, as themselves claiming fear of lawsuits was the reason they fled their newsrooms for more lucrative Substack gigs.
The article often exhibited tiny flashes of inspiration. In one brief nod to what is really going on, Politico quietly observed that “the public appears to hate them too, according to polls that claim they’re not trustworthy.” But, how did that loss of trust happen? Politico doesn’t say, except to wail about the trend, and to blame that all-powerful bogeyman, Trump:
Some people think corporate media journalists deserve to experience ridicule. Some people who are writing this commentary and ridiculing Politico right now, as one example.
Other times the political magazine showed an astonishing lack of self awareness. According to Politico, other unintentionally hilarious supposed causes of media decline included its fear of offending people:
Fear of causing anyone offense? How about, see, e.g., the Times’ Kennedy brain-worm headline, at the top of today’s post. Please.
Nor would Politico have had to expend any effort to check in on the democrat journalists who ran away from their corporate media gigs and are now working on Substack and X. For instance, award-winning journalist Michael Shellenberger is currently under investigation and facing potential criminal charges for posting true emails from Brazil’s Supreme Court that he got from a whistleblower. As recently as yesterday, Shellenberger posted this on Twitter/X:
Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) on X.
That’s one. Or Politico could have asked the subject of the very first example that started the whole trend, New York Times’ liberal, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and author Alex Berenson, who escaped to Substack after being blacklisted for questioning the covid narrative. Politico might also have asked Seymour Hersh for a comment. But no.
Of course, I’m not a media expert. I’m only a lawyer. Maybe there’s a good reason for why not ask the very people you are using as examples. After all, who cares what they think?
Maybe — and I’m just spitballing here — maybe these top journalists have not so much fled their corporate media jobs for “more lucrative” independent work. Maybe the truth is closer to their having been pushed out of their corporate media jobs for doing real journalism. Maybe the news industry is collapsing, taking its soul down with it, because of its slavish devotion to its deep state narrative masters.
Lie down with spooks, get up with soulless collapse.
Politico, you are so close. Keep working on it. You’ll get there.
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How about another 2024 history-making statistic? And we think we had it bad. In January, Vox ran an eye-watering story headlined, “2024 is the biggest global election year in history. “The stakes for 2024’s democratic contests,” Vox dramatically informed readers, “will be enormous — not just for the countries going to the polls, but for the world as a whole.”
To Vox, the stakes could not possibly be any higher. Globalism — oops, I mean global democracy hangs by a thin thread. The ultra-liberal paper quoted fretful Nobel Peace Prize laureate and investigative journalist Maria Ressa, who warned Politico in the strongest possible terms, “We will know whether democracy lives or dies by the end of 2024.”
My goodness.
Maria is anxious because 2024 is the biggest election year in history. Over 60 countries representing half the world’s population — 4 billion people — head to the polls in 2024, voting in presidential, legislative, and local elections. Far beyond our own Trump-Biden redux, the panoply of global politics ranges from the massive — India’s multi-day legislative elections (the largest in the world) and Indonesia’s presidential poll (the world’s biggest single-day vote) — to tiny North Macedonia’s presidential election.
Some contests are already in the can or have been scratched at the post. Russia’s already occurred — Putin was roundly re-elected — and Ukraine’s elections have apparently been cancelled.
Iceland, North Korea, South Africa, Mexico, Taiwan, the EU Parliament, and more all feature controversial, high-stakes elections this year. Well, maybe North Korea’s isn’t so high-stakes. But you get the idea. To fully appreciate the historicity of this bellwether year, as recently as 1800, there were zero modern democracies. At that time, fewer than 4% of countries even counted as “electoral autocracies” — meaning any kind of elections existed only in that scrappy four percent.
So let us avoid thinking that our election is the biggest news in the world during this zany, unprecedented, off-the-charts annus whateveritisus.
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He describes the porn performer whose claim to fame is having often violent sex with an untold number of men and women as if she’s some sort of Goddess-like saint from another galaxy—so pure, so virtuous, someone we should look up to and emulate. He delivers his sermon in quiet, dramatic tones as if he’s witnessed a profound miracle that has affected him deep within his soul.
His words, however, read like bad poetry written by a middle-school Taylor Swift wannabe. Softcore porn authors like Sunny Hostin and Stacey Abrams might eat this stuff up, but it isn’t exactly Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” O'Donnell sounds rather, ahem, Jeffrey Toobin-level excited himself as he describes the entrance of the all-important porn person in the courtroom:
Unlike most of the "other moms" O'Donnell refers to, a restraining order was granted against Stormy in 2018 which was filed by her ex-husband—another porn person—who feared for the child's safety as the "actress" wanted to bring the kid on the road with other adult performers and producers. Class acts, the lot of them.
