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The fall of the mainstream
media and the biggest lies they told in 2021
If 2020 and 2021 have confirmed anything, it is that the
mainstream media is thoroughly dishonest. Most people suspected this already,
but the past couple of years proved beyond a doubt that those suspicions were
correct.
More specifically, 2021 has made it clear that the mainstream
media is a propaganda arm of political and corporate elitists.
While there have been a few shining examples of independent and
mostly unbiased journalism in the MSM, these moments are as rare as Loch Ness
Monster sightings... and are almost as unbelievable. The public has been lied
to so consistently that sometimes we ignore legitimate journalism when it pops
up because it's safer to assume the media is disingenuous at all times.
I've noticed that there's been a wash of commercials lately paid
for by major legacy media platforms like The New York Times desperately trying
to convince the masses that they are still relevant. The messaging is
essentially that they are the only "true source" of news information
in a desperate bid to beg people to start subscribing and reading their hot
garbage once again. Leftist media is crumbling, with online propaganda peddlers
and clickbait prostitutes like Buzzfeed and Vox imploding from lack of
outside investment. The lack of profits is obvious, and the layoffs
have been aggressive.
These platforms survived for the past few years on tech media hype
and initial startup capital, but the free money has run out and now they don't
know what to do. Buzzfeed's scheme was to go public and sell shares, but this
plan failed so completely, and the company's stock plunged so hard that the
event has exposed all other fledgling tech media to wider scrutiny. In other
words, no one has faith in these outlets, at least not enough to invest in
them, and now the veil of their supposed "success" has been
lifted. Buzzfeed used to claim they
were worth $1.5 billion; reality revealed they are worth almost nothing.
Legacy media has seen its audience numbers plummet over the past
10 years, but the last year, in particular, has been especially unkind to
them. All of
the major corporate news channels saw their audience ratings decline in the
past year, with CNN seeing the largest drop overall. CNN saw
an epic decline of 68 percent in its primetime numbers in 2021, while MSNBC now has
the smallest prime-time audience it has seen since 2016. Fox also dealt with
audience declines but continues to remain the most-watched cable news outlet by
far.
Some might blame the loss of election coverage, but it's not as if
there hasn't been enough news to hype in 2021. With millions of people still
working from home and facing intermittent COVID restrictions this year (in blue
states), you would think that this would represent a captive audience for the
fear machine. Hell, even YouTube and other social media are forcing MSM content
into our faces daily. Yet, their numbers are still plunging, and now YouTube
has removed the "Dislike" button just to protect corporate media and
the White House from the hilarious bombardment of thumbs-down they receive on
every video.
So, where are people turning for their news if not the mainstream?
While stats are not as well-tracked for independent sources, it is obvious from
viewership and subscription numbers that alternative media is quickly becoming
the dominant force in information. My own audience numbers have jumped at least
30 percent in the past two years alone, and this seems to be the trend across
the board for conservative and libertarian media. Websites like Social Blade
which tracks YouTube channel stats support the conclusion that the alternative
media is becoming the go-to media.
Why is this happening? It's actually been a long time coming.
Mainstream media numbers have been in decline for many years and their audience
age brackets have been increasing dramatically. This accelerated after 2016
when the mainstream media mask came off completely and what we now know as the
"Culture War" revealed itself. For example, the migration of
audiences is undeniable in entertainment and pop culture media.
Mainstream platforms funded by a steady cash flow from the
corporate coffers of Disney, Time Warner, Comcast, Viacom, etc, used to reign
supreme in entertainment publications. Moderately sized tech media operations
clamored to remain in the good graces of these corporations in exchange for
favors and special access. Now, operations with billions of dollars behind them
are being thwarted by low-cost do-it-yourself YouTube channels like Geeks And
Gamers, The Quartering, Nerdrotic, Clownfish TV, etc. The bloodletting has been
so horrific that social media companies (with a shared agenda) have partnered
with the majors to suppress these types of channels, demonetizing them or
blocking some of them completely.
Alternative channels get so much attention because they offer
something people want... an honest opinion and analysis, instead of an opinion
bought and paid for with corporate advertising dollars.
In the political and social sphere, there have been numerous
success stories, including Joe Rogan's podcast, Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro,
Blaze TV's You Are
Here, Tim Pool the list goes on and on. In economic media, outlets
like Zero Hedge continue to bring in millions of readers that most other
mainstream institutions wish they
had.
To be sure, some of these information sources are still playing
catch-up to those of us once considered "conspiracy theorists" a
couple of decades ago. That's OK. I have been working and publishing within the
alternative media for 16 years now, and I don't think many who are new to the field
realize how much Americans have broken free from the mainstream narrative in
that time. At the time I got started, to even dream of the audience numbers we
now have was considered foolish, and I continue to find great hope in the
growth of independent journalism overall.
The fact of the matter is, for decades corporate institutions
conned the masses into believing only they were qualified to act as gatekeepers
and guardians of the information bottleneck. Only they were the true
"journalists." They have now lost the respect of the public and their
gatekeeping is over. And on that note, let’s examine just a few of the reasons
why trust in the mainstream has imploded. Let’s look at some of the biggest
lies perpetuated by the MSM in 2021...
The Jan. 6 "Insurrection"
Probably one of the fakest news stories of the decade. The
mainstream media has relentlessly parroted the propaganda that the conservative
protest on Jan. 6 was some kind of planned attempt at a national takeover and
violent coup resulting in multiple deaths. The reality was much less sexy.
First, the FBI
has been forced to admit there is little evidence supporting the claim that the
protest was an organized coup. And when an institution that is extremely hostile to patriots
admits this, you know the government has nothing.
Not a single death originally attributed to the Jan. 6 protesters
was actually caused by them, so that tall tale has been tossed in the memory
hole. While there was some violence and an unarmed protester was shot and
killed by police (Ashli Babbitt), the result of the event was nothing close to
an insurrection. Protesters walked in, milled around for a little while, some
people took some souvenirs, and then everyone left. It can barely be considered
a "riot." Compare this to the BLM riots across the country which
resulted in multiple actual killings by people directly participating, not to
mention billions of dollars in property damage. The media called these riots
"peaceful protests" while attacking the Jan. 6 participants as
monsters.
Out of 7,750 protests
last summer associated with BLM and Antifa, 570 turned into violent
riots that killed 25 people and caused $1- $2 billion of property damage-Yet
our DOJ & Congress is AWOL-Jan 6th panel are obviously left wing
biased jerk offs & need to be disbanded…
When conservatives protest something at least we go to the source
instead of burning down the homes and businesses of innocent people. And I want
to explain something else to leftists because I don't think they get it. When
you do see a conservative "insurrection" (rebellion against
centralized tyranny), they will not be unarmed like we were on Jan. 6, and they
will not stop until all corrupt elements of the establishment are removed from
power. If you were hiding under your beds over the events of Jan. 6, you really
have no clue.
The Texas Power Grid Failure
Wow, what a politically charged mess the coverage of this event
was. Multiple people die from a freak winter storm hitting Texas and taking
down parts of their independent power grid and the first thing the mainstream
media does is write stories about how this "proves they could never
secede." These people are obsessed with centralization to the point that
they lose their minds if you generate your own electricity.
Paul Krugman, a notorious propagandist for the establishment, went
on a tirade in The New York Times dismissing any and all evidence that federally funded Wind
Turbine failures led to the Texas power grid crisis. The facts on this are
buried to this day.
The numbers prove Paul Krugman and the MSM utterly wrong. The Mises
Institute published a comprehensive article on this based on analysis from the
Institute for Energy Research, but I'll summarize:
The MSM and Paul Krugman argued that the entire incident was
caused by Texas' ill-prepared natural gas-powered grid and that Wind Turbines
had nothing to do with it. By extension, the MSM asserted that this makes any
notion of a state like Texas becoming independent from centralized governance
and a centralized grid "laughable." It's important to note that
Krugman offers no real stats to support his arguments. An "economist"
should know better.
The truth is that failing wind turbines were indeed the primary
source of the grid decline. Leading up to the winter storm in February, wind
turbines were generating around 28 percent of Texas power while natural gas was
providing 43 percent. By the end of the freeze, wind power had dropped to 6
percent while natural gas took up the slack and increased to 65 percent of the
grid. In other words, Krugman either lied, or he was oblivious to the actual
stats; while there were failures in some natural gas plants, the majority of
the fault was in federally funded wind power. During
the grid down crisis, natural gas lost 7 percent of its overall output while
the federally funded wind turbines lost 47 percent output. THIS IS A FACT.
Also keep in mind that power demand in the state skyrocketed at
this time breaking all previous records, perhaps because over a million people
had just transplanted to Texas in a matter of months. And here is where we find
what is likely the core motive behind the media's lies about Texas. The
establishment does not want Americans to migrate and congregate to fight
against the mandates.
Texas is a top region where liberty-minded people are relocating,
so it makes sense that the media would try to turn a tragedy caused by federal
green energy incentives into an attack on a state they see as a bastion of hope
against medical tyranny.
Fauci's Gain of Function Research
Anthony Fauci is perhaps the highest-paid liar in recent history,
but his lies go beyond simply acting as a spin doctor for the government. The
COVID pandemic has luckily resulted in a very low average Infection Fatality
Rate (only 0.27 percent), meaning, over 99.7 percent of the population at any
given time have very little to worry about from the virus. With the mild
Omicron variant now in circulation, the death numbers are falling even further.
However, there have been fatalities that did not need to happen, and Fauci is
partly to blame.
Despite the fact that the largest Level 4 virology lab in Asia is
in Wuhan, China, right down the street from the epicenter of the COVID-19
outbreak, the mainstream media at the behest of the government and the medical
establishment has fought tooth and nail to deny any connection. If this was a
murder investigation, it would be like a detective walking in a room to find a
dead body and a guy with a bloody knife and then buying the suspect ice cream
and sending him on his merry way. If you didn't witness the actual stabbing,
why investigate further?
Why were the U.S. government and the media so adamant about
ignoring the obvious? Maybe because government agencies like the NIAD and NIH
under the direction of Anthony Fauci were involved in funding clandestine
"Gain of Function" research of coronaviruses at that very lab in
Wuhan. This would explain why the
initial strain of COVID that spread around the world was a 96 percent match to
samples held at the lab for at least seven years. The other 4 percent
could be attributed to genetic manipulation through gain of function.
Fauci denied any involvement in gain of function research, which
is predominantly used for the weaponization of a virus or other microorganisms.
The media violently defended him and accused anyone critical of Fauci of being
crackpot conspiracy theorists. Well, it turns out he was lying again. The
release of over 900 documents related to coronavirus research funded by the
U.S. government in Wuhan proves the media either blindly defended Fauci without
looking at the evidence or that they share the same agenda.
"Transitory" Stagflation
Mainstream media denial of U.S. inflation has been commonplace for
some time. Now, they can't hide it anymore. With
price inflation hitting 40-year highs (according to official numbers), the pocketbook of the
average American is now taking a massive hit, and it’s only going to get worse
from here on.
The media appears to be specifically invested in hiding real
economic data from the public and protecting the Federal Reserve and central
banking practices in general. I won't get into my theories on why this is the
case, I'll only say that an unprepared populace is an easy to control populace
when an economic crash occurs.
COVID Keeping Audiences from The Movie Theaters?
The movie industry was on the decline well before the covid
pandemic happened, and it is undeniable that this was largely due to the
extreme leftist propaganda implanted into Hollywood films since 2016. Yes, it
was bad before then, but nowhere near as bad as it has become in the past five
years. Hollywood calls this politicization of films "inclusivity,"
but having more black and brown people in films is not the issue. Rather, it is
the injection of leftist woke ideology and cultism into everything from films
to TV series to commercials.
The culture war is very real, and sadly, the biggest mistake of conservatives was to
mostly ignore that fight in popular entertainment until recently. There is
hope, however, and it is found in the mantra of "Get Woke Go Broke!"
Audiences are voting with their wallets and the consensus is that they do not
want woke politics poisoning their entertainment. For the past couple of years,
leftists in the media have said that the crash in theater profits has been
caused by public fear over covid. This excuse was recently destroyed by the
latest Spiderman film, which has no woke politics and had audiences coming to
theaters by the millions. The film made over $1 billion in five days.
Clearly, COVID is not a factor at all, but if you look at almost
every failed movie this past year there is a thread that connects them... woke
propaganda. No one wants it, no one likes it. The media has no other means of
denying it any longer.
There are many other lies I did not get a chance to cover here,
but I think you get the picture. Who knows what the next year will bring in
terms of spin from our media gatekeepers? At least, for now, the alternative
media has stepped up to fill the void and bring facts where there was once only
deception. In order to get rid of the truth, they will have to get rid of us.
Otherwise, the free market has spoken.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
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