Most of what we consider public life in modern societies is public reactions to things done by the powerful. The New York Times makes up a new hoax and the week is spent on the hoax. The usual suspects swear by the obvious lies and normal people spend days picking apart the lies. Occasionally, we get the reverse where some uncomfortable truth gets loose and the usual suspect go bananas trying to “debunk” it while normal people cling to it as blessed relief.
This is the news cycle in a nutshell. There is very little news. It has been at least a generation since the major news outlets in America have done reporting. Most of it is just stenography. The “journalist” copies what a government spokesbot has sent to them and dresses it up with some commentary. Then there are the narratives that are designed to give the public a way to repeat the official truth that sounds convincing to them and their acquaintances.
The source of this is the “new journalism” that emerged in the 1960’s. The late British reporter Chris Munnion chronicled this in his book Banana Sunday. He spent most of his life covering Africa for the Telegraph. In the 1960’s he noticed Americans showing up with pre-written narratives. They would seek out quotes and pictures to fill out the story they had prepared for the trip. Even if the facts contradicted the narrative, they stuck with the narrative because that was the new journalism.
Narrative journalism is just accepted these days. The “news” has always been a form of passive-aggressive political activism so its evolution into story telling on behalf of powerful interests seems natural. When you think of the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal as propaganda arms of their respective clients in the managerial elite, it all makes sense. Instead of the Ministry of Truth we have the mainstream media “speaking truth to power.”
That last bit gets mocked by normal people on this side of the great divide because they have woken up to the reality of this age. As if often the case, however, there is a kernel of truth locked in this media fabrication. The people inside these disinformation operations genuinely fear the public. When they say “speak truth to power” they mean broadcast their truth to you in the hopes that you will buy it. Modern mass media is mostly a defensive weapon of the elites.
That is why it is worth thinking about what goes on inside these operations and what types of people work there. For example, here is a post in the Washington Examiner from someone calling himself Jaimie McIntyre. The Examiner bills itself as a conservative news outlet, but McIntyre is a far-left conspiracy theorist who has spent most of is career at operations like CNN and NPR. His post is a story comparing the suicidal holdouts in Mariupol to the Alamo.
Now, the “facts” in this tale are supplied by a group called the “Washington-based Institute for the Study of War” which sounds quite serious. When you look them up you find they have a web site and a staff listing. That staff listing is a who’s who of neoconservative warmongers. There is Kimberly Kagan of the infamous Kagan clan and Bill Kristol, the head loon at the Never Trump clan. These are the people responsible for the disaster unfolding in Ukraine.
Jaimie McIntyre is a crack reporter and he has access to the internet, so he surely knows the nature of his primary source. He makes no mention of it as that would have deflated the narrative. In other words, he is lying and he knows he is lying. Most likely the bulk of the narrative was supplied to him by the neocons. They have been pushing this theme since the start of the war. They think Americans will fall for the claim that the Ukrainians are innocent victims of the evil Putin.
In the Washington Post we have another version of the Alamo narrative. This one is authored by a someone named David Stern. The Post identifies him as a journalist based Ukraine. In reality he is most likely an operative of the American foreign policy establishment charged with peddling their narratives in Western media. Note that his copy does not mention that the holdouts are Azov fighters. The Post does not want anyone noticing those guys in the story.
If you scan the Washington Post, what you quickly see is that most of their Ukraine “reporting” relies on operatives from NGO’s and the intel community. They know that the information they are being fed is from partisan sources. That would be fine if they made that clear, but they go out of their way to conceal this truth. Their job is to sell the official lies and they take that job seriously. They are lying and they know they are lying but they keep lying because that is their job.
Of course, a real journalist would be curious about these sources that all seem to say the same things about current events. For example, a story on the “Institute for the Study of War” and who pays their bills would be interesting. It would provide the public with some understanding about who is trying to convince them that nuclear war is the price we must pay to defend Ukraine. Instead, they investigate a popular Twitter account called The Libs of TikTok.
That last bit is another good example of the mendacity of the media. This story was created by the Washington Post. They assigned credit for it to a vulgar dingbat calling herself Taylor Lorenz. This woman is so dumb she could count her boobs twice and get the wrong number both times. The real source was German intelligence who employs a former Twitter employee named Travis Brown. He works for the Protoype Fund, which is funded by the German government.
Again, like the Examiner piece using the “Institute for the Study of War”, the real story her is a foreign government attacking an American citizen. A real news organization would want to know who facilitated this. The Post surely knows that Taylor Lorenz is too stupid to work a phone so she did not call Travis Brown. Of course, that story will never happen because that idea would never cross the minds of the editors. Their job is to sell the official lies and they take that job seriously.
That is the main point of this exercise. At all levels of what is called journalism you will find people who lie with enthusiasm. The selection pressure is all in favor of people who enjoy lying to the public. They like the scheming and the deception. Like all sociopaths, they are shameless about it. Shame requires a soul. As Solzhenitsyn put it, “We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
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The other element of “speaking truth to power” is that each outlet is funded by a different camp, to speak their benefactors’ “truth” to the rest of the Elite. Since the media all end up referencing each other when the week’s thing happens and the narrative forms, teaching the story back to the original article can at least tell you what side of the Elite is pushing the narrative, and give you clues as to why. Hunter’s laptop resurfacing was a loud example of that, and might have kept the Elites it was meant for in line, but we’ll just have to see.
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Just this morning NPR referred to the holdouts in the Maripul steel works as heroic Marines.
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They probably meant sclerotic Mujahideens
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Not exactly FNG (hat tip to Severian): Both the Russians and Ukrainians have “Naval Infantry” units that, much like our branch, people simply call “Marines”.
Our Devil Dogs may not like it, but Marines/Naval Infantry were the armed troopers serving aboard sailing ships to fight off boarding parties before their role expanded as technology and strategies evolved. Heck, even the Brits have a Royal Marines.
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The French,British ,Dutch had marines before the US existed.
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“Again, like the Examiner piece using the “Institute for the Study of War”, the real story her is a foreign government attacking an American citizen.”
The real story is probably the foreign government doing it on behalf of some elements in the US. “You do my dirty jobs and I will do yours”.
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Exactly my thought. What a wicked web we weave.
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True. There is a pattern here. The Russian collusion hoax was farmed out to the Brits and Aussies. The Ukraine impeachment hoax was driven by data from Ukraine. My bet is the people assassinated Seth Rich were foreign operatives. It will not be long before some private security contractor working with MI6 is snatching dissidents off the streets of American cities.
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Foreign operatives or domestic, it’s clear that someone in authority in the US was managing the coverup. From what I understand, the DC cops barely pretended to investigate Rich’s death; not even bothering to track down and interview the people at the bar he’d just left. Someone came up with and promulgated the narrative of “robbery gone bad”, even though nothing was taken; and “the robbers must have been scared off before they could rob him” even though no one reported scaring off any robbers.
And in a way, the obviousness of the coverup makes the message even more dramatic: “See what we can get away with? This is what happens to people who dare to act against us.”
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The United States’ intelligence services farm out domestic spying to the Brits, Aussies, Italians, and others, and the American spooks return the favor and do the dirty work for them inside their borders. The fundamental difference between the Empire and its former Soviet counterpart is the USA pretends to respect human rights although it slaughters innocents with impunity.
I had not considered what Z wrote in response to you but, yeah, MI6 very well may start to assassinate the Regime’s opponents within the boundaries of the United States. We have seen only the outlines, but Blair certainly conned the dullard Bush into the Iraq War, and “Johnson” seems to be doing the same with “Biden” over Ukraine, the point being if millions can be murdered on behalf of your pals for fun and profit, so can single individuals.
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US intelligence agencies are (theoretically) prevented by law from spying on US citizens. But if foreign intelligence agencies do the spying for them— and then choose to share the intel with their American counterparts— US intel gets the info they want, along with plausible deniability: “Nope! Wasn’t us!”
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The British connections to our wars is odd. They always seem to be the most enthusiastic. Maybe it’s empire envy or maybe something else.
Then there’s the dog that didn’t bark. Israel works its magic behind the scenes.
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Israel often is quite overt. AIPAC basically is a war lobby for Our Greatest Ally.
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Poor pacifist Bush dragged into the war by the cunning Blair. Are you not familiar with the foreign policy blob or arms manufacturers or the “Middle East lobby”?
Blair got in the way of the Iraq war roll-out by insisting the basis of it had to be weapons of mass destruction. Bush was for the war before he took office.
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Blair also had encouraged Clinton to do what he eventually got W to do and came close to getting war in Iraq several times earlier. Blair and Clinton did not have the shallow pretext of 9/11, though. Bush probably was for the war before he got into office–he’s dangerous as well as an idiot–but he got nudged and encouraged by Blair as well, and a lot of the WMD bullshit was provided to him by MI6.
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I don’t think the press or the media ever existed to inform. Newspapers to sell ads , radio and tv to sell soap. The rest was was left with those who wanted to mislead and control the narrative. Usually the weather is somewhat accurate along with box scores.
What was someone’s take on the NY Times correction box to fix an error in previous reporting? It was there to make you think the rest is all true and accurate.
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I read somewhere that the post-WW2 years, up until 2015-2016 really, were a strange outlier time in journalism, when the public expected “fair and balanced” reporting and an anchor who was neutral. Maybe this was just an American thing; I dunno. But Boomers and casual newswatchers have a hard time seeing the MSM as a party organ, akin to Pravda or The People’s Daily. When I speak to my lefty associates, they still largely trust the MSM because it’s “sourced”. My news sources, on the other hand, are just some freaks with opinions.
Prior to WW2, the news you read was just expected to be biased, either in favor of one side, or just official regime propaganda. Yellow journalism was the original and best journalism. Thankfully we’re getting back to that.
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True, there were newspapers in many towns with “Democrat” or “Republican” in the paper’s name.
In Chicago it used to be the “Chicago Tribune” was the conservative paper and the “Chicago Sun Times” was the liberal paper. With every J-School grad coming out a screaming lefty who thinks they’re the reincarnation of Woodward or Bernstein, the Tribune is as lefty as “The Reader” (A Far-Left street rag) and the Sun Times is for the “See news. See news run. Run news run.” crowd.
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” when the public expected “fair and balanced” reporting and an anchor who was neutral. Maybe this was just an American thing;”
Thanks for the laugh.
“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”
~~ Katharine Graham, former Washington Post owner, reported in Online Journal, 2/5/04
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This used to be understood at least somewhat by the public. Cities of any size had multiple newspapers and each paper existed to reinforce the beliefs of a certain segment of society. It has always been about pushing an agenda and making money.
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This clip is English (from the series “Yes, Prime Minister”) but it illustrates your point perfectly:
https://youtu.be/DGscoaUWW2M
I like the evaluation of “The Sun” readers.
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I miss the British.
> It has always been about pushing an agenda and making money.
Key differences are that back then the news was biased in favor of a particular constituency, whereas now they are mere mouthpieces for the government. Also the “making money” problem has been fixed due to oligarchs and deep state connections.
tldr; Transitioning from a racket to outright state-owned propaganda is a big distinction.
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“Usually the weather is somewhat accurate … .”
LOL!
Somewhat exactly!
“Later today, we can expect widely scattered accuracy, and our exclusive Somewhat-Accu-weather satellite tells us that we might even see temperatures around one of those numbers on the thermometer outside your kitchen window … .”
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I had quipped on Gab once that no one has ever paid for “news”. Even at the dawn of the printing press the price paid by the schlep on the corner covered some material and logistics costs, but there was usually some moneybags subsidizing (or outright paying for) the content. There for a brief spell papers could use the subscription draw of comics, coupons, sports pages, and, especially, classifieds, to underwrite their news production, and during that time their content was at least OK. However, the Internet killed all that easy revenue off so we’re just left with varying degrees of oligarch sock-puppets.
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All of the fraud in the national news organizations just filters down into local news. Local news operations just cut and paste from national content in order to fill time until the goofy weather person or sports geek anchor has their time slot.
True Journalism and journalists are rare.
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Something like five companies own every local TV affiliate in the country. They get direction from the national companies on what to cover and how to cover it. The local newspaper is the same way, owned by Gannett or another large operator. There is no local journalism.
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And just as the job of Senator and Congresscritter is addicting once you get there— the perks, the prestige, the invites to cocktail parties, the constant egoboost of being the center of attention, the heady feeling of being part of the in-crowd, one of those ‘in the know’, privy to those secrets concealed from the common people— likewise the position of a RegimeStooge Journalist. Prestige and privilege, and a good salary, and all you have to do is write what you’re told. I’m sure it’s easier if you can convince yourself that everything they’re telling you is true.
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And notice how the RegimeStooge media all colluded, ignoring the Hunter laptop scandal, insisting the story was Russian disinformation, until after the election.
Biden insists he’s running next time, but surely the Dems won’t let that happen.
Could the timing of this latest round of ‘revelations’ re: Hunter’s laptop be their means of making sure Biden won’t be the nominee?
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Not just that. I feel the laptop will be the impetus to remove Joe after the election. Watch for who the unelected VP will be.; that’s who is really running the Presidency.
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I hear you; though running Biden at this point would seem to entail a considerable risk.
If he should keep getting worse— which is normally the case for age-related dementia— he becomes an uncontrollable factor. I suspect there are quite a few voters who’d hesitate to return an obviously-demented President to office.
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The usual suspects swear by the obvious lies and normal people spend days picking apart the lies.
“Normal” people don’t indulge in that hobby. Normal people are aware that the overwhelming majority of media presentation has very little, if any, effect on their lives. They’re busy holding a job, raising a family, keeping food on the table and making the payments on the Prius. Most of them couldn’t tell you who represents them in the US House of Representatives.
Those that do indulge in superficial political analysis follow the lead of the media’s coverage of criminality and the sexual peccadilloes of the elected elite. It’s free material for the press, they can entertain without script writers.
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This is a longer version of “I just wanna grill”
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Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
Happier than you and me
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
And it determined what he could see
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
One chromosome, too many
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
And it determined what he could see
And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew
He was a mongoloid, mongoloid
His friends were unaware
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
Nobody even cared
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
One chromosome, too many
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid
And it determined what he could see
And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew
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some playful lads on 4chan doxxed Taylor, and had some fun with a hook-up site she is a member of. hope she has fun with all of her new friends….
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“The New York Times makes up a new hoax and the week is spent on the hoax. The usual suspects swear by the obvious lies and normal people spend days picking apart the lies.”
Not to pile on, but this is exactly what Steve Sailer has done for more than 20 years. Z’s post encapsulates what’s wrong with the HBD crowd, which mirrors many white conservatives.
For more than two decades, Sailer (and whites conservatives in general) have stretched the limited of Excel spreadsheets to show how the MSM is wrong without ever asking 1) whether the MSM actually thinks that what it’s writing is true; and 2) why the MSM writes obvious lies.
How a guy as bright as Sailer has never taken the next steps and started asking why the MSM writes what it does and how we should react is beyond me. Besides just normal curiosity, doesn’t Sailer get bored doing the same thing over and over. It’s as though he chooses to be Sisyphus.
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” … doesn’t Sailer get bored doing the same thing over and over.?
Does he *personally* write *everything* published with his by-line?
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Does SS still have that annoying habit of peremptorily ending his pieces without proper closure? Over on Taki, he seemed unaware of whatever the word limit was, often ending his screeds in mid-thought.
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I don’t think Sailer has a big enough operation to employ ghost writers/interns, and Sailer’s writing quirks are pretty specific to him. Unless you know something….
On the other hand, The John Derbyshire operation was pretty comprehensive back in his Taki days. Why, his assistants Mandy, Brandy and Candy were just the tip of the iceberg of his operation on Taki’s secret private island.
“ Besides just normal curiosity, doesn’t Sailer get bored doing the same thing over and over. It’s as though he chooses to be Sisyphus.”
Unfortunately much of the right-of-center audience loves this tiresome formula and doesn’t ask for more.
They love pointing out “lib hypocrisy”, liberal errors, and being outraged at the latest thing the left is doing.
Rather than a genuine desire to solve problems, much of the right sees politics as some perverse form of entertainment. They love their outrage pornography that never goes anywhere.
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Agree. They get to show how clever they are while doing nothing about the problem.
But in Sailer’s defense, I think he genuinely believes that his logic and facts will win the day. How he believes this after twenty years of abject failure, I don’t know but I think that he does.
I’ve often joked that Sailer’s whole blog is one long plea to David Brooks to tell the usual suspects that they should take their foot off the gas because it’ll be better for them and us.
What Sailer never seems to understand is that the Brooks’ types don’t care what Steve says. Also, Brooks, like so many others, is on his way out. The upcoming generation simply believes that whites are evil. They won’t be swayed by spreadsheets.
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In his not-defense I think it should be noticed that Sailer—like every other “HBD”-branded commentator I can think of—holds his rational non-mainstream opinions very gently, while his establishment-approved attitudes have the same idiot rabidity as any (other) Twitter shitlib.
He gets that they hate us.
He *really* gets it.
> Rather than a genuine desire to solve problems, much of the right sees politics as some perverse form of entertainment.
Politics really is just entertainment. If there is one thing we on the DR have learned, it is that the world runs on raw power and it has always been that way.
There is no “political” solution to our problems. If you really want solutions, you need to look into improving the ethics, morality, and culture of the people, and that is all downstream from our faith and values. This is a multi-generational process that begins with our children and their children. To quote the famous 21st Century philosopher Thomas McDonald: it really is about “leaving better kids for our planet”.
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“There is no “political” solution to our problems. If you really want solutions, you need to…”
That sentence didn’t end the way I think it should have. People don’t change. You can’t “improve the ethics, morality, and culture of the people.” That’s Utopian “build a better man” thinking, just like Marxists. You can only separate out the ones that don’t agree with your ethics, morality and culture.
Methods for that are left as an exercise for the reader.
The partisanship of the press has its roots all the way back to the founding.
Cf. the National Gazette, a rag founded at the urging of Thomas Jefferson in order to counter the influence of the rival Federalist newspaper, the Gazette of the United States. Both papers and their voluminous offspring were, in the main, funded by the rival parties. At least then, as Marko alludes, one knew which side of the spectrum the paper and their editorial policy stood.
Now, of course, with the Uniparty, it makes no difference.
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“The partisanship of the press has its roots all the way back to the founding.”
I used to try to explain this to the old maids (and to the old maids in breeches) who yammer about “civility” in political discourse in general in the press in particular.
I finally gave up.
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The narrative can be a two-way street.
For example, a few weeks ago, a prominent progressive comedian named Bob Saget died unexpectedly in a hotel room in Orlando Florida where he was doing a comedy program. His death was discovered in the early evening during a downtime between shows and his absence was what triggered concern about him. He was later discovered in his hotel room with a blunt force skull fracture running from his forehead to the rear of the cranium. The official police “investigation” ruled that he accidentally fell into his bed’s headboard causing the injury. Except that his bed had a padded headboard and was flush with the wall. Every sane person understood that he was likely banging someone’s wife between shows and an irate husband brought a baseball bat to the reconciliation conference. A similar event happened to another Canadian comedian named Bob Crane over a decade ago.
What is the lesson of this story? When prominent people start keeling over unexpectedly, everyone should blame it on the padded headboards. Please God, send us more guardian headboards.
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I recall the Crane was into the bondage scene. Who knows, but eventually, we all of us must sit down to a banquet of consequences.
Eat up!
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Tom, Crane bought it over 40+ years ago! and he was a full on pervert, sex addict! just ahead of his time, really.
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His death happened coincidentally with comedian Heather MacDonald cracking her skull on-stage after a vaxx clot. Very possible that Saget had a vaxx stroke, fell and hit his head in the bathroom, then went to bed to sleep it off.
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The media has always lied or at least massaged a certain narrative. But prior to the internet, people mostly just read one of the local rags, watched the local news and perhaps one of the national broadcasts. Now, one can read and/or get bombarded by multiple sources all day long – and it’s hyper obvious they all say the same damn thing and it never stops.
The media outlets are populated by NPC drones on steroids who either don’t care about their lying or are to stupid to actually realize they are. Filtering out or outright ignoring the BS is getting to be a full time job for normal people, just in an attempt to maintain sanity. It’s going to be quite the project to clean this nest of termites out.
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usNthem: I’d suggest that their feeling part of the ‘in’ crowd helps explain why the journalists all lie in concert. Many of them grew up in the globalist bubble, almost all of them went to school in it, and now they revel in being part of it – ‘in the know’ they would claim. I saw that same mentality in the Foreign Service – and when we returned to the US and I no longer saw all the government cables, I knew all the journalists were lying but I no longer knew just by how much because I no longer had access to the raw data and original source material.
Think back (if you’re as old as I am!) to the types who all worked on the high school newspaper. Same awkward sperginess combined with presumed intellectual superiority. They had the ‘inside track’ to the school administrators so they understood everything better than the average bear – they were all the heroes of their own stories. Now add in women and their desperate desire for attention (women and mass media is a match made in hell) and you have the modern west.
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“Many of them grew up in the globalist bubble, almost all of them went to school in it, and now they revel in being part of it –”
But they all appear to believe they are actually fighting “power.” In their minds, the whole point of the press is to fight “power.” They give themselves awards for it all the time. They are the least self-aware people in the world.
If you ask them, they were the heroes of the Floyd movement. “Power” murdered him on behalf of the state and then the “good” (powerless) people marched in the street, also fighting “power” and all of the caving done by cities across the nation was all cynically done, hence the need for more agitation. In their own minds, they weren’t helping SJW Democrats do what they already wanted to do, but forcing “power” to make minor reforms which they fought tooth and nail to avoid doing.
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i don’t know about HS kids working on school paper being spergy. mostly they were normal kids who got easy credits, and free film and development for their photography hobby :). plus getting into football games for free…
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“free film”
Man, are you dating yourself. That world is gone, Karl. It’s another country. Another planet.
That’s true: in a generation, we’ve gone from one “reliable” local news outlet, speaking from a perspective shared by most, to a deluge of varying and contradictory assertions, explanations, and interpretations, with no way of judging between them.
In such a situation, tuning-out the noise, moving on to something else, and getting on with your life, may be a healthy brain’s response to undecipherable confusion.
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OT but a sign of the insanity of our elites. Wimbledon is banning players from Russia and Belarus participating in the tournament this year. This includes two of the top ten men and three of the top 20 women.
https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33771570/wimbledon-bar-russian-players-war-ukraine-per-reports
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Maybe they can wear a fancy gold star patch on their clothes. You know, just so we can identify their “Russianness.”
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and they are probably not going to let Djokovic play because he is unvaxxed. will be funny to see how many players they do let in, have to withdraw with medical issues….
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That is going to do for the prestige of Wimbledon what affirmative action has done for the prestige of the Ivy League
It is a shame because grass courts are a great surface, and Wimbledon has such an awesome history. At least I got to go when the place was great tho I think the facilities are getting a bit tired and even somewhat dirty — imo So I guess it is only the Italian and French Open for me next year when I do my Europe thing. First world problems…
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Falcone,
OT, but did you see this story out of Stockton?
https://www.ksby.com/news/california-news/15-year-old-girl-stabbed-to-death-at-a-stockton-high-school
Why is a story about a random 40-something entering a High School and stabbing a 15 year old girl to death at random not a bigger news item?
Is this just more of those norms they keep telling us would occur now that balance in the galaxy has been reestablished with the Biden presidentcy?
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What narrative is furthered by publicizing her death? Gun? No. White supremacist? Obviously not, or we’d know. Police brutality against BIPOCs? Nope. There’s your answer.
Somebody should put together a score sheet letting us know which news outlet represents which faction of Deep State. Is the WaPo the PR wing of the CIA while NYT represents the perma-presidency cabal while the Wall Street Journal represents Wall Street. Of course, they all bow before AIPAC.
It’d be good to know for deciphering the ruling elite tea leaves.
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I’m reminded of the recent incident with a Twitter poster who decided to poke the Hive mind.
“I boarded a plane today with my son and mid flight, the pilot announces that the mask mandate is over. Flight attendants pulled off their masks and sneezed directly into their hands while screaming ‘this is MAGA airspace.’ My son turned to me in tears. I don’t know what to do,” Jared Rabel’s tweet read, which he said was “satire.”
https://nationalfile.com/nyt-reporter-falls-for-twitter-joke-seeks-comment-on-maga-airspace/
A NYT reportette immediately hit him up for a comment in his direct messages, which is either hilarious or a sad statement on the propagandists masquerading as independent journalists. He then lowered the boom on her and I can imagine him guffawing as he sent the reply.
The best thing to do with the propagandists is to follow the advice of Timothy Leary. Turn on, tune in and DROP OUT.
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Very interesting read, as always.
I always start my day with the ruminations and observations of Mr. Z, but I don’t know what I would do if it turns out our host is secretly taking shekels from shadowy oligarchs like George Soros or Col. Sanders.
Or, even worse, that the Havamal guys are some soapy money laundering front for a CIS black-ops group…
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I could be wrong, but wasn’t an empty Havamal soap wrapper found in the gutter near Seth Rich’s body?
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And he was wearing a Minter & Richter ring when found. A spilled cup of Alaska Chaga was beside him on the pavement.
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sponsorship by Applebees is where i draw the line
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And here again, we shouldn’t underestimate the power of self-deception.
A puppet “spokesperson” like Psaki is going to come across as more convincing if she herself believes the lies she’s spreading.
Likewise a RegimeStooge “journalist”: their job is going to be easier if they can convince themselves that— even if some of the “facts” they’re repeating are questionable or obviously false— they’re on the side of the angels.
So self-deception is the first necessry step to being a willing stooge of the regime.
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It’s not so much self-deception as a belief in the larger “truth.” The believe that what they’re doing is for a greater good so it’s easy to just believe in the lies or to accept that the lies are OK to tell because they help the cause.
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I think that’s probably true.
From their perspective, some facts— such as the disproportionate criminality of Blacks— even if true, are potentially dangerous: “They could reinforce harmful racial stereotypes”.
So for “the greater good”, it’s better if they were suppressed.
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Yeah – harmful to whom?
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It’s also framing and bias. Two people can see the same story and the same “facts” and see two completely different things and describe them in such a way that a 3rd party reading about it might not even realize both stories are portraying the same event.
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Right: for each of us, our “confirmation bias” is going to incline us to assume that new events will fit in the categories we already have in our minds.
All our minds work that way, if for no other reason than that it’s more efficient: rather than looking at each incoming fact afresh, our tendency is to put it into a pre-existing category.
So where I see the latest Black-on-White murder as yet another example of the disproportionate violence and thoughless impulsivity of low-IQ Blacks raised in a violent culture, my liberal neighbor will see Black crime as a trickledown effect of slavery: Whitey’s fault.
Same story, two very different ways of explaining it.
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An example of this would be NPR. I’m truly flabbergasted to hear them proudly claiming to be an unbiased news source, giving their listeners all sides of the stories they’re presenting.
That is so obviously untrue!
But they seem to believe it.
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“Jaimie McIntyre is a crack reporter….”
Jaimie McIntyre is a crack-smoking reporter….
There. Fixed it for you.
I think we forget that the “media” was always a corrupt entity. From the times of the Romans, those that rule have always considered controlling the masses with lies to be the first and most important rule of the media. It certainly hasn’t changed in that regard. I know that universities began ethics courses in the 20th century, probably to improve the reputation of journalism, which was viewed as having the integrity of a pimp. From Wikipedia:
“So while various codes may have some differences, most share common elements including the principles of truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness, and public accountability, as these apply to the acquisition of newsworthy information and its subsequent dissemination to the public.”
Notice the “principles” involved. It doesn’t say whether or not the principles were positive or negative. Like the principle of truthfulness. Lies are a principle of truthfulness, and are more important to actual journalism. Notice also that there is a gap between the acquisition of newsworthy information and the dissemination to the public. It needs to be massaged a bit to keep the truth from getting out.
The idea of journalists with integrity is not impossible. There are actual journalists that have some. But these few that do are a very small group and are never allowed to eat from the grift trough, like those that present the approved narratives do. Predicting the future is a crap shoot, so I can only hope that when TSHTF we see large numbers of “journalist wind chimes” hanging from lampposts.
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When the money keeps flowing and all of your creature comforts are satisfied and your life quite luxurious, why be honest? Hasn’t our material wealth and the way we got here, lying and scheming included, shown that the old ways of following a moral code and being honest are now obsolete? If material progress is the ultimate goal of existence, and if morality and honesty are unnecessary to that end and in fact impediments, then get rid of them. Those things went the way of the horse and carriage. We are beyond them.
And this extends to things like blackness and indulging blacks. And worshipping blacks hasn’t stopped our material progress, and they may even be why we were able to get here. Let’s do the math; our getting rich has coincided with our worship of blacks, therefore our worship of blacks makes us rich. Cause and effect!
It is all ass backwards of course, but if you aren’t too bright or logical you can easily see how this conclusion is reached.
But it does stand to reason that when the money stops flowing that all of this goes bye bye. Blacks are suddenly nothing but dead weight. Their limited intelligence and lack of ability to navigate a world of want will prove them to be nothing but dead weight that must be jettisoned. They go from the shiny object of worship to the anchor chained to your leg.
I suppose the upside is that white guys who can figure out how to get by become the objects of desire. The natural order of things reasserts itself. As a great sage we all know often says, the collapse is the cure. A sound defeat of western interests in Ukraine will bring on the collapse.
And why I am rooting for Putin.
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i see a lapel button “Rootin’ for Putin!”
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Been tempted to create a graphic saying “No Russian ever called me deplorable,” possibly using the Russian flag, but I don’t want to deal with the REEEEEEE-ing I’ll hear from half the people I have to deal with in my life.
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The gift shops in Sofia, Bulgaria had some pretty cool Putin T-shirts when I was there for Orthodox Easter a few years ago.
I knew I should’ve picked one up!
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I did not know that about the German organization behind the LibsOfTikTok doxxing. You can never underestimate the mendacity of our media.
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Lorenz probably sleeps with sources as a matter of course.
It would also explain her 7 year long engagement.
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Given Lorenz’s “sources” likely are with NSA’s domestic spying team, she’s little more than a 40’s era French whore sleeping with SS officers. Karl posted earlier that 4Chan has uncovered the nasty slut’s on line “dating” information. That’s classic and hopefully will humiliate some domestic spooks.
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The latest hoax appears to be the delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine from an unknown country.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-has-received-fighter-planes-unnamed-us-ally-pentagon-confirms
I kind of doubt they are flying from Ukrainian airfields. Those would have been Russia’s first targets.
I wonder where they are really flying from. Those would be some very interesting radar tracks.
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Even if they acquire the planes, I imagine Ukrainian fighter pilots are a bit harder to come by.
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We have a dishonest press that is now officially state sponsored media.
The Ukraine Russia war is a prime example. Watch one of the leaders of the Ukraine Azov Battalion surrounded in the Azovstal steel plant now begging for his life.
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULqRN2VSzsE
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How much of the narrative do you think is coordinated, even in fictional media — films, TV shows, etc.?
Last night I watched The Hitman’s Bodyguard which is about a hitman and his bodyguard (duh) attempting to make it to the ICC to testify against the fictional President Dukovic of the real country of Belarus to convict him of war crimes or crimes against humanity or whatever. The fictional president is played by a scenery-chewing Gary Oldman apparently with the stage direction “Be f*cking evil.” The viewer is encouraged to enthusiastically cheer the takedown of the cartoonishly villainous President of Belarus.
The movie was made in 2017. Belarus has had the same President since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko, who is *hated* by the Global American Empire. Lukashenko and Belarus are one of Russia’s staunchest allies. The GAE has been trying to undermine Lukashenko for well over a decade and organized a failed color revolution against him.
Why pick a real country for your fictional villain to rule unless you want him to be an obvious proxy for the real president? What are the odds that the intelligence agencies had a hand in this bit of propaganda?
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Trannie cartoon characters started to be inserted into children’s programming about twenty years ago. In a way, that’s even more insidious. Also, in the You Can’t Make This Shit up department, after the FBI massacre in Waco, NBC rushed out a made-for-TV movie about the real Satan, David Koresh.
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And what are the odds that people seeing this show— who have zero knowledge of the background you describe— will come away from it assuming that they now know something about the real-life ruler of Belarus?
Such that the fiction conveyed by the plot becomes inextricably mixed in their minds with the picture they have of current events there.
So without making any factual claims, the
authors of the show are shaping (and distorting) the way their audience views the real events.
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I always chuckle when I reflect on Belarus and realize it was the freest country on Earth during the height of the coof hysteria.
This is why we have the drumbeat, louder every year, about finding a way to ban anonymous internet posting. Even private websites. As if there’s not a long, long tradition of media anonymity, which includes so many pamphleteers like Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War and in Europe before that.
What’s going on in the media is terrible, but I think they reached their full power in the early 90’s, just before the internet took off. What did people have back then? Obscure news letters? Seminars? The media is dialing the lies to 11 with bullhorns precisely because alternative views are leaking in.
Back in the 80’s and 90’s they could comfortable keep the dial set at 5 or 6 and just not enough people would be exposed to alternative sources to matter. But the longer they keep it dialed to 11, the more people will notice, over a long period of time, that it’s pre-packaged fraud. It was the Evans and Novaks who made the media legitimate, with the Hunt and Shields still chiming in to keep the brainwashing going. Today they have to be much more base. Lost of sluts in pumps everywhere with big mouths, and cheap shouting of jingoism.
Every million new cord cuts is a victory to be celebrated. The hardest nuts to crack, if ever, will be the boomer who needs info slut talking on TV at all hours of the day and night, including when asleep, with the blue glow of the TV lighting up their bedrooms. Having a TV in the bedroom is like eating a meal on the toilet.
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