patrick.net

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/blame-legacy-media-not-facebook-disinformation/

Now, a whistleblower has landed on the scene, buoyed by a powerful Democratic PR firm led by former Obama alum Bill Burton. A wave of media attention has crested that’s meant to once again put Facebook in the regulatory crosshairs and demand more censorship from what’s deemed to be dangerous and influential ‘misinformation’. Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan has even called for a new government agency to oversee how information on Facebook is shared and disseminated.

Of course, those like Sullivan want the public at large to believe that they are journalistic warriors interested only in truth and accuracy. That is false. Facebook, as it pertains to traditional legacy news outlets like the Washington Post and CNN, is a competitor, nothing more. And every hit piece they run against the social media giant should be viewed through that lens.

The legacy media views Facebook as having stolen their audience away from them. They think doing away with user-based news feeds and content sharing will put the flow of information back into their hands, where it belongs. They have so far been successful at pressuring social media platforms like Jack Dorsey’s Twitter into complying with their demands. Facebook, however, has stood up to their counter-narrative and arguments for censorship, and must therefore be dealt with.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding as to the nature of Facebook and where it derives its power from. Facebook’s power comes from its user base — almost three billion people worldwide. Whereas CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post draw their power from advertisers and corporate influence. This was the main reason that audiences fled these outlets to begin with. The legacy media’s stubborn refusal to look inward at their own industry is another reason why viewers and subscribers have abandoned them.

There is no clearer example of this dynamic than the events that transpired in Del Rio, Texas, on the southern border just last week. Journalists spread the falsehood that border agents used whips to deter migrants from crossing into the country. This ‘story’ made it all the way to the White House press briefing room and even to the President himself. It triggered a supposed investigation into the Department of Homeland Security, while the agents seen in the photographs and on video were reassigned.

The photographer later said on record that no whipping of migrants had occurred. Video footage showed no such thing. It didn’t matter. Few news outlets issued corrections, apologized for spreading misinformation, and promised to do better. No congressional hearings will be held into how this dangerous misinformation spread. No blue check-verified journalist on Twitter will be held accountable for his role in spreading the false story. There will be no calls for government oversight of the New York Times to prevent such misinformation from spreading.

Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
4h
The real problem here is the damn press and the internet giants. The press and these tech players act to manufacture and reinforce "consensus" around selected and approved narratives. And then this is being weaponized to attack dissenters including highly qualified physicians.

https://www.brighteon.com/c9459663-6baf-4f01-ab29-765d2fe7d078

Can We Really Trust Vaccine Fact Checkers?

Maybe this was posted before, but it's good.

After weeks of explaining there was no Fake White House set, Factcheckers grudgingly admit it's a set, but it's only on the other side of the White House, which somehow makes it more ... explicable?

https://nypost.com/2021/10/07/president-biden-mocked-over-fake-white-house-set/

How can we tell where it really is? I don't think we can.

I think Steven Miller and Peter Navarro have said they've been in the room many times, it's a building next to the White House.

The rumor is that the WH is basically run by Klain, Jarrett, and Obama (remotely by consultation), and Biden is pretty much exiled out of the building.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-massive-correction-covid-hospitalizations-children

The New York Times issued a massive correction Thursday after the liberal newspaper severely misreported the number of COVID hospitalities among children in the United States by more than 800,000.

A report headlined "A New Vaccine Strategy for Children: Just One Dose, for Now," by science and health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli, was peppered with errors before major changes were made to the story. The Times initially reported "nearly 900,000 children have been hospitalized" with COVID since the pandemic began, when the factual data in the now-corrected version is that "more than 63,000 children were hospitalized with Covid-19 from August 2020 to October 2021."

So now we have Fox News kicking the NYT's pants with the truth.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Zinovyev

A western citizen is being brainwashed much more than a soviet citizen ever was during the era of communist propaganda. In ideology, the main thing is not the ideas, but rather the mechanisms of their distribution. The might of the Western media, for example, is incomparably greater than that of the propaganda mechanisms of the Vatican when it was at the zenith of its power. And it is not only the cinema, literature, philosophy – all the levers of influence and mechanisms used in the promulgation of culture, in its broadest sense, work in this direction. At the slightest impulse all who work in this area respond with such consistency that it is hard not to think that all orders come from a single source of power.
As quoted in Alexander Zinoviev on Stalin and the dissolution of the USSR

And this from a guy who died in 2006.

https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bee-presents-the-official-mainstream-media-translator

16 Common Phrases In The News And What They Actually Mean

As everyone knows, the news media knows what's best for us and they always tell the truth. The only problem is that they use really big and complicated words that we simple folk just don't understand. How will you ever keep up? Well, don't worry! We prepared this special translation guide just for you, so the next time you're watching the news you'll be able to follow along!

1) "Debunked conspiracy theory" = a completely factual event that is 100% true and we don't like it

2) "This is dangerous misinformation" = we don't really agree with it but people are still sharing it

3) "Farm animal bacterial infection treatment" = penicillin

4) "Conservative panelist" = guy who once voted for Ronald Reagan, possibly by mistake

5) "Super-spreader event" = gatherings of people we don't like

6) "This is the end of democracy" = Trump said a thing

7) "Settled science" = a non-reviewed study by a possibly fictitious organization that just came out this morning

8) "Widespread outrage" = 3 people on Twitter got mad

9) "Racist statements" = literally means nothing

10) "Informal gathering of like-minded people that fosters a sense of camaraderie and community among friends and neighbors" = bread lines

11) "Zero" = anywhere from zero to several trillion

12) "Republicans pounce" = uh oh... a Democrat raped someone

13) "Mostly peaceful" = it was hyper-violent but we agree with it

14) "Racist dog whistle" = a super-secret whistle that only racists can hear and only we heard it

15) "Anonymous sources" = we totally made this up

16) "This is an apple" = this is a banana

https://notthebee.com/article/wapo-bread-lines-arent-so-bad

WaPo: Bread Lines Aren't So Bad, Puny Citizens 🤡

Joel Abbott

Oct 19th, 2021 1:56 pm
What the heck kind of article is this?

Patrick says

16 Common Phrases In The News And What They Actually Mean

Brilliant List.

17) "White Fragility" - Doomed Sinners without the Grace of POC who deny their Original Whiteness Sin of Racism.

https://notthebee.com/article/they-arent-even-trying-to-hide-it-anymore

Yes, they're out and bold, and that's a good thing.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/whipping-up-a-crisis-border/

The wall between journalism and activism is badly corroded. Increasingly, journalists — particularly younger ones — see themselves as serving an ideological mission. I often think back to a late-2020 New York magazine article by Reeves Wiedeman about how this conflict has played out within the Times. During the paper’s internal brouhaha over a controversial op-ed piece the talented journalist and commentator Liz Bruenig uploaded a PDF of a John Rawls essay and argued to her colleagues in an online staff forum that it raised philosophically difficult questions about liberalism that require serious thought.

‘Philosophy schmosiphy,’ responded a researcher, whose avatar was the logo for the hamburger chain Jack in the Box. ‘We’re at a barricades moment in our history. You decide: which side are you on?’ Bruenig was subsequently poached by the Atlantic. I have no inside knowledge but I suspect there is a connection between this moment and her departure.

I can’t say for sure why The Daily botched the whip issue. I can say that ‘which side are you on?’ thinking is endemic in journalism right now, and it rears its head most perniciously when the ideological stakes are high. ‘Are we going to include that whipping thing because everyone says it’s true, or are we going to fact-check it?’

Who wants to be seen, in a business dominated by liberals, as the journalist who doesn’t take racism seriously, and ‘downplays’ the horror that everyone thinks they’ve seen? I’d offer a different version of Mr Jack in the Box’s Manichaean choice: are you an activist or a journalist? Which side are you on?

Bill Who?

Some "journalists" these days actually are robots:

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-herald-robot-writes-real-estate-stories-13219683

LOL!!!

Patrick says

Some "journalists" these days actually are robots:

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-herald-robot-writes-real-estate-stories-13219683

Haha, good luck trying to feed in false information to an AI and expect it to work properly. It doesn't matter much anyhow, nobody reads papers.

Patrick says

Some "journalists" these days actually are robots:

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-herald-robot-writes-real-estate-stories-13219683

There are some APIs available to generate and publish articles on any topic in real time. I know someone who did it for some time. It looks like a real news paper and showed up at google news but far below the stack. All are generated including journalist pictures, names and content. The content generator needs some hints like sample content and bias etc. Its hard to believe the look and feel like any other major "news" paper.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

Bill Who?

I'm so goddamned happy to have lived long enough to see republicans hate Bill Kristol. He is such a terrible person. Neocons are so awful.

I just hated seeing any human being defending the Neocons 15 years ago. Then I was like "these people are stupid not to see how evil these people are" but today I'm just freaking happy people can see what I have been able to see for so long. They are just terrible people.

I view them in the same way as most "conservatives" would have viewed somebody to the FAR LEFT of Bernie Sanders.

CBS has been a leftist company... it will not change. They are deep into the swamp, and are stuck into the shit that has settled to the bottom. even if you drained the swamp, you will still see CBS in it like a beached whale.

It's great seeing THE "Conservative" Columnist Rubin with only less than half again the followers of Kurt Schlichter

Compare the relative exposure of the two. Rubin is on MSM fairly often; Kurt never. Rubin is in a "Paper of Record", WaPo, as a regular columnist; Schlichter writes for far smaller TownHall.

I'd bet at around 2/3 of Rubin's "Followers" are probably Bots and Paid South Asians, but almost all of Schlichter's are Genuine.

This goes back to the disappearance of commentary on most News Sites starting around 2014-2015. They want to disappear the True Consensus, and create a Fake Consensus.

They don't want to run articles on Transkids on Yahoo! or the Guardian and have 80-90% of the comments be negative, talking about child abuse, Munchausen's Disease, and Trans Empire.

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/we-have-entered-the-substack-era

We have entered the Substack era

Toby Rogers
21 hr ago
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Twenty years ago, Craigslist captured the classified ads that were the lifeblood of the newspaper business model. Ten years ago social media captured the remaining corporate ads that newspapers relied on. Newspapers shrunk, consolidated, and went bankrupt. They tried to move online, first as a free offering for paid print subscribers and then as an online only subscription model. But only a few newspapers are making it financially. Owning a newspaper is now like owning an NFL team or a racehorse — a hobby for billionaires like Jeff Bezos or Carlos Slim.

Cable news profited from the chaos of the Trump era but now that the Orange Man is gone, their fortunes are slumping as well. CNN and MSNBC no longer report the news, instead they just have a host plus a few guests discussing the reporting done by the NY Times. Television news is now wholly dependent on advertising from the pharmaceutical industry and their coverage reflects that.

So for the last two years the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, the Atlantic, the Economist, New Yorker, etc. have lied to us every single day about the coronavirus pandemic. They committed mass murder by denigrating treatments that are safe, inexpensive, and effective. And they exaggerated the benefits and minimized the harms from coronavirus vaccines. The entire bourgeois news industry now works directly for the cartel.

For a while Twitter hosted a thriving conversation where a wide range of critical thinkers posted data and analysis that were better than anything in the mainstream press. But then Jack Dorsey went full Nazi and deplatformed anyone who questioned the Pharma narrative. And Zuckerberg gleefully implemented Stasi-like censorship on Facebook and Instagram because it fulfilled his totalitarian fantasies.

Now the conversation has moved over to Substack and it is extraordinary. The combination of no censorship plus a way for the best writers to monetize their work has led to a flourishing of original reporting and brilliant critique. I am grateful to everyone who has subscribed to my account since I launched a month ago and I am enjoying the intellectual freedom of writing on this site.

I subscribe to 25 accounts. Substack reader (still in beta) organizes posts chronologically in a newsfeed so that one can read them like a newspaper. I want to direct your attention to a handful of accounts that are better than anything in the mainstream press. One literally cannot understand the coronavirus pandemic unless one is reading their work right now:

Alex Berenson should win a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting:


Unreported Truths
On the Pfizer study that caused Twitter to block me
On July 28, Pfizer researchers offered updated results from the company’s pivotal Covid vaccine clinical trial - the 44,000-person study providing the key data supporting use of the vaccine worldwide. Last week’s report is the final clean update we will…
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3 months ago · 350 likes · 151 comments · Alex Berenson
I’m envious of the scholarly accounts that were smart enough to make themselves anonymous from the beginning. Eugyppius is amazing:


eugyppius
More on Original Antigenic Sin and the Folly of Our Universal Vaccination Campaign
To review: We have now had ten months of mass vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. Nearly 7 billion doses have been administered worldwide. This unprecedented campaign has not eradicated Corona; it has not even suppressed infections. Instead, case statistics have ballooned almost everywhere. While the vaccinated appear to enjoy some protection against severe……
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11 days ago · 688 likes · 547 comments · eugyppius
El Gato Malo was one of my favorite accounts on Twitter (he’s a genius and hilarious too) and I’m so glad that his writing has found a home on Substack:

bad cattitude
are leaky vaccines driving delta variant evolution and making it more deadly?
one of the great fears in any vaccination campaign is that the vaccine can wind up becoming the driver viral evolution and making the virus more dangerous. this is a special concern around imperfect (so called “leaky”) vaccines that are non-sterilizing. such vaccines do not stop spread or contagion of the virus. this means the virus will have lots of……
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a month ago · 244 likes · 454 comments · el gato malo
Aaron Siri just joined Substack. He’s one of the finest attorneys in the country. He will make a great Attorney General one day:


Injecting Freedom
Study Destroys Justification for Vaccine Mandates
Civil and individual rights are only meaningful if they continue to protect individuals during difficult situations. It is why the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of neo-Nazis to march through Jewish neighborhoods. It is why it upheld the right to burn the American flag. Protecting these rights when it is difficult protects us all. It assures th……
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17 days ago · 185 likes · 63 comments · Aaron Siri
just launched a week ago and he is doing brilliant work:


's newsletter
15 things everyone needs to know about COVID and how to treat it
If I could only tell you 15 things, here’s what I’d say… Avoid all the COVID vaccines, even Novavax. Just say no. It’s not for anyone. No exceptions. The data shows that these vaccines kill more people than they save. You can end up dead or disabled or with a compromised immune system for the rest of your life. For kids, for example, we will kill over 10……
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a day ago · 124 likes · 112 comments ·
The original reporting by James Lyons-Weiler is extraordinary:

Popular Rationalism
An Evolutionary Explanation on Why Natural Immunity is Vastly Superior
SARS-CoV-2 uses all of the weapons it has in its arsenal. Why aren’t we? I have been waiting for some time to write this article, in part because it involves complex ideas from evolutionary theory that most people will have little reasons to immediately understand, and in part due to the need for data to emerge to determine whether the predictions suppo……
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a month ago · 24 likes · 2 comments · James Lyons-Weiler
I highly recommend these accounts as well:

Rounding the Earth Newsletter
Pandemic, Bitcoin, education, finance, economics, statistics, and other topics that need attention.
By Mathew Crawford

Putting the Boss in Quack
Miraculous pharmaceutical inventions
By Levi Quackenboss
Mindset Shifts—Essays by Barry Brownstein
Awareness of your mindset is the portal to change

Tessa Fights Robots
Staying coherent in a crazy word.
By Tessa Lena

Charles Eisenstein
Essays on civilization. myth, politics, ecology
Igor’s Newsletter
Independent thoughts
By Igor Chudov
The Vaccine Court
Updates from the NVICP, The PREP Act and CounterMeasures Injury Compensation Program
By Wayne Rohde
Kids, Covid, and Covid Vaccines
how children and teens are affected by Covid, Covid policies, and Covid vaccines
By Darby Shaw

Outside Voices
Featured writing from independent journalists, brought to you by Glenn Greenwald Substack.
The market for independent truth telling is massive and the market for Pharma lies shrinks by the day.

In the comments, please let me know who you are reading and what accounts you would recommend! 🙌

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-lockdowns-part-5fd

Mass containment cannot be enacted at the whims of medical bureaucrats. Not even in China. Nationwide house arrest requires vast popular support, and so it is unsurprising to find that lockdowns and Corona alarmism travel together.

In late January, as the WHO pondered whether to declare a public health emergency, social media filled with videos of people collapsing in the streets of Wuhan. In a curious pattern that we’ll see repeated over and over, these videos were immediately picked up by the press. The world has now witnessed almost 90 million Corona infections. Nowhere in the West has anyone experienced sudden, incapacitating Covid symptoms like these. What is more, all of these videos appeared on or just after 23 January, the exact day that the Chinese locked down Hubei province.

These videos were all fake. They strike us as farcical today, because we have been sold a very different Corona mythology. Our stories are more about how Corona will kill our grandparents, overwhelm our hospitals, reinfect the recovered, and cripple the healthy. They are part of a much different information campaign, and yet they belong to the same
general playbook: First, a government opts into mass containment. Then, alarming information fills the airwaves to justify the restrictions.




The iconic March 2020 cell-phone photograph by Emanuele di Terlizzi, of a military convoy in Bergamo transporting the corpses of Corona victims. One of many curious and well-timed pieces of viral internet content that served to further pandemic hysteria—lending it in an organic, authentic feel.

Wow, the outright fraud in the media is even worse than I suspected.

https://www.revolver.news/2021/02/how-phony-coronavirus-fear-videos-were-used-as-psychological-weapons-to-bring-america-to-her-knees/

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

This goes back to the disappearance of commentary on most News Sites starting around 2014-2015. They want to disappear the True Consensus, and create a Fake Consensus.

Yeah, that's not going to work.

It's quite obvious our news media is just propaganda. Their mistake was opening up comments in the first place. I learned more about what was going on in the world reading comments than I would ever get out of reading the article itself. I don't think I'm alone either. When comments disappeared, so did the readership.

In the infrastructure bill the government is pushing though is direct support for our "news" media.

Patrick says

Wow, the outright fraud in the media is even worse than I suspected.

Come on - you should realize by now the media is complete BS.

richwicks says

Come on - you should realize by now the media is complete BS.

Yes, but now it is shockingly blatant.

HeadSet says

richwicks says

Come on - you should realize by now the media is complete BS.

Yes, but now it is shockingly blatant.

It's always been blatant, people just couldn't accept it.

I watched the "news" media keep calling Ron Paul an "isolationist" and a "racist" for a very long time. I'm just happy more people can recognize what the media really is.

Back in the early naughts (I guess that's what they are) I was so fucking arrogant that I thought journalists didn't know enough about a situation to properly report on it, so I'd try to contact them to correct their "errors". I knew our media lied before sometimes, but I didn't think they ALL did.

They all did and they still all do. That is their job.

richwicks says

It's quite obvious our news media is just propaganda. Their mistake was opening up comments in the first place. I learned more about what was going on in the world reading comments than I would ever get out of reading the article itself. I don't think I'm alone either. When comments disappeared, so did the readership.

In the infrastructure bill the government is pushing though is direct support for our "news" media.

Yup.

Hence the "Misleading" crap on Social Media... What I love about Misleading is that the censors aren't saying the fact is wrong, but the conclusion the writing is drawing from it is "unapproved" - it "leads away" from the Peddled Narrative.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

Hence the "Misleading" crap on Social Media... What I love about Misleading is that the censors aren't saying the fact is wrong, but the conclusion the writing is drawing from it is "unapproved" - it "leads away" from the Peddled Narrative.

The only result of this is to further destroy the credibility of the media for those that no longer trust it. What is outright censored, IS true. Flat Earther's aren't censored. People like Steve Pieczenik aren't censored. Who is obviously full of crap, but not censored, those are psyops, and not everybody in a psyop realizes they're part of it.

seesaw says

CBS has been a leftist company... it will not change. They are deep into the swamp, and are stuck into the shit that has settled to the bottom. even if you drained the swamp, you will still see CBS in it like a beached whale.

NBC is much worse than C'BS' at when I am at.