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Build Back Better Act Offers Media Billions To Go After Republicans
Give the media $1.9 billion and they promise to stop Republicans from winning elections.

Mon Nov 22, 2021 Daniel Greenfield

Look, I don't want to get my info from explicitly right-leaning publications but apparently if you want to know anything about that guy who mass murdered people at a parade last week, that's where you have to go.

The NYT stopped reporting on this story 5 days ago. Their last piece was an article that treated him as a hiccup in the efforts toward bail reform.

The Washington Post reported on this story for 2 days before they abandoned it.

That's, um...really weird, isn't it?
It's true, though: the two papers of record in the United States have more or less ignored this story, opting instead for sparse reportage on secondary aspects of the tragedy itself.

media outlets have been complicit in Dr. Fauci’s disastrous mismanagement of the pandemic — with 4.2% of the world’s population, America under Dr. Fauci’s regimen, racked up 20% of global COVID deaths.

CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone
Part 1 of a two-part series takes a deep dive into the history of the CIA’s central role in orchestrating news and editorial coverage in America’s most influential liberal national media outlets — and its continued hold today.

Not a single writer, or pundit, or CNN anchor, or MSNBC host, who pushed how grotesque this “attack” was will stare down the camera during one of their shows, and say “I was wrong — we need to be better.” They have had ample opportunity to do so.

Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
Dec 11
The "Trusted News Initiative" is one of the mechanisms by which legacy media and Big tech act to close the "Overton Window" of acceptable political discourse.
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What is the Trusted News Initiative?
Why have our doctors, scientists and PhDs been silenced? Does the TNI have anything to do with it? Sponsored by Vaccine Safety Research Foundation VacSafety.org
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This is a great example of intentional tactical actions by USG in collusion with private entities to restrict the Overton window regarding the discussion of the "lab leak" (ergo, gain of function engineering of this pathogen) by USG (DTRA, NIH) cooperating with the Wuhan lab.

Regarding the "Overton Window": Pharma, BigTech, legacy media and the government have succeeded in intentionally collapsing what is "allowable" political discourse. Freedom benefits from those who speak "radical" truths which help push it back open.

This is a deep strategic and tactical truth that broadcasters like Steve Bannon and Glen Beck understand. They are intentional media warriors that stand at the edge of allowable discourse and continually work to push the window open. This is their role in this passion play.

For the last two years the self-appointed guardians of liberty - the watchdogs at the Times and the rest of the elite media - have gleefully joined what can only be described as government propaganda campaign without parallel in peacetime, if not ever.

They spent 2020 lying about the risks of the coronavirus and the effectiveness of masks and lockdowns and other efforts to eliminate. They spent 2021 at first ignoring and then actively lying about the risks and ineffectiveness of the Covid vaccines. Some of the 2020 lies have now ended - especially about school closings, more recently about masks - but the 2021 lies are only getting worse as the data around vaccines goes south on what seems like a daily basis.

In the most crucial test of their willingness to ask hard questions since at least the Vietnam War, the world’s elite media outlets have failed absolutely. And they can no longer hide that failure.

Since the argument is typically lodged by left-leaning pundits and columnists, it creates the false impression that it is the American right that lives in a silo, unencumbered by the opinions of the left or the reporting of the New York Times.


Of course, if you think about it for two seconds, you'll realize the opposite is true.

While Fox News is huge and powerful and there is a whole universe of talk radio hosts and news media outlets, which espouse conservative and libertarian views, the truth is that America's media is dominated by left of center views.

And those who work in the mainstream media ignore everything that challenges their perceptions.

It's one reason so many people expressed shock at the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, or more recently, at the outcome of the Kyle Rittenhouse case in Wisconsin.

They just never paid attention to the other side of what their cohort of friends, media outlets, and lefty celebrities were saying -- so they were taken by surprise.

While left-wing political dominance is a problem across the media, nowhere is it more pronounced than in Hollywood.

While there are actors and creators with right-of-center views, they have to hide their beliefs or risk the end of their careers.

Even the slightest wavering from the marching orders of the woke left is likely to result in a huge penalty.

I work in media so at first I was totally on board with trying to keep people safe and distributing that messaging. This probably impacted my ability to catch up and see the way things really were.

Then, in January 2021 I started to notice that media angle was responding to whatever portion of the population was next in line to get the vaccine. If 80 year olds were next up, the MSM messaging immediately pivoted to 80s are most at risk. When it opened up to 70 year old, then 60 year olds, then 50 year olds, this angle kept shifting. Before we would never hear anything about 40 year olds who had covid then all of a sudden when it hit the 40 year old age bracket, the media was flooded with stories of apparently healthy 40 year olds who died from covid. No comorbidities or risk factors, just died. I started to recognize it for fear porn and even suspected some of these ‘stories’ were fabricated.

Guess what’s in the headlines now? Kids are in hospital with covid! Kids are dying! While I recognize that there are children who are dying from covid, possibly healthy children with zero diagnosed comorbidities, I recognize this is very rare. So where did all these kids come from? Why all of a sudden is there a „surge“ in children in hospital with covid? Could it be because they are next up for vaccination?

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/what-convinced-you-containment-was-b33?source=patrick.net

I work in media so at first I was totally on board with trying to keep people safe and distributing that messaging. This probably impacted my ability to catch up and see the way things really were.

Then, in January 2021 I started to notice that media angle was responding to whatever portion of the population was next in line to get the vaccine. If 80 year olds were next up, the MSM messaging immediately pivoted to 80s are most at risk. When it opened up to 70 year old, then 60 year olds, then 50 year olds, this angle kept shifting. Before we would never hear anything about 40 year olds who had covid then all of a sudden when it hit the 40 year old age bracket, the media was flooded with stories of apparently healthy 40 year olds who...