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Who are these idiots who still believe the news?

Patrick says

Who are these idiots who still believe the news?

Well, it's under 20%. What's the bell curve of IQ look like?



Ironically, I think it's mostly midwits that believe "mainstream news".

Someone at NPR is going to get fired for this.

https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-claims-covid-vaccine-killing-people-and-government-and-media-are

TUCKER CARLSON: So, the question is not what the number is -- we can debate that. The question is, are we as a country or the federal agencies and is the news media making a good-faith effort to find out what it is and then to care about what is? Why wouldn't we care?

If Tylenol -- there were claims that Tylenol was causing people harm, we'd would look into it. But news organizations aren't looking into it because there's an enormous amount of pressure just to ignore it. We're not following along, of course. Everyone else is. At CNN, they're worried about reports of vaccine related injuries -- they're worried that you will hear about them. Instead, they spend most of their time daydreaming about ways to punish people who refuse to take the vaccine.

I think he could state the case better, but at least Tucker is mentioning the elephant in the room.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-tipping-point-on-vaccines-and

first a trickle, then a flood.

the focus of mainstream news on covid is shifting noticably. it’s becoming OK to call BS. and the jerseys are changing at speed.

tucker is out telling the “the vaxxed are seeing more overall deaths and worse medical outcomes overall/immune suppression/destruction” story that has been in top medical journals for months if you knew where to look. ...

guys like tucker are not around for the early innings of games like these. they jump in when the game looks like it can be a rout. ...

if i were a pfizer or modera exec right now, i’d be surfing the southby’s site for buenos aries mansions and making cash offers on someplace with a panic room.

the social mood is shifting and people who have been righteous and wrong do not lose their anger, they shift it. it leaps like lightning to a new target such that the architects of atrocity can displace blame and preserve self-regard.

“we were lied to by big pharma” is going to be the low energy path out and there is A LOT of energy here to be released.

the turn is coming where the damage is too big to hide from the middle. it starts to move fast now as it gets more and more out in the open. and fooled people are ANGRY people.

they are going to want answers. they are going want someone to blame.

and the politicians who value their hides are going to side with them for these “leaders” do not lead, they pander.

they’d happily promise a missionary in every pot if cannibalism came into vogue and they thought it would win them some swing votes.

scapegoats are needed.

they will be found.

Patrick says

Someone at NPR is going to get fired for this.

That will teach that propagandist not to act like a journalist..

Patrick says

Most Journalists are Scientifically Unqualified
Why does anyone rely on reporters to interpret scientific articles?

This is spot on. Journalwhores have no clue what they are writing about. I have given a few interviews typically hear air is whistling between their ears, and I have to recheck every word they say. And this is about non-controversial topics.

BTW @Patrick can't understand why would anyone dislike your post because what Malone says there is well-known among scientists (but not perhaps among general population)

Misc says

... AnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnD they've done it.

American news media is the least trusted in the entire world

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2022/06/24/nolte-survey-shows-america-has-least-trusted-media-on-planet-earth/

Ah, we're 1/2 there. They've become complete propaganda, now we just need to get people to realize they aren't "incompetent" but they are actively dishonest. When > 1/2 of the population realizes that "reliable sources" are actually active propaganda, we can cure the rest of the population.

It's people's misconceptions, perpetrated by the media, which is our basic problem. I have faith that in time people will be able to see and understand societies true problems, and once that is accomplished we can address them, and fix them.

Patrick says

I'd be surprised if it's really even that high.

The media is lying about it. You know this is probably true

Patrick says

they are going to want answers. they are going want someone to blame.

That will be Trump. Not only did Trump attempt a coup, but he also formed an alliance with Fauci to push a false vaxx onto a nation desperate for a cure. Never mind Trump pushed HCQ an Ivermectin.

https://notthebee.com/article/i-am-so-sick-of-the-blatant-media-hypocrisy-on-gun-violence

I am so sick of the blatant media hypocrisy on gun violence

Yeah, in this age of news that changes by the second, some unhinged piece of crap psycho calling a grocery store and threatening to shoot black people has been deemed eminently newsworthy by one of the top media outlets in the country. The guy didn't actually do it, mind you, he just threatened to do it. And now he is in jail.

Meanwhile, here's a story from yesterday out of Chicago that you won't find on Axios, or CNN, or NBC, or NYT, or WaPo, or any of the other ideologue corporate media outlets:

3 shot while attending funeral service in Roseland
A gunman opened fire Saturday from a car, striking three people who were attending a funeral service at Universal Community Missionary Baptist Church. ...

Yeah. Yesterday, at a FUNERAL for an "anti-violence activist," family members were gathered outside a CHURCH for a picture, and some thugs drove by and shot them up, wounding 3.

Just to make sure we're on the same page:

The bad guys did a drive-by shooting on a church and sprayed bullets at grieving family members taking pictures during a funeral.
Simply horrific!

This is not newsworthy, Axios? But we're leaving the story of some racist, inbred bush-dweller THREATENING to shoot people up on the homepage for 2 full freaking days?

Clearly the order was given from above that it's now OK to talk about Hunter's outrageous corruption and payments to Biden to sell out US foreign policy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chuck-grassley-fbi-justice-department-downplay-hunter-biden-information/

"Highly credible" whistleblowers have come forward to a senior Senate Republican alleging a widespread effort within the FBI to downplay or discredit negative information about President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, according to letters reviewed by CBS News.

"The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI's receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI's false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation," GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 25. "The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter."

Grassley, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the whistleblowers alleged that legitimate streams of information and intelligence about the president's son were characterized as likely disinformation or prematurely shut down leading up to the 2020 presidential election.

This means they regret installing Biden through the massive election fraud documented by "2000 Mules".

Patrick says

"The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI's receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI's false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation,"

This seems also to be an attempt to lessen the perceived severity of what the FBI did. Portraying evidence as "disinformation" sounds less formidable than "covering up serious crimes."

https://freebeacon.com/media/fiery-but-peaceful-protest-cnn/

Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
12h
Reuters is the PR arm of the WEF, in case you didn’t already know.

It's kind of funny that someone who goes by Catturd has greater credibility than the WaPo these days.

Trump is right about this.

https://slaynews.com/news/college-swimmer-sets-media-straight-about-trump-speech-in-no-way-shape-or-form-did-i-dodge-a-kiss-from-trump-nor-was-i-uncomfortable-on-that-stage-with-him-at-any-point-i/

College swimmer Riley Gaines has fired back at the media for claiming that she dodged a kiss from President Donald Trump after he called her onstage during his CPAC speech.

Gaines is a former college swimmer for the University of Kentucky.

She recently spoke out against rules that allow biological male transgender athletes to compete in female sports.

After she appeared onstage during Trump’s speech, the media claimed that Gaines felt “uncomfortable” in the 45th president’s company.

The swimmer has responded by shooting down those claims as “propaganda.”

In a post on Instagram, Gaines blasted the media for pushing a false narrative:

“What an honor to be called to share a stage with the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.

“Less than a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

“Pro-woman & pro-fairness is not anti-trans.

“I truly can’t even believe this is a topic for debate.

“It’s simple. Women should not be forced to share a changing space & compete against males with biological advantages that will never be completely diminished regardless of hormones taken.

“If you’re delusional enough to think fairness for women is considered transphobic, you’re simply misogynistic.

“Also worth noting that this is a prime example of the left media pushing propaganda to fit their narrative.

“In no way, shape, or form did I ‘dodge a kiss’ from Trump nor was I uncomfortable on that stage with him at any point in time.

“I slightly turned my head so I could hear what he was saying to me.

“Proof that not everything you read is factual.

“But keep clutching at straws, it’s almost comical,” she said.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/top-canadian-newspaper-only-hiring-vaccinated-candidate-for-open-reporter-position/

Lol, you could hardly devise a better way to get one-sided reporters.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2022/08/10/washington-post-actually-tweets-the-truth-quickly-deletes-it-n610376

And true to form, they did so again Wednesday, tweeting out about the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid but then quickly deleting it after complaints. Democracy dies without bravery or something. The original tweet contained the headline: “Garland vowed to depoliticize Justice. Then the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago.” This headline is entirely accurate. Garland did in fact vow to depoliticize the Justice Department, and the FBI did in fact raid Mar-a-Lago.

But nope. Can’t criticize the Biden Administration. Evidently, editors realized that the headline might be construed as critical so they changed it to: “FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago lands Merrick Garland in a political firestorm.”

https://slaynews.com/news/lets-check-with-senator-schumer-before-we-run-it-ex-nyt-reporter-comes-clean/

Ex-NYT Reporter Blows Whistle: ‘Check with Senator Schumer before We Run It’

Lol, of course, because the corporate media is just another arm of the oligarchy.

One way around corrupt corporate media.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/new-york-times-strange-rushdie-silence/

The stabbing of Sir Salman Rushdie in New York State shocked the world last Friday, with expressions of condemnation and solidarity being issued across the West. Not though, it seems, at NYT Towers where, four days on, there has not been a single opinion piece by one of its many writers decrying the attack on the British author or defending free speech.

That failure to stand up for the right to publish is shocking enough but especially when one considers that the assault occurred in New York itself. As Josh Glancy of the Sunday Times of London wrote: “You don’t have to like Rushdie or The Satanic Verses to see that this issue of free speech is — or should be — a core liberal and indeed progressive tenet. Someone trying to stab him out of existence is surely worthy of comment.”

Apparently not. Still, at least they had space for such gems as “The Joys of Swimming While Fat” and “I Still Believe in the Power of Sexual Freedom.” Talk about solidarity.

They are not even trying anymore. They have Liz Cheney says FBI raid on Trump is a-political as a headline.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/21/no-evidence-of-political-motivation-behind-fbi-raid-of-mar-a-lago-cheney-says.html

James Melville
@JamesMelville
19h
Bill Gates has enjoyed something of a free pass in corporate media. But considering the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made over $300 million worth of donations to fund media projects, it’s easy to see why the media won’t bite the hand that feeds them

https://slaynews.com/news/bill-gates-319m-mainstream-media-outlets-funding-probe/

Bill Gates Pumped $319M into Media Outlets, Probe Finds