Submitted by Mad Max on
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This opinion piece contains political opinion that is not necessarily mine. My intention in presenting this piece is NOT to make a political statment but to expose all phony media standards and how that is affecting everyday life and human behavor. I chose this example because it is the most recent. Rest assured, the problem is media-wide.
News? What news? The long held standards of traditional journalism have long been dead. Everyone has noticed it but perhaps some didn't mind because it agreed with their belief and thought patterns.Take a look at a recent amazing transformation of a popular news network so you get the idea. It is the "underlying" factor of how stilted journalism is being used to achieve a political goal. It is an example of events that break both spiritual law and human laws.
Passages by Andrew Torba, gab.com regarding receny events on FOX news:
"Make no mistake about it: Fox News is the network of Paul Ryan. For over a year now Ryan has been gloating that he was going to use his position on Fox’s board to ‘do something’ about Trump. This wasn’t a secret to anyone who has been paying attention to Fox over the course of the past year. Day by day Fox News slowly became CNN lite and the lone network of dissent in a sea of leftist propaganda succumbed to the will of our corporate oligarchy.
Without exception, Tucker Carlson is the only one worth watching on Fox. Everyone else is either too afraid to speak the truth boldly or has sold out as controlled opposition for the Republican establishment. This was obvious on election night and the days that followed.
Carlson boldly speaks truth to power day in and day out, which is why this summer Tucker Carlson Tonight broke the record for highest-rated program in U.S. cable news history. Carlson will undoubtably be remembered as the peak of humble and honest television news reporting as we start to witness network television’s inevitable and spectacular decline into irrelevance.
What comes next for media will look a lot like Gab.com or perhaps a hybrid approach like OANN and Newsmax. It’s crazy to believe that only a handful of Silicon Valley companies will have complete control over the flow of information, communication, and news forever. The future of media, news, and communication is a balkanized and decentralized series of alternative media platforms.
The median age of a primetime Fox News viewer is 68, according to Nielsen. Millennials are tuning out of cable news. Most don’t even have cable (I haven’t for seven years.) “Data from a survey held in March 2020 in the United States revealed that the most popular source for consuming news on a daily basis among U.S. Millennials was social media, with 57 percent of respondents stating that they used social networks as a source of news daily.”
In the midst of a heated legal battle over the numerous cases of fraud during the 2020 election, Fox News host Laura Ingraham said that Donald Trump should accept ‘the unfavorable outcome.” Then Fox News anchor Eric Shawn claimed that President Trump’s allegations of election voter fraud in Pennsylvania were “baseless,” “a lie”, and “not true.” Finally Jeanine Pirro’s Show was cancelled after they found out she was going to report on election fraud.
Sure the pundits and talking heads may spout off some talking points you may agree with from time to time, but when push came to shove and it mattered most: Fox News threw the President, and the country, under the bus. They would do the same to you too if it meant making a buck and appeasing the establishment oligarchs who run this country."
So what to do about these types of situations? They won't be going away any time soon. Now is the time more that ever to use your gift of discernent while watching the Media. If it doesn't feel right deep down in your gut - don't you think you should listen?