Mainstream Media Media Power and Media Control The major influence on our knowledge and views is the media. Newspapers, Books, magazines, Television, wireless and now increasingly the Internet. Who controls them is a major issue; one which the media itself chooses to largely ignore, in public at all events. The Education industry has an important part in shaping our children's' minds as well as our own. It is one we should pay attention to. Home Schooling is an answer. If they are honest men telling it like it is then it is as good as it gets. If they are rogues with different agendas they will uncover different aspects of what is going on. But if they are rogues with similar agendas there is a major problem. There are a few owners, editors and apparatchiks shaping the agenda. It might be as many as a thousand but not much more. A lot of power is concentrated in the hands of a small group. It matters. Now, in 2017 mainstream media operations have started complaining about Social Media, about Facebook, about Fake News. They have lost their monopoly; that is the good news. The bad is that they using their power to neuter the thousands of independent sources like this one. Another problem in England is that Theresa May objects to Free Speech, claiming that it helps Terrorism, Pornographers, Paedophiles or whatever. This is while she is busily importing Third World terrorists by the thousand. A lot are also Pakistani Perverts, being protected by Her Majesty's Government. The owner of a Newspaper has control over it. He is subject to various forces but he can, at least dictate the general tone of the editorial. Editors can be sacked and have been sacked. Print unions can also have major effects although it is not normally the content that concerns them. Newspapers can be shut down and the staff dismissed. It has been done by Rupert Murdoch to The Times. The printers were not amused and never did get their jobs back. The electricians took over, leaving the printers to fume on the dole. Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. Joseph Stalin The News Racket Fred, a journalist explains. They lie to us. Balkanizing The News Fred again, as good as ever. Believe the media at your peril. They are used by The Establishment to control what we know and what we think. Truth and democracy come down the line. Herewith are some examples of their lies and suppression of the truth. This comes from the Irish Savant, an independent commentator. His article is called Why I’m a Progressive – Irish Savant WP PS Sources? Look at Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe Ukraine ex The Guardian or The fight for Ukraine is a fight for liberal ideals. So how can Boris Johnson possibly lead it John Harris ex The Guardian UPDATE: Ron Unz tells us about The Limits of Media Corruption UPDATE - 2023-08-17 A journalist is attacked and smeared, and the media cheers - He told the truth. Whoops. Defeating Mainstream Media Corruption [ 29 January 2020 ] Are the Mainstream Media in the business of perverting the truth? Believe it; they are Propaganda machines. Here Ron Unz explains how we can discredit them. A lot of people with different political views object to the MSM's Party Line but then war makes for strange bedfellows. Casting doubt on their stories, pointing out their inconsistencies, discrediting them is a long term project but a very worthy one. Recall that the supercilious chancers running the BBC protected Jimmy Savile & Rolf Harris, both Paedophile Perverts. Accident or policy? Try the latter; it is why they generate Paedophile Propaganda. Ron Unz returns to the theme of mainstream media malfeasance in Anniversaries of Silence in the Media. They all keep very quiet about certain topics. The possibility, indeed likelihood that Covid-19 was a Germ War attack on China is unanimously ignored. It is a major war crime that went wrong but not news. Then there is their enthusiasm for ignoring the American prisoners of war abandoned out in Viet Nam See Vietnam Revisited for more and better details of their guilt. They tread the Party Line; it is SOP [ Standard Operating Procedure ]. John Swinton, A Journalist Explained Media Corruption Circa 1883 QUOTE There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. UNQUOTE Ron agrees with Mr Swinton. So do millions more. Outthinking Mainstream Media Liars QUOTE If I were a dictator, one of my first dictates would be that every adult must take at least one university-level course in logic. In today’s world, with what is essentially an international criminal element in control, one which effectively manages public perception through their leverage over the mass media, readers would benefit immensely from some exposure to the principles of logic. The main issue is that logic is concerned with the practical science of reasoning (truth and validity of arguments), but the actual mental processes we employ in reasoning are the province of psychology, not science, and are often not valid, leading to conclusions which are not true. It is the latter that media propagandists use to violate the former, by taking advantage of our psychological reasoning processes to lead us to false conclusions while masking their tactics so we remain unaware of the deception. Most of these tactics are surprisingly simple. One is to associate an argument with a famous person or an embedded religious or political tenet. A statement like “Every patriotic American will agree that . . .”, is often sufficient to lead us to a wrong conclusion, in spite of our intuition telling us something is not right. Another tactic very commonly used is to attack the character or authority of the author, or even the tone of his writing, without actually addressing the substance of his argument, and in fact to rigorously avoid addressing the argument. If I can successfully impugn your character, many readers will discount anything you say. And surprisingly often, simply stating the opposite without any supporting evidence is sufficient to deflect our reasoning from the truth: “He stated the now-debunked theory that . . .”, with no evidence the theory was actually debunked, nor by whom, nor on what basis. I will focus here, with examples, on two primary tactics in the false logic of media propaganda. The first is the astonishingly simple one of attaching a lie to a truth. Our psychological reasoning processes will recognise a first statement as true, then automatically accept an attached lie as being also true. The second is the use of statements that appear at least plausible, but which are followed by a vacuum of information, forcing us to either accept or reject outright the statement, but giving us no basis on which to do so. Uninformed readers will almost inevitably accept such unsupported statements as true, in spite of the total lack of evidence. Much of the information presented to us in the form of what we now term “the official narrative” of so many geo-political events, is almost childish in its presentation yet so cleverly done by the propaganda experts that little apparent criticism is generated and the public seem to accept the stories in spite of the immense and glaring flaws. This is the reason the media articles present either no details or almost none; if no information is given, there is nothing to question or attack; if no claims are made, no resistances arise. Thus, we have statements referring to “China’s increasing militarism in the South China Seas”, but no information, no data, no documentation beyond that empty claim. This leaves readers with the choice of either accepting or rejecting the claim itself but, except with informed readers, no basis on which to do either because of the complete lack of information. And, traditionally, if the public encounter this claim in five or six different media sources, they will tend to accept it as true in spite of the complete absence of evidence. Even worse, it has been repeatedly proven that big lies are more readily accepted than are the small ones. This is the legacy left by Freud, Bernays and Lippman, the ease of “pulling the wires that control the public mind”, provided only that one controls the microphone. Usually, the ‘official narrative’ contains a simple statement that is either true or at least marginally plausible, one which we tend to accept intuitively as true. As I noted, one of the most clever tactics in propaganda is to attach a lie to a truth. Casual or cursory readers and viewers will almost always fail to notice the startling lack of logic and discontinuity in reasoning in the information they are accepting as true. Consider this from CNN: “China’s ambition is to make high-speed rail the mode of choice for domestic long-distance travel, but [China is really doing this because] high-speed railways are symbol of the country’s economic power . . . increasing prosperity . . . [and] political influence.”[1] In other words, China is building its high-speed rail network to (a) show off, and (b) to gain political influence over other nations. A lie attached to a truth. The first statement is true – that China is making high-speed rail the travel mode of choice, but the attached statements are rubbish, insulting claims presented without a shred of supporting evidence. But in the mental logic of an unschooled reader, the lie attached to the truth is generally accepted, unquestioningly, as also true. Here is another excerpt from CNN, this one even more startling in its claim: “A Pew Research report from late 2020 found that of 14 countries surveyed across Europe, North America and East Asia, every one had a majority negative view of China. But opinions of China were worsening even before the pandemic . . . and [this began] in 2019 when top [Chinese] diplomats began aggressively calling out alleged slights against China in press conferences or on social media.”[2] Do you see what has happened? The Jewish-owned media and (largely) Jewish columnists trashed China relentlessly for all of 2020, with Pew cheerfully noting that all surveyed countries had a negative view of China. However, the reason for this negative view wasn’t the incessant attacks on China in the public media, but instead was due to Chinese diplomats “aggressively calling out” these false claims and insults. A lie attached to a truth. The first statement of the polls is undoubtedly true, but the attached claim is obviously rubbish, yet readers will generally accept the entire paragraph as true. So, the reason people don’t like me is not because you have been publishing lies about me but because I have been objecting to the lies you tell. The above two examples taken from thousands similar in my files, are simply hate literature, preparing the public to accept severe political or military action based on ‘a thousand cuts’. But there is another category potentially much more serious, related to the covering-up of crimes committed by our International Cabal of Gangsters (ICG). The propaganda tactics and the devastation of logic are very similar, as is the naive credulity of readers. In these cases, we also have (a) a simple statement that appears intuitively plausible, (b) a complete lack of information and detail, and (c) a ridiculous conclusion either presented outright or at least insinuated, but entirely without support. Again, in modified form, a lie attached to a truth. One item neglected by the media was the massive outbreak of MERS at the US Osan Air Base in Korea, which conveniently was very near the home of the likely-imaginary ‘infected businessman’. The Osan airbase is the home of the US JUPITR ATD, a military biological program that operates its other lab facility at Fort Detrick, MD, as well as home to one of the US military’s bio-weapons production labs and a very secretive WHO bio-lab operated by the US military. The theory most closely fitting the facts is that the MERS outbreak may have been caused by a laboratory accident at the JUPITR biowarfare project, and our ‘infected businessman’ may in fact have carried the pathogen in the opposite direction. Interestingly, there was sparse coverage of the MERS outbreak in South Korea, certainly compared to SARS, where we were treated to virulent China-bashing 24/7 for most of a year. UNQUOTE Larry Romanoff explains how the experts do it. Samizdat - The Free Press - comes first as a salute to courage [ broken link, sadly ]QUOTESome of these underground newspapers amazingly achieved secret circulations of tens of thousands. Some of them were so popular that they continue in publication to the present day. Amongst current Dutch papers which originated in the wartime illegal underground press are Het Parool. (The Catchword [ "The Password"? or "The Motto"? - Editor ]), Trouw (Faith), and Vrij Nederland (Free Netherlands), the last of which has a present circulation of 45,000 (slightly less than it reached during the Nazi occupation) and this month (September 2010) celebrated its 70th anniversary.UNQUOTEThe Samizdat was the underground press in the USSR. There was also Iskra [ The Spark ] which the Bolsheviks smuggled into Russia and caused a massive fire. Publishing then took courage. Now it just takes money and evil(?) intent. The Wiki has a decent write up on Underground Media in German-occupied Europe. Ron Unz Explains Mainstream Corruption QUOTE For decades I have spent a couple of hours every morning carefully reading The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and several other major newspapers. But although such a detailed study of the American mainstream media is a necessary condition for remaining informed about our world, it is not sufficient. With the rise of the Internet and the alternative media, every thinking individual has increasingly recognized that there exist enormous lacunae in what our media tells us and disturbing patterns in what is regularly ignored or concealed. In April 2013 I published “Our American Pravda,” a major article highlighting some of the most disturbing omissions of our national media in issues of the greatest national importance. The considerable attention it attracted from The Atlantic, Forbes, and a New York Times economics columnist demonstrated that the mainstream journalists themselves were often all too aware of these problems, but perhaps found them too difficult to address within the confining structure of large media organizations. This reinforced my belief in the reality of the serious condition I had diagnosed. UNQUOTE Ron, a Jew has worked out that the truth is a weapon; he is using it. Our American PravdaThe Soviet Pravda was a lying propaganda machine. We all know that. The American main stream media are at least as bad. Consider the next one. American Information Blockades Can the media black out stories they don't like? Yes. They do it all the time. Mainstream Media Are Deeply Ignorant That is what Fred says. He was with them but not of them. Do they know anybody outside their self regarding groups? No. Do they want to? No. I am prone to blame the malice of the owners. Fred has a kinder view; he is merely contemptuous. Donald TrumpThe media told us about Don. The media got it WRONG. You doubt it? Look at Private Eye 1432/9 to see reality. This was not just the malice and the hate; it was the ignorance that shows itself. Channel 4 Is an English television broadcaster which tells it like it is from time to time, if not more often. They got stuck into the Israel Lobby. Drudge ReportIs run by Matt Drudge, a Jew. It seems that it is highly influential in its way. Lotsa people go there then follow links to whatever interests them. This does not please advertisers because it is unpredictable. See more at Publishers' Love-Hate Relationship With Drudge Report Net NeutralityIs about power, the ability of the companies owning the cables to control what we send, what we receive. They want power to sabotage our downloads - unless we pay more. It is about Capitalist Swine who want more money - our money of course. NewspapersAre dying off; their circulations are dropping steadily. Is this good? Perhaps. They are Propaganda machines with agendas. the Internet is different because it is a truth machine. Anyone can publish, lots do. It is just a matter of sorting the wheat from the chaff. The Dark Art Of Being FAIRFairness and Accuracy in Reporting [ F.A.I.R ] bills itself as a “national media watch group . . . offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship”, which is a great idea. The reality is different, very different. Henry St. John of the Occidental Observer explains. Who Controls Television. Who Controls America The short answer is Jews. You doubt? Follow the evidence or, as Americans say, follow the money. Zionist Control Of British Media In England as in America it is Jews. Alternative Media Different owners, different countries, different agendas. Truth becomes possible. Alternative explanations are certain. Private Eye Gets its entry near the beginning because it is the nearest thing to honest reportage in the English media; one that is not controlled by special interests. The only other major exception that comes to mind is the Internet which in principle is open to anyone who has a computer. Press Censorship Is About Protecting The Powerful Well, who would have thought it? The cynic just for a start. So will anyone who believes that if they can, they will. Beating The Media Machine - Rolling Stone Shows The Way The main stream media are very profitable. A large part of the cash flow comes from advertisers. Getting them to put their budget elsewhere is an effective use of a vulnerability. Al Jazeera Versus The Bigots Al Jazeera is a good deal more honest than the BBC and other ghastly left wing swine says Professor Balles. I am prepared to believe him. The Big Lie It is all Adolf's fault, isn't it? No! The Big Lie is alive and kicking to this very day. In fact there are lots of them out there. British mass media owners QUOTE David and Frederick Barclay Conrad Black Zionist thief, in prison for fraud. Richard Desmond  … truncated (63,704 more characters in archive)