The Media Is Not Your Friend

12/10/2022

Haha, the press wasted no time in working to protect the Democratic Party.

23/06/2022

The Hollywood Reporter's article on the underwhelming performance of Lightyear is a great example of how media analysis focuses only on the far ends of the political spectrum. In this article, they call the people who aren't interested in exposing their kids to an LGBT-affirming narrative as "far right," "ultra conservative," and "those with strict religious views." The media continues to minimize these views as belonging to a fringe minority, but then ignores the obvious question this raises: if just a small group of nut jobs feel this way, how could they contribute to the terrible box office numbers?

Isn't it more likely that there's a small, loud group on the fringe who will publicly boycott movies like this, but *also* a large quiet group in the middle who aren't going to speak out against it publicly, but also aren't interested in exposing their kids to it?

The media should stop focusing only on the vocal political fringes and recognize the power of the quiet moderate majority. By conflating these groups, they may be inadvertently pushing quiet moderates to self-identify as radical conservatives. I can't imagine that radicalization of the middle serves their interests.

The 'Toy Story' spinoff is suffering at theaters thanks to brand confusion, fierce competition and far-right politicians.

19/04/2022

Taylor Lorenz of the Washington Post, who cried in an interview three weeks ago about being harassed online, went to the houses of family members of the woman who runs Libs of TikTok and today doxxed her in a WaPo article. The hypocrisy is astounding.

The Washington Post is being accused of “doxxing” the anonymous woman who operates the popular Twitter account “Libs of TikTok.”

19/04/2022

This is, quite literally, one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen in my entire life.

27/03/2022

Amazing. Every minute of it.

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25/03/2022

The establishment is not happy that people like Brand are speaking out...and that others are listening.

11/03/2022

07/03/2022

And I thought the "inflation is actually good" articles were terrible.

23/02/2022

The crisis the past few weeks has apparently reached back through time to cause several years worth of problems.

21/02/2022

Not sure if Rachel Gutman lost the plot or just said the quiet part out loud.

14/02/2022

I'd love to get back to calling out the media for things unrelated to Joe Rogan, but here we are.

Hannah Cox nails it:

10/02/2022

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07/02/2022

It's fascinating and confounding that more people are not talking about the mainstream media's role in the attacks on Joe Rogan. The MSM is dying, and new media options, like the Joe Rogan Experience, that offer alternative narratives without agendas are exploding.

Rogan is a direct threat to the MSM (both in market share and in power), and what we're seeing is the death throes of a nearly obsolete medium—that has proven itself untrustworthy—trying to kill off the person who most clearly represents what's replacing it.

31/01/2022

Dear mainstream media:

07/01/2022

The Orwellian evolution of the word "misinformation" is one of the most disturbing things to come out of the pandemic.

That one word is all that's needed to silence someone guilty of a supposed thoughtcrime. The media's complicity in this (see the hit pieces supporting Dr. Robert Malone's social media bans) is particularly confusing, as they have long benefited from our culture of free speech and ideas.

This evolution is more dangerous than the virus, and you're the frog in the pot. The idea of an expert being deplatformed for sharing a minority opinion in good faith would have been atrocious a few years ago. Now it's the norm.

03/01/2022

Joe Rogan is beating the pants off clickbait articles and sensational soundbites with three-hour long conversations. There's still an appetite for open-minded, narrative-skeptical, integritous journalism. We're just not getting it from the mainstream media anymore, and they want you to believe it doesn't exist. Fortunately, people aren't that stupid. This chart is incredibly encouraging.

If you want to know why they are so afraid of Joe Rogan, this is why.

29/11/2021

Why has the media completely buried the Waukesha parade attack story? Six people are dead. For comparison, the Boston Marathon bombing killed 3 and it was the main story for weeks.

25/11/2021

I guess this fits with the MSM need to reduce every crime down to the weapon that was used, but it's still weird.

21/11/2021

Same person. A week and a half apart. (TJ)

13/11/2021

What we've learned this week (again): many media outlets will go to great lengths, even to the point of absurdity, to counter a narrative they don't like, and there's no internal process in those outlets to call out that behavior.

Several legal experts say putting Rittenhouse on the stand was effective for the defense and agree that prosecutors have struggled at times to make their case. Closing arguments are expected Monday.

12/11/2021

If you can't win, call them racists.

The judge presiding over the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse confused observers after making a strange and off-color joke inside the courtroom on Thursday.

12/11/2021

Hey Al Jazeera English, the Trump rally song you're referring to was "God Bless America." Wonder why you didn't specify that?

10/11/2021

It appears that Facebook has turned off the ability to search for posts or content related to the Kyle Rittenhouse case.

09/11/2021

Fun fact: what you think is true about someone doesn't change their right to defend themself if you attack them.

Amazing that this was CNN's headline. It should have read "Paramedic testifies that he tried to kill Rittenhouse before he was shot."

19/10/2021

If you don't believe that this government-planned economy is designed to widen the gap between you and their big club, I submit to you this article written the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who has received tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, telling you to lower your expectations.

They aren't even pretending that they're making things better for you anymore.

11/10/2021

Frances Haugen did the world a favor by confirming what many people already surmised--that Facebook has been profiting off of our fear and anger by keeping us engaged using content they know will cause us to experience those emotions. Facebook is not responsible for our emotions, but they have been doing this knowingly for some time without disclosing the effects off their algorithms on the public. Facebook is a private company, and they are under no obligation to change their algorithms. But we are under no obligation to use their services, and we have every right to demand, as customers, that they fix their algorithms. And we should.

07/10/2021

Zuckerberg’s plea to the public reads like he thinks we’re all stupid

Why keep lying when the evidence already paints such a clear picture?

04/10/2021

Since Facebook is back up, it seems like a good time to post this portion of the 60 Minutes interview with the Facebook whistleblower in which she confirms that Facebook is knowingly making its users angry and divided for money.

17/09/2021

A Newsmax host admitting his show is straight up Republican propaganda.

“Watch Newsmax host cut the feed and scream at a veteran guest for offering a mild critique of Trump https://t.co/xozk1f5kzH”

10/09/2021

"Without double standards, would the U.S. media have any standards at all?"

Without double standards, would the U.S. media have any standards at all?