'U.S. Finished Dead Last Amongst 46 Countries In Media Trust'

Pulling strings: Sinclair Broadcast's 'fake news' scandal | The Listening Post

originally posted by: Elton

The US media (and tech) companies appear to be mouthpieces for the elite.

Right on Elton and regarding 'big tech' there are some extremely shady Pentagon / alphabet agency connections discussed in this vid.

originally posted by: Irishhaf

Yes and Yes...

But at this stage at least local news seems to be much more like the news used to be..

Fair enough mate and I do know what you mean - remember reading many moons ago that after Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act a certain select number of corporations immediately started buying up the majority of local TV stations, local radio stations and local newspapers in America - almost as if they were primed and ready to go.


It's an older graph but it doesn't paint a pretty picture and think we're in very real danger of ending up with 'one corporation to rule them all'.

a reply to: karl 12

I wonder how the US/UK stack up against Russia and N.Korea?

Probably very badly.

originally posted by: Charliebrowndog

Yep, and what amazes me the most is people still watch it and believe it.

Yep pretty amazing mate although they must know deep down (on some level) they're being shamelessly manipulated by people who have not got their best interests at heart.

Thought there was some good satire here about the neverending bullsh•t they keep churning out.

originally posted by: bobs_uruncle

It's long past the time to remove them.

Appreciate the post Dave and yes would say the current bunch (Disney, AOL Time-Warner, Viacom, General Electric and News Corporation) are simply not fit to be broadcast on the public airwaves - suppose there's also the 'news is detrimental to public health' argument that needs to be factored in.

News is toxic to your body. It constantly triggers the limbic system. Panicky stories spur the release of cascades of glucocorticoid (cortisol). This deregulates your immune system and inhibits the release of growth hormones. In other words, your body finds itself in a state of chronic stress. High glucocorticoid levels cause impaired digestion, lack of growth (cell, hair, bone), nervousness and susceptibility to infections. The other potential side-effects include fear, aggression, tunnel-vision and desensitisation.

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originally posted by: BrokenCircles

Oh I agree. That was my first thought, I was wondering what kind of bullsnip they might have come up with to dispute the poll, and/or who they claimed was responsible for faking it.

No worries mate and yes they were probably falling over themselves to bury or discredit that Reuters Institute poll - there's also this Gallup one from last year.

Think a pretty good case can be made that objective journalism is now extinct and the crux of the matter may lie in this quote attributed to Orwell:

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.”

As for CIA infitration thought there were 50 interesting points here from Professor James Tracy.

originally posted by: SeaWorthy
Pulling strings: Sinclair Broadcast's 'fake news' scandal | The Listening Post

Found that to be a pretty deceptive fluff piece mate - solely focusing the blame on Sinclair (and the poor helpless FCC) whilst absolutely drawing attention away from the root cause legislation and actual ownership.

BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world, combined own The New York Times and other legacy media, along with Big Pharma.

Vanguard and BlackRock are the top two owners of Time Warner, Comcast, Disney and News Corp, four of the six media companies that control more than 90% of the U.S. media landscape.

Who Owns Big Pharma + Big Media? You’ll Never Guess.

Definitely a lot of psychological manipulation going on but when you get to the level of BlackRock and Vanguard then it's just one big puppet show.

"What you need to control the media is ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity"

Joseph Goebbels

a reply to: karl 12

Can’t be behind N Korea.. well right maybe they trust their media even though it’s brainwashing them.

The news business is no longer a professional endeavor (a.k.a., journalism). It's first and foremost about making money. Second, it's twitter style reporting where no one does any real research anymore. All they do is write headlines and add enough words to make it sound like they know what their talking about.

Then we have the pundits. They're the worst. Every night the compete for ratings, always sound angry and try to convince you the world is about to come to an end.

a reply to: karl 12

This has less to do with the media being untrustworthy, and more to do with the people being untrusting.

I've never seen it this bad, not even during the cold war. This is so far beyond Reds under the Beds that I don't evne know how to put it into words.

Everybody thinks that everyone else has an agenda, and rather than listening to what each other has to say and making their mind up based on logic and facts they look at what agenda they think a person has and then believe or disbelieve them based on that.

It seems like you can't get anybody to change their mind any more using reasoned arguments anymore. If they don't like the side that your on they simple dismiss everything that you've said as being fake no matter how unimpeachable the source. I could get a nuclear physicist with a Phd from the best school in the country to explain something to them about nuclear physics, but if my politics are different from theirs they just scream in my face that it's fake or that the physicist is a crisis actor or was paid by big whatever, and if they do try to counter what he's said it's usually by trying to get me to watch a bitchute video on pyramid power by a vegan influencer or somebody equally unqualified to talk about physics.

originally posted by: nOraKat
a reply to: karl 12

Can’t be behind N Korea.. well right maybe they trust their media even though it’s brainwashing them.

Believe it or not, but a lot of the news that happens in North Korea isn't political. It's everyday boring things that are reported accurately.

The media is more likely to simply not report on things than to make false reports in many instances.

originally posted by: nOraKat

Can’t be behind N Korea.. well right maybe they trust their media even though it’s brainwashing them.

Yes fair point mate - it's an older article regarding Western media psyops and the reality of 'fake news' but thought it contained some important links.

Psyops 101: A brief history of fake news


.Since that time, fake news broadcasts have been aired on otherwise “mainstream” networks from time to time, often with little or no notice that the “news” story being aired is completely fictitious.

Sometimes the fake news is deliberately seeded into the public consciousness by way of a carefully coordinated public relations campaign.

Other times the fake news consists of staged or manipulated interviews, designed to give a false impression that the on-the-ground reality is different than it really is.

Yet another method of implanting fake news is to merely make large-scale accusations that can later be exposed as being completely baseless. The widespread coverage of the original allegation and the almost non-existent coverage of the retraction is enough to assure the effectiveness of this particular psyop tactic.

All of these methods of psychological warfare, however, are only as effective as they are believable. To a jaded public, or even just one that has learned not to trust the news from a given source that is known to have a bias for or against given entities, the effectiveness of such propaganda is severely limited. This is where a new and altogether more insidious form of misinformation comes into play, however: the video news release.

The VNR, or video news release is a short video production that is made to look like a news report. Often employing actors or PR specialists to represent the “reporter” and even the interviewees, the VNR has been used as a way for companies to work their products and services into the nightly news in the guise of a “news” broadcast.

More disturbing by far than the widespread use of this PR trick by companies like Microsoft and Phillip Morris is the use of VNRs by the federal government.

Some will dismiss the fears about VNRs out of hand. After all, they will argue, psychological warfare is by definition something that is used against one’s enemies, not one’s own people. 

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originally posted by: LogicalGraphitti

The news business is no longer a professional endeavor (a.k.a., journalism).

No sad to say it's not - by the looks of it 'news business' is now just a subsidiary of 'big pharma'.

originally posted by: LogicalGraphitti

It's first and foremost about making money.

Yes a good example showing how 'for sale' the corporate media actually is would be Bill Gates.

Apparently a CJR study in June last year found that Gates had 'financially motivated' (bribed) numerous corporate media agencies including the BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, Univision, Medium, The Financial Times, The Atlantic etc. to the tune of over 250 million dollars.

Supposed 'factchecking' platforms (Politifact, USA Today, New Humaniterian etc.) are also on the Gates Foundation payroll.. so probably not very impartial.

originally posted by: butcherguy

There's a good reason for that last place ranking.

They aren't trustworthy.

Doesn't look like they are mate and actually remember this piece being constantly promoted and discussed on the news - some pretty disturbing stuff but turns out it was all fabricated by the 'public relations' firm Hill and Knowltown:

Nurse Nayirah" in the media, was a fifteen-year-old Kuwaiti girl, who alleged that she had witnessed the murder of infant children by Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait, in verbal testimony to the U.S. Congress, in the run up to the 1991 Gulf War.

Reality:

In 1991, the world was introduced to the emotional story of Nayirah, a Kuwaiti girl who testified about the atrocities committed by Iraqi forces in Kuwait.

What the world was never told was that the incident had in fact been the work of a
public relations firm, Hill and Knowltown, and the girl had actually been the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador. 

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Also looks like there was a media smokescreen put around Clinton's Lewinsky affair to deflect public attention away from Clinton's Chinagate antics.

See 27:20

originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
a reply to: karl 12

When I see this, I just think 45% of Canadians and 29% of Americans are pure unadulterated idiots.

I am American and I have no idea where you got these numbers, but I believe you are being too generous with the American percentage. That number should be significantly higher than 29%.

originally posted by: karl 12
Unthinkable a few decades ago (but not really a shocker these days) it looks like a large majority of U.S. citizens now feel their corporate media is 'the least trustworthy in the world'.. according to a new Reuters Institute survey encompassing 46 countries. 

I just saw a news article the other day: "Do failed elections spell the end for 'Defund the Police'"

The news isn't supposed to take sides. A failed election for one is a successful election for another.

originally posted by: JohnD

originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
a reply to: karl 12

When I see this, I just think 45% of Canadians and 29% of Americans are pure unadulterated idiots.

I am American and I have no idea where you got these numbers, but I believe you are being too generous with the American percentage. That number should be significantly higher than 29%.

I got them directly from the article. Go to the second bar chart, at the bottom of the chart you'll Canada and the United States Linky Here

Cheers - Dave

originally posted by: CryHavoc

The news isn't supposed to take sides

No, it actually looks like it's being used to create sides.

Don't think in any sane universe the news could be called 'impartial' and thought the article below about the 'pharmedia-military-industrial complex' pretty much nailed it.

The rebirth of the media barons of old

These examples demonstrate the nature of the networks that dominate the global corporate media: an interlocking nexus of private defence contractors, banks, investment firms, and corporate giants with a vested interest in perpetuating the power and privilege of their own class: no matter the implications for the loss of life of millions of people.”

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Thought this exploration into how the CIA manipulate, censor and fabricate news stories was also a pretty relevant one.



How the CIA Plants News Stories in the Media

originally posted by: LogicalGraphitti
It's twitter style reporting where no one does any real research anymore. All they do is write headlines and add enough words to make it sound like they know what their talking about.

Then we have the pundits. They're the worst. Every night the compete for ratings, always sound angry and try to convince you the world is about to come to an end.

ATS in a nutshell....

oh no...wait...we are exempted.

a reply to: bobs_uruncle

US Media is a complete liberal joke. Nobody believes them. They run propaganda 24/7.