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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

People are getting really turned off by it. They’re not getting anything of value from the conversation that’s happening on these debates that are really like political reality TV. They are completely set up for conflict and confrontation to drive up ratings so … the corporate media can make more money.

We need a new media channel, the press version of a third party, where those financial pressures to maintain audience are absent.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

Mainstream news does not exist to tell you the truth about the world. The mainstream news exists to advance the interests of its wealthy owners and the status quo upon which they have built their kingdoms.

What’s frustrating is Biden did a commendable thing by defying all the warmongering ghouls in the DC Deep State and media by doing a real withdrawal, yet poisoned it with lies beforehand — the same lies that were fed to the public for 20 years to justify its continuation.

This is not journalism. It’s political entertainment and, therefore, unreliable.

At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie. A lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.

War, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, natural resources. When was the last time you heard a legitimate debate about any of those issues? Debates like that are not permitted in American media.

It’s time to admit this is a failed system. You can’t sell hatred and seriously expect it to end.

Every useful or pleasing claim about the [Ukraine] war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, including by US news outlets, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents. No matter your views, having falsehoods ratified is dangerous and harmful.

The deplatforming of voices like mine, already blocked by commercial media and marginalized with algorithms, is coupled with the pernicious campaign to funnel people back into the arms of the establishment media such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

I think CNN is realizing that their ratings are dogshit, and that having these highly-polarizing editorial personalities like [Brian] Stelter and Don Lemon… maybe it’s just my bias, I want the news.

The Israeli government has such an assumption of impunity. It can do anything and get away with it and have the complicity of the media in the United States and in the West. The complicity of American politicians, the complicity of too many American intellectuals, the complicity of American elected officials.

The idea that politics is sport is undeniable and we understood that and approached it that way.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war – which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country – and there wasn’t enough critical reporting about it and that’s why it’s gotten out of hand.

Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten the masses. Welfare concessions/campaigns, are counterproductive and simply ineffective in this day and age.

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn’t matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he’s fine. If it doesn’t work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won’t matter.

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11…only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

I don’t like the American media – particularly Fox.

The inconvenient truth that our lazy media elites do so much to ignore is that Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Warren are much closer in their views to the vast majority of ordinary Americans than the Bloombergs or the Bidens. They are the true centrists, the real moderates; they represent the actual political middle.