There is a frustrating contradiction when it comes to the way public information is assessed for factual truth. For decades, prominent news organizations have steadily lost credibility. Fewer Americans than ever believe what The New York Times, CNN, NPR, or even the AP publishes as the “objective” record of current events. At the same time, however, alternative, competing descriptions of current events are almost entirely ignored. No matter how compelling or factually sourced a story might be, it is largely disregarded until mainstream corporate news institutions are willing to recognize its validity.
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This annoying state of affairs was highlighted last week after Dr. Anthony Fauci refused to testify before the Senate. Although the man holds one of Joe Biden’s get-out-of-jail-free autopen pardons, Fauci cowardly asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than a hundred times. With a general pardon in hand that presumably allows him to get away with past acts of mass murder, he could put himself in legal jeopardy only by not telling the truth while under oath at the hearing. So long as Fauci avoided newly committing perjury, there was no risk to his liberty. The fact that he nevertheless remained mum the whole time revealed a particularly guilty conscience: Fauci could not bear the thought of admitting to the world that he told numerous lies in the past.
To be sure, Fauci’s lies are huge and unforgivable. He lied about COVID arising from inter-species transmission in an outdoor meat market rather than from a bioweapons laboratory re-engineering coronaviruses in Wuhan, China. He lied about not having partially funded deadly coronavirus research at that lab as part of a workaround to American regulatory prohibitions against such dangerous projects. He lied about COVID’s lethality, especially with regard to young or healthy bodies. He lied about the efficacy of simple masks to prevent viral transmission. He lied about the need to close schools and businesses. He lied about the need for draconian home confinements. He lied about the effectiveness of the experimental mRNA injections that he called “vaccines.” He lied about the proven effectiveness of alternative treatments. He lied about the effectiveness of natural immunity.
His lies were profound, and because mainstream news institutions refused to question anything he said, his lies were the only bits of information allowed to circulate in the public sphere. So-called “journalists” not only repeated verbatim exactly what the government’s chief medical bureaucrat claimed to be true but also cheered social media platforms for censoring competing points of view. “Reporters” working for The New York Times and CNN were enthralled by Fauci’s perceived professional prestige and institutional authority. Why? Because they are enamored of their own perceived professional prestige and institutional authority. They worship glory and accolades; they are slaves to appeals to authority; they care nothing for the pursuit of truth.
This is why so many “journalists” jumped to defend Fauci’s honor after his embarrassing refusal to say anything truthful. MSNOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell insisted that the dishonorable doc had “done more in service to this country than…the entire current United States Senate combined.” CNN’s Jake Tapper pretended that he wasn’t having dinner parties with Fauci while the rest of America was kept in lockdown and isolation. And CNN “media analyst” Brian Stelter continued to ignore how both Jake Tapper and Dana Bash developed unethical personal relationships with Fauci while CNN’s “journalists” portrayed the health bureaucrat’s lies as unquestionable “truths.”
If you need a reminder of just how sanctimonious and authoritarian mainstream media mouthpieces were during the Reign of COVID Tyranny, watch this video montage of Jake Tapper and other hysterical fearmongers demanding that Americans submit to the COVID police state and do everything Fauci required of them. In that video, Fauci menacingly tells Americans, “Now is the time to do what you are told.” Around that time, CNN’s quack medical expert, Dr. Leana Wen, argued that the “unvaccinated” should not be “allowed” to leave their homes.
Almost a year after Fauci privately admitted in his diary that COVID had not emerged from a wet market, NPR was pumping out this propaganda on its social media accounts: “A new poll finds 40% of respondents believe in a baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was created in a lab in China. There is zero evidence for this. Scientists say the virus was transmitted to humans from another species.”
NPR lied. The laboratory origin of COVID was not a “baseless conspiracy theory.” There was plenty of evidence available in late-2019 and early-2020 to support the theory that the virus had escaped (inadvertently or intentionally, we still do not know) from a Chinese pathogen lab. “Scientists say” is just a lazy rhetorical appeal to authority that real journalists do not use as an intellectual crutch.
But NPR is a propaganda outfit. Its people are incapable of making arguments backed by reasonable evidence. This is the same institution, after all, that covered up Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop story during the 2020 presidential election by lying, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.” Instead, NPR parroted the lies of fifty-one Deep State Intelligence propagandists who undermined the election by falsely attributing Biden’s laptop to “Russian disinformation.” NPR also never stopped pushing the Russia Collusion Hoax.
With regard to COVID, the so-called “experts” and mainstream “journalists” were wrong about everything. Nevertheless, with an astonishing mix of pseudoscience, moral blackmail, and blatant hypocrisy, they arrogantly demanded that Americans believe everything they said. Six years later, even after Fauci has been exposed as a murdering fraud, the same “experts” and “journalists” refuse to admit their culpability for excusing crimes against humanity and discarding the Bill of Rights’ protections for Americans’ personal freedoms. And because they will not relent in defending their past lies, we cannot properly move beyond the COVID crimes committed against us. Our society is stuck, enveloped in a discredited narrative that our “prestigious institutions” refuse to correct.
Yet the mainstream media’s COVID disinformation campaign is only one instance of a multi-front information war against the public. Mainstream corporate news institutions have proven incapable of telling the truth. They get every big, consequential news story dead wrong.
These same propagandists spent years telling us that President Trump was a Russian spy and that Russian President Vladimir Putin rigged the 2016 election. Despite breathless coverage that occasionally gets regurgitated to this day, neither news story was true. While mainstream media mouthpieces hypnotized the public with lies, they covered up three real monumental stories: (1) Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for the Steele Dossier that framed Donald Trump as a Russian agent. (2) The American Intelligence Community used Clinton’s fraudulent dossier as an excuse to spy on Donald Trump. (3) Furthermore, the Obama administration had been spying on all of the Republican candidates prior to Trump’s nomination. The institutional press — the so-called “guardians of the First Amendment” — ignored the greatest political scandals in our lifetimes. Why? Because they support Clinton and Obama completely and will do anything to destroy President Trump. That’s not “journalism”; that’s information warfare.
Together, the Russia Collusion Hoax and the Reign of COVID Tyranny proved just how monstrously dishonest mainstream “journalists” really are. There is nothing too preposterous for them to present as “truth” if doing so advances their preferred political narrative. Given that this is the case, a reasonable person must assume that everything a credentialed member of the press says is a lie. Strangely, some of the biggest names in news still seem to believe that they have credibility. For the life of me, I cannot tell whether “journalists” suffer more from hubris or incurable idiocy.
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Hat tip to Timothy A. Miller and condolences for the loss of his son.
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