Ch 13.11 - News
"News headline if social media were in Jesus' times --> Local Carpenter with Extremist Views Continues to Spread Disinformation Deemed Harmful by Religious Experts!" - Unknown
Narrative: People believe anything they see on TV or read in the newspaper. Unfortunately, our constant need for novelty keeps our controllers busy feeding us bullsh*t.
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a. Media
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"Like fish don’t realize they’re swimming in water we don’t realize we are swimming in media." - Unknown
"You don’t hate the media enough." - Unknown
"It takes million dollar smiles to convince you of lies. It only takes some dude on a laptop in Japan to convince you of truth." - Andrew Corbett
"The purpose of lib/mainstream media is not to inform libs. The purpose of lib/mainstream media is to reinforce the worldview of libs. To make them think others are wrong and bad. To make it seem totally normal and fine and good to be an absolute retard." - Unknown
"BBC - British Brainwashing Corporation" - Unknown
"In England, the immediate enemies of truthfulness, and hence of freedom of thought, are the press lords, the film magnates, and the bureaucrats, but that on a long view, the weakening of the desire for liberty among the intellectuals themselves is the most serious symptom of all." - George Orwell
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." - Mark Twain
“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” - Thomas Jefferson
“Watching the news to be informed is like eating Mcdonald's to get fit. Watching the news is just asking the TV what to worry about today.” - Unknown
"Life is easier if you accept the news. It takes bravery to see the world for what it is and say it. " - Unknown
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world." Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Norvell
"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…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 vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon…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." - Attributed to John Swinton on April 12, 1883, at the Twilight Club, New York City
“You can only reach billionaire levels of influence and wealth control in the current system if you collaborate with existing power structures; if your collaboration is trusted, you'll find yourself targeted like TikTok and WeChat. This is why all the libertarians and free market types who say Silicon Valley censorship can be fought by moving to a different platform are false; no platform is going to be allowed to rise to the level of Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube unless it aligns itself with the same power structures that are pushing censorship on those platforms. This is why attempts to compete with them keep failing. A few giant platforms sucking up all human conversation to censor those conversations in alignment with establishment interests is a precious asset to the powerful, and they're not going to let it go easily. It's a highly effective weapon against dissident thought. These platforms were built with the help of established power structures, and they are maintained with the consent of those power structures. First, the wealthy controlled the newspapers. Then they controlled the radio. Then they controlled television. Now they control online speech. It's been the same story for centuries, and in each instance, they collaborated with existing power structures to protect the status quo upon which their kingdoms were built. They did this because they understood the real secret of power: whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Humanity will only transition into a healthy collaborative way of functioning on this planet when everyone else also awakens to this truth.” - Unknown
“The news in 1960: Good evening. Here is what objectively happened in the world. The news today: Good evening. Here is what we want you to believe.” - Unknown
"The American public don't believe anything until they see it on television." - Nixon
"Think! It ain't illegal yet. But they working on it." - Eddie Griffin
"They:
Network -> to create a net that works
Broadcast -> to broadly cast across society
Television -> to tell a vision
Channel -> to channel energy into you
Program -> so you're programmed
Story -> with ‘stories’ loosely based on reality" - Unknown
"Unfortunately, you guys quit reporting the news. When I can read a news story and I have no idea what side of the story the reporter is on, that's a good news story. You'll be hard-pressed to find a lot of news that looks like that." - Sanders
“If my government says X, I assume Y or negative X unless I find independent proof otherwise. Same with mainstream media. You earned my distrust. I doubt there is anything you can ever do to earn my trust back. But keep on gaslighting me and proving me right.” - Unknown
”Autohoax -> position you’re not allowed to have.” - Unknown, that anything in the news is automatically a hoax unless proven otherwise
"They ran out of gaslighting gas. Time for plan B." - Unknown
"The greatest weapon is not a gun or a bomb. It is the control of information. To control the world's information is to manipulate all the minds that consume it." - Unknown
"In politics, when something is bad news for a politician or a political party they announce it on Friday afternoon. That way people have time to absorb it and media has time to talk about jt out over the weekend when less people are watching wtc. when it's the opposite, when it's huge / good news they announce it on Sunday afternoon so they're thinking this is a huge win for them." - Unknown
b. Journalism
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"The main job of journalists is to say obnoxious things to powerful people." - Matt Taibi
jour·nal·ism - noun - the activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or preparing news to be broadcast. From the Latin diurnal or daily. The Acta Diurna, a handwritten bulletin, was put up daily in the Forum, the main public square in ancient Rome, and was the world's first newspaper.
"Q: What do you call 8,000 journalists losing their jobs?
A: A good start.
Q: What do you call 8,000 journalists buried under 100 metric tons of their own bullshit?
A: The remainder of the US mainstream media.
Q: Why do they bury journalists 300 feet deep?
A: Cause deep down, journalists are good people" - Unknown
"Imagine 5,000 years ago. You've got a town or village in some fertile valley and you're doing great. But your visibility is such that you only have maybe like a half a day's worth of warning if there are any threats on the horizon. So your town has a village idiot who you all decide, hey dude, go to the top of the ridge line and tell us what you see. We just want you to go up there, look out and report back what you're looking at and when it happened. You know what you call that guy? A journalist. That village idiot is just telling you what's happening and when. You don't need them to interpret. You don't need them to advocate anything or being a force for good in society. Just tell me what's going on. And that's been valuable job for several millennia. Why does journalism need to be more than that?" - Unknown
“A famous saying in old journalism schools is, ‘If your mother says she loves you, verify it with three sources.’” - Unknown
"I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.” – Christopher Hitchens
"Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession." - Thomas Sowell
“A good journalist is a conspiracy theorist and then looks for the facts that disprove the conspiracy.” - Unknown
c. Monopolies
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"5 major players control the mainstream media: AOL Time Warner, Viacom, Walt Disney, Vivendi Universal, and Sony. Monopoly isn't just a board game for kids. It's real life!" - KaraHelenMosher
"Comcast 155b, Disney 147b, TimeWarner 64b, 21st Century Fox 47b, CBS 25b, Viacom 14b" - Google Finance Market Capitalization of Major Media Companies
"Holy Quadrinity—YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok." - Unknown
"monopoly on the means of communication, may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of 'monopoly in the means of production." - Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson wrote in "Leviathan," their 1975 novel
"For propaganda to be effective, there needs to be central coordination of narratives, and that’s where public relations agencies come in. Few appreciate the power that these companies have. Two-thirds to 80% of the content broadcast and published by corporate media comes from public relations firms, so most of the so-called 'news' is brainwashing propaganda." - Unknown
“Because the news media are controlled by plutocrats vested in protecting the status quo upon which their kingdoms are built, almost everything in the news is useless narrative fluff. It doesn't tell you what's going on. It instead tries to influence what's going on by manipulating the audience's perceptions. It does this by either (A) distracting from what matters by focusing on what doesn't matter or (B) actively working to manipulate how the audience thinks about a given issue. When you strip away all the empty fluff and manipulative spin, there are only four often overlapping pieces of information that matter in the big picture:
- Where the money is going.
- Where the resources are going.
- Where the weapons are going.
- Where the people are going.
When understanding world dynamics, accurate information about these four things is the only real news you'll ever encounter. Everything else is an empty narrative spin meant to justify, distort, or distract from information about these things.” - Unknown
d. Distractions
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“The essence of press power lies in authority to select, elevate, and promote one set of ideas, issues, and personalities and to ignore others. The press determines what 'people will talk and think about because of the monopoly it holds over the news and information flowing out of Washington." - Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed
"The more the Powers That Be want to draw something to your attention the more suspicious you should be of the underlying motives." - James Delingpole’s Second Law
"<--- Hunter Biden laptop news.
---> Squirrel
<--- Pfizer admits they're doing gain of function on covid...
---> fjb's depends overflowed into his socks again
<--- Blinken offered a peace proposal to Russia, which Lavrov politely declined...
---> Chinese weather balloon" - Unknown
"If it's 'leaked' and makes the news, it's a distraction. Edit: If it makes the news, it's a distraction." - Unknown
"Therefore you always have to ask yourself: Why do I get this specific information in this specific form at this moment? Ultimately, it's always about questions of power." - Dr. Konrad Hummler, Swiss banking and media executive
"Would you blindfold yourself and eat whatever someone fed you? No? Then stop letting the media do it to you." - Unknown
me·di·a - noun - the main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the internet) regarded collectively. Literally meaning medium or middleman. That is, an agent between two parties, esp. a dealer or company intermediator between the producer of goods. From Latin media meaning ‘middle sheath (or layer)’.
"We own everyone of significance in the media." - William Casey, Director of the CIA
“Friendly reminder: the media's goal is NOT to keep you 'informed.' Their goal is to make you *feel* like you're informed. And getting you addicted to the news by toying with your emotions and fears. The reason they do this is simple: they get paid selling your attention to advertisers.” - Unknown
"Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news." - Zbigniew Brzezinski, KGB Defector
“The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers.” - Unknown
"The most important stories are the ones they never talk about." - Unknown
"Accusation is projection is confession." - Unknown
“The media's job today is to ensure that if anyone threatens to expose how fraudulent and corrupt our democracy has become, and if they offer an alternative to the destruction wrought by neoliberalism at home and abroad, they are ridiculed, smeared, and destroyed!” - Unknown
“In other words, investigative journalism is a Potemkin Village of circular sources conjured out of thin air by Big Media. Here's an example from my own experience of being shadow-banned.
1) an utterly bogus organization pops up out of nowhere and doesn't bother identifying its owners, managers, or sources.
2) This complete travesty of a mockery of a sham fabrication then issues a list of websites it claims, with zero evidence, are stooges/outlets of Russian propaganda.
3) With zero investigation of this slanderous, evidence-free 'source,' the venerable Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos) publishes an evidence-free hit piece glorifying this fabrication on Page One.
4) The other Big Media giants then amplify the bogus slander because it came from a "legitimate source," the Washington Post.” - Unknown
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