128 sats \ 7 replies \ @TomK fwd 23 Jul
Thank You for this!
Those who you haven't heard the shot yet and still get their information and views and interpretations of the world from the mainstream media, no one can help them anymore. I have worked for over a quarter of a century on various sites in this field and can tell you about fake interviews, pre-planned question catalogs, beloved questions and moderation agreements, I have written ghost texts about companies that didn't exist, I have basically been guilty of this system, especially when i was very young and very very broke.
I worked on the political press side, I worked for traditional media, I ran my own platform, I ran my own agency. What I can say is that you have to work for independence to be able to work in this field in any way and to stand alongside the consensus. The pressure exerted on anyone who develops a tendency towards reason or even neutral reporting and does not serve the prevailing narrative is immense.
And I have recently felt the immense pressure exerted on younger colleagues as a result of the bursting woken bubble. And it really must be clear to everyone: the deeper this existing power structure falls into crisis, i.e. the economic crisis, the crisis of its credibility and the collapse of its narrative, the more brutal the pressure will become: the deeper this existing power structure falls into crisis, i.e. into the economic crisis, into the crisis of its credibility and the collapse of its narrative, the more brutally the media apparatus will strike back, somewhat to the grotesquely ridiculous, as we have seen, for example, in the defense of Joe bBden's intellectual capacity over the past few years.
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66 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 23 Jul
Grotesquely ridiculous is a good way to describe it. I am always taken aback / upset that more people can't see this gross charade for what it is. I guess if you only tune into the news for a few minutes each week, you won't realize what a clown show it has become.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK fwd 23 Jul
yes, but most people actually live in this media bubble. take a look at how differently, for example, the lockdowns of the so-called pandemic are being covered. today, the unredacted data from the responsible authorities in Germany was published and there was no mainstream coverage of the scandalous manipulation by politicians and the media. Well over half of Germans believe that they have escaped the deadliest pandemic in living memory, and they hold on to this belief and are confirmed in the media bubble. It is despairing
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66 sats \ 4 replies \ @fm 23 Jul
sad but true...
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @TomK fwd 23 Jul
It will be a weird grotesque roller coaster ride where most of us continually want to puke...
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45 sats \ 2 replies \ @fm 23 Jul
Some.. Some of us.. Many are oblivious to the surroundings..
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK fwd 23 Jul
I think the number is growing. Or better: I hope so...
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45 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 23 Jul
i think we are still too few..
The media machine has large arms and an amazing brainwasher..
its amazing to see smart people regurgitating the offical media version
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45 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 23 Jul
Hypocrisy never stopped them before!
My sentence is original
I didn't plagiarize from @SimpleStacker in a previous thread #617024
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