2016 has given us many reasons to be hopeful, not least by way of the Trump and Brexit phenomena. But most of all as the year the (((mainstream media))) lost its credibility and therefore its power. This was the year of the Great Media Awakening, when the general public began to realise the true nature of the lies, equivocations and evasions, of the mind-rot peddled to them as news.
Earning credibility is a slow and painstaking process. Losing it can be devastatingly fast. Ordinary people can now discern The Agenda, maybe for now through a glass darkly, but soon they'll meet it face to face. Hard to see any way back for the presstitutes now that the internet provides a cornucopia of hard news, research, well written content - and most of all an alternative. Even The Donald, to their horror, largely ignored the MSM, instead communicating directly with the public via social media. And I believe that as President he'll still do this. I also believe that the full impact of this year's developments has yet to dawn fully on the media whores.
Their reaction, such as it is, has been soooooo, like, like .....pre-internet? I mean how McCarthy-era is it to ban readers from commenting, to close down offending outlets, to jail Thought Criminals? How about a spot of book burning for real authenticity? And now their war on "fake news"? Oh PULEEZE!!! In fact this has hit them with something even worse than distrust: Derision. Yes, there's now widespread laughter and ridicule at the idea of the MSM chasing down "fake news".
None of us of course will lose the run of ourselves here. The enemy still controls the commanding heights of the communications arena.....TV and print media, Hollywood, the main internet and social media platforms. And of course every Western government. We're still a bit like the samizdat rebels in the USSR.
But look how things worked out for them.
Earning credibility is a slow and painstaking process. Losing it can be devastatingly fast. Ordinary people can now discern The Agenda, maybe for now through a glass darkly, but soon they'll meet it face to face. Hard to see any way back for the presstitutes now that the internet provides a cornucopia of hard news, research, well written content - and most of all an alternative. Even The Donald, to their horror, largely ignored the MSM, instead communicating directly with the public via social media. And I believe that as President he'll still do this. I also believe that the full impact of this year's developments has yet to dawn fully on the media whores.
Their reaction, such as it is, has been soooooo, like, like .....pre-internet? I mean how McCarthy-era is it to ban readers from commenting, to close down offending outlets, to jail Thought Criminals? How about a spot of book burning for real authenticity? And now their war on "fake news"? Oh PULEEZE!!! In fact this has hit them with something even worse than distrust: Derision. Yes, there's now widespread laughter and ridicule at the idea of the MSM chasing down "fake news".
None of us of course will lose the run of ourselves here. The enemy still controls the commanding heights of the communications arena.....TV and print media, Hollywood, the main internet and social media platforms. And of course every Western government. We're still a bit like the samizdat rebels in the USSR.
But look how things worked out for them.