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Crumbling, yes...but simultaneously giving birth to a whole new genre of independent journalism. The new journalists are exposing the decades (centuries?) long manipulation, providing “truth” in the form of a variety of perspectives and nuance, and holding the powerful accountable. I, for one, am excited about my ongoing awakening.

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I agree! The one thing the corporate press (and the regime that supports them) can't buy is credibility. Now that they are seen as the compromised actors they are there is no coming back from it, and they shouldn't be. Today I see all of the corporate press the way a Soviet citizen might have viewed Pravda. I'll read them to find out what the establishment thinks, but I'm acutely aware that I also need to read between the lines and be on the look out for the dog that isn't barking. Then I go to look at what INDEPENDENT reporters think who have earned their credibility. Nearly all of them are now on outlets like Substack, twitter, Rumble, etc. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...

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Right!

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I fear the censorship-industrial complex will simply double down while throwing even more public money at its troops.

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I agree. They're already doing this with Substack Video which is massively infected with leftwingers. The globalist are excellent in analyzing communications and deploying methods to neutralize commonsense points of views with We the People, while promoting their harmful, racist, and destructive ideology.

We the People who promote ideas that strengthen our economy, our national integrity, our approaches to healthcare, and our foreign policy need unifiers who can financially support our efforts. It's so unfortunate Koch, with his billions, cannot see past his avarice to help. But, thank God for Elon Musk. And, The Epoch Times! We the Commonsensical must improve our efforts to promote The Epoch Times, X, et al with our Fellow Citizens.

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So you relying on oligarchs to save you/us? So Koch & Musk your allies, really LOL My goodness SMH.

Ppl, Please disabuse yourselves of this red/blue left/right apocalypse you imagine yourselves in. It’s a false binary.

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That has been their specific strategy so far with no let up of any kind. Like the other innumerable treacherous schemes they invent to use against America and Americans, OUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR IT.

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That’s what I was thinking as well. With every lie they just continue losing viewers and continue feeding the opportunities for outsiders to come in and expose. It’s been frustrating but I am enjoying the show now!

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Diluting a language through its inaccurate use is a sure way to destroy the societies and nations that depend on that language. Especially words that denote traditional power, authority and reliability - like the words "journalism" and "journalists".

People that take notes and write stories aren't 'journalists', they're reporters. Searching the web for the words provides hundreds of results with inaccurate definitions and is part of the trouble.

"Citizen Journalists" sounds really cool and provides nice, touchy feely emotions.

I understand that heroin does, too.

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To me, one of the saddest revelations of the last 3 years is that a vast number of Journalists, Physicians, and others can be bought as easy as a corrupt Politician.

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to me too

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There are some flaky people in the "journalism" business.

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Most humans have weak characters.

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It would be wonderful if the lamesteam media and social media influencers could be sued for pushing these very dangerous shots. Isn’t that practicing medicine without a license?

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I have often thought the same. False advertising.

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Corporate Mainstream Press. More like practicing media-cine without a conscience.

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The government doesn't care if the people are healthy.

They feed junk food in schools, ignore the obesity crisis among children, ignore unhealthy foods and toxic food ingredients, ignore the overload of sugar, don't care for tobacco and keep expanding access to "recreational" drugs.

So, why are they so obsessed with everyone getting vaxxed? Why spend so much money?

Health can not be the real reason. So, what is the real reason?

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Cui Bono.

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To fulfill the agenda for disposal of excess population. В целях выполнения программы по сокращению населения Земли.

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You have got it! They don't care, basically. Don't perhaps really understand what caring even is. And it would certainly come as a surprise to them that they were expected to care! So what is the real reason? It is nothing very good; that is all you would want to know. I think they just Zombies!!!!#

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Through war, governments have always been responsible for most murders. Nothing else comes close.

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YES! Judicial Watch also put out a great file drop that shows exactly how the propaganda worked -- you can find all 249 pages here: https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/JW-v-HHS-COVID-Community-Corps-September-2021-02315.pdf

Highlights:

Public Education Campaign will build vaccine confidence through five core elements

• Research shows that trusted messengers are the most effective tool with the most hesitant groups. Therefore, our largest effort will be on empowering them to carry the message and to fund grassroot efforts on the ground.While important, paid media is only a small portion of our overall program. We will also have a robust digital and earned media strategy that includes efforts from across the government, and will work closely with the private sector to promote public education messaging and to take actions that encourage vaccination.

(Page 12)

The European version is here, and covers many of same themes.

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/352029/WHO-EURO-2022-3471-43230-60590-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

This is why so many entities acted in tandem -- they were being paid off to do so.

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SimulationCommander - great find re the judicial watch document. If possible, could you post the link of their article this came from? Thanks!

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Follow the money. I've said it for years before friggin covid and the shot. Everyone got rich except Average Joe and Jane America. Everyone. And they all need to go to jail for their love of money over the health and safety of we the people.

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Actually, the average Joe and Jane became poorer, look at the price of eggs!

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Wouldnt this governmental behaviour be considered a type of facism? The government provides benefits and incentives by our tax money to the 4th estate to sell a product in order to enrich another even larger business entity. So much for them being muckrakers and the guardians of truth. The terrible thing is this is same thing happening that the media does with climate change, EVehicles and the destruction of fossil fuels, Black Lives Matter and any detestable collectivist agenda--a gigantic influence operation and transfer of wealth scheme brought to you by the government and the lobbyist.

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I believe the actual terminology is “corporatism” and it is as destructive as fascism, especially in extreme wealth inequality.

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CP, not sure the government should be in the business to make (or break) billionaires via selected technologies or industries. yet the government does this—remember only a few short years ago when leaders boasted "we are going to put all coal companies out of business...!" Who gave them the authority to do this in a democratic "we the people" republic? These things should be debated vigorously in Congress. Things like the green new deal and it becomes a plethora of entire sectors of the economy that the government chooses to enrich or strangle. the only exception to this rule should be in time of war where the life the country is at stake as in WWI or II...(wars that are not promotions of the military industrial complex which Gen Smedley Butler wrote about).

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It is only considered fascist when a republican is in the white house... Otherwise, it's a defense of democracy

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It became obvious to anyone paying attention during Covid, that the media is the virus.

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Great post Rav, wow. Yet again I am—to quote Bret Weinstein, "shocked, but not surprised."

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This was done publicly, if quietly. Congress appropriated these funds in the coronavirus bill. YOU PAID FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO BE PROPAGANDIZED BY YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT AND ALL SO-CALLED "PRIVATE" MEDIA. Another insane violation of the 1st Amendment. Remember - the amendments are announcements of our rights, but almost uniformly described as limitations on government's actions. Government became an enforcer for Pfizer's marketing bullshit - making it law and speaking against Pfizer's advertising could get you un-personed, cost you your job, etc.

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It was evident to me during covid that our local media (large, national broadcasting corporations) had an agenda. Every Saturday, thousands (upwards of 10,000) people marched in downtown Calgary in favour of freedom and bodily autonomy. Not ONCE did the news talk about these marches. This was a pretty big deal. RCMP on horseback and on foot closed off portions of the downtown as the crowd marched through. It was a festive and lovely event (except for the folks who spat at us and wished us dead) with Calgarians of all backgrounds and ages. Some were vaccinated and others were not, but they all stood for freedom. People I spoke to in the city had no idea these marches were even going on. So yes, the media is paid by the government to curate exactly what they want the public to see. It's disgusting.

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We all need to stop watching TV news. I am on a lifetime boycott.

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All a result of the Smith-Mundt "Modernization" Act, which was contained within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 . Just one more thing to thank Barack Obama for. The The Smith-Mundt "Modernization" Act made it legal for media outlets to push government propaganda. How do you get a media outlet to push government propaganda? Well, you absolve them of any legal ramifications of literally lying to the public, AND you pay them to do so, of course.

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If you live in Phoenix, Az and have the Arizona Republic as you source of information, today the FRONT PAGE highlights Dr. Hoetz book called "The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science" proclaiming all the truth seekers are responsible for the deaths of 200,000 unvaccinated Americans. It's not crumbling when the media is still BIAS in their information to their readers and viewers! My in-depth report on the issue can be found here: https://thomasabraunrph.substack.com/p/deadly-rise-of-anti-science

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The government had a pathological need to get that vile, destructive liquid inside as many citizens as possible (not illegals...hmm). We need to know why. What are the real underpinnings behind that effort that also spent a HUGE amount of our money to shovel that shit back at us in the form of marketing (shaming marketing)? And the patents on "vaccines" for viruses that supposedly didn't even exist yet. And the ties between the outward "fed", the inward (DS) bureaucracy, big pharma, the UN/WHO/WEF. It's all got to be identified and then tumbled. Completely. This is the tip of the iceberg.

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Money talks and bullshit squawks. True when I first heard it over 50 years ago, still true today.

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