Legacy Media Intensifies War On Independent Journalism

Legacy Media Intensifies War on Independent Journalism

Ben Bartee

The latest updates on the “new normal” – chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class.

Despite the near-total consolidation of the corporate media, COVID counter-narratives still leak out through a few (mostly online) independent outlets – most notably Substack.

Moving forward, expect a lot more hitpieces like the recent one below targeting independent journalists on Substack and similar platforms:

Via The Guardian:

“Imran Ahmed, chief executive of [Center for Countering Digital Hate] said companies like Substack were under ‘no obligation’ to amplify vaccine scepticism and make money from it. ‘They could just say no. This isn’t about freedom; this is about profiting from lies … Substack should immediately stop profiting from medical misinformation that can seriously harm readers.'”

(The absurdly-named Center for Countering Digital Hate, along with the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League, is the industry leader in “non-profit” pro-censorship campaigning groups.)

The oligarchs have a dilemma on their hands – one which they have undoubtedly deliberated upon ad nauseam behind closed doors for decades now.

Can the technocrats turn the spigot on and off at will, allowing only the bits of information they want to travel via the IOT and barring others that might harm their agenda?

Therein lies the crux: how to engineer mass information distribution sufficient to support the control grid but simultaneously managed to exert effective control over what the slaves hear and see?

In an earlier time – in the Dark Ages when only the Latin-speaking priest class, who functioned as gatekeepers, had access to the Truth© — they might have been able to keep the rabble in the dark. But not anymore; dissidents now have too many available tools to disseminate countervailing messages.

For every Twitter purge, another Gab pops up.

Of course, the corporate media succeeded in propagandizing some subsection of the population into catatonic fear-induced compliance. They’ll swallow like the Gospel literally whatever slop Neoliberal Church High Priestess© Rachel Maddow dishes out, no matter how absurd.

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