The betrayal of the public by mainstream media

Many of the journalists who were involved in the Twitter files dumps are from Substack. Through OpEds in news portals like The Guardian, these journalists face ad hominin attacks over their political views, form of presentation, subjects they report on, ethics, and so on. There are usually little or no critique of the materials they actually present to the public.

The ultimate persecution is what is happening to Julian Assange. It should be a wake-up call for all journalists around the world. Assange is facing espionage charges, while not being recognised as a journalist. (That's the current tactic now to call independent journalists 'so-called journalists'). Assange is being persecuted for showing the truth, while those exposed for committing war crimes have not faced any investigation or charges.

The mainstream media and its stable of journalist fear crossing establishment narratives.

The media has been silent on Assange, and how the authorities, with their corporate media agents are going after others, using silencing, slandering of character, and deplatforming as methods.

The fourth estate was a term to refer to the press and new media as playing a vital role in a democracy to expose the truth, as a check against abuse of power, criminal activities, and corruption. During the early 1970s we saw two journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the Watergate break ins and hierarchy of White House executives involved, right up to the resignation of the then President Nixon. Today, we see the Hunter Biden laptop story suppressed and not reported by the media, being dismissed as a Russian hoax, which was found to be totally untrue. Journalists followed their masters' directions.

The media partnered with social media platforms to suppress the story, through labelling it as dis-information to sway herd opinion away from the truth. The media industry even awarded the famed Pulitzer Prize based upon a debunked storyabout a Russian collusion story with the Trump campaign during the 2016 election campaign.

We don't know what we don't know

The major issue of today's mainstream media is that we just don't know what we don't know. This is the cover for government to undertake activities, the public knows nothing about. For example, no mainstream media corporation is investigating where the money the US Congress is sending to Ukraine, actually ends up. They are relying upon US Treasury officers assurances for their journalism.

There is little real journalism going on today. There can be no political exposes like there was in the 1970s with Watergate, with the present 'deep state'-like structure imbedded in the mainstream media today. Journalism today is a fantasy. Journalists have become presstitutes, selling out to their employers and holding their political lines. Rebel and you are attacked by the establishment.

The last bastion of independence is independent journalism. They are the last heroes of freedom of speech. However, it maybe too late for them to re-correct democracy.

Anyone who wants to go outside the mainstream media and research the news themselves suffers the disadvantage of search engines being skewed by algorithms, that distort reality into a picture the establishment wants to project. I know this for a fact from a senior manager at Google.

The biggest crisis today, is the crisis of truth. Without a base of truth, and the opinions and conclusions we make from it, we are skewed towards the narratives governments want us to believe in. The world's leaders are not the conspirators, they are also the victims.

It may already be too late to push back on this.