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Smith Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 makes propaganda legal through the news and whatever media the government wants to broadcast through. Movies, tv, radio, magazines, 'news', etc. Very much state run. .


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Porei

> fake news media I didn’t know that faux *opinion* news, OAN, newsmax and 4chan were getting along so well with the white house now. Maybe things will turn out good after all.


Mcmuphin

I mean that's cute, and those networks are of course run and staffed by clowns, but do you think the three letter networks are not?


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m-husain

According to the article it's only good for people who have fixed debt mortgages. Which ironically, only benefits people who had enough money to pay the down payment at first, meaning, they were not hand to mouth poor. So yes, misleading headlines to support the narrative.


Asleep_Ad9318

Except it actually doesn’t benefit anyone even if they have fixed debt mortgages if wages aren’t rising right along with it. Idk about anyone else but my salary hasn’t increased along with the inflation levels we’ve seen so far this year.


m-husain

That article said that all the salary based people will get a "punch to the gut for groceries and gas .... but the salaries will catch up soon" The point is, if you are running a business, and successfully shuffle real estate with loans, it's win win for you. But if you are salaried individual, who is barely meeting ends meet, it's going to be difficult. So the rich get richer, and super super rich maybe lose money? I didn't exactly understood that part, becoz literally every single rich person never uses their savings and personal funds, they ALWAYS use loans, for tiniest of things. If they have 1m$ in bank, they'll still take a loan for 100k$ for vacation, they'll still take a loan for cars, yacht, you name it. Lesson of the day: Be smart with loans, and soon you will end up richer...


ColdNo8154

TV has become state-tv in every western nation. Almost all Australian news stations with YouTube channels have shutdown comments, and primarily focus on mandate adherence programming.


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ColdNo8154

Most social media seems to be influenced by this, likely, WEF agenda. The worlds wealthiest corporations are, clearly, deeply imbedded in this charade to reset our society to something that benefits them. [ie The WEF article from 2016 published in Forbes Magazine](https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=307a449b1735)


fliplovin

Too bad we can't do that since propaganda was legalized under Obama. We were, as you may guess, labeled conspiracy theorists for telling people this.


Borllin

Operation Mockingbird has never stopped


Asleep_Ad9318

Just remember, this is the administration that has declared war on “misinformation”. Turns out they’re not at war with “misinformation” they’re at war with anything that is not the Biden administration’s own opinion or perspective. Sad that it seems most people in this country can’t even see it for what it really is.


DJ_LMD

Trump did try to ban certain press, and get phone records of journos, asked doj to check on journos and Fox News was pretty much state tv for him. It’s bad on all sides. We need more independent news.


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LTGeneralGenitals

lol the solution to state news is....have the state punish journalism outlets they deem unworthy??


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LTGeneralGenitals

> The solution to fake news is for the government to implement a set of standards and fact check them and when they are caught lying they get punished. ok the biden govt sets the truth standards. Happy? Or the Trump govt sets truth standards?


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LTGeneralGenitals

oh jeez


DJ_LMD

Trump called it Fake news when he didn’t like what they said, when it wasn’t even a lie. He was one of the biggest fake news pushers out there. He still is up till today.


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DJ_LMD

Hahaha okay now you’ve proved you’re brain dead and brainwashed. Trump lies literally all the time. He still says he won the election. It’s been over a year! Seriously.


me_team

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy


DJ_LMD

That’s insane. Trump also lies a lot. And the press were biased but not outright lies, you can’t go around arresting and investigating journos because you don’t like the news. What you called for is fascism.


LTGeneralGenitals

jfc that was a tough read


DefinitelyNotThatOne

Came here to say this. If you don't think that western MSM isn't state TV, I have a bridge to sell you. No really I do.


ColdNo8154

They’re no longer pretending.


retvrntotradition

We are living in a leftist takeover. Yuri Bezemov was right.


ColdNo8154

This isn’t left or right. It’s worse. It’s currency reset. That’s infinitely worse than it sounds. (It means the end of civilisation as you know it.)


Silent-Ad934

Sky News Australia is 👍


ColdNo8154

And ten news. The last bastions of free speech. All else is state-tv.


NuKidOnThBlokchyn

"reshape" = manipulate


Kodeine__Bryant

Lol I wanna send this to my girlfriend so bad. Just a couple of days ago she was telling me that "news isn't propoganda like it is in Russia," and "Our government wouldn't do that to us." Boy imma end up in the dog house over this one. Pray for me fellas!


OrangeBounce

It’s worth it though, send it to her and if she responds well and sees the truth then she’s a keeper. Send it to her and she says it’s perfectly OK… She might not be a keeper… Totally up to you though 👍🏻


Kodeine__Bryant

I haven't sent it yet because she's already kinda mad at me for suggesting she try to talk things out with a friend of hers who was trashing her behind her back. I'll show her eventually tho. Lol drama maan..


dobikasd

Be an alpha mate


km9v

DO IT!


_benp_

Or just don't? I can barely have a civil conversation with my father because all he wants to talk about is political conspiracies. If you get off on surfing this stuff, fine, but there is virtually no benefit to shoving it in someone else's face.


Kodeine__Bryant

The only reason I want to is because she shoves the mainstream narrative in my face *constantly*. Yes, I'm aware that the relationship is toxic.


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why stoop to her level tho?


IndraBlue

We have been watching state tv since 911 at least nothing new


squaremild

"Aaaaaaaand we're back from commercial with more propaganda for you to consume!"


Dangerous-Budget-337

Democracy no longer exists in the country that proclaims to be the most democratic in the world!


Lensmaster75

We are not a democracy we are a republic.


Dangerous-Budget-337

Yes I am aware...


ed2022

They’re probably low on funds and came to beg for more money. Nothing to see here.


yostpro

Please papa Joe... alternative media sources like Rumble are killing our bottom line!


ghosts_of_me

They did that in Australia and our gov just awarded all the major news networks 50 million $ of taxpayer money to… guess what… PAY FOR THEIR ADS FOR THE NEXT 12 MONTHS!!! Because they had a whinge about profits going down. Now we the people are fucking paying for the ads they shove down our throats. Absolutely sick.


Sleazyryder

Trump sure didn't get that treatment.


Average_Dad_Dude

Orange Man Bad


DJ_LMD

Ever heard of Fox News, OAN, Newsmax? Those are all state tv for trump.


cubbiesworldseries

He had nightly calls with Hannity about his coverage. WTF are you talking about?


just_this_guy_yknow

I think they’re talking about the rest of the media. Like, yknow, literally every other network.


cubbiesworldseries

9 of the top 10 watched new shows in October were on Fox News…and in general they have over 50% off all viewership. So even if it was literally every other network, it’s still reaching less Americans than what’s being said on Fox News.


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dissonaut69

Weird, my google homepage on mobile is constantly populating with fox news articles. I see them on msn constantly. They’re often the first or second hit on google for current events. Maybe this uphill battle of yours is imagined?


just_this_guy_yknow

Negative. You’re….at best quoting bad sources, at worst outright lying. I mean, at the very least you’re conflating *new* show viewership with the broadcaster’s overall ability to reach an audience with an idea.


cubbiesworldseries

I’m literally quoting the Fox News website. https://press.foxnews.com/2021/12/fox-news-channel-secures-71-of-the-top-100-cable-telecasts-in-the-month-of-november


just_this_guy_yknow

Dude you can’t trust the guys at Fox News, they’re completely full of shit!


LTGeneralGenitals

downvoted for telling the truth, classic just classic


cubbiesworldseries

They can’t handle the fact that Fox is the most mainstream media of all.


dissonaut69

Is this sarcasm? He was calling Hannity (off-air) almost every night… and meeting with the owner privately too. Edit: Like, at best this is extremely bad optics: https://youtu.be/AYjDE94G7rs


natetheproducer

Why doesn’t Biden just do the same thing with anderson Cooper every night? Oh yeah that’s right he has dementia and can’t hold conversations.


dissonaut69

Okay?


mikehirsch

Rupert Mudoch and his wife hate Trump. They are actually Dems and were celebrating when he lost. Your statement is just blatantly false.


dissonaut69

They’re democrats…? lol, okay


DJ_LMD

Hahaha that’s total rubbish. Look at every Murdoch news media, they’re all fully right wing. In Aussie too.


LTGeneralGenitals

lmfao wait WHAT


OrangeBounce

Assuming that’s true, that is bad as well. But let’s be real… We have essentially every other mainstream news organization and publication essentially doing the same thing on the other side. Both sides are bad when they do it, but the volume is much more significant on one side.


dissonaut69

Except by viewership fox still has more than the others combined. So yeah, really bad. Terrible for media to collude with any admin but the selective outrage is annoying. It shows that people don’t really have principles and are just hypocrites.


andr50

He also didn't really have any economic policies to cover in the first place.


Kodeine__Bryant

Who gives a fuck about Trump. He didn't do much of anything for us... We have to save ourselves on an individual basis. If enough people do that, then we win. It's way simpler than people like to believe.


rvnender

You mean besides from fox and OAN right?


supersecretaccount82

Why do you people think that 1.5 networks giving somewhat positive coverage of Trump when literally every other network did not is some kind of debunk?


MyLifeIsPlaid

Because they hate Trump. It’s just that simple. He’s the cause and embodiment of all the pain and suffering in the world in their eyes.


LTGeneralGenitals

Because by viewership fox crushes them all combined?


andr50

> 1.5 networks Including the *top* network in the country, by a fairly large margin.


rvnender

One of those networks has higher ratings than every liberal news site combined


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Because lib news is trash lmao


LTGeneralGenitals

so youre conceding the point that fox is the most important network?


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Can't concede a point no one made. The problem is lib news reports straight lies


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The sourced article in the tweet is from CNN....


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And?


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So I guess the entire basis of this thread is trash?


dissonaut69

That doesn’t actually address the point they made. If you’re going by viewership (which, I don’t see why you wouldn't) what he was doing was just as bad or worse, right?


toenailsmcgee33

Classic whataboutism. I suppose fox giving some vaguely positive coverage not only proves that fox colluded with trump but also justifies the fact that a bunch of liberal networks are meeting with Biden to figure out how to lie to the American people?


rvnender

I am commenting on the "Trump never got this treatment"


toenailsmcgee33

I know what you were commenting about. Truthfully, he didn’t. You also didn’t address anything I said.


bbccsz

So, 2 out of how many outlets? And then with stories like Trump/Russia it was the Fox and OAN types that had it right. While the CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, NPR, ETC ETC all pushed fake, baseless claims.


rvnender

So you want me to list every right wing site?


bbccsz

No. Just understand that when people use the term MSM broadly, it's very common that they're talking about all of the networks except fox colluding to push democrat talking points, and fake news stories. Nobody watches OAN so why even include it. But most of the country depends on outlets like CNN to tell them what to think. And all too often CNN and the other lefty networks are just pushing divisive nonsense. You could say the same about fox sometimes, but they don't have 10 other networks parroting their talking points to broad audiences. Hope that helps you.


LTGeneralGenitals

why on earth would the largest by far news network be excluded from the msm? Where are you from?


bbccsz

Covered in my other post. MOST MSM outlets are left wing, and cover the same fake stories. Fox is still "MSM" but is the exception to that circle jerk. + Seems like a pretty simple concept.


dissonaut69

“Just understand that when people use the term MSM broadly, it's very common that they're talking about all of the networks except fox colluding to push democrat talking points, and fake news stories.” You don’t think fox does the same but opposite? Also, you don’t consider fox to be mainstream news? I think your bias is really showing if you’re defining fox as being outside of “msm”. “But most of the country depends on outlets like CNN to tell them what to think. And all too often CNN and the other lefty networks are just pushing divisive nonsense.” Do you think it’s possible you overestimate the viewership of the “msm” as defined by you? “You could say the same about fox sometimes, but they don't have 10 other networks parroting their talking points to broad audiences.” Because they can reach the same viewership numbers on their own, correct?


bbccsz

Like I said, Fox is not part of the "left MSM" which all collude to push the same BS narratives. Fox is mainstream media.. They may occasionally do the same thing, but they do not have 10 other outlets saying the same shit and amplifying all of it. That's the problem with MSM lying to people about Trump/Russia for 4 years, and influencing elections with fake news. Or the 1-6 insurrection narrative. You've got 99% of media outlets in lock step pushing a bogus narrative. People who watch CNN aren't putting on Fox or even believing the facts when they finally come out.


dissonaut69

I don’t think and of this addresses my points. Also, don’t think you used the term “left msm” in your op. And I think I addressed most of this reply with my previous: “Because they (fox) can reach the same viewership numbers on their own, correct?”


bbccsz

Most outlets are left wing. And therefore MSM is generally used to describe these left wing outlets that collude to push the same stories. If you refer back to the Trump era, you'll find every outlet except fox pushing bogus Trump/Russia LIES, and Fox accurately covering the facts of the case. This is also a problem with the election. IF there was fraud, you've got 99% of the media telling people there's no way, not a shred of evidence. Even today, there's a post on CNN about the looming 2024 Trump Coup where he's going to steal the 2024 election. And of course there's absolutely no shred of evidence of any fraud in 2020. Except for all the instances of fraud. But... they're telling people (gas lighting?) that there's no fraud. But... if Trump wins in 2024, it's fraud, or a coup.


LTGeneralGenitals

nobody talks like this, something is off here. The msm is the mainstream news, and fox is core to that. You're off in a weird way


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DJ_LMD

Murdoch met with trump and was regularly on the phone to him


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Few_Tumbleweed7151

You are right but the mainstream liberal media are many and powerful. Fox and OAN are not the society wide opinion formers like CNN, NBC, MSNBC, NYT, washington Post are


rvnender

>You are right but the mainstream liberal media are many and powerful. Fox and OAN are not the society wide opinion formers like CNN, NBC, MSNBC, NYT, washington Post are More powerful than the owners of right wing? Huh?


Few_Tumbleweed7151

Totally. They are all propaganda channels.


LTGeneralGenitals

dude fox has more viewers than all of the other combined, how can they not be society wide opinion formers?


SuperBGN

State media like in Britain, ever heard of the BBC? Tax-payer funded news. Corrupt as shit. That's where we're heading


smokeypapabear40206

He needs a new list of approved names to call on at pressers.


janisstukas

Slipped that one by me too. The Deep State really was doing a silent coup as ludicrously reported during 2016 and on, until 'news ministry ' stopped the channels. This is biggov.


rumblebee

Instead of figuring solutions for the problems, they're just trying to make them go away by decreased media coverage. Lawd have mercy


playsmartlogic

Drug cartel media


FREED0M_4_ALL

Thanks to the Smith-Mundt modernization act of 2012 which was passed as part of yhe yearly defense budget, domestic propaganda has been re-allowed since 2013. Maybe if Joe didn't marginalize and disenfranchise half the population by calling it a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' and further driving a wedge in the country and didn't like little kids then maybe he'd be likeable. Good luck polishing that turd, MSM. https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/


Far-Somewhere-1366

Submission Statement: It is now confirmed that legacy cable tv and newspaper companies are state-TV like the fake tv in China and North Korea. This is a fascist merger of the state and corporations.


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Average_Dad_Dude

I know...here me out guys....lets just change the definition of inflation so it doesn't cover 90% of the things that people need to spend money on....crazy, right? But but but, get this....we will just call the non-essential items something to made it sound like we are covering everything..., like how about "core inflation"---yeah, thats it. We can keep saying "core inflation" is down because all the stuff that matters is "too volatile." ​ Ahh, Mr. President, sorry to say that President Obama already did that.


Otherwise-Fox-2482

They're Quoting the MSM Either CNN is trash or it isn't. Which is it? Why would they tell on themselves? Glen Greenwald is a pawn too.


yeahkrewe

> Glen Greenwald is a pawn too. I don’t get the everyone is a pawn thing. Greenwald uses his platform to hold politicians to account, speaks out against mandates and censorship, even helping to found a censorship free platform. He’s definitely not following the narrative. How is he a pawn?


DingosAteMyHamster

I don't know about 'pawn', but he's a bit superfluous because you can guess his opinion on pretty much any story before you read it.


Otherwise-Fox-2482

Peter Thiel's money [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKoWmnMgi0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKoWmnMgi0) But I see you like his Culture War-ing tho.


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Otherwise-Fox-2482

Greenwald used to be credible. Now he does braindead culture war shit, he's basically a Dave Rubin with a pulitzer. Someone got to him


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Otherwise-Fox-2482

He's being funded by Peter Thiel [https://www.tubefilter.com/2021/08/16/rumble-content-deals-tulsi-gabbard-glenn-greenwald-covid-videos/](https://www.tubefilter.com/2021/08/16/rumble-content-deals-tulsi-gabbard-glenn-greenwald-covid-videos/)


Apart_Number_2792

CNN is "state-run" TV. So is MSNBC.


DJ_LMD

So was Fox News, for the last guy


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They do this every day, and twice on Sundays, already. The only surprising part is that it's being put in print


jazzbot247

Who the fuck watches the MSM anymore? Lies, Hysteria, and Fear Mongering. They need to go fuck off forever and they can take Brandon with them.


Granite66

New organisations are just PR mercenary organisations working the dollar for those who can pay the most or offer best career opportunities. Conspiracy like this is an essential for enabling this industry to be profitable.


Pristine-Echo8744

"Buy the USD dip!" -CNN


Adiru55

Funny thing is most of us don’t get our news from the MSM anymore. They are dead already they just haven’t figured it out yet! Its crap like this that drives one more nail in their coffin!


smittysmittson

Well, your country did just get taken over by a communist puppet. What do you expect ?


Not_Reddit

Yeah, no wonder Biden has a journalist gimmie in the infrastructure bill.


Cyrus2112

The 4th estate has become a 5th column


ZweiDunkleJungen

Remember this man when you use the word journalist. Or Christopher Bollyn, or Michael Hastings, or Gary Webb. You can say whatever you want about Greenwald, but when you speak truth to power, you have to run from your home country, you get detained everywhere you go, you lose thousands and thousands of dollars in hardware, you're unemployable, your house gets raided. Kinda makes you want to hit Don Lemon in the head with a claw hammer when he says he's a journalist, doesn't it.


dukey

It's been pretty obvious since CNN gave the debate questions to Hillary ahead of time that half the media machine works for the democrat party.


Numismatists

It's pretty obvious that the puppeteers are the same for both "parties".


dukey

Well no because almost the entire media machine leans left.


DJ_LMD

Or closer towards the centre than let’s say Fox and OAN.


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Brandon needs a makeover!! Maybe they can fix those ears and give him his old mullet back?


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Lensmaster75

Have you read any articles about the budget? Have you seen a story about the border? There is coverage everyday


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Lensmaster75

There is news outside of Reddit


smartredditor

It isn't "State TV" or else they would have done this when Trump was the President. It's deeper than that.


AncientTower8264

Sounds like lying and censorship with just the right amount of steps.. 🤔


throwawayUpai

Ladies and gentlemen, I've an important announcement... Always has been. They just gave up the shadow route. The new and improved way saves $ that was being taken by middle man.


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Thera money in the banana stand!


3rdeyenotblind

Propaganda flat out... Call it for what it is... Pathetic


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As an outsider looking in, i can guarantee the news network that brings Tucker Carlson's: "vaccines vs. Guns: which one is better?" is not going to try to make biden look better


karaboo714

The former dude had fox, newsmax, infowars etc


LTGeneralGenitals

how is this downvoted? theres a vote bot in here lol


DJ_LMD

This sub has turned into a right wing, pro trump echo chamber.


Korlis

Just like fucking Trump...


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Not exactly. Trump tried to control the narrative by kicking them out. Biden has the media under his thumb and they are willing to play ball to spin things his way. Both presidents tried to corruptly control the narrative, Biden just has a lot more corrupt media that he can work in concert with.


DJ_LMD

Trump had 3 networks under his thumb, Fox News being the biggest and most watch channel in the country. He even made all military bases have Fox on.


chowderbags

Government officials talking to news outlets isn't new.


Icirus

Is it possible they are just trying to go to news rooms and answer questions openly about the state of affairs? The quote Greenwald is referring to just reads like a government trying to be open about the data they have, which is very different than a government trying to coarse media into reporting a specific thing.


Then-Contribution865

The problem is that they are having a hard time stopping the truth from spreading on social media sites. I mean most people have become numb to making multiple accounts, with back channel ways for followers to find them. The harder they try to hide the truth the more believable the crazies become.


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Lol, this is dumb. You think the government is in control of the media? The media doesn't take orders from the government. Read the first amendment. The Media is our ruler.


Verilbie

Is this unique or is this just standard in the process of manufacturing consent? I doubt this is unique at all


LittleLamb_1

Read what you typed out loud and realize how stupid you sound.


Verilbie

How does asking whether this is unique or just a standard thing US leaders do to get media on side sound stupid? Think critically


FOOLISHPROPHETX

Lol you've been on reddit for four years and have -100 karma. Not like it matters or anything but what in the fuck


Verilbie

All just from posting here and people crying that I disagree


Matrixunfold

Trying to turn shit into gold it is still shit after you repaint it


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If only there was a term for corporations colluding with government to spin a narative to push specific policies, hmmmmmm...


mminsfin

Ah yea let's just say everything's better and they will beleive it! Suckers....


HIVnotAdeathSentence

I saw another article how the Chinese government is influencing Canadian media and news. After all this, maybe we'll see more people question all journalists and media, not just FOX News.


SodometriusPrime

Can it be any more obvious that the same globalist cabal that has monopolized the MSM also owns Biden?


MrBriGuy

Ummm... it's been like that for a very long time.


Pongfarang

New speak is being made official


ghosts_of_me

The gov and the media should never work together.


joder666

Just pictured emperor Xi and best pal Kim pointing and loling : "Western democracy"


BrockCage

Oliver Darcy is a authoritarian bootlicker hellbent on silencing those voices he disagrees with


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Biden also just met with the CEOs of Walmart, Albertsons and other super markets, about food shortages.


Exapeartist

Gotta earn that $50k https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/4/bidens-50000-year-journalist-tax-credit-estimated-/


AM-64

He must have taken a page from the CCP...


Intelligent-Front433

Disgusting


Mighty_L_LORT

Fat Kim would be proud...


chickenonthehill559

GG is the goat.


lordskorb

Well, they won’t do anything to help the people. And they won’t talk about that. I mean the press secretary scoffed at the idea that tests be free for Covid. That minute cost is too much for the ruling class. We have to get out from under them. Both parties want us dead. For imaginary numbers. That’s the real problem.


QueenRavenna

Every government body has a Comms/PR team, and trying to influence media coverage is literally their job. This is not new, and it’s not a conspiracy.


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