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Mainstream media in America truly is an enemy of the people

  

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Via:  heartland-american  •  4 years ago  •  54 comments

By:   John R. Smith

Mainstream media in America truly is an enemy of the people
The American institutional media truly has become an enemy of the people. They withhold the truth or bury it on the back page. They whitewash or ignore good news coming from conservative politicians and instead create false news to undermine them. The NY Times has become infamous for writing articles that take the news and add their own editorial opinions, manufacturing their own versions of the news, twisting the truth to fit their political agenda by basing their “news” on other news that...

This is right on.  The lamestream media truly are the enemy of the truth and of the American people.  The msm liberal bias is clear for all to see as is their self protecting fact checking gatekeepers.  If something is good for America, the American people, our economy, or our national security we can count on the mainstream media to be forcefully against it.  If it’s about stuff like China, the green new deal, socialism, or engaging in TDS, they are all in.  The mainstream media and its apologists truly are the biggest domestic enemies of we the people.  


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I submit, for your reading pleasure, the notion that perhaps the greatest enemy facing the American public today is a mainstream media and press that has become corrupt beyond belief. 

The broad media in America is always trying to divide us. They delight in keeping people at each other’s throats, and scaring us. They figure that’s the best way to have the Great Public Eyeball continuing to return to their print pages or their broadcast screens. The American mainstream media is the world’s greatest player of the “Gotcha” blame-game. This is how the broadcast MSM, in particular, has polarized America in their continuing search to find fault and blame. Many reporters’ questions to Donald Trump, for example, are not designed to illuminate an issue, the intent is to undermine the President.  “Journalists” do not understand that sometimes circumstances are unpredictable, causing errors or disasters, and that some group or some political party or some individual is not to blame. Instead, commentators feast on destroying reputations and personal credibility.

Don’t believe me? Listen to the questions asked by the talking heads on news outlets like CNN, MSNBC and the other leftist media outlets. Over 90% of their news coverage of Donald Trump is negative, much of it arising from disingenuous, dishonest commentary and questions asked by MSM news hosts. These media people are fanatical and rabid over their personal campaigns to find fault with “everything American”, and to blame conservatives. There is no shame among the biased reporters who accuse Trump of pushing Grandma under the bus and killing WWII vets, just to juice the Dow.

The media bristles at the term “fake news”, but they bristle because they know it’s accurate. Deep down, some of these so-called journalists know it’s true. Others will never admit it because their hyper-partisanship has blinded their mental outlook. 

Many folks on the right would like to sue the press for lying to us, for decades. Ask yourself who you trust more to tell you the truth—the American political commentators or the Trump White House. Polls say, to the extent polls can be trusted, that more Americans trust Trump than the national media. Not only that, 2/3 of those polled believed 75% of social media news is biased or inaccurate. Fewer than one in 10 state they respect Congress. The loss of confidence in both television news and newspapers has declined by over 10 percentage points in the last decade, down to about 20% for each group.

Culminating in the coronavirus, most everything has changed in this world over the last couple of years—except the biased media. In January, the media did not criticize, and did not question, the virus misinformation, lies and stonewalling coming out of China, thus failing to give us information early on. When it became obvious that Communist China was lying, the media avoided condemning them and failed to call China’s hand when it accused the U.S. of causing the virus outbreak in China. Instead, the press blamed the president.

The leftist media even poo-pooed the seriousness of the virus. Here’s a Washington Post headline in late January: “Why we should be wary of an aggressive government response to coronavirus”; another on Feb. 1: “Get a grippe, America. The flu is a much bigger threat than coronavirus, for now.”

The American institutional media truly has become an enemy of the people. They withhold the truth or bury it on the back page. They whitewash or ignore good news coming from conservative politicians and instead create false news to undermine them. The NY Times has become infamous for writing articles that take the news and add their own editorial opinions, manufacturing their own versions of the news, twisting the truth to fit their political agenda by basing their “news” on other news that was false.

Finally, tell me, where are the legitimate mainstream journalists who should be deeply embarrassed by what their occupation has become? Why do too many of them stay silent? Perhaps they fear they will be fired by bosses who were trained in the socialist journalism schools of the 1960s, to hate American businesses, the military, and conservative thinking.


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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    4 years ago

the greatest enemy facing the American public today is a mainstream media and press that has become corrupt beyond belief. 

The broad media in America is always trying to divide us. They delight in keeping people at each other’s throats, and scaring us. They figure that’s the best way to have the Great Public Eyeball continuing to return to their print pages or their broadcast screens. The American mainstream media is the world’s greatest player of the “Gotcha” blame-game. This is how the broadcast MSM, in particular, has polarized America in their continuing search to find fault and blame. Many reporters’ questions to Donald Trump, for example, are not designed to illuminate an issue, the intent is to undermine the President.  “Journalists” do not understand that sometimes circumstances are unpredictable, causing errors or disasters, and that some group or some political party or some individual is not to blame. Instead, commentators feast on destroying reputations and personal credibility.

Don’t believe me? Listen to the questions asked by the talking heads on news outlets like CNN, MSNBC and the other leftist media outlets. Over 90% of their news coverage of Donald Trump is negative, much of it arising from disingenuous, dishonest commentary and questions asked by MSM news hosts. These media people are fanatical and rabid over their personal campaigns to find fault with “everything American”, and to blame conservatives. There is no shame among the biased reporters who accuse Trump of pushing Grandma under the bus and killing WWII vets, just to juice the Dow.

The media bristles at the term “fake news”, but they bristle because they know it’s accurate.  

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1  devangelical  replied to  XXJefferson51 @1    4 years ago
the greatest enemy facing the American public today is a mainstream media and press

conservatives hate the 1st amendment. tough shit.

go ahead trumpsters,

try and take it away,

watch what happens,

the very next day.

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1.2  devangelical  replied to    4 years ago
going to sue them out of existence for lying.....they have to tell the truth or get sued into bankruptcy

FOX long ago proved in court that lying is protected free speech. where have you been? still looking for somebody to blame for a lack of truth in broadcasting? go dig ronny raygun up.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.3  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  devangelical @1.1    4 years ago

Actually it’s the defenders of the enemy mainstream media who are the ones trying to snatch away the first amendment rights of the alternative media and its supporters.  Internet social media sites such as Facebook are the worst offending bigots in this regard.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.4  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to    4 years ago

CNN, the China News Network. 

 
 
 
KDMichigan
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1.1.6  KDMichigan  replied to  devangelical @1.1    4 years ago
conservatives hate the 1st amendment.

They do? Please explain how? 

Do you even know what the 1st amendment is?

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.7  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to    4 years ago

The lamestream media hate Fox News because it exposes the fraud the the msm truly is.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.8  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  devangelical @1.1    4 years ago

What’s going to happen the next day.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1.9  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  devangelical @1.1    4 years ago

We used the 1st amendment to good effect today In Lansing, Mi.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  XXJefferson51 @1    4 years ago

If I were writing the headline I would have said that they are THE enemy of the American people, not just an enemy.  Of course the msm is a tool of the democrat party. 

 
 
 
JBB
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2  JBB    4 years ago

Biz-Pac and John R Smith are enemies of the truth!

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  JBB @2    4 years ago

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XXJefferson51
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2.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  JBB @2    4 years ago

You forgot the bigots and haters at the terrorist inspiring racist and misogynistic corrupt SPLC!  

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3  JohnRussell    4 years ago
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Just watched Mike Wallace wannabe, Chris Wallace, on @ FoxNews . I am now convinced that he is even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Meet the Press(please!), or the people over at Deface the Nation. What the hell is happening to @ FoxNews . It’s a whole new ballgame over there!

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Your president* is a clown. 
 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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3.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  JohnRussell @3    4 years ago

Way to go Mr. President!  Way to take down the msm to their faces at the beginning of his daily briefing.  Bravo 👏 put those jackals in their place...

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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3.2.3  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to    4 years ago

CNN and the New York Slimes deserved the beat down they rightly received today.  Trump rightly put them in their place.  

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.2.4  Tessylo  replied to  XXJefferson51 @3.2.3    4 years ago

How did he do that?

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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3.2.5  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Tessylo @3.2.4    4 years ago

By playing their own words back to them from the time frame under discussion.  

 
 
 
Tacos!
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4  Tacos!    4 years ago

The most nauseating thing lately is this narrative that Democrats and MSM always saw the serious threat of coronavirus, were calling it and focusing on it since like, November or something, and Trump and conservative media were pretending it was all fake into March. What a blatant lie, but they just keep repeating it.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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4.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Tacos! @4    4 years ago

The sole focus of democrats and the fake news was overthrowing the 2016 election via faux impeachment charges.  

 
 
 
Tessylo
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4.2  Tessylo  replied to  Tacos! @4    4 years ago

What happened to February?

Pretty big gap don't you think?

tRump knew since late November and did nothing until about March 12th

 
 
 
Tacos!
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4.2.1  Tacos!  replied to  Tessylo @4.2    4 years ago

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Just Jim NC TttH
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4.2.2  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  Tessylo @4.2    4 years ago
tRump knew since late November and did nothing until about March 12th

Prove it...............

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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4.2.3  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @4.2.2    4 years ago

Tess has nothing....

 
 
 
arkpdx
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4.2.4  arkpdx  replied to  XXJefferson51 @4.2.3    4 years ago

Never does. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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4.2.5  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @4.2.2    4 years ago

Still waiting for that proof.  🦗 🦗 🦗 

 
 
 
Steve Ott
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5  Steve Ott    4 years ago

How is mainstream media even defined these days?

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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5.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Steve Ott @5    4 years ago

If they hate our country and parrot communist China propaganda talking points in order to oppose the American President they are the mainstream media.  

 
 
 
Steve Ott
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5.1.1  Steve Ott  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5.1    4 years ago

If the president were a democrat, would the above still hold true? I fear not. Rather reminds me of the discussions we used to hold at university about situational ethics.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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5.1.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Steve Ott @5.1.1    4 years ago

He could have run as one but the democrats forsook their working class base for the Wall Street bankster class so he appealed to the working class via the GOP and helped its base to root out our establishment but not middle class investors who stayed with the base.  

 
 
 
Steve Ott
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5.1.3  Steve Ott  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5.1.2    4 years ago

That really doesn't answer the question.

 
 
 
bbl-1
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6  bbl-1    4 years ago

Everything is an 'enemy' to Donald J. Trump.  Even himself.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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6.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  bbl-1 @6    4 years ago

America and the American people are not enemies of our President and he respects us, unlike the other side.  

 
 
 
Steve Ott
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6.1.1  Steve Ott  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6.1    4 years ago
the American people are not enemies of our President

Well, 46% of the voters anyway.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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6.1.2  Tessylo  replied to  Steve Ott @6.1.1    4 years ago

I'd say more like 30% support this turd 'president'

 
 
 
Steve Ott
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6.1.3  Steve Ott  replied to  Tessylo @6.1.2    4 years ago

Whatever the percentage, it was enough to get him elected.I just keep trying to make the point, which is mostly ignored, that less than a majority of Americans support Trump. Seems to me that most conservatives are trying to make the point that most Americans are really not Americans. There are a lot of mind bending semantic games played on both sides, and I detest it.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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6.1.4  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Steve Ott @6.1.1    4 years ago

He will like Bush in 2004, win an outright majority of the popular vote in 2020 and add Minnesota and New Hampshire to all the states he won last time.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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6.1.5  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Tessylo @6.1.2    4 years ago

Trump -Pence 2020. KAG! 🇺🇸🗽🦅

 
 
 
Steve Ott
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6.1.6  Steve Ott  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6.1.4    4 years ago

Perhaps, but the fact remains that in the present, he has no such majority. Which is exactly why I keep asking the question, do conservatives believe that over 50% of the voters are in fact not American? If not, then use appropriate language.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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6.1.7  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Steve Ott @6.1.6    4 years ago

A majority of the people supported Trump on his handling of the Economy and a majority approve of how he is handling the Wuhan virus pandemic. 

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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7  Dismayed Patriot    4 years ago

Mainstream: noun - the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional; the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts.

The majority of Americans know the "mainstream" media is speaking truth. The majority don't believe the nonstop lies coming from right wing media morons and half-wit conspiracy theorists. The majority don't believe a word out of this inept worthless narcissist who the minority elected President. He is a monumental liar and the majority know it for a fact, there is no other excuse but for the claim of his bottom feeding followers who claim every politician lies so it doesn't matter that their selected President can't tell the truth to save his life.

This Presidents ineptitude has cost thousands of American lives, the blood is on his and his followers hands, there is simply no excuse for their continued support for such a worthless cretin. I doubt there is one, but if there is, may their absent God have mercy on their souls.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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7.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @7    4 years ago

It is because of posts like the above and so many like it that is going to make the re election of Trump all the more rewarding and pleasurable for us.  We eagerly look 👀 forward to four more years of reading pleasure.  

 
 

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