Governments worldwide have always sought to control discourse. CIA analysts report that it is cheaper for governments to buy a journalist than to buy a hooker.
Feb 22
In just the past decade, Germany has fallen under increasing government control. The German government’s censorship regime was recently highlighted in the U.S. “60 Minutes” news program. 60 Minutes produced a favorable expose’ about German censorship which included video of a German arrest raid aimed at silencing social media posts. One German recently saw …
Nov 02
A typical Alex Jones Infowars daily broadcast may get 2 million listeners. Joe Rogan’s podcast often receives 12 million viewers or listeners. Dan Bongino’s radio show gets some 8.5 million listeners daily. Even ‘B-list’ independent personalities such as Steven Crowder regularly have hundreds of thousands of daily viewers. But “mainstream” news (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.)–which …
Jan 23
“The Los Angeles Times, the largest newspaper in California and one of the biggest by circulation in the entire United States, was hit with a heavy round of layoffs Tuesday.” More than 110 positions within the company were eliminated; roughly one-fourth of the Times’ workforce. People just won’t pay to read pro-government extremist propaganda. Meanwhile, …
Jan 13
New York City. Columbia School of Journalism. Jan. 13, 2024. “The Atlantic” Magazine, a far-left, pro-government extremist publication, recently published an article entitled Substack Has a Nazi Problem. The article made a number of factual claims, including a claim that large numbers of “nazis” are now on the Substack platform writing profitable columns with mountains …
Dec 22
Glenn Greenwald. 12/21/2023. Carlson’s podcast–although it doesn’t even exist yet–is about to pass the NYT’s The Daily. “Roughly half of the top 50 news podcasts are independent media.” See here. “Corporate media is still in full denial about this.” “Mainstream” information sources–meaning those that are government supporting and (secretly) government supported–simply are no longer mainstream. …
Dec 02
Readers won’t pay to read endless government propaganda. “mainstream” “news” sources (meaning those that supply government-supporting, government-supported, “news”) have lost millions of viewers and readers. Now one of the government’s biggest cheerleaders, the Washington Post, is needing to cut ANOTHER 240 jobs. This represents ten percent of the Post’s overall staff. The Post, which is owned by “one …
Oct 11
Pro-government extremist “news” outlets can’t get people to pay to read their government propaganda. The Washington Post is both government supporting and government supported. Its directors have been repeatedly linked to the CIA. The “news”paper constantly publishes the news from the perspective desired by government agencies and intelligence departments. Many suspect the paper is secretly …
Apr 17
Astounding revelations are tumbling out of the Elon Musk proposal to purchase Twitter. Or conspiracy theories; depending on one’s perspective. Tech analysts at the Conservative Tree House and elsewhere have spent thousands of hours studying Twitter’s business model. They contend that Twitter simply cannot exist without massive secret support from immensely deep pockets. “In the …
Apr 14
If not for secret payments by CIA, would MSNBC even exist? In 1975 the US Senate Church Committee found that the CIA was secretly paying major news reporters for pro-government “journalism.” Congress passed no laws prohibiting the practice. Today it is estimated that the CIA likely spends billions annually on “mainstream” “news.” During the rollout …
Mar 05
From the book “Famous Financial Fiascos” by John Train (1985): The western world’s elites first began pondering the development of a canal across the Isthmas of Panama in the 1880s. It was the French government that initiated the project. (Later, the US government took the lead in the decades-long project.) Train writes that the leading …
