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.
Mar 17
The pro-government Denver Post employed 600 reporters a decade ago. Last week the paper announced it would soon be cutting its news staff from 90 to about 60. The Chicago Tribune also laid off Fourteen newsroom staffers this week. Last month, the San Jose Mercury News was hit with another round of terminations, as many …
Mar 15
Pro-government, or “mainstream” news sources are dying. Readers won’t pay for government propaganda. Now there is word that the Denver Post is eliminating one-third of its newsroom staff. See here.
Feb 07
The New York Times recently published an expose on the struggles of many mid-size “mainstream” newspapers. The headline: “A West Virginia Newspaper Won Journalism’s Top Award. Now It’s Filed for Bankruptcy.” The story details the struggles of the “Charleston Gazette-Mail,” a typical “mainstream” rag whose reporter Eric Eyre won the Pulitzer Prize last year for …
Feb 06
“Mainstream,” or government-supporting “news” outlets are dying. Readers and viewers won’t line up to listen to pro-government drivel. In investigation after investigation, many “mainstream” news media sources have been found to be secretly subsidized by government officials and agencies. Now there is further sad news for “Newsweek,” the news magazine which formerly had hundreds of …
Nov 25
It appears that NBC News visited Glacier National Park’s Grinnell Glacier earlier this year. NBC News repeated the claim of government scientists (prevalent everywhere throughout the Park) that the glaciers at GNP are rapidly melting due to apocalyptic-manmade-global-warming. See here. Lysander Spooner University documented in September of this year that GNP’s famed Grinnell Glacier appears …
Nov 17
The “Huffington Post” is a pro-government extremist online “newspaper” that delivers a steady stream of news reports from the government’s perspective. The “Post” frequently repeats the government meme that “climate change” is a major issue for the common man (even while all polling continuously shows the issue is important only to wealthy elitists in government …
Aug 05
U.S. government agencies such as the FBI and CIA have been secretly funding pro-government “journalists” for years. But when government subsidies are stripped, pro-government media “news” sources frequently have trouble paying their bills. Here is a new report that the pro-government extremist news and commentary site “Salon.com” cannot pay its rent. Salon.com pushes a steady …
Jul 23
The world’s most frequently-visited search engine, Google, has produced “guidelines” for its programmers. Interestingly the guidelines tell programmers to optimize “High quality information pages on scientific topics” which represent “well established scientific consensus on issues where such consensus exists.” (Section 3.2) But writer Leo Goldstein reminds us that “the allegations of “scientific consensus” are made …
Jun 27
For years, government-trusters and pro-government journalists have ran with stories that (private sector) money in politics corrupts election outcomes. But every aspect of the “campaign finance reform” movement proves to be untrue. In fact, Donald Trump managed to defeat Hillary in the recent U.S. presidential election despite BEING OUTSPENT BY MORE THAN 2-TO-1. So the …
Jun 23
The New York Times continues to lose customers, readers, advertisers, and money. Even with the secret payments of government agencies such as the FBI and CIA, the Times is having trouble staying afloat. People simply will not pay money to read the Times‘ tired, old, pro-government extremist content. Here is a recent report indicating that …
