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Your Default Assumption Should Be That Everything Corporate Media Says Is A Lie<\/a>
\nThe media\u2019s deluge of lies about the Rittenhouse case is a disturbing reminder that the corporate press lies about everything all the time.<\/em><\/p>\n

As far as corporate media are concerned, the massacre in Waukesha, Wis., on Sunday was a \u201cChristmas parade crash.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how the attack that killed six people and injured more than 60 others is being described\u00a0by ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Newsweek and others. Not\u00a0an intentional attack<\/a>, not a massacre allegedly committed by\u00a0a violent career criminal<\/a>\u00a0already facing multiple felony charges, but merely a crash. The New York Times is\u00a0calling<\/a>\u00a0it a \u201ctragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Not to be outdone by major news outlets, The Daily Beast rushed to remind its readers<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthere are no indications of any additional motive for the Waukesha killings, or any reasons to label it domestic terrorism. That didn\u2019t stop these right-wing trolls.\u201dOh no we wouldn\u2019t want to assign ideological motives to a case too soon. But these damn right-wing trolls sure will! No mention from the Beast, of course, of the worst possible example of that in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, which every major news organization gladly went along with.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing. The next time you read an article in the New York Times or the Atlantic, watch a bit of breaking news on MSNBC or a panel on CNN, or hear a report on NPR, your default assumption should be that what you are reading, watching, or hearing is not true. Either it is an outright falsehood, a distortion of the facts, or not the whole story. That should be your posture toward literally every piece of news you consume from corporate media from now on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is ample justification for such a posture. It\u2019s justified by every single major news story in recent years \u2014 the Russia collusion hoax, the origins of the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter riots, Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, the debate over Covid vaccines, the January 6 riot, and especially the Rittenhouse trial, to name just a few. Every one of these stories, and many more besides, were dishonestly reported by a corrupt media establishment that you should never trust again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Consider the Rittenhouse trial. How many times in recent weeks did you hear that Rittenhouse \u201ccrossed state lines\u201d with an \u201cillegal firearm\u201d? Or that his mother drove him to Kenosha, Wis., that night? Or that Rittenhouse was a white supremacist and the men he shot were black? How many times did you hear that the Kenosha riot was over the police \u201ckilling\u201d of an \u201cunarmed\u201d black man, Jacob Blake?<\/p>\n

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You probably heard all of that, a lot. We all did. None of it is true. The corporate press lied incessantly about nearly every little detail of the Rittenhouse case, and it was aided in that deception by Big Tech, which has also forfeited any presumption of trust by its users.<\/p>\n

In the immediate aftermath of the Kenosha riots last summer, Facebook proclaimed that Kyle Rittenhouse had committed \u201cmass murder,\u201d blocked all searches of his name, and censored all \u201cpraise or support\u201d for him, including links to fundraising sites contributing to his defense. Eventually, fundraising sites like PayPal and GoFundMe did the same.<\/p>\n

Facebook wasn\u2019t alone. Before Rittenhouse\u2019s trial, Twitter censored and suspended users who dared to say the teenager hadn\u2019t done anything wrong and acted in self-defense. After a jury acquitted Rittenhouse on all counts, confirming that indeed he did nothing wrong and acted in self-defense, Twitter\u00a0continued to censor users and suspend accounts<\/a>\u00a0that declared Rittenhouse\u2019s innocence, even though it was now a matter of judgment in a court of law, not opinion or speculation.<\/p>\n

Big Tech\u2019s official position, long before the trial, was that Rittenhouse was guilty. For Twitter, at least, Rittenhouse remains guilty in some sense, despite his acquittal on all charges. If you wanted to post about the case on these platforms, there was only one opinion you were allowed to have.<\/p>\n

It was the same with The New York Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story last year. Twitter banned the Post over it, suspending its account and demanding the paper delete all tweets about the story, which\u00a0turned out to be completely true<\/a>, as the Post insisted it was and as Hunter\u2019s former busines partner Tony Bobulinski confirmed at the time.<\/p>\n

Regardless, most corporate outlets worked to suppress the story until the election was over. Only this past September did Politico\u00a0admit the story was true.<\/a>\u00a0Yet The New York Times continued to call it \u201cunsubstantiated\u201d before\u00a0quietly deleting the false claim<\/a> amid pushback.<\/p>\n

It is the same with nearly every major issue in every major new cycle. During the gubernatorial election in Virginia, where the influence of critical race theory on public school curricula became a flashpoint in the race, we heard over and over from corporate outlets and talking heads that, actually, critical race theory isn\u2019t even taught in Virginia schools! Glenn Youngkin, they said, was simply lying. But of course\u00a0they were the ones lying<\/a>, along with Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe, whose lies cost him the election.<\/p>\n

Once you notice what is happening, it is impossible to un-see it. Just this past weekend, a shocking\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0by The New York Times about how Hunter Biden helped a Chinese conglomerate secure a major cobalt mine in Congo was\u00a0assiduously ignored by every major news network<\/a>. The networks showed zero curiosity about President Biden\u2019s son facilitating the purchase from an American company of one of the world\u2019s richest cobalt mines in 2016, when Joe Biden was still vice president. Instead, ABC News\u00a0hyped online Black Friday deals<\/a>, while CBS and NBC News focused on LeBron James\u2019 suspension.<\/p>\n

On and on it goes. If the media are not lying outright, they are distorting or ignoring major stories that undermine their preferred narratives. You won\u2019t have to wait long for this to happen again. It will probably happen this week.<\/p>\n

When it does, remember that this is what the corporate press has been doing for years now. They are not interesting in informing their readers and viewers, they are interested only in telling you what to think. That is their entire\u00a0raison d\u2019\u00eatre.<\/em><\/p>\n

And rest assured that if you\u00a0do<\/em> somehow end up with the wrong opinion, Big Tech will silence you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your Default Assumption Should Be That Everything Corporate Media Says Is A Lie The media\u2019s deluge of lies about the Rittenhouse case is a disturbing reminder that the corporate press lies about everything all the time. As far as corporate media are concerned, the massacre in Waukesha, Wis., on Sunday was a \u201cChristmas parade crash.\u201d … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74774,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74772\/revisions\/74774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}