Here's something you will never see on the U.S. corporate media outlets that cheer-leaded the U.S. into supporting this miserable carnage.
All of this could have been avoided, but Joe Biden and his crew of neocons who supported the Iraq debacle (Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken) crave endless war (and see here).
Americans have made themselves very sick. Calley Means delivers a long list of terrifying health statistics. "We are savaging our human capital."
“We’re committing genocide against our children."
Government funding is being proposed for corporate media. This will work in tandem with government censorship to muzzle everyone else (as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals made clear in the case of Missouri v Biden, about to be argued at the U.S. Supreme Court). This dramatic and deplorable proposal is necessary because, as anyone who is paying attention knows, corporate media is a source of non-stop lies on virtually any issue of national importance.
Take-aways from this article:
Establishment media companies are facing a decline in their dominance due to competition from decentralized media.
Some media figures have used recent layoffs at news companies to claim the industry is facing a crisis.
In the U.S., these efforts have coalesced around the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), which would funnel money from Big Tech to the media industry, while excluding independent competitors.
Establishment media companies already receive billions of dollars in subsidies from tech companies and governments around the world, but industry lobbyists still claim the bill is needed to save the industry.
The bill has attracted the support of the censorship industry, which presents the establishment media as a bulwark against alleged mis- and dis-information.
Here are at least a dozen major issues relating to COVID that corporate media outlets are actively refusing to discuss. The US govt has actively worked to keep you from discussing these issues on social media. I don't claim to know the answers, but I desperately want to hear these topics vigorously discussed.
Walter Kirn is spot on . . . .
This is not an organic process. Corporate "journalists" refused to talk about this for years, and then, all of a sudden, they can't stop talking about Joe Biden's cognitive decline. I should add my frustration with the many people who want to frame this as a matter of age. Absolutely not. There are many people in their 80s or even 90s who are capable, even brilliant. The pertinent question is about Biden's cognitive decline, not age per se (even though these somewhat correlate).
The big question is who makes these decisions about what corporate journalists can and cannot talk about in lockstep? It's not those who follow the news. It's not voters and it's not anyone we vote for. Who issued that permission slip? I assume the process involves only a few people and that big money empowers them. Real journalists know that their job is to follow stories and report on them. They know that their job is not to campaign for particular candidates.