by Michael Snyder
December 23, 2012
from
EndOfTheAmericanDream Website
Spanish version
For decades, the mainstream media in the United
States was accustomed to being able to tell the American people what to
think.
Unfortunately for them, a whole lot of Americans
are starting to break free from that paradigm and think for themselves. A
Gallup survey from earlier this year found that 60 percent of all Americans
“have
little or no trust” in the mainstream media.
More people than ever are realizing that the
mainstream media is giving them a very distorted version of “the truth” and
they are increasingly seeking out alternative sources of information.
In the
United States today,
just
six giant media corporations control the mainstream media.
Those giant media corporations own television
networks, cable channels, movie studios, radio stations, newspapers,
magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many prominent websites.
But now thanks to the Internet the mainstream
media no longer has a complete monopoly on the news. In recent years the
“alternative media” has exploded in popularity. People want to hear about
the things that the mainstream media doesn’t really want to talk about. They
want to hear news that is not filtered by corporate bosses and government
censors.
They want “the truth” and they know that they
are not getting it from the mainstream media.
We are watching a media revolution happen, and
many in the mainstream media are totally freaking out about it. In fact,
some in the mainstream media have even begun publishing articles that mock
the American people for not trusting them.
For example, a recent CNN article entitled “Still
‘paranoid’ after all these years” portrayed Americans that don’t trust
the media as paranoid conspiracy theorists that have left rationality
behind:
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Ever have the feeling you’re being lied
to by the news media, the authorities, the corporate world? That
somebody - or something - is out to get you? You’re not alone.
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Welcome to 21st-century America.
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Look around. Trust is hitting historic
lows. Just
a third of Americans have a favorable view of the federal
government, a decline of 31% since 2002, according to the Pew Center
for People and the Press. Gallup has Congress’ approval rating
is in the low 20s, after nearing single digits last summer. And
the news media
aren’t much better off.
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“Negative opinions about the performance
of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of
12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since
1985,” a Pew report said.
The article goes on to make it sound like it is
very irrational
not to trust the media, but in this day and age it is
imperative that we all learn to think for ourselves.
Blindly trusting someone else to do your
thinking for you is very dangerous.
Anyone that does not acknowledge that the
mainstream media has an agenda is not being honest with themselves.
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The
mainstream media presents a view of the world that is very favorable to
their big corporate owners and the big corporations that spend billions of
dollars to advertise on their networks.
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The mainstream media is the mouthpiece of the
establishment, and the worldview being pushed on the big networks is going
to be consistent with the economic, financial, political and social goals of
the establishment.
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The mainstream media loves to talk about things
that fit with that agenda, and they don’t like to talk about things that
suggest that there is something wrong with that agenda.
The following are 25 facts that the mainstream
media doesn’t really want to talk about right now:
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that gun sales are
absolutely skyrocketing in the aftermath of the horrific tragedy
at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that disarming the population has resulted in
some of the most horrific massacres in human history.
The following
is from
the Warrior Times:
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1911 - Turkey disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1915-1917
they murdered 1.5 million Armenians.
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1929 - Russia disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1929-1953
they murdered 20 million Russians.
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1935 - China disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1948-1952
they murdered 20 million Chinese.
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1938 - Germany disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1939-1945
they murdered 16 million Jews.
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1956 - Cambodia disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1975-1977
they murdered 1 million Educated people.
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1964 - Guatemala disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1964-1981
they murdered 100,000 Mayan Indians.
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1970 - Uganda disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1971-1979
they murdered 300,000 Christians.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that a bill allowing for the “indefinite
military detention of US citizens on American soil” was passed
by the U.S. Senate on Friday.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that volcanoes all along
the Ring of Fire are roaring to life. It seems like a new
eruption is being reported every few days now. In fact, a
red alert has just been issued for a massive volcano that sits
along the border between Chile and Argentina.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that the use of genetically engineered seeds
has caused on explosion of new “super
weeds” that are incredibly difficult for farmers to kill.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that renowned trends forecaster Gerald Celente
is predicting a “financial disaster” in 2013.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that it is
easier to get into Harvard than it is to get a job as a flight
attendant in America today.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that nearly
400 TSA employees have been fired for stealing from travelers
since 2003.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that giant corporations
such as Facebook are
funneling
gigantic amounts of money through offshore banking havens such
as the Cayman Islands in an effort to avoid taxes.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that the U.S. dollar is in danger of
losing its status as the primary reserve currency of the world.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that Barack Obama has gone off to vacation in
Hawaii while the rest of the nation hopes for a fiscal cliff deal
to get done.
Of course the mainstream media has to mention that
he is on vacation because they always keep track of what the
president does, but they are not making a big deal out of it because
they love Obama. And it sounds like Obama is having quite a good
time
on his little vacation…
The president is expected to indulge in
some of his favorite pastimes on the island where he was born and
raised: golf, an expedition for the local treat “shave ice,” and an
evening out with family and friends. He hit the links at the nearby
Marine Corps base under sunny skies on Saturday afternoon.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that there are
government websites that give immigrants instructions about how
to come over to our country and apply for welfare.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that the U.S. economy is
losing millions of jobs to nations where it is legal to pay
workers slave labor wages. The mainstream media is totally married
to the one world economic agenda that their corporate owners make so
much money from, and so they say nothing as a steady stream of
businesses and jobs continue to leave the country.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that
the recent tax increase is causing large numbers of wealthy
individuals to consider moving out of the state of
California.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that hunger and poverty
are absolutely exploding in the United States at the same time
that they are telling us that the economy is “recovering”.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that North Korea now has
a three-stage rocket with enough range to potentially hit the
western United States.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that the United States Postal Service is
losing
25 million dollars a day and is on the verge of financial
collapse.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that our biggest oil supplier in the Middle
East, Saudi Arabia,
still kills people for changing religions.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that
political correctness is taking over America. The truth is that
the media does not see any problem with that at all.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that nearly
half a million employees of the federal government are making
more than $100,000 a year.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that the birth rate in the United States
fallen to
an all-time low. The elite are actually
absolutely thrilled that less babies are being born.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that violent crime in the United States
increased
by 18 percent in 2011 and that
many major U.S. cities are seeing violent crime totally spiral
out of control.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that Barack Obama received more than
99 percent of the vote in more than 100 precincts in Ohio on
election day.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that during the first four years of the Obama
administration, the U.S. national debt grew by about as much as it
did from the time that George Washington took office
to the time that George W. Bush took office.
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The mainstream media doesn’t really want
to talk about the fact that
the Federal Reserve created the conditions for the last
financial crisis and their mismanagement of the economy has now
brought us to the verge of another horrible economic downturn.
According to the mainstream media, the Federal Reserve is “above
politics” and 'should not be criticized.'
