This is bang on. What is surprising is the Liberal media in both the US & Canada can’t see the obvious. Ratings and readership are dropping for legacy media while independent & Fox media ratings are growing. (Why is Fox Nation a success while CNN+ was a failure?)
It would be interesting to see what Canadian organizations would collapse if government ended the funding & bailouts.
There is now a Ministry of truth. Funny thing is, this isn't the government that will decsend into full on totalitarian rule, these are the caretakers. Building the tools neccassary to absolutely crush dissent to policies in future governments, smiling and virtue signaling while they do it. Like it will somehow all work out because people are so reasonable and respectful with power. Corruption, greed and status are almost as much a part of us as breathing air. That's why we need robust laws to protect people from eachother to protect them from limiting each one's ability to organize. Or declaring one side is all racists. Or declaring they hold unacceptable views. Or to declare to stop spending time with unvaccinated people.
I Created and Produced a TV series from 2001-2007. The nature of the series was one which the network wasn't willing to go all-in on with a big license fee to finance the budget so they offered us the entire 1/2 hr. vs the 22:00 we would have for the content of our show if they retained (and sold) the ad inventory. This was scary as we didn't know the first thing about selling advertising (:30 sec commercials). But they assured us that we had full control of our 1/2 hour to do whatever we wanted (other than nudity and the usual).
As we started down this road we found that our show content was actually more valuable than the :30 spots. The advertisers wanted to have their products in the show with the cast using them and the most value was letting them help with content ideas around how that would happen. The advertisers were Labatt's, McDonald's, Milk, Toyota, Red Bull, etc.
With the rise of online video content and mobile devices, content producers and advertisers continued to blur the line. After the series I helped create one of the first streaming video platforms and the viability of the entire company hinged on figuring out how to embed interactive ads into the video stream.
I have continued to watch as legacy media dies a slow death only to be revived by some fear-based content to haul back eyeballs. I now see that advertising for drugs in Canada is common. This wasn't the case a few years ago and a component of the Trudeau legacy media "bail-out", I suspect.
Now, veteran newscasters and journalists with more than 5 years of life experience and who've actually lived through actual scandals, pandemics, wars, manufactured "democracy" through dirty foreign policy, etc. have all left or been ousted from their posts because they wanted to remain ethical to their profession. We're expected to watch and read (and believe without question!) radio show producers, national journalists, reporters are all plucked straight out of a leftist ideology-captured post secondary system and told to read the script.
The script that the advertisers (through agencies and PR firms) write, or at least approve.
Don't forget about Canada's current self-flagellation project vis a vis residential schools and "mass graves," which don't exist and nothing has ever been found to corroborate any such claim. It's a lucrative claim and MSM has NEVER questioned it that I have read. EVER. It's Phil Fontaine's personal project, aided by a TRC summary that cherry picks "facts" and as far as Canadian taxpayers are concerned (who are, after all, the funders of this immensely expensive undertaking), we will fund for eternity, unless some time limit is placed.
2 reasons Tara, like the vast majority of people who discuss such things, falls FAR SHORT of really understanding the problem:
A) "not saying there’s anything wrong with these stories"
There IS something wrong with these stories when they are promoted above far more important stories simply to PROPAGANDIZE a narrative. There is something VERY WRONG with many of these stories, and anyone who doesn't internalize that is nearly as lost as the people who publish them. And that means Tara.
B) "I’m just pointing out that they are popular."
They are popular ONLY with people in the CULT. It is simply pouring koolaid for cult members.
The interesting thing about Tara is how hard she seems to be trying to seek the truth, but how deep into the groupthink Tara still is. It comes through in every article. Shame.
Excellent article! I love your "no-fly list" of subjects we simply no longer see actual reporting about. Since the beginning of this charade 2 years ago the best argument has been the one sided reporting. No one ever has a good answer as to why we don't see debate about the most important issues of our time. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
This is almost sad to read -- a journo still wet from media fishbowl, struggling to explain what those of us on the outside have understood for years.
There's another way to explain the phenomenon of why the media "looks and sounds much the same" -- it's called journalists eating each others turds. The blind acceptance of narrative and recycling of other mainstream reporting without conducting even a nanosecond of due diligence.
Nice article. I remember somewhere Chomsky recounting a story that journalists are mainly hired because their views are not a threat to the consensus. It's not that journalists conform, but that the people who are hired already fit the class and status that creates the consensus. I speculate whether this is also reinforced through an ageist policies which also benefit the bottom line. That is, hiring younger cheaper journalists who are also more impressionable, less historically experienced and knowledgeable, while pushing older, more expensive and more critical journos to the fringes.
We seem to be on a pathway in MSM which punishes diversity of thought and belief, which is very disturbing, boring and impoverished. Intelligent people have more questions than answers. Where did the skeptical, questioning, insightful journalists go?
For just 4 months from MSM your red pilling and deprogramming are progressing well. This is a great piece that hits nails on their heads. You missed a few biggies like climate crisis, economic bloat, fiat devaluation and how the WEF and its head Klaus Schwab brags openly about Canada’s subversion.
Unapologetically delve deeper. Keep peeling those layers exposing the rot to fresh air! It is needed.
"We are inclined to believe that people want to be free, but most people don't. Most people are scared of freedom. Freedom brings with it responsibility; it brings challenges. It makes [it so] that you need to think. You need to do a certain mental labor; you need to think about your life, [and] you need to think about decisions you have to make... Most people prefer not to do it and prefer to look for someone who tells them what to do."
So many 'vital' issues were discussed in this piece, and yet climate hypocrisy was never mentioned. Examine our collective cognitive conformity when thinking about climate issues. Our societies appear to be subconsciously 'convinced' that we have until 2100 to act...but we still don't have a clue as to what we should really be doing collectively. We are just too busy polarizing populations and making wars to be able to take climate and energy conservation seriously.
Um, haven't you heard of the Trusted News Initiative, where various major media organizations agreed to promote the COVID vaccines? It's not hard to research - even Google will tell you about it.
And then there are the massive amounts of COVID advertising in every media outlet, the numerous special government programs for media... The media aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them.
My friends and family are seemingly oblivious to the obvious. Yes, we are doing this to ourselves. I feel alone and do not know how to change the corruption about important issues….Covid, Ukraine War, the WEF and Canadian Political EXCESSIVE authority
There were several instances during the pandemic where I noticed a study would be released, the study would be picked up by Canadian Press, and then all of the major outlets would run the CP story. This would all essentially happen on the same day, which I thought was disconcertingly quick.
I wonder how much of the “unification” of media is driven by Canadian Press and Associated Press? Does anyone in the industry have a perspective on this?
This is bang on. What is surprising is the Liberal media in both the US & Canada can’t see the obvious. Ratings and readership are dropping for legacy media while independent & Fox media ratings are growing. (Why is Fox Nation a success while CNN+ was a failure?)
It would be interesting to see what Canadian organizations would collapse if government ended the funding & bailouts.
There is now a Ministry of truth. Funny thing is, this isn't the government that will decsend into full on totalitarian rule, these are the caretakers. Building the tools neccassary to absolutely crush dissent to policies in future governments, smiling and virtue signaling while they do it. Like it will somehow all work out because people are so reasonable and respectful with power. Corruption, greed and status are almost as much a part of us as breathing air. That's why we need robust laws to protect people from eachother to protect them from limiting each one's ability to organize. Or declaring one side is all racists. Or declaring they hold unacceptable views. Or to declare to stop spending time with unvaccinated people.
I Created and Produced a TV series from 2001-2007. The nature of the series was one which the network wasn't willing to go all-in on with a big license fee to finance the budget so they offered us the entire 1/2 hr. vs the 22:00 we would have for the content of our show if they retained (and sold) the ad inventory. This was scary as we didn't know the first thing about selling advertising (:30 sec commercials). But they assured us that we had full control of our 1/2 hour to do whatever we wanted (other than nudity and the usual).
As we started down this road we found that our show content was actually more valuable than the :30 spots. The advertisers wanted to have their products in the show with the cast using them and the most value was letting them help with content ideas around how that would happen. The advertisers were Labatt's, McDonald's, Milk, Toyota, Red Bull, etc.
With the rise of online video content and mobile devices, content producers and advertisers continued to blur the line. After the series I helped create one of the first streaming video platforms and the viability of the entire company hinged on figuring out how to embed interactive ads into the video stream.
I have continued to watch as legacy media dies a slow death only to be revived by some fear-based content to haul back eyeballs. I now see that advertising for drugs in Canada is common. This wasn't the case a few years ago and a component of the Trudeau legacy media "bail-out", I suspect.
Now, veteran newscasters and journalists with more than 5 years of life experience and who've actually lived through actual scandals, pandemics, wars, manufactured "democracy" through dirty foreign policy, etc. have all left or been ousted from their posts because they wanted to remain ethical to their profession. We're expected to watch and read (and believe without question!) radio show producers, national journalists, reporters are all plucked straight out of a leftist ideology-captured post secondary system and told to read the script.
The script that the advertisers (through agencies and PR firms) write, or at least approve.
"Brought to you by Pfizer".
Don't forget about Canada's current self-flagellation project vis a vis residential schools and "mass graves," which don't exist and nothing has ever been found to corroborate any such claim. It's a lucrative claim and MSM has NEVER questioned it that I have read. EVER. It's Phil Fontaine's personal project, aided by a TRC summary that cherry picks "facts" and as far as Canadian taxpayers are concerned (who are, after all, the funders of this immensely expensive undertaking), we will fund for eternity, unless some time limit is placed.
2 reasons Tara, like the vast majority of people who discuss such things, falls FAR SHORT of really understanding the problem:
A) "not saying there’s anything wrong with these stories"
There IS something wrong with these stories when they are promoted above far more important stories simply to PROPAGANDIZE a narrative. There is something VERY WRONG with many of these stories, and anyone who doesn't internalize that is nearly as lost as the people who publish them. And that means Tara.
B) "I’m just pointing out that they are popular."
They are popular ONLY with people in the CULT. It is simply pouring koolaid for cult members.
The interesting thing about Tara is how hard she seems to be trying to seek the truth, but how deep into the groupthink Tara still is. It comes through in every article. Shame.
Excellent article! I love your "no-fly list" of subjects we simply no longer see actual reporting about. Since the beginning of this charade 2 years ago the best argument has been the one sided reporting. No one ever has a good answer as to why we don't see debate about the most important issues of our time. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
This is almost sad to read -- a journo still wet from media fishbowl, struggling to explain what those of us on the outside have understood for years.
There's another way to explain the phenomenon of why the media "looks and sounds much the same" -- it's called journalists eating each others turds. The blind acceptance of narrative and recycling of other mainstream reporting without conducting even a nanosecond of due diligence.
Nice article. I remember somewhere Chomsky recounting a story that journalists are mainly hired because their views are not a threat to the consensus. It's not that journalists conform, but that the people who are hired already fit the class and status that creates the consensus. I speculate whether this is also reinforced through an ageist policies which also benefit the bottom line. That is, hiring younger cheaper journalists who are also more impressionable, less historically experienced and knowledgeable, while pushing older, more expensive and more critical journos to the fringes.
We seem to be on a pathway in MSM which punishes diversity of thought and belief, which is very disturbing, boring and impoverished. Intelligent people have more questions than answers. Where did the skeptical, questioning, insightful journalists go?
For just 4 months from MSM your red pilling and deprogramming are progressing well. This is a great piece that hits nails on their heads. You missed a few biggies like climate crisis, economic bloat, fiat devaluation and how the WEF and its head Klaus Schwab brags openly about Canada’s subversion.
Unapologetically delve deeper. Keep peeling those layers exposing the rot to fresh air! It is needed.
"We are inclined to believe that people want to be free, but most people don't. Most people are scared of freedom. Freedom brings with it responsibility; it brings challenges. It makes [it so] that you need to think. You need to do a certain mental labor; you need to think about your life, [and] you need to think about decisions you have to make... Most people prefer not to do it and prefer to look for someone who tells them what to do."
https://rumble.com/v12wts0-mass-formation-most-people-are-scared-of-freedom-and-dont-want-the-burden-o.html
So many 'vital' issues were discussed in this piece, and yet climate hypocrisy was never mentioned. Examine our collective cognitive conformity when thinking about climate issues. Our societies appear to be subconsciously 'convinced' that we have until 2100 to act...but we still don't have a clue as to what we should really be doing collectively. We are just too busy polarizing populations and making wars to be able to take climate and energy conservation seriously.
Um, haven't you heard of the Trusted News Initiative, where various major media organizations agreed to promote the COVID vaccines? It's not hard to research - even Google will tell you about it.
And then there are the massive amounts of COVID advertising in every media outlet, the numerous special government programs for media... The media aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them.
My friends and family are seemingly oblivious to the obvious. Yes, we are doing this to ourselves. I feel alone and do not know how to change the corruption about important issues….Covid, Ukraine War, the WEF and Canadian Political EXCESSIVE authority
Excellent article. From the viewpoint of the UK, it made me think about the consistency of views expressed by the BBC, Channel 4 and the Guardian.
There were several instances during the pandemic where I noticed a study would be released, the study would be picked up by Canadian Press, and then all of the major outlets would run the CP story. This would all essentially happen on the same day, which I thought was disconcertingly quick.
I wonder how much of the “unification” of media is driven by Canadian Press and Associated Press? Does anyone in the industry have a perspective on this?