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It is rare that a president can show he is living up to the mantle of “leader of the free world” — and even less common for him to do so against the backdrop of his main political rival praising an autocrat.
But that’s what President Joe Biden did during his first State of the Union address, highlighting how he has led the Western world in defending Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.
People’s only way to see the outside world was through the media. Journalists were supposed to deliver the news to those who couldn’t get out and get it themselves. Journalism became the repository of ideologues with agendas.
The news became propaganda and no longer was the news. Different citizens started to take up the torch, filling in the holes left by the biased left media. The internet made it possible for citizen journalists to be more trusted than those who were working as journalists.
The journalists were not taught a lesson by this. News media increased their propaganda and began to treat people they delivered the news to with contempt. They attempted to shut down those who challenged them and ruin those whom they didn’t like. They made fun of the people to whom they were supposed [to] deliver information.
In Canada last week, Trudeau set a historic precedent by declaring a National Emergency on dubious grounds. This act has existed for 34 years without once being invoked, and now the Trudeau government is wielding it as a cudgel against one of the most organized displays of civil disobedience in Canadian history.
The New York Times reported last weekend that police in Ottawa had arrested protesters at gunpoint, a claim that was quickly challenged and denounced by prominent Canadian journalists.
“This is wrong,” tweeted freelance reporter Justin Ling, who had been covering the police action from Ottawa. CBC News TV host Ginella Massa called the Times headline “false and incredibly dangerous rhetoric” and CBC radio host Piya Chattopadhyay asked “where are you getting this bs from?”.
There are signs that the pandemic is starting to wind down, and the mainstream media is losing its power as the population grows tired of COVID-19 hype. By now, most people who can be convinced to get the vaccine have already done so, and even those who once believed that getting it was doing something good for their community are becoming increasingly aware of just how wrong that line of thinking is.
The Durham deniers’ talking points remain gibberish. They are furiously attempting to hand-wave away the facts the special counsel has found.
The latest disclosures by Durham are difficult for many in the media to cover because they directly refute years of prior coverage. Many in the media lampooned Donald Trump for claiming that the FBI and the Clinton campaign spied on Trump Tower and his campaign. Yet, we later learned that the FBI did spy on the campaign. In 2020, the media largely ignored that finding.
“They were the ones that did Russia, Russia, Russia. I mean, they destroyed my career, my reputation, cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees with the Mueller investigation. So the media, they don’t want to touch this, because they’re complicit in it. They don’t want to have to be called before a grand jury and have to say where they got the fake story, and why they continue to peddle it,” she added.
A filing by special counsel John Durham — alleging Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid a technology company to establish an “inference” that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia so she could win an election — has not generated much excitement in the mainstream media.
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One of the interesting aspects of the ongoing Freedom Convoy protests in Canada, aside from the underlying complaints of the protesters, is the curious way that the media in both that nation and the United States have chosen to construct a narrative around the protesters. This is something that others like Tucker Carlson have been noticing and pushing back against. One of the most recent examples can be found in this “explainer” from NBC News published on Thursday evening. They have clearly chosen to lump all of the protesters together as some sort of Trumpesque, Canadian “far right-wing” splinter group of extremists. Unfortunately for NBC’s dogged reporters, examples of any sort of right-wing extremism are few and far between. Also, the poster child they selected to showcase the “harm” that the truckers are causing (a 26-year-old gay Russian immigrant) leaves much to be desired in terms of the impact the protesters are actually having on his life.
CTV News Ottawa first reported last week that local towing companies were rejecting Ottawa police requests for help towing vehicles from the ‘red zone.” A source said police were considering launching a criminal investigation into whether intimidation of the tow truck companies is leading to a lack of cooperation.
