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An Anonymous Coward writes:

There has been lots of talk recently about distrust of the mainstream media, where rather than pursuing facts and the truth, they are accused of pursuing 'narratives' instead (i.e. what their billionaire owners, and the 0.1% class want you to hear / distract us with, rather than what is actually important or the facts in society today).

There are many examples of this : i.e. to this day Julian Assange is still referred to as an 'accused rapist' when mostpeople know that this is made up, and the real issue was that he embarrassed the US government.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343 [bbc.com]

Or Edward Snowden is a criminal rather than a whistleblower for unveiling that the US government was tapping into telephone fibers in the United States and spying on its own citizens
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-23141922/snowden-criminal-not-whistleblower [bbc.com]

Or that there is a 'shortage' of programmers in the United States, so we need to hand out visas like candy to H1-Bs, when everyone in the industry knows it is really about replacing Americans with cheaper labor
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-08/demand-for-programmers-hits-full-boil-as-u-s-job-market-simmers [bloomberg.com]

Or that that the focus on migration is on raids on Mexican woman and kids, rather than arresting the CEOs who run companies employing them illegally to start with (why isn't the CEO of this company in jail, and why doesn't any media ask this?)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicken-plants-raided-by-ice-willfully-and-unlawfully-hired-unauthorized-workers-court-documents [foxnews.com]

It feels that mainstream news is more and more becoming like the 'Pravda' of the old USSR, where dictated 'narrative' written by the 0.1% supercedes facts and the full truth. It seems to happening more and more often these days, across all media outlets in this country. It is obvious when it happens, and makes the news painful to read as the narrative so often makes no sense anymore, as they try to 'twist' it into fake 'facts'.

And now there is Jeffrey Epstein..

This is the "Snowden reveals USA spies on you with taps in the fiber" moment.. Yes, there are conspiracy theories (which this is trying to be dismissed as), and then there are full blown coverups (which this actually is). Epstein supposedly preposterously managed to "commit suicide" in a high security prison. First the coroner indicated that it was a murder, then suddenly it was a 'suicide'. Reddit made jokes the whole way of this 'investigation' saying that the guards will be found to be 'asleep', the video system will be found to be 'broken'... and then all this 'happened', just as they said it would...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/ [reddit.com]

Now it may be surprising enough, that Epstein, (who is regarded as a 'financier', when really he was nothing such either - he was just pimping girls to very very rich people, and had set up a whole system and brothel (the 'Lolita Express' airliner jet, the private sex island..etc) to make his living with this) got away with this for years, but the bigger surprise is how the mainstream media went at light speed to promote the 'suicide' story, and then bury the whole thing as fast as possible, as Bill Clinton, members of the British Royal family, and hosts of other 0.1%'ers were found to have visited that island or had sex with girls there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-results.html [nytimes.com]

And as we suspected all along, no one was actually buying this 'suicide', not even the news reporters at major news organizations like ABC, who actually were gagged on reporting the truth while their bosses where spewing the 'narrative'.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amy-robach-abc-hot-mic-epstein-murdered-network-killed-story-2019-11 [businessinsider.com]

And then there is this, Sinclair group owns a ton of TV stations in the USA...the owner literally dictated what the news casters should say..word for word, or not, to TVs all across the country as 'truth'... creepy as hell.. it doesn't get more Orwellian than this... and its real...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtkvG1JnPk [youtube.com]

This country no longer has free media. They claim that they want us to subscribe to their 'news', when it is nothing such.. It is narrative, paid for by billionaires for our consumption and to use us.

Why do we get daily articles on how big some Kardassian's butt is rather than daily articles on how bad inequality has gotten in this country, or why healthcare sucks while CEOs are getting rich on sick people, or how the middle class has been gutted by billionaires buying laws in congress (with specific names of people behind these 'think tanks' doing the corruption and law buying). The press in this country, which used to be a pillar of our democracy, has been totally and utterly corrupted, and is not worth listening to. The 'news' is mostly fake. Some papers are better (The Epoch Times, is probably the best I found so far though it too leaves a lot to be desired).

Why should we trust the mainstream media for anything anymore? And where can we go to find actual news based on 'facts' and 'truth' rather than 'narrative' and 'stories' made to distract us from the real issues in society, and the corruption and rot that now seems to have take over things so badly that anyone can be 'suicided' at will, and it becomes... 'the truth'.?

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