A pejorative used by dumb right-wingers that get their information through Facebook memes and YouTube conspiracy theorists
I hate to break it to you, hillbilly, but credible sources that actually fact check are a part of the mainstream media
by Soul_Driver December 24, 2020
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Never trust them.
Never trust them.
CNN: “I’M OFFENDED, HOW DARE YOU SPEAK YOUR OPINION.”
FOX NEWS: “IT’S NOT MAKING ME ENOUGH MONEY, SO IT HAS TO GO.”
Sane Individual: “Take all mainstream media gossip with a grain of salt and think for yourself. Always speak your mind (in an appropriate setting), and make a living doing what you love, —but remain humble and don’t be greedy.”
FOX NEWS: “IT’S NOT MAKING ME ENOUGH MONEY, SO IT HAS TO GO.”
Sane Individual: “Take all mainstream media gossip with a grain of salt and think for yourself. Always speak your mind (in an appropriate setting), and make a living doing what you love, —but remain humble and don’t be greedy.”
by TheSleeperThatHaunts October 28, 2020
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Every news outlet is owned by a billionaire or $100+ billion corporation.
Every news outlet ignored or underplayed the Epstein story--not a single "journalist" (see: *company*) asked why the feds didn't try to strike a deal with Maxwell for the client list.
We know the client list. Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Alan "I kept My Underwear On" Dershowitz, Trump's attorney--none of them have been brought in for questioning.
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Bloomberg is owned by billionaire Bloomberg. MSN is owned by Gates. Murdoch owns Fox News/Wall Street Journal. The Allbritton fam owns Politico. Carlos Slim has the largest stake in the NYTimes. Sumner Redstone owned ViacomCBS. Bezos owns The Washington Post...
Disney owns ABC. Vanguard/Blackrock are the largest stakeholders of MSNBC. Turner controls CNN, along with 200 countries around the world.
Other countries work similarly. The biggest publication in Belgium is owned by billionaire Van Thillio family... etc.
Meanwhile, every news outlet is sponsored by Pfizer ads--notice zero news outlets asked why "the science changed" so many times.
Why are you considered a "conspiracy theorist" and compared with flat-earthers if you ask these questions?
If you have good answers to any of these questions, then it sounds like the Legacy Media is for you :)
(Why did ABC and CBS (legacy media outlets) both censor the Epstein story and even fire a staffer for leaking the story?
Every news outlet is owned by a billionaire or $100+ billion corporation.
Every news outlet ignored or underplayed the Epstein story--not a single "journalist" (see: *company*) asked why the feds didn't try to strike a deal with Maxwell for the client list.
We know the client list. Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Alan "I kept My Underwear On" Dershowitz, Trump's attorney--none of them have been brought in for questioning.
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Bloomberg is owned by billionaire Bloomberg. MSN is owned by Gates. Murdoch owns Fox News/Wall Street Journal. The Allbritton fam owns Politico. Carlos Slim has the largest stake in the NYTimes. Sumner Redstone owned ViacomCBS. Bezos owns The Washington Post...
Disney owns ABC. Vanguard/Blackrock are the largest stakeholders of MSNBC. Turner controls CNN, along with 200 countries around the world.
Other countries work similarly. The biggest publication in Belgium is owned by billionaire Van Thillio family... etc.
Meanwhile, every news outlet is sponsored by Pfizer ads--notice zero news outlets asked why "the science changed" so many times.
Why are you considered a "conspiracy theorist" and compared with flat-earthers if you ask these questions?
If you have good answers to any of these questions, then it sounds like the Legacy Media is for you :)
(Why did ABC and CBS (legacy media outlets) both censor the Epstein story and even fire a staffer for leaking the story?
"Little Libby Libby knew that white people were the biggest threat to humanity because she heard it from the TV--but what the Mainstream Media left out was that 5 corporations, all ran by a billionaire mafiia club, control all the news channels."
"Don't worry about the Epstein/Maxwell Client List; the Legacy Media *should* be talking about how Kanye West is mentally ill for wearing a t-shirt. And Tiger Woods having consensual sex with prostitutes receiving more attention than a cartel flying to an island for children? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
"While you were out watching 'The Bachelorette,' the MSM convinced everyone that the biggest problem in the world was race... little did they know that the MSM was entirely and absolutely owned by just a few billionaires who needed to distract humanity from 'classism' because then people would REALLY tweak out."
"Don't worry about the Epstein/Maxwell Client List; the Legacy Media *should* be talking about how Kanye West is mentally ill for wearing a t-shirt. And Tiger Woods having consensual sex with prostitutes receiving more attention than a cartel flying to an island for children? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
"While you were out watching 'The Bachelorette,' the MSM convinced everyone that the biggest problem in the world was race... little did they know that the MSM was entirely and absolutely owned by just a few billionaires who needed to distract humanity from 'classism' because then people would REALLY tweak out."
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Get the Mainstream Media mug.The erroneous assumption that ideas, aesthetics, or opinions are inherently superior, correct, or more "authentic" simply because they are amplified by or aligned with dominant cultural institutions (corporate news, major studios, popular influencers). It conflates prevalence with validity, market share with truth. Conversely, it can also manifest as the inverse snobbery of automatically rejecting anything mainstream, but the core fallacy is granting automatic epistemic authority based solely on broadcast reach.
Example: "You think that indie theory holds water? Please. It's not on CNN or the NYT Bestseller list. If it was really important, it'd be everywhere—that's just the Mainstream Media Fallacy in reverse." This implies truth is democratically determined by airtime and that marginality, in either direction, is a marker of falsehood.
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