Mainstream Media is Crushing Public Confidence

(USAWatchdog) – Recently, a new Gallup poll delivered some bad news to mainstream media–only one fourth of people asked believe what it says.  The Gallup story said, “Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news – with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either.”  (Click here for the complete Gallup story.)

This is not a recent trend according to Gallup and other polls done on this subject.  Last summer, comedian Jon Stewart of the “Daily Show” was “Most Trusted” newscaster.  I wrote about this in a piece I did last year called “The Soft Truth.”  I said, “He had almost as many votes as Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams combined.  Katie Couric, according to the Time Magazine poll, came in dead last.  Boy, if that is a not a wake-up call to mainstream media, I do not know what is. . . . Doing superficial event type news programming is something I call “The Soft Truth.”  It is more or less superficial news and is cheap, fast to produce, and you will not make enemies. The news in mainstream media has mostly become just the stuff between the commercials. Then, there is what I call “The Hard Truth.” This story is not cheap, it ties up the company lawyers and management and, if done right, you will piss some people off.  And even if there are cutbacks because of advertising shortfalls, you can still ask hard questions.” (Click here for the complete soft truth story for September of 09.)

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10 Credible Conspiracy Theories?

(DailyBell) – Since Obama’s election, the constituent theories within the overarching narrative of the New World Order have increasingly made inroads into the mainstream national discourse. … Joseph Farah’s WorldNetDaily.com, for example, has grown its influence by peddling paranoia about the president’s birth certificate and AmeriCorps’ “domestic armies.” Earlier this year, the John Birch Society, a group with a long history of hatching and promoting wild conspiracy theories (including the idea that President Eisenhower was a communist agent), co-sponsored the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual powwow of leading conservatives and Republican Party figures. Speakers at this year’s conference included such mainstream names as Washington Post columnist George Will, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner. Here is a compilation of 10 of the most popular conspiracy theories currently circulating on the radical right and, increasingly, on points of the political spectrum much too close to the center for comfort.” – AlterNet

Dominant Social Theme: The lunatics need to be reined in.

Free-Market Analysis: While popular, left-wing website AlterNet cannot be considered mainstream media per se, this article partakes of the modern Western (mostly US) tradition of debunking suspicions that people may have about their government. It is especially a US dominant social theme – that the “paranoid style” of US politics generates fantastical suspicions about the US fedgov’s intentions. Various “right wing” nutcases are flagellated for not taking the US-based corporatocracy and military industrial complex at its word.

Never mind that the US government is a US$3 trillion-plus entity with world-spanning power and that entities so powerful and complex have their own logic and their own over-riding agenda. Never mind that the US has been almost constantly at war (somewhere in some fashion) for the past 100 years or longer. (Never mind, in fact, that the US now employs so many domestic and foreign intel operatives that it cannot keep track of them anymore.) In fact, when one looks into AlterNet at Wikipedia it becomes fairly clear that the money behind the group comes from the predictable power-elite pocketbook, including the Ford Foundation which never saw a socialist cause it couldn’t endorse and fund. (Henry Ford has been rolling like a top for decades.) Perhaps AlterNet is a promotion, too?

Anyway, such an article is of obvious interest to the Daily Bell because it counteracts (with the calm voice of reason) suspicions that the powers-that-be are in any sense aimed at US citizens themselves. These sorts of articles are actually quite numerous on the ‘Net, but this is a very good example of one. Here are the top ten list of conspiracy theories from AlterNet and our comments beneath.

Video: Desperate Establishment’s Latest Rand Paul Hoax Backfires – Alex Jones Tv

The latest media hoax targeting Kentucky primary winner Rand Paul has exploded in the establishment’s face after a claim that Paul “kidnapped” a woman during a college prank was revealed to be completely mischaracterized, showing once again how desperate the system is to discredit Paul and prevent him from leading a populist revolt against the status quo.

The corporate media has now launched no less than three hyped or outright manufactured “controversies” in an effort to tear down Paul’s popularity in the less than three months since he won the Kentucky primary. The system is scared stiff of what Paul represents because he is a true constitutionalist with a real chance of winning in October after having brushed aside establishment Republican candidate Trey Grayson back in May.

Video: On the Edge with Max Keiser and Alex Jones

(PressTV) – On the Edge from Friday, July 23rd with Alex Jones to talk about the surveillance state now being reported in Mainstream Media.

MSM: Times loses almost 90% of online readership

(Guardian) – The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show.

Video: The Radical Truth About Ron Paul!

He’s radical and not mainstream, this tells the truth about him.

Video: Alex Jones Tv Sunday Edition – Our Republic is More Important Than LeBron James & Spain!

Alex Jones breaks down the importance of our Republic vs society’s little mainstream creatures from hollywood and the sports music industry!

Video: Murdoch’s mouthpiece – It’s not what Beck exposes, it’s the issues he deflects and who he discredits that counts

(MakeItEightEh) – If you are a businessman and need to hire a potential employee, what is standard procedure when “checking out” your prospective employee?

Well, one prudent thing to do would be to contact the previous employer.

Can you imagine FOX News, as it called CNN to get a character reference for Glenn Beck? What do you suppose CNN would report?

Well, they would likely tell FOX that Glenn was good at following orders, toeing the “station line” and reporting what he was asked to do. For CNN, that would be the “liberal line”. Did he do a good job? Would CNN tell FOX he was great for CNN? Or, would they say, well Glenn became too “Republican” for our liking, and so we realized he had to go. Kind of like Lou Dobbs?

Video: Scientists Admit Chemtrails Are Creating Artificial Clouds

(PaulWatson) – Mainstream science accepts that trails from jet aircraft are lingering for hours, but claims it is a natural phenomenon

Video: Reality Report – Mark Anderson – Inside the Mainstream Media

In this Special Interview, Gary sits down with Mark Anderson, editor of the American Free Press Newspaper, at the 2010 Health and Freedom Conference to discuss how the media is effecting the Freedom Movement.

Left and Right Try to Stop the Rand Paul Revolution

(C4L) – The day after Republican Rand Paul’s landslide primary victory in Kentucky, the mainstream Left tried to paint him as a segregationist, while the mainstream Right either ignored or attacked him. And for good reason. Like his father Ron, Rand represents revolution, and the establishment is petrified.

Let’s begin with the Left. Afraid that they can’t beat a conservative Republican of Paul’s pedigree in the Tea Party-influenced, anti-Obama political climate of 2010, liberals are trying to run against him in 1964. Cherry-picking irrelevant references Paul has made about private property rights and how they could possibly relate to the Civil Rights Act or even the Americans with Disabilities Act, Democrats are trying to portray Rand the libertarian as a closeted Klansman who secretly hates “coloreds” and “cripples.”

Canada: 9/11 Truth Storm in Mainstream Media

(911Blogger) – A recent bombshell in Quebec’s newspaper “La Presse” talking about the World911Truth conference May 3^rd in Montreal with Richard Gage, AIA and Dr. David Ray Griffin has created a coast to coast storm in the mainstream media. From major TV in Quebec, to mainstream radio, to the most popular newspaper in Canada, the Toronto Star, this 9/11 truth debate is being carried out this week-end and is not over.

We invite you to read this article from the Toronto Star:

Video: Keith Olbermann’s phony outrage mixes with Mark Potak’s fear-mongering for a perfect storm of MSNBC propaganda

(America20xy) – As the pundit who will deliver the goods when it comes to turning Americans against patriots and those who believe in “conspiracy theories” Mark Potack made a stop on the Keith Olbermann show to once again deliver the message that Americans who protest the government are dangerous to society. With the arrest of the federal agent provocateured Hutaree group in Michigan the mainstream press has been quick to seize on the incident and associate with it anyone who resists growing federal power.

If mainstream medicine really works, why are Americans so unhealthy? – Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) – Did you ever wonder why such an alarmingly high percentage of Americans are obese, diabetic, depressed and suffering from cancer, heart disease, kidney disorders and skin problems? Now consider the fact that Americans pay more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world. Americans pay the highest prices, by far, for medications, medical imaging scans, blood work, surgeries, chemotherapy and hospital stays. And yet what does America have to show for it? The most universally diseased population in the world — and a nation on the verge of bankruptcy caused in part by mainstream medicine.

Alex Jones Show

(March 30) – Video: Alex Talks to CNN Producer About Anderson Cooper’s Upcoming HIt Piece – Video Link Here

(March 30) – Video: Alex & Mike Detail Encounter with Military Agent Provocateur in 1998 – Part 1 Here and Part 2 Here

FLASHBACK – (Feb 9) – Video: Sarah Palin – Neo Con Fraud is trying to hijack the tea party movment – Video Link Here

(March 30) – Video: Alex Covers Russian Metro Blast – View Video Here

(March 30) – Video: Alex Explains How The FBI Informant Game is Played – View Video Here

(March 30) – Video: Alex Details Invisible Empire & Police State 4 – Video Link Here

(March 30) – Video: Alex Takes Calls on Mainstream Media Demonizing Patriots – View Video Here

(March 30) – Video: Alex Tells Story of Meeting Civilian Eco Police Squad at A Hike & Bike Trail

Alex talks about a little trip he took with the family over the weekend to a Hike & Bike Trail, and how he had the “ecosnoop” spuad watching his every move.

The Economic Elite Versus The People of the USA: In our Nation’s History, the Stakes have Never been Higher – Part VI

(AmpedStatus) – Throughout this report, I have presented statistical and fact-based evidence to demonstrate that a strategic attack has been launched against 99% of Americans. Despite the efforts of the mainstream media and most current politicians, awareness of this reality is spreading throughout the United States.A recent Rasmussen poll found that only 21% of Americans think that the government has the consent of the governed. An Opinion Research Corp. survey revealed that 86% believe “the system of government is broken.”

ClimateGate: What Will Television Do With All Their Scare-Programming?

(BigHollywood) – A funny thing happened on the way to a global conspiracy. Reality killed it. Funny how that happens.

US Media And Israel Military, All In The Family

(PoliticalTheatrics) – Recent exposés revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.

Video: Mike Rivero on Alex Jones Tv – Mainstream Media is Losing All Credibility on Every Issue

(March 3, 2010) – Alex also talks with Mike Rivero, webmaster of the popular alternative news portal WRH and GCN talk show host. Mike makes his monthly appearance on the Alex Jones Show to discuss the economy and the plans of the Nwo.

Mainstream Media Refuses to Disclose that “Independent” Pundits Are Actually Lobbyists

(WashingtonsBlog) – As reporter Sebastian Jones points out (see this and this), former Congressman Richard Gephardt runs a lobbying firm representing giant insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

5 Reasons that Corporate Media Coverage is Pro-War

Note: McClatchy and several other large news sources are exceptions which have reported well on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
There are five reasons that the mainstream media is worthless.

Climate Gate is YOUR fight

Those in the know are fully aware that the mainstream media is nothing more than the propaganda arm of the State. You’re reading this, so you’re probably one of those people. It is so easy to fall into the mental trap that, if you know something, then how can it not be common knowledge? The sheep don’t even know what the carbon tax is, or what’s at stake in Copenhagen. They are completely and utterly clueless.

The Mainstream, Corporately Owned Media is Anything but Honest

The Twentieth Century Fox Corporation is not unique in spreading propaganda, but they are rare in admitting it. Rupert Murdoch, himself in 2003, admitted that his Fox company helped to sell George W. Bush’s Iraqi-Afghani wars to the American public.

Video: Barney Frank – “We Are Trying On Every Front To Increase The Role Of Government”

Barney Frank goes head to head with Ralph Nader, and lets it slip. The agenda is to increase the role of Government. On EVERY front.

Swine Flu: Is Meditation the Best Medication?

The mainstream media are now reporting the onset of a swine flu “emergency.” Yet controversy is raging over the safety and efficacy of the government-approved vaccine.

Fall Of The Republic Devastates Globalist Agenda

Fall Of The Republic is getting rave reviews from those who watched it first on Prison Planet.tv yesterday, with viewers labeling it the most hard-hitting and well produced Alex Jones video to date, outstripping even The Obama Deception, adding that it will undoubtedly unlock minds on a massive scale and smash the phony left-right paradigm.

Profit Driven Swine Flu Propaganda – Pump Up the Volume Part 1

(NaturalNews) – The pharmaceutical industry, with public health officials and the mainstream media acting as a mass marketing team, is about to pull off the biggest profiteering scheme in the history of the world. The swine flu hoax, perpetrated on a global level, will generate unheard of profits from a non-existent pandemic.

Video: Ron Paul on The Situation Room

On Wednesday, Dr. Paul appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer to discuss the need for the Republican Party to champion limited government and to put principle above politics.

MSM: Blair is a war criminal, bereaved parents tell inquiry

(Times) – Tony Blair should be charged with war crimes for ordering British troops to invade Iraq, families of servicemen killed in the conflict told the official inquiry into the campaign yesterday.

Vaccine revolt! Swine flu vaccine support crumbles as flimsy rationale for H1N1 shots becomes apparent

(NaturalNews) – Public support for the swine flu vaccine is evaporating by the day as the rationale for the vaccine appears increasingly ludicrous to anyone paying attention. Moms, nurses, day care workers and members of the general public are increasingly realizing that Big Pharma’s rationale for swine flu vaccination just doesn’t add up.

Video: Glenn Beck’s Slick Propaganda Segment on the H1N1 Vaccination

(Fox) – On his show today, Glenn Beck covered the H1N1 virus and vaccine. He said he would not take a stand on if you should submit to the vaccination.

Video: Glenn Beck on the Dollar

(Fox) – Glenn Beck explains how no longer trading oil in dollars will result in the collapse of the US dollar. He explains how foolish some Americans are to believe that the dollar will always reign supreme.

The Mainstream Media’s Denial of Legitimacy

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is true in the physical world, and even if you cannot clearly see how it applies in the social world, the fact cannot be denied that every action taken by a person or group of people has the potential for negative consequences. A book written, a news program aired, a video filmed, a law enacted, a precedent set, all of these, no matter how benign the intent, have the potential to, and often do, affect our society, and therefore the lives of all, in various ways.

The Great Poisoning of America Begins, October 2009

Yesterday, while working outside, I had my small portable radio tuned to ABC, 790 AM. I heard Tim Conway, Junior, son of comedian Tim Conway, blather on endlessly about how dangerous and deadly the Swine Flu “outbreak” was and how very IMPORTANT it was to “protect” yourself and your family from being stricken dead by this killer flu and to get your Swine flu shot as soon as possible.

Media Bias Tea Party: A Fox News Affair

Editor’s note: More evidence the “right” side of the Mockingbird corporate media has an agenda — destroy the real patriot movement and supplant it with a fake and harmless resistance.

The bear market rally will soon be over

(BobChapman) – There is only one place to be and that is in gold and silver related assets.

Goldman Sachs & J.P. Morgan Quietly Buying Up the Media

Every since the Corporations have bought up the media, the very idea of ‘honest journalism’ has been a joke in America.

Why is the Mainstream Media not Demanding the Truth About 9/11?

1. Former FBI Translator and Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has exposed, among many other disturbing revelations, that Osama bin Laden and “Al Qaeda” (which simply means “the base”) were working with government intelligence operatives right up until the morning of 9/11 (and perhaps beyond):

MSM: British intelligence believes Iran has resumed work on nuclear warhead

(Telegraph) – British intelligence has disputed an American assessment that Iran has not resumed work building a warhead for a nuclear weapon.

Video: Doctor Admits Vaccine Is More Deadly Than Swine Flu Itself

(Fox) – Dr. Kent Holtorf – When questioned about giving his kids the shot – “I definitely would not”