Is there a problem with fake media? Yes, but it isn’t the MSM as some claim
By: Left Wisdom
Tags: Lies, Fakemedia, Trumpism, Conspiracy Theories

Is there a problem with fake media? Yes, but it isn’t the MSM as some claim Left Wisdom May 20·5 min read

For four years, we had to tolerate screams from trump about Fake Media. Interestingly, it was always a media source that actually asked legitimate questions of him or call him on one of his multitudes of misstatements or downright lies. However, that leaves us with an interesting question. Is there a problem with “fake media”. My position is that yes, there very certainly is, but in most, if not every case, the fake media that exists is predominately pro-trump. They are the ones that sold the big lie that Biden actually lost the last election.

The problem is NOT the “mainstream media”, ie those who have been around awhile, have a reputation for reporting the news, and will most often correct something they got wrong. So, we can omit all of the media sources that we were told so often were “the fake media”. That includes The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and many other media sources that faithfully report the news.

I will even, unlike many liberals, excuse Fox when it comes to the actual new programs. I never will forget being impressed that Fox was the source that I heard that a group of the tea party reneged on paying a bill that they had incurred. Politically, I expected them to do what the talking heads do and defend the tea party but that is not what happened. So, while I don’t have any respect for the words of the screaming female judge or Shawn or any of the other talking heads, the news itself is less than fake, at least can actually report things correctly.

So far, I have indicated that the “mainstream media” is not the problem, nor is Fox if you stick to the actual News Program and don’t listen to all the propagandists that scream and squawk insanity. So, what or who IS the fake media?? What is the media source that has fueled the insurrection against the rightly elected Biden spouting the Big Lie?? What is the media source that has caused Al Waktin, defender of the OANON shaman, to label the shaman and several others of his own clients as mentally incompetent and not guilty by reason of lack of mental capacity?

Well, there are so-called media sources, like OANN, that softball any questions they asked the prior resident of the White House, who don’t do Biden that way. But that is only the start of the issue. Most of these sources responsible for the Big Lie and its spread are online sources. That starts with the Alex Jones madness Sidney Powell. You will remember her as the woman who claimed that Dominion was the front for a plot that included a South American dictator that has been dead for years to put Biden in office. When they sued her, however, for slander or liable, she switched to saying that she was just a simple lawyer speaking powerful for her client and nobody should have believed her. (does that not sound exactly like trump himself?) Of course, we also know about Lin Wood and the “Pillow guy” who are part of the Powell craziness and not worth getting into separately.

One of my advantages, being on a site that is one of the worst colonies of extreme right-wingers of the worst kind, is that I get to glimpse some of the insanity that purports to be “news” on the internet. There is some truly crazy, as in totally insane and without any logic, sites out there. It seems that often they are a mix of extreme right-wing bigotry and hatred for anybody that is not White Heterosexual and Christian, with a blind love for the man that I consider the most corrupt person to ever manage to get into the White House.

One example is called AmericanThinker, which has to be using irony or sarcasm as the title because thinking has nothing to do with it. It is exactly what you would expect. Praise for trump in all things, often the assertion, based on what I have no idea, that God has specially anointed trump as some sort of redeemer for the nation (even though he was the enabler of the most racist bigots in the country and therefore sewer of conflict and division). It makes Fox and Brietbart look left-wing, if only because occasionally they actually report a real news item.

And it has copycats. There is another one with American as the first word, that is precisely the same garbage. In addition to those, we have fly-by-night conspiracy theorists talking about plots that would require literally millions in order to make work. These people are given credence in the source by their adherents despite no actual reputation in the area they are supposedly an expert in.

Finally, today, I struggled across one that is even worse than AmericanThinker that is being raised up as a source. I am not going to name it here. If you really know what this putrid website is you can ask me privately or in the comments. I am not going to give them the dignity of a mention. They postulate that the investigation that New York State is doing into trump’s financial chicanery is somehow a deep state attack and is linked to all sorts of evil plots. Georgia, who is moving against trump’s attempt to browbeat them into “finding 11000 votes”, is also part of a huge plot.

Now that is bad enough, but the same publication, which by the way, brags about being an open-source news site….in any words any Tom, Dick, Harry, Mary, or Alice can “report” anything they want, with another no limit, goes further. It is toxic in terms of race relations, especially anti-Semitic. Their claim is that Bill Gates, the Pope and somebody in the United Nations is all Jews. The Jewish plot, they claim, is to rule the world….shapes of Illuminati.

Remember, folks, the Illuminati is supposedly the group that is wanting the New World Order which is this big scary monster of a government that is worldwide. The indoctrination is clear. The OANN has been a part of it, but the combination of these wacko so-called media sources, has appealed to the gullible and the frightened, and we really have a mess on our hands. A mess that the rest of us have to fight at the election polls.

So, yes, there is fake media…..highly pro-trump fake media and they spread their lies every day. Knowing the sources of some of this garbage might just help.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/19/qanon-shaman-s