Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Virtually everyone I talk to thinks mainstream news is just propaganda. COVID drove a spike through the very heart and soul of the First Amendment. Even five years before, people generally respected the news. COVID appears to have been the death knell to mainstream news. This chart shows the results of Gallup Polls, and the trust in American media is down well below 40%. Our models warn that when confidence in government falls below 40%, governments begin to collapse. That magic number applies to the media as well.
Last October, the Pew Research Center reported that Americans follow the news less closely than they used to. I remember growing up, and my father and mother would first watch the nightly news, and then the shows would come on. Never did I ever hear my father call the news fake or propaganda. Indeed, back in 2016, 51% of American adults surveyed indicated that they do so “all or most of the time.” That number dropped to 38% in 2022.
According to Pew, we are witnessing the complete collapse of trust in media across gender, age, education, ethnicity, and party affiliation. The collapse is greater among Republicans and independents, dropping from 57% to 37%. Among Democrats, trust has declined from 49% to 42%.
Those who know my research are quite familiar with the process of a decline in the CONFIDENCE of government, and this is a Private Wave that peaks in 2032. During a Private Wave, we see people distrusting the government and moving to the private sector, so things like the stock market and real estate have risen because capital is moving from government bonds to private assets. The collapse in the media is part of this cycle. The media aligned with the government during the communist era – PRAVDA. While the name meant “truth” in Russian, the people knew it was all just propaganda. We now find ourselves heading in the same direction. The media will fall with the government as it did under communism.
Goodbye, and good riddance to MSNBC, ABC, FOX, CBS, NBC, and the leader of the pack in disinformation – CNN. PS: Newspapers will also follow. Better find a real career.
PS: Take Disney with you!
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I have no respect for paid media whores that read the lies on their teleprompters for money. In fact , I have contempt for them. They are scum just like celebrities and politicians.
Presstitutes, the lot.
(Hat tip PCR)
Lies and hate are no longer finding favor? What a surprise!
If only…. Bud Dwyer was a real role model for how these people should behave.
He related to Andy Dwyer?
Hey man nice shot
To quote the final word of the great philosopher, Spike Spiegel, as did Dwyer:
Bang!
I watched it ‘live’ on TV.
MSM is corrupt, a government tool.
“Operation Mockingbird.”
For me, it was the boilerplate news stories:
“A new study, out today suggests……”
I started looking up these “new studies, out today” stories.
1. Many were not “peer reviewed”
2. Many were of such small sample size and duration as to be completely silly.
3. Concluded that “new studies out today” were at times sales pitches for a product [two glasses of red wine a day?]
or scare porn [black pepper causes cancer in lab rats]
Stopped giving them my mind.
The saying was “there is no Izvestia in Pravda and no Pravda in Izvestia”the two main Soviet are “newspapers”….
What’s even better are the articles written by the tone deaf who don’t seem to understand why they are losing their jobs……the meltdowns are delicious!!!…..and of course they blame the reader! I love it!..so well deserved
Taylor Lorenz, my favorite “generation Gross” news Karen.
Good Riddance.
The internet clip shows demonstrating simultaneous headline squawking has shown much light on the planned mind fuckery they treat us to…
And contributed many large nails to the MSM coffin.
Fuck them.
Today’s news talkng heads owe a debt of gratitude to Tommy Flanāgan.
The fed will never let their propaganda arm fold up completely. They’ll spend how ever much of our money or print to keep it going.
The Deep State still has full control of Facebook. Anyone who uses it should be shot — as a traitor!
I never watch the fake news have not for twenty years or longer Why should I waste my time just to be lied to and called names not gonna do it .We have dropped our cable then we dropped the dish network man what a relief no more paying for channels that you never watch. We do have a tv set but when it quits we are not getting another one . I think our country is on the way to collapse and not to far in the future how can it last with the monster debt we have no one can spend spend and not have to face the music one day .
I never believe anything Government or media tells me NOTHING !
Generally the exact opposite is true and any benefit to American citizens is purely by accident and so inconsequential as to actually just be doing less harm than originally anticipated !
At one time you had to do some investigation and research reading between the lines but now it’s up front lies in your face with a big🖕Fuck You and you better smile and like it
The system taught me how to “see” their truth.
I taught me to see reality.
Growing up looking at the newspeople/journalists either in newspapers and even on tv these people were generally members of the working class or middle class. These days these so-called Journalists are elitists hired by elitists to keep the aforementioned two classes in line.
Oh.
You think they were honest “back then”?
They looked like working or middle class, but were always of “them”.
For as long as I remember and I’m old.
They are government actors.
Mainstream news has ALWAYS been propaganda, you just were not able to see it as clearly as you now can, since the advent of the internet, and live streaming events, essentially.
Their daily lies and manipulation have been laid bare and you can see that you were rubes, and continue to be so.
Committing Suicide? Really? such drama for headlines for your clickbait.
Does a man with stage 4 cancer, who has 2 days left to live, his body is already shutting down, who decides to end it with pills, instead of literally drowning in his own fluids, get charged with suicide? or the cancer that killed him?
Point being, MSM is already dying / dead, this is the finale temper tantrum as they take their toys and go home, stomp stomp. They are no longer the gatekeepers of ‘knowledge’ but are now seen as buffoons and mocked. I predict in 10 years AI will tell you the news. You pick which big tittied avatar you want to watch your weather report from, dial in a bias you like and there you go.
if they couldn’t lie, there would be no MSM. if they couldn’t be whores, there would be no MSM.
when they become fully the dinosaurs they are and disappear, there will be no MSM.
i am for the second extinction of the dinosaurs.
TPTB are liberals and everything they touch turns to shit because they are full of shit: art, music , radio & TV, nightly news, late night TV, architecture, social culture, public schools, the military, foreign relations, manufacturing, Global warming & green Energy, welfare, the US budget, US Infrastructure, freedom of speech, right to life, marriage, dating, property rights, home ownership, equal under the law, states rights, integrity, mandates, crime rates, birth rates, savings rates, inflation rates, costs of living, illegals, forest fires, chem-spraying, pollution, drugs, etc.
Hmm.
How to bring the viewers back to the idiot box..
I know, kill the cellphone networks.
That actually resolves the entire “control of information” issue that got away from them for awhile