“Ooh, we’re all gonna die!”
You’ve got to read this column by Michael Brown: “Is the Media Engaging in a Form of Psychological Warfare Against America?”
For the past two months there’s been essentially just one story in the nooze, night and day–the coronavirus. And we get bad news and alarming statistics 24/7.
Fear sells. Fear gets ratings.
Worse, the bulk of our nooze media has a political agenda: victory for Democrats, no matter what it costs the country.
Military history tells us that psychological warfare works. It demoralizes armies and saps the soldiers’ will to fight. It can do the same to civilians. Mr. Brown wonders if it is doing the same to us. Ya mean it isn’t?
We have endless repetition of bad news, scary stats, all day and all night. You can get people to believe almost anything if you repeat it often enough.
Where governors and mayors have indulged in what Mr. Brown and others call “police state tactics,” the media has cheered them on. This is America, and we’re supposed to debate public policy–not just ram it down the public’s throat.
And on top of all this, Big Tech has been censoring dissent in the social media. Critics’ voices are not heard.
Our country’s founders deemed a free press indispensable to the maintenance of our republic. They never envisioned that virtually the whole media would transform itself into a propaganda apparatus for one political party. They knew the press would sometimes lie, sometimes conceal the truth, sometimes get hysterical. But they never dreamed the press would do those things, on purpose, as the means of achieving a desired political objective.
We still need a free press. But more and more… we don’t have one.
I’d call it gas lighting.
Thank God for the Alternative Media – that’s where I go to find out the truth about what is going on in the News. This whole Wuhan virus panic is a case study. They sold us on shutting down the country based on science. And then when the science proved to be wrong, they doubled down on the science’s re-calibrations. It turns out there is no science that social distancing works; no science that masks help (they could even hurt because they cut off the flow of oxygen from the mouth which is a cause of strife for the body), and no science that it is killing people at an alarming rate. All their science has done is make dictators out of our liberal governors and liberal mayors. You want to blame someone for all this, blame the MSM who are single-mindedly attack dogs against Donald Trump.
I think Watchman has a good point. It’s to make us question reality itself.