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GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS
Two things happened recently.
Most recent first: A Pew survey of trust in “journalists” has people talking.
The results are stark and not easily dismissed. It found that just 6% of Americans “have a great deal of confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public.” Among Republicans, that percentage is 2%; Democrats bump it up to 9%.
In previous iterations of these stats, establishment journos simply blamed Orange Man. The argument barely worked then. It was more of a salve for hurt reporter egos than it was reality.
It almost certainly won’t work now.
The second thing that happened was that Peggy Noonan, a longtime columnist and once a conservative, lamented the firing of 300 Washington Post reporters.
“We are dead without [journalism],” she wrote. “Some day something bad will happen … and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information.”
Apparently Noonan lives in a walled garden.
My response:
Noonan seems to have forgotten that it was a corrupt establishment’s hold over the media that in some ways contributed to the deaths of 20 million people. How much learning loss among kids happened because the media was dishonest? How many vaccine injuries? How much delay in investigating the actual cause of the virus, who funded it (Fauci), and how it happened?
You could do the same with a host of other issues. Right now, the media thinks a poor 5-year-old boy named Liam should be the wedge that holds open border policies in place. They’re doing everything they can to use him. Even Bari Weiss’s CBS is touting a story that only 14% of ICE’s deportees are actually criminals.
Guys, illegal immigration is bad. It’s also a crime. They’re all criminals. They need to go back.
Legal observers believe the total cost of impending malpractice lawsuits over minors who received mutilating transgender surgeries might be in the nine-figure ballpark. Hundreds of millions. The reality is they’re probably underestimating.
Remember when we couldn’t even acknowledge actual sex differences? The whole delusion that led to so many damaged kids and destroyed careers was, in large part, a journalist-enforced delusion.
Do you see where I’m headed with all this? How many failures and lies can you stack with zero accountability before you have to pay the piper? Frankly, 300 seems light. Probably 90% of the top networks and papers need to be liquidated.
Here’s the good news: Nick Shirley is not a genius. He doesn’t even claim to be, nor would he ever.
Nonetheless, he ate the steak right off the wider media’s plate.
There’s an opportunity here for all contrarian, typically conservative reporters who want to ask and get answers to all the uncomfortable questions. The tyrannical expert class of journalism has never been more precariously situated.
The time to strike is now.
We intend to do just that.
That’s it for the free portion of today’s State of the Day.
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