The Pravda Media is Corrupt to the Core, and the Rot is Killing them

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: 

Over 60 years ago I worked in the advertising department of a major metropolitan newspaper and as the years went by it appeared to me the United Press International, Associated Press and Reuters seemed to control all of what appears in the newspaper, and for the most part, TV news, since it was nothing more than reporting in a shortened form what the print media was already saying.  And since even then I was more well read than most I felt they were deliberately leaving much of what was going on in the world out of the news. My friends and associates laughed at me, snickering and shaking their heads with a bit of arrogant scorn.

The natural function of the human mind is to find patterns.  Life is all about patterns,  and seeing those patterns.  A quality that's sorely lacking in the world.  Unfortunately, those who see them early and quickly aren't necessarily appreciated. I was right and it only took over 50 or so years for the rest of the world to catch up, but now it's generally accepted the traditional news media is nothing more than a propaganda arm of the left.

Like others I’ve not watched any electronic news for years, and that includes going back to O’Reilly on Fox. I stopped watching Fox when he claimed he saw Obama’s birth certificate and that all was fine, nothing to see there.  I always thought he was a phony, and that confirmed it.

But I stopped watching 60 Minutes probably over 30 years ago, and here’s why. Mike Wallace wanted to interview the Moonies, and they said only if the entire interview was broadcast. Well, that can’t be done so they came to an agreement. Not only would 60 Minutes film the interview, so too would the Moonies.

Mike Wallace was usually totally confident in interviews, totally in control, but he was nervous and hesitant all during that interview. That’s when I realized they edited these interviews to tell the story they wanted told, not the story that existed, but since the Moonies filmed the complete interview, the usual editing was impossible.

And that was and still is true with all of these “story” tellers. Independent journalism? Sure, independent from the restrictions of truth and justice, with the Sullivan ruling giving them carte blanch to lie. I've kept track of just how rotten the media really is storing articles as source pieces, and I have a lot of them, and what appears below is just the tip of the iceberg.  

But their time is up, and it’s a Good Morning in America. 

Media Spin and Corruption

 If you've ever seen anything on PBS you've bound to have seen how they've been supported by the Annenberg Foundation, which presents itself publicly as a big supporter of public education.  Well, PBS and the Annenberg Foundation are birds of a feather.  The Annenberg Foundation was created by Walter Herbert Annenberg, highly successful and highly lauded for his integrity.  An "American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and diplomat. Annenberg owned and operated Triangle Publications", and yet he wasn't above using the media to destroy anyone who opposed him, and doing it in the same corrupt manner we see the corrupt media doing right now!

In 1966, Annenberg used the Inquirer to cast doubt on the candidacy of Democrat Milton Shapp for governor of Pennsylvania. Shapp was highly critical of the proposed merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad with the New York Central Railroad and was pushing the US Interstate Commerce Commission to prevent it from occurring. Annenberg, who was the biggest individual stockholder of the Pennsylvania Railroad, wanted to see the merger succeed (which it did) and he was frustrated with Shapp's opposition.^[15] During a press conference, an Inquirer reporter asked Shapp if he had ever been a patient in a mental hospital. Never having been in one, Shapp simply said "no." The next day, a five-column front page Inquirer headline read, "Shapp Denies Mental Institution Stay". Shapp and others have attributed his loss of the election to Annenberg's newspaper.

Blatant corruption then and nothing has changed! 

1. An Epidemic of Media Doublespeak 
2. New York Times Struggles to Explain Why It Reported News to Traumatized Readers 
3. Atlantic writer admits Democrat voters are stuck in ‘media bubbles’ and don’t know diddly squat
4.  Could the media tell the truth even if they wanted to?
5. Same Salute, Different Party: Media Spins for Cory Booker  
6. LA Riots and the Media’s “Stalinization”

Awarded for Corruption

The Pulitzer Prize people have always been a disgrace going back to Walter Duranty who wrote how Stalin wasn’t starving Soviet citizens.  Except for those estimated 10 million men, women and children in the Stalin-engineered silent massacre between 1932-1933, also known as the Holodomor.  Everyone in the journalism business knew he was a world class liar, and the NYT knew it too. Worse yet, years later and all his lies were exposed, the Pulitzer committee refused to revoke it, and the NYT refused to return it. Who wants honors from people such as these.  What they deserve is the Walter Duranty Award.  A prize for journalistic mendacity. 

1. Fake news gets nominated for an Emmy
2. 60 Minutes lionizes Trump-hating attorney Marc Elias, mastermind of the Russia hoax
3. Comments for: Scott Pelley goes drama-queen about Paramount pushing out a 60 Minutes editor, declares the man's brand of journalism 'accurate and fair'  
4. Pulitzer judges pass over iconic AP photo of Trump defiantly waving his fist with blood running down his face after assassination attempt
5.   Florida Judge Tells Gaslighting Pulitzer Board They Have to Face the Music in Trump Defamation Suit 
6. This Headline Sort of Guts The Washington Post's Pulitzer Win for Covering the Trump Assassination
7.  Esquire wins first Pulitzer for its glowing tribute of cross-dressing mayor who posted local women on porn sites and fantasized about murder
8.   Pulitzer judges pass over iconic AP photo of Trump defiantly waving his fist with blood running down his face after assassination attempt
9.  ‘60 Minutes’ report that prompted Trump lawsuit nominated for Emmy Award

Death of the Pravda Media 

1. Jen Psaki's New Show Has Been an Immense Flop, Even by MSNBC's Standards 
2. “Quite Fearless”: Jen Psaki Can Barely Contain Herself While Fawning Over Letitia James During MSNBC Interview
3. Jen Psaki's New Show Has Been an Immense Flop, Even by MSNBC's Standards  
4. Riddle Us This: Why Did NewsGuard Hire a Senior Editor Accused of Gross ‘Misconduct?’
5. Nolte: CNN’s Primetime Audience Sinks to Pathetic 
6. FTC Launches Investigation into Far-Left Group Media Matters
7. Top CNN Reporter OUT After Outlet Pays Navy Vet Millions of Dollars in Defamation Settlement
8.  Even the Biden Administration Couldn’t Believe How DUMB and GUILLIBLE the Mainstream Media Was! 
9. Maybe ‘demos’ don't watch MSNBC anymore
10. Pathetic, stupid media desperate for a headline
11. Fake news pushers: they haven’t learned, and they don’t care
12. Trump threatens major network with new legal action 
13. Trump holds nothing back as he destroys Big Media reporter
14.  Turley: The American Press Is in Precarious Times
15. 'No matter how much you hate the media, it's not enough!'  
16. Stephanopoulos and Muir Pay the Price for Their Past Treatment of Trump as ABC Sidelines Them for Primetime Interview 
17. Fake News CNN Eyes Massive Staff Cuts as Parent Company Prepares for Breakup
18. ABC News Suspends Senior White House Correspondent for Revealing Extreme Media Bias Against President Trump
19. Stephanopoulos and Muir Pay the Price for Their Past Treatment of Trump as ABC Sidelines Them for Primetime Interview 

Illegal Immigration 

1. CNN Stunned as Majority of Americans Back Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan 
2.  Fact Check: Did ABC News Deceive Readers by Referring to MS-13 as a 'Clique'? 
3.  ATTENTION DEMOCRATS AND NBC NEWS — 5TH AMENDMENT DOES NOT APPLY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS.  

Islam

1. The AP Strikes Again
2. MSNBC Calls Illegal Alien Muslim Terrorist FROM EGYPT a “White Male”
3.  Former CNN Host Just Roasted Leftists Over the Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers
4. Hamas supporters went on a rampage in Switzerland, but the media are silent

NPR and PBS... Goodbye! 

1. NPR claims a First Amendment right to subsidized speech
2. I thought that they didn't need the money
3. Whither the National Endowment for the Arts?
4. Trump Signs EO Halting Federal $$ to NPR, PBS
5.  Why NPR and PBS Just Lost a Lot of Money 
6. Trump signs order ending taxpayer funding for NPR and PBS  
7.  Goodbye to NPR and PBS?

 Tapper Jack and the Biden Coverup Scandal

1. Traitors Benedict Arnold and Jake Tapper
2. 63% Say ‘Major Media Journalists’ Knew About and Covered up Biden’s Mental Decline 

   

3. POETIC JUSTICE: Jake Tapper’s CNN Show Sees Ratings Collapse Despite Biden Book Buzz and Media Tour
4. Jake Tapper Explains it All to You
5. Nolte Torches Tapper, Media for Biden Lies
6. Nolte: Jake Tapper’s ‘Humble’ Response to Book Backlash Is More Desperate Lie 
7. Desperate Fake Jake Tapper Hires PR Crisis Guru as Dementia Joe Book Backlash Erupts
8. The Book Grift Loophole
9. Tapper’s Book Condemns Journalists In More Ways Than One  
10. Media Covered Up Biden’s Health Issues — Angry Voters Want Them To Answer For It: I&I/TIPP Poll
11.  Biden health cover-up holds lessons for both Democrats and Republicans
12. Biden’s Late Cancer Diagnosis Exposes Democrats and the Media as Legitimate National Security Risks
13. The Joe Biden Cover-Up Scandal: A Media Meltdown Exposed
14. The fact that Axios released the audio from the Biden-Hur interview suggests something disturbing
15. Media Covered Up Biden’s Health Issues — Angry Voters Want Them To Answer For It: I&I/TIPP Poll 

 Outright deception

1. 60 Minutes lionizes Trump-hating attorney Marc Elias, mastermind of the Russia hoax
2. NYT whines about low-information voters supporting Trump... but hides real information about the corruption of big government
3.  The View Proves ABC News Has No Standards
1. Disney boss imposes stunning new talk show standard on 'The View' 
2. Anybody notice 60 Minutes's curiously rightward lurch?
   
4.  ‘Fact Checkers’ Claim NY Mayoral Candidate’s “Seize The Means Of Production” Remark Isn’t Communist
5.  The Media’s Failure to Effectively Confront Recent JFK Assassination Testimony
6. CNN’s Amber Ruffin: I’m Black, I’m Terrified, I’m ‘Less Welcome’ Under Trump
7.  Pollster: Media Pushing Fake Polls to Pressure Congressional Republicans
8.  FACT CHECK: CNN’s Anderson Cooper Falsely Claims Blacks Own 4% of Private Land in South Africa
9.  Hilarious! Reporter Ends Schumer’s Entire Career After He Attacks Trump on Bogus 100-Day Poll Numbers
10.  Unmasking the Real Threat to America's Democracy
11.  We Won’t Allow the Legacy Media to Weasel Out of Accountability for Their Role in the Great Biden Coverup 
12.  Fact Check: AP Falsely Claims Few Americans Believe in Communism
13.  How Media Exploits Climate Catastrophism 

Trump Derangement Syndrome

1. Trump’s Ratings Edge Higher As Good News Eclipses Negative Media Coverage: I&I/TIPP Poll 
2.  NATO SEC General Mark Rutte Just Levels NYT Reporter in Brilliant Breakdown of What Trump Achieved
3. The New York Times shines a spotlight on the hypocrisy of ‘No Kings’ 
4.  Commentator: I'd Rather Have a Braindead Biden in Charge Than Trump
5.  Tarlovonomics  
6. The NYT bemoans that Trump has cut over $800 million in spending on LGBTQ+ health issues
7. CBS Is Tortured by Trump, Puts Rage into '60 Minutes'

Texas Flood  

1. Dowd: GOP ‘Lack of Funding’ Made TX Flood Worse 
2. DHS Says Mainstream Media 'Deliberately Lying' in Coverage of Events Leading Up to Catastrophic TX Flood
3. ABC's George Stephanopoulos pounded for deceptive coverage of Texas flooding

Unknowns

 

 I'm not quite sure how to categorize these five pieces, so I'll leave that up to you.  

1. The New York Times concedes that Harvard can’t fight Trump
2. Weird news? Not anymore! 
3. Artificial intelligence and Marxist control 
4. Another Sign: The Left Hates Children 
5. Why This MSNBC Segment With James Comey Was Beyond Surreal

Final point worth noting about the "legacy" media, and the "alternative" media.