Death of the Pravda Media

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:  

At my age I've seen all the big names in journalism, and some like Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil were two of the good ones.  But that wasn't necessarily true of the rest, including Walter Cronkite, who was in reality a globalist, but Cronkite and the Matrix media were able to hide it back in those days.   

Here's a quote by Jim Lehrer worth reading.

People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call MacNeil Lehrer journalism. Well, yes, there are, and here they are. Do nothing I cannot defend. Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me. Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.

Assume the viewer is as smart and caring and as good a person as I am. Assume the same about all people on whom I report. Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise. Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and clearly label everything.

Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions. No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously. And, finally, I am not in the entertainment business." - Jim Lehrer

If that's supposed to be the standard for quality journalism, and I think it is, then it's clear what we've been seeing on the news and reading in the newspapers, is in point of fact, not journalism at all.  It's lies of commission, lies of omission, corruption and propaganda, all meant to deceive the public in order to promote leftism and the Democrat party. 

 

However, try as they might, neither side can fully explain the existence of left-wingers. For my part, I can far easier grasp the appeal of turnips and grits than I can the stranglehold that Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and Obama, have on leftists. I mean, how is it that anyone can look at the results of communism and socialism and not see them for the nightmares they are and always have been? After all, the evidence is in plain sight. - Burt Prelutsky

 

One well known leftist propagandist from the Pravda media outlet MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell. announced he's taking a week off" due to what he said was "exhaustion caused by President Donald Trump's administration."  Does that seem a little snowflakish to you?  It's actually understandable.  These leftist apologists have had to unendingly do remarkable mental gymnastics in order to make Biden, his administration, and the Democrat party look rational and sane, all the while claiming the normals who disagree with them are "weird".    But now they're dealing with a new sheriff in town — and he’s taking no prisoners.  He's striking back, and winning.  

 

Betrayal - "Trump has found them out. He has found their corruption, their greed, their fraud, their hatred, and their betrayal of the American people, and he's going to nail them to the wall."  Trump sued CBS for 

 

Trump sued CBS and they ended up paying $16 million to Trump for it's altered interview with Kamala Harris, in a deliberate attempt to defeat Trump in the election, and this was after "ABC News agreed to pay $16 million to the president to settle a defamation case against anchor George Stephanopoulos, who said the president was found “liable” for rape."

 

Monica Showalter posted this article, Mainstream media laments Trump's $16 million victory against CBS for its sleazy, deceptive editing, saying: 

“I deplore … the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity and the mendacious spirit of those who write for them… These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief… This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.” - Thomas Jefferson described the abuses of a free press in 1814 in a letter to his friend Walter Jones 

• Facts to ponder while most of the media peddles Democrat talking points to destroy Trump and Republicans and to elect Democrats 
• House Judiciary Report Reveals GARM and Foreign Regulators’ Collusion to Censor American Speech and Silence Trump

Nothing has changed, nor it will ever change regarding the lack of integrity in the legacy media! It has been so from their founding, and will continue to be so until the end of time.  But right now, today, because of modern communications, they have more easily, and more thoroughly, corrupted the nation's perception of reality with the stench of their lack of morality, and stunning level of hypocritical ignorance. 

Worse yet, they work diligently to prevent anyone from exposing their perfidy!  As an example, YouTube suspended  One America News Network channel for what they're calling misinformation violations for COVID-19 policy.  That's a convenient way of saying anything that disagrees with the leftist agenda, AKA, free speech, is misinformation and must be censored.    Yet they have little trouble promoting outright lies. Which bothers them not the least because those lies promote false leftist narratives. What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? Intent! But they are none the less two sides of the same coin.   

I've seen them called sewer trout, but that's an insult to trout and sewers, since both serve a useful purpose

With the alternative media,  watching everything the left and their media lackey's are saying, are confronting them by exposing their half truths and lies, which has resulted in they're viewership being washed down the drain.  Now that their mental gymnastics no longer works, they're left confused, frustrated, and suffering from some serious mental fatigue.  Other than denial, the only recourse for recovery available to them is to start telling the truth, and that's an arrow into their hearts.  Why?  Because then they would have to become conservatives.   

 

Just like Dan Rather, they'll go down the tubes screaming denial, as Dan Rather, the "fake but accurate" talking head used to intone, "Questions remain".  As for the Rather/Mapes fake documents scandal, here's what I originally published in 2012: We Need to Get This: The Media Lies....Constantly!  I posted this interview with Mary Mapes saying: 

"Ross asked Mapes , "if she believed the story was true. She stated “The story? Absolutely.” the interviewer found it incredible that she found “this story to be up to your standards”. (Editor's Note: This is an important point. RK ) Mapes stated "I’m perfectly willing to believe those documents are forgeries if there’s proof that I haven’t seen."' 

Does this take you aback? It should. Ross asked: “But isn’t it the other way around? Don’t you have to prove they’re authentic?" Mapes responded by saying that “they haven’t been proven false.”  Ross asked what most of us would consider obvious: “Have they proved to be authentic though? Isn’t that really what journalists do?” Now the quote of the year…….Mapes said; "No, I don’t think that’s the standard." Which is the real kicker.  Why?  Because what she was demanding is called proving a negative, and that can't be done.  You can only prove what is, not what isn't.  

In short, the narrative is far more important than the facts. Just like they say in Hollywood as they take great liberties with their "history" based movies:

 “If it didn’t happen that way, then that's the way it should have happened!”

But we know that Hollywood is a fiction factory.  Entertainment is their job, and fiction is part of that story telling job!   But we expect the news to be non-fiction. After all, isn't truth supposed to be "their" job?"   If truth isn't their job, then propaganda and lies must be their job, and we're now finding USAID has been funding those lies.  

Nothing has changed, except now they're under a microscope, and Dan Rather played a huge role in making that transition happen.  It's taken time, but that's Ole Dan's actual legacy, lies and corruption. 

The Pravda media promotes a new Holocaust.  When Hamas supporters went on a rampage in Switzerland, the Pravda media was taking a nap that day.  They cry over a pedophile losing citizenship.  They claimed there was no Iranian nuclear program, but in order to discredit Trump, now there is.

Rigging polls to promote their latest meme is now and has always been standard operating procedure for these Marxist myrmidons claiming Trump's BBB is unpopular.  They ignored the obvious health issues of Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton, but a bruise on Trump's right hand draws gasps of horror in hopes of launching a crusade against him.    

They irrationally turn terrorists into heroes and prosecutors into monsters, and as for the Texas flood?  DHS says the mainstream media deliberately lied in its coverage of that catastrophe.

But the information world is changing, the alternative media is ascendant, and society is "awakened" to their corruption, and people are taking action.   A notorious leftist censorship organization known as Media Matters is in deep trouble after years of its "scorched earth campaign against the conservative media", making blatantly false and injurious claims to destroy their advertising revenue.   Now, after a series of lawsuits they're on the verge of total collapse. 

Its been reported that even the Biden administration couldn’t believe, how dumb and gullible the Pravda media was, which is a bit unfair.  They "believed" because they wanted to believe. It was a unfathomable desire to believe the lies Biden, Obama, Hillary, Kamala, and all the rest were telling because those lies are who they are and what they believe is truth, no matter how much reality may impugn those beliefs. So, who is more stupid, the fools who are "believers" or the fools who know they're lying and promoting corruption that's destructive to society and the nation?   

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.  The Pravda media is corrupt to the core, and the rot is killing them.  What we're seeing is the death of the legacy media, and it's more than justified. 

Schadenfreude!

Updates: 

• Washington Post reeling from buyout exodus as bosses hope to turn the page at embattled paper ......"It's been a bloodbath on editorial,"..... (My Take - This was long overdue, here's my 

• Former CBS Anchor: Paramount Merger May Signal Network’s End - A former “CBS Evening News” anchor told CNN on Friday that the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media may “end” journalism as she had known it.  (My Take - And she says this as if it's a bad thing? RK)

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.  

L.A. Riots, Part IV

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: 

 

The corruption of the Pravda media has been thoroughly exposed, and now they're swirling down the drain, and the "alternative" media is ascendant, but no matter how they're destroying themselves, they continue to lie, misdirect, twist and subvert the truth on every subject in which they cover, including the L.A. Riots and/or protests and demonstrations all over the country.

What we're now seeing is the Stalinization of the Pravda media!   Actually we're seeing the exposure of their Stalinization that goes back to the days of Walter Duranty who covered over Stalin's starvation of tens of millions of people, and ended up with the Pulitzer Prize, which the NYT refuses to return, and the Pulitzer committee refuses to revoke.  And nothing has changed. 

They continue to promote the idea these illegals are innocent of any crimes. Well, if they're here illegally they're criminals, but the number of violent criminal illegals they're arresting is testimony to their perfidious reporting! So, who ya gonna believe, the media, or your lying eyes.  

As for spontaneous, well that's provably false.   One reporter went there posting the usual leftist claptrap and then realized..... hey, wait, this isn't spontaneous (they used the word organic) it's staged and organized with protective gear and food being provided to these rioters, and I'm betting many are paid demonstrators.

Definition leads to clarity, and a failure to define things properly leads to clarity also, such as their claims of "mostly peaceful protests."

The left has been expert at redefining words to support their lies of commission, lies of omission, misdirection, projection, and logical fallacies. An MSNBC reporter  compared ICE agents "slave catchers." CNN’s Dana Bash says Trump is the real arsonist in L.A. and they're horrified Trump called them insurrectionists.  A word they're still throwing around regarding the January 6th protests, where no buildings were burned, no police were attacked, no cars were set on fire, and the only person murdered was an unarmed small woman by a D.C. cop, which is a case the DOJ needs to reopen. 

CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc, are viper's nests of intellectual corruption, calling all this violence lawful protests.....such as these these "peaceful protests".   One anchor claims all these burning cars was just people having fun and it's the fault of the police for turning it into a confrontation.  Kinda like looting.  Looters think that's a lot of fun also.  How deranged can these nitwits be?  There's no end as one MSNBC reporter "went on an unhinged rant about illegal aliens, claiming they’re the fabric of the community while insinuating that the deployment of federal resources into the city to quell the unrest and deport people who shouldn’t be here is racially motivated."  

Not only are they a "fabric of the community", according to The View’s Ana Navarro, milk prices are going to skyrocket because there'll be no illegals to milk the cows.   Hello Ana, you're unbridled ignorance is showing....again!  People don't really milk cows.  Machines milk them, and milk each cow in four minutes.    

• 'The View' Proves ABC News Has No Standards -ABC has no standards, none. Not for decency, not for intelligence, not for liability or anything close to common sense. Whoopi Goldberg, the "lead" host, can barely intro a segment off the teleprompter and she’s the "wisdom" on the show. 

 As for the Democrats, they're in complete harmony with these "mostly peaceful" rioters, and not the sane taxpayers who are not out there burning, looting, rioting, and attacking the police.... and who are leaving California in droves.   I doubt this journalist who was attacked for documenting their violence thinks this is just "mostly peaceful" fun.    

The Pravda Media Continues to Collapse

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: 

In the last few days the real owner of 60 Minutes, Shari Redstone, has decided the show is in serious need of adjustment.  Finally an adult has decided it's time for 60 minutes to start dealing in facts, not opinions.   The result?  The Executive Producer Resigns whining.  A producer who John Nolte called a documented serial liar, and if he can't run the show his way, he'll take the highway:

"Over the past months, it has also become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it," ......"To make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience. So...... (here comes the martyr complex).... I am stepping aside so the show can move forward." because "The show is too important to the country, it has to continue, just not with me as the Executive Producer," 

Okay, let’s get over this martyr claptrap putting the blame on the Trump administration and that tired old leftist meme, it's the common people against the big corporate tyrants trying to prevent the truth from coming out.  Yet none of the stories were blocked, and they admit they're not being censored, but the owners think they're in serious need of supervision, and that's just intolerable.   In point of fact they've been in need of oversight for a long time:

 

"The 60 Minutes brand has gone from being the pinnacle of broadcast journalism to a show that is hated by half of the country and dismissed by most of the other half. Ratings are down. Reputations are demolished..........They are unambiguously biased against conservatives while showering adoration (and favorable edits) on leftists. This may have worked in days past when subtle bias was sufficient, but in today’s world it doesn’t go unnoticed..

 

While those who still have jobs in the Pravda media think they're so brave and so stunning, in reality they're just grifters is a "self-preservation mode trying to abandon a sinking ship ahead of the fire and brimstone that is going to rain down the show and everyone associated with it in the months to come".   What's coming?   A massive .... massive... lawsuit by Donald Trump to the tune of $20 billion over an interview with Kamala Harris he claims was deceptively edited, which even after all the evidence points to that's exactly what happened, the producer is still denying it happened. 

 

"CNN reports that execs at Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, have discussed a settlement in hopes of winning FCC approval for a proposed merger with Skydance Media, but the court battle is ongoing for now."  

 

A settlement the executive producer fought against.  But the left will always be the left twisting history and reality, but it just ain't playing well.  There's a new sheriff in town, and things are changing, and he's gonna make-em pay! 

• Update 4/28/25 1:00 PM:  Civil War at CBS - We wrote here about the resignation of Bill Owens, Executive Producer of CBS’s 60 Minutes–only the third such in the decades-long history of that program. Last night, at the end of the 60 Minutes broadcast, Scott Pelley went rogue, criticizing CBS’s parent company, Paramount, and blaming it for Owens’ departure: “‘60 Minutes’ host Scott Pelley calls out Paramount in shocking on-air attack on CBS’ parent company.” ........60 Minutes’ coverage has never been accurate and fair. The program has always been a platform for the left that has been willing to lie and falsify documents in service of the Democratic Party.......Here, “independence” can be translated as a free hand to distort the news in order to serve the Democratic Party. .........
• Update 4/28/25 6:35:PM: President Trump Torches “Corrupt, Compromised” Regime Media as “Enemy of the People”, Says Opinion Polls Are Rigged - In a fiery broadside against the seemingly hopelessly entrenched regime media establishment, President Donald Trump slammed the corporate press, accusing it of deliberately distorting public opinion polls to sabotage his administration and mislead voters. On the eve of his 100th day of his second term, an important milestone in any president’s tenure, Trump, in his usual fashion, didn’t hold back in the slightest, blasting what he called a “compromised and corrupt” press that’s become little more than a propaganda arm for globalist interests.............

 

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Useful Idiots and Paid Lackeys, Part XIV

Does anyone doubt this is a conspiracy of useful idiots and paid lackeys?

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

In a letter by Thomas Jefferson to his friend Walter Jones he made clear his feeling about the abuses of the "free press" in 1814 saying:

“I deplore … the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity and the mendacious spirit of those who write for them… These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief… This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.” 

Nothing has changed, nor it will ever change, regarding the lack of integrity in the media! It has been so from their founding, and will continue to be so until the end of time.  But right now, today, because of modern communications, they have more easily, and more thoroughly, corrupted the nation's perception of reality with the stench of their morality, and stunning level of hypocritical ignorance.  

Worse yet, they work diligently to prevent anyone from exposing their perfidy!  As an example, YouTube suspended  One America News Network channel for what they're calling misinformation violations for COVID-19 policy.  That's a convenient way of saying anything that disagrees with the leftist agenda, AKA, free speech, is misinformation and must be censored.    Yet they have little trouble promoting outright lies.  Those don't count because those lies promote false leftist narratives.

Calling them sewer trout would be an insult to trout and to sewers, since both serve a useful purpose.  

Useful Idiots

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,  NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN, all are losing readership or viewership in droves and being forced to scale back as a result.  Alot of big names and a lot of staff are being sent out into the cold, hard, real world, and it's been interesting to see the consequences for them.   When was the last time you heard anything from Chris Wallace after he decided to forego his seven million dollar a year salary in order to podcast.   

And why did Chris Wallace leave?  Because at 77, he was "eager to see what a transformed media environment has to offer, and neither he or his family want him to retire, and he wants more control over what he produces", which of course will undoubtedly be "unbiased".  

Yeah right!  While I'm sure he's more than financially secure, it still comes down to this.  If he had been able to carry his weight at CNN, he'd still be there, and since he couldn't, what makes him think he can carry the freight on his own?

In order to continue to parrot leftist themes there are shows like The View, which is:

".... one of the most insufferable programs on daytime television, the mecca from where the most miserable, wine-drinking liberal women come to cope and seethe about a second Trump presidency. It’s also prime territory for epic meltdowns, abject stupidity, racism, and all-around strangeness".

In one episode of The View Sunny Hostin claimed voter ID prevents blacks from voting, which implies black people are too dumb to figure out how to get an ID to vote.  Amazing!  Blacks don't seem to have a problem getting driver's licenses and bank accounts requiring ID's, so why would voter ID rules prevent them from voting?  But, she's on The View, which pretty much tell you all you need to know on the dumb chart.

Their Philosophy

The criminal's first rule is, "never give up on the con", and the media lives that.  The reason why Kamala lost the election was because TikTok stole Kamala’s presidency, and in spite of all the facts that have poured out about Joe Biden's mental condition,  a former CNN editor still tried to claim "the media did not act in bad faith".   Not in bad faith?  The only faith they have is bad, just like America's Smeagol, James Carville, who outrageously claimed Trump's White House argument with Zelenskyy was because Trump has syphilis.  How disgusting can they get?  There's no boundaries on the left. 

Is it any wonder the Pravda media is dying, and the reason why is simple, no one trusts them.  They're not devoted to truth, justice, and the American way, they're devoted to destroying Trump, and the traditional values that made America great, and now millions are abandoning them for alternative news sources, and those sources are now in charge of the news. 

But in spite of their woes, will the Pravda media reflect on their misdeeds? No! 

• Legacy of Lies: Scott Jennings Tells Abby Phillip Why Media Trust Is Cratering but She Refuses to Listen

A legacy of lies which Tim Pool drives home at a White House Press Corp meeting saying:

“Many of the news organizations represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives, such as the ‘very fine people’ hoax, the Covington smear,” Pool said, prefacing his first official question to Awesome White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “And now, the ‘Maryland man’ hoax, where an MS-13 gang member, adjudicated by two different judges, I believe, is simply being referred to as a ‘Maryland man’ over and over again.”  “In an effort from the White House to expand access to new companies, you’ve created this New Media Seat. … I’m wondering if you can comment on that unprofessional behavior, as well as elaborate on if there’s any plans to expand access to new [media] companies.”

The author then says:

Other than the Doocy kid, why are all these lying people (He didn't say people here) allowed to sit up front when they should be standing in the back cupping their ears like nursing home patients late for Bingo?   Contempt. Contempt. Contempt. The legacy media only deserve contempt......which is crucial in our noble crusade to someday enjoy the lamentations of their women.

Why do they persist in their insanity?  This Current List of Media’s Anti-Social Positions Explains So Much About What Is Wrong With Them:

The national media outlets and the Democrats are currently mired in a conjoined, downward spiral. The public approval of both entities has been eroding, and the main cause is in the way that they are interlocked. Neither shows interest in addressing - let alone repairing  - the problem. Instead, the Dems and the press appear convinced their entrenched activism and anti-Trump positioning will see them through...

As for Public Broadcasting:

1. Law Professor Jonathan Turley Says it’s Time to Shut Down the Taxpayer Funded ‘Gravy Train’ for NPR
2. End the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
3. FCC’s Brendan Carr Advances Investigation into NPR, PBS Running ‘Prohibited’ Ads

Senator Kennedy of Louisiana once commented about our policy of giving money to nations who hate us asking, "Why are we giving money to countries that hate America? They should be able to hate us for free."   I think that's a philosophy that should apply to NPR and Corporation for Public Broadcasting also.

But, like criminals, they just can't give up the con promoting claims of doom and gloom, having epileptic fits over anything Trump says turning everything into a crisis.  Defending rouge judges who support illegal immigration and decisions that promote voter fraud, and the list goes on and on, but this time nobody is listening. 

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Print Media, Part XIII

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

 

As we watch the Pravda electronic media gasping it's last breaths and with a total lack of self reflection challenging alternative media types by asking if they think they're real journalists. Anyone who proclaims they're from the Pravda media, either electronic or print, is in effect publicly stating:

 

"I'm a corrupt lying brain damaged puppet, which is why for four years I not only covered up Joe Biden's dementia, I vehemently denied it existed.  Also, I arrogantly, and smugly ridiculed any who dared to question it, and I did it with a smirk!"

 

But the left will always be the left, and they're now trying to rewrite and twist the history of the Biden presidency, but it just ain't playing well.  There's a new sheriff in town, and things are changing, and he's gonna make-em pay!

 

Trump is suing CBS for $20 billion over an interview with Kamala Harris that he claims was deceptively edited. CNN reports that execs at Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, have discussed a settlement in hopes of winning FCC approval for a proposed merger with Skydance Media, but the court battle is ongoing for now. (More 60 Minutes stories.)

 

Finally an adult has decided it's time for 60 minutes to start dealing in facts, not opinions.   The result?  The Executive Producer Resigns whining.  A producer who John Nolte called a documented serial liar.  And Nolte goes on the list the number of names that are crashing or out the door, and it's impressive saying:

 

And so, we can now add Bill Owens to our ever-growing list of Regime Media elites who have committed career suicide or just plain given up due to Trump Derangement Syndrome — Yes, 20 self-deportations:

1. Ruth Marcus – Washington Post columnist resigns.
2. 538 – Disney/ABC’s wildly biased polling site shutters.
3. Paul Krugman – Always wrong New York Times columnist forced out.
4. Jim Acosta – CNN anchor forced out.
5. Norah O’Donnell – Failed CBS anchor out.
6. Chuck Todd – NBC’s former Meet the Press host DEI’d out.
7. Andrea Mitchell – NBC harridan ages out of job.
8. Chris Wallace – Son of Someone out at CNN.
9. Joy Reid – Racist MSNBC anchor too racist for MSNBC. Fired.
10. Neil Cavuto – Fox News anchor scurries away.
11. Alex Wagner – Demoted at MSNBC.
12. Ayman Mohyeldin – Lost MSNBC show.
13. Olivia Nuzzi – Out at New York Mag for allegedly stalking RFK Jr.
14. Katie Phang – Lost MSNBC show.
15. Jonathan Capehart – Lost MSNBC show. Steps down from Washington Post editorial board.
16. Lester Holt – Out as NBC Nightly News anchor.
17. One-third of New York Times Editorial Board – Say, bye.
18. Eugene Robinson – Washington Post columnist quits in snit.
19. Ryan Lizza – Scurries to Substack over credible misconduct allegations.
20. Bill Owens —60 Minutes chief resigns in crybaby disgrace.

The New York Times, with "All the News That's Fit to Print" motto, commonly called 'The Gray Lady", is not a lady, but a hag, and will always be the journalistic sewer it has been for the entire 20th century, and it will never change, and is still a hag.  

1.  Report: NYT Journalist Has Regrets over Kavanaugh Coverage
2. Charles Blow, Journalism’s Clunkiest DIE Hire, Out at the New York Times
3.  NYT piece is oozing with fear.
4.  New York Magazine crops black people out of Trump inauguration party photo, then reports "almost everyone is white"

On the other hand the L.A. Times heard the alarm clock and now they're really "woke". Woke up that is.  Legacy media giant reportedly shifting resources from left-wing paper to promote…a conservative press.  The publisher refused to allow his newspaper.... remember it's his newspaper.... to endorse Kamala Harris.  Why? Because it was clear she was in no way qualified to be President of the United State and he'd had enough, and demanded they print news, not their opinions.  And many quit.  

But the Washington Post is the best story regarding that kind of transformation.  

• So, is Jeff Bezos really seeing the light? - Suddenly, the post-Trump Post will turn its opinions page toward ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets.’  Speaking of “free markets,” some outlets (WaPo, MSNBC, L.A. Times, etc.) are shelving their most radical leftists in favor of more consumer-friendly material.  While I don’t believe for a minute that Jeff Bezos has had a come-to-Jesus, road-to-Damascus epiphany, I do believe that he’s recognized that his paper’s hard-left whackadoodle opinions ran afoul of normal, everyday Americans, and therefore posed a long-term drag on his paper’s fortunes.

Bezos is reshaping the paper's opinion section, and the editor quit, and staff reject liberty and free markets. Someone named Jen Rubin left WaPo in order to make her living continuing to belittling Trump, and is being joined by other WaPo staff.  People  I never heard of, just like Ruth Marcus.   I'm betting the vast majority of America never heard of any of them.   Well, good luck with that, if WaPo couldn't make money spewing out their views, why would they think they can make money away from WaPo spewing out their views?   Perhaps they need to start practicing saying, "Welcome to McDonalds."

So, is Jeff Bezos really seeing the light? - Suddenly, the post-Trump Post will turn its opinions page toward ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets.’  Speaking of “free markets,” some outlets (WaPo, MSNBC, L.A. Times, etc.) are shelving their most radical leftists in favor of more consumer-friendly material.  While I don’t believe for a minute that Jeff Bezos has had a come-to-Jesus, road-to-Damascus epiphany, I do believe that he’s recognized that his paper’s hard-left whackadoodle opinions ran afoul of normal, everyday Americans, and therefore posed a long-term drag on his paper’s fortunes.

Of course the staff was outraged, who does he think he is?  Well, “there is nothing less tolerant than a leftist scorned.” 

Here’s my take regarding his road to Damascus conversion. Believe it or not, I think this a schadenfreude moment for Bezos.  He’s a nerd who never dreamed of ever being a major center of attention in the world, and he likes it. So, he’s not going to do anything that will diminish that.  He has new hottie on his arm he’s calling his fiance, working out to try and have a new look, and now a new position at the table that affirms he's important.  

 

I have no doubt, given the self righteous arrogance leftists spewed out over all this, he was smugly looked down on by the hired help. He knew it!  He resented it!  And now he’s made it clear: They’re the nobodies. They’re just hired help, and they don’t count!  Only he counts, and that’s what he really believes in.  My view of Bezos?   You wouldn’t want to go into battle with Bezos, or for Bezos.  

 

Final thought.  No matter what's unfolding now, know the corporate media will never reform, no matter what shifts they may be taking now.  The Pravda media is arrogant, overpaid, under smart, and they lie constantly!   That's the history of the media from time immemorial. They have history, and it's ugly.   One has to wonder if the Pravda media even sane?   Perhaps we should ask if they're not only insane, but are they treasonous?  

 

 "Treason is an ugly word and an even uglier crime. In simple language treason is the act of betraying one’s country to those who would destroy it and enslave its people. This definition is so simple that leftwing sophisticated journalists sneer at it. To them treason is merely relative with one country’s traitor being another country’s hero. This is the appalling moral and intellectual state of current Western journalism. The moral rot runs so deep that one despairs of living long enough to see any improvement." Gerard Jackson 

Historically, that's the centuries long foundationally social paradigm of the media at it's core, and any improvement is merely a temporary blip on the radar.  It's never gonna change. 

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Big Tech Internet, Part XII

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

Let's start with this blatantly obvious truth,  The Press Pool is an illegitimate media cartel, and has been in effect the Pravda propaganda wing of the left and the Democrat party, unendingly playing the race card and they've even compare Zelenskyy to Jesus Christ.  But there's a new sheriff in town, and we're seeing a shift. 

Let's start with the internet since Google and Meta have manipulated our elections.  

These are not neutral parties, they're partisans, "with clear political agendas, using their unmatched market power to control electoral outcomes."

In an era where information is power, two corporate giants -- Google and Meta -- act as gatekeepers to the digital world, wielding their unprecedented market dominance not only to shape consumer habits but also to manipulate the very foundation of democracy: our elections,  ..............evidence is mounting that Big Tech is tipping the scales.........In 2019, psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein testified before Congress that manipulating Google’s search algorithm could have shifted at least 2.6 million votes toward Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election...........Meta, meanwhile, engages in a similar practice.........Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has funneled hundreds of millions into “election integrity” initiatives that critics argue disproportionately benefit progressive turnout efforts. These are not accidents; they are patterns. The agenda is not hidden; it is embedded in the system.

But Big Tech doesn’t operate in isolation. Mainstream media and educational institutions -- many of which are funded or influenced by leftist titans like George Soros -- amplify this distortion. Outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times echo narratives that align with Big Tech’s curation, while universities produce graduates steeped in progressive orthodoxy.............Each revelation uncovers another layer of a system that is rotten to its core.........The first step is to break their power. Antitrust enforcement must be revived with strength: split Google’s search engine from its ad business, compel Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp, and impose strict transparency on algorithms.

But now that there's a new sheriff in town, nerves are being rattled, and Zuckerberg immediately reverts to the "Kyrie Eleison" of leftism: It's not my fault, It's not my fault, It's not my fault, Amen!  

After meeting with Stephen Miller, a key aide to President-elect Trump, he blamed "Sheryl Sandberg, former chief operating officer at Meta", for much of their misbehavior, and in a panic fires Meta’s left-wing executive Nick Clegg, replacing him with Joel Kaplan, a Republican.  Remarkable.  Are we to believe he didn't know Clegg was a left wing radical, and Sandberg was all in on DEI?   

But to show just how serious Zuck's conversion is, he removed the tampons from the mens room.  Wow! How much more does everyone need to realize he's now a Mega man?  Well, after meeting with Jim Jordan he eliminated their fact check program, who conservatives  considered to be biased at best, which destroyed their credibility, and that drove the left nuts.

But all this is tacit acknowledgement Zuck's boys really were practicing censorship, which according to him Biden officials screamed and cursed at us to censor ‘things that were true.  But he's learned his lesson. No more censorship.

1. Huge Win for Free Speech’: Republicans Cheer Facebook’s Retreat from Censorship
2.  Meta Mega-Reversal Zuck Promises Less Censorship to Get in Trump’s Good Graces

Sorry Mark, we’ve heard this all before. 

Facebook has implemented one of the most scandalous censorship efforts in American history. And now, we’re supposed to believe – after years of election interference and undeserved demonization – that they want to embrace free speech?

1. No One Should Be Fooled by Zuckerberg’s Supposed About-Face on Trump
2. ‘If you think Mark Zuckerberg is MAGA, then you’d fall for a stripper saying they love you.”
3.  Epic Games CEO Blasts Big Tech for Being Fake Dems Now ‘Pretending’ to Be Republicans.

As for Google, they're still at it, and with impunity.   It seems to me they're just like the EU, while they insist they don't censor, if you dare disagree they'll censor you.