This is really just... A reminder, of something we should all already know: the media is not your friend, and it cannot be trusted, no matter the source, and no matter the time.
Even and including the so-called "conservative" media, or what you may consider at the time to be "based". Don't trust it. Don't trust Fox News. Don't trust Sky. Don't even trust The Spectator, or The Times (British one), or The Telegraph, or The NY Post. Sure, a broken clock may be right twice, but they cannot be trusted, and they will ALL play you for the mug they think you are, for as long as they can, for all that it is worth.
I know this is fairly obvious, but I guess I just wanted to reiterate it, because I found myself recently being lulled into a false sense of security, thinking that at least Sky and the Spectator have views I can mostly support, but then I... Watched and read a little bit more, and realised that a) Sky just says whatever the Government (in Australia, in this case) wants it to, and is very likely controlled opposition, and The Spectator is... Full of some truly whack opinions, that would be out of place in the very weirdest of posts on this forum...
I was also thinking about this because I have... Former friends, working in local journalism, and because I have studied media ethics. So I know a thing or two about it. The people I know? They're all brainwashed numpties, at this point, and not a single one of them would ever dare (anymore) say something "out of line", that might upset the moguls who effectively own them. They can't be trusted. I know that. And that is... A part of why, I have distanced them, and effectively... Said goodbye, to my friendships with a lot of them, some time ago...
So yeah, that's just a reminder, I guess. Turn off the news and build a garden (~ Lukas Nelson), or at least go outside. Learn some new skills. Live in the real world. If you really must get the news, try to either... Focus on the local, read a local, less biased, ideally independent paper, or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, find a blogger or Youtuber you like, and try to... Filter the bullshit through them. Personally, I like Sydney Watson, but then, she's not so much news as... Opinion on the clown world we now live in, with occasional crossover on the current events you might see covered, from a very opposing angle, on the mainstream news.
So yeah, that's just... My take. Be careful. Trust no one. And never, ever trust the shit that comes out of a journalist's mouth, unless you can verify it yourself in some way/crosscheck your sources.
Side note: While I recommend not trusting them as far as you can throw them, I will say that journalists do tend to at least be a good lay, so... Use 'em, tell 'em nothing, and then get out (without being "Me-Too'd", naturally), lol.
It's not just in the US. That applies in, to my knowledge, the entire Anglosphere... Perhaps less so Canada and NZ, but still.
But to dive deeper, re your last sentence, I hate to get all conspiratorial, but I suspect that is no accident. It's like how much of TV now is all "reality" crap. The powers that be, whoever they may be, WANT us to aspire to those stupid professions. They WANT us to admire that, and to think "Man, I wish I was like them". Much like the Olympics, it is the perfect distraction, and that is why the media wastes so much time hyping their bullshit. It is by design. Because people in those professions are, by and large, easily manipulated idiots, that is what we are all "supposed" to ascribe to. "Be like them. Be rich. Be InfluentialTM."
When you begin to see/realise that, that's when it all... Falls into place, you might say, lol...
Everything is a distraction. All this racist CRT, oppression pyramid bullshit, it's all a distraction from the rich (mostly Jews) not just stealing but fucking gutting entire families, of using tech against us that would be illegal if our politicians weren't whores.
Television and movies are no long entertaining, they're pure propaganda and the news is a way to get our attention away from the real issues.
Everything they talk about is either meant to distract you or demoralize you. Both sides, niggers and whites. They used to experiment on niggers and then just locked them up until they found a better purpose for them- use them as a threat and a distraction from what they're really doing.
Every single thing in the media is a distraction. The only reason they talked about Epstein at all was the story was too big and giving it a few days then ignoring it gave most of the idiots watching the belief that it was actually a small issue.
There have been some massive, history changing events take place in the last few years that have either been ignored or only talked about minimally. Epstein, Weinstein, Assange, the 2020 election scandal
But let's talk about Britney Spears fifteen years past her due date. Let's keep talking about Trump even though he's out of office. It's a fucking comedy show.
It's a symptom of a low IQ society. This is explained in The Bell Curve. And Idiocracy.
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