Has anyone else noticed that a more effective means of controlling a specific narrative is for the news to outrightly ignore it?
You notice it a lot with right-aligned protests. The Million MAGA March in late 2020 was barely covered by anyone, even though it was the direct precursor to J6. The Honkening was largely ignored (except for the Toronto residents losing their sleep, haha) UNTIL it began to threaten the local economy several days in. Then the military and mask-wearing brownshirts were called in and things were broken up within 24 hours.
I'm noticing it again with Unite The Kingdom. There's been a bit more media coverage this time thanks to Tommy and Elon's appearances (in addition to Kirk's assassination boosting things) and the march itself quite frankly being too big to sweep under the rug, but it definitely did not draw the right level of coverage it merited. The entire center of London was ground to a standstill, and yet most news outlets treated it as a tertiary headline.
Compare that to left-aligned protests with much smaller crowds, like Extinction Rebellion and the rest of the orange paint faggots (as well as BLM grifters) and they always make the front page and extended TV coverage. Hell, those dumb African retards in the Scottish highlands are getting arguably more news coverage than UTK did in their own damn country.
It works on both sides (Sadly).
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, the Restoring Honour rally and the Reclaim the Dream commemorative march (All in the latter end of 2010) were reported on with wildly varying sizes of crowds.
Outlets which favoured one side over the other apparently inflated numbers to influence popularity. Those same outlets would supposedly massively deflate numbers for events which didn't fit their rhetoric.
This tug of war has changed now that people don't rely on mainstream news networks for their information (Which is why governments all over are clamping down on the Internet). Just like the printing press allowed cognitive dissent to stabilise unheard voices and the radio later, the Internet will find a way to have ideas and conversations about them happen without those who want to dictate what reality is to most.
Lean into it, roll with the punches and stay on target. Propaganda is a tool which existed before it was named so, pitchforks and lynchings have always existed due to hysteria, and hysteria comes from trying to make sense of an angered confusion which is what those in control wish to maintain to stop a properly informed population from taking the power away from them.
Whatever the outcome of these current events will be; this will happen again ad infinitum. It seems like it's in our nature to correct and then be corrupted again.
We do get closer to a balanced view on the universe each time though, so all is not for nothing :)