The other day I saw a huge ad on the side of a bus for Global News with the slogan news you can trust and laughed. Why do they keep saying that? They all do. Because they know no one trusts them any more. So they think they can fix that if they rebrand themselves. News 1130 does the same thing.
They keep saying News you can trust over and over again. Really? I have a coworker that frequently says trust me and I would always say why would you say that? Why is it that I never trust someone who says trust me. If you have to say that, then there's a something wrong.
We all know what's wrong with our mainstream media. Corporate mergers. If you merge all the media outlets into one owner, they become much easier to control and they all become clones of each other.
Yet the days of investigative journalism are long gone. Now they just reprint a press release en mass. Especially if that press release comes from CSIS. Oh they jump with glee saying here's a credible source. Not.
Global News used to be a pillar of credibility. Then they were bought out by Post Media News and their credibility tanked. The Vancouver Sun and Province used to present slightly different opinions. Now Post Media News owns them both and there is no different opinions any more. They're all clones of each other.
It's not just Post Media News, it's all of them. CBC used to be pillars in Investigative reporting. Now they top the list of fake news pushing left wing propaganda.
That's why Tara Henley left in a huff. She said when she started with CBC she was left of centre. Now she's far right. Only her opinions haven't changed, the CBC has.
Everyone likes to trash the CBC but it's not just the CBC, it's all of them. CNN became the first outlet known for fake news. Yet now it's all of them including Fox news.
Last year a Gallup poll announced that "Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a great deal or fair amount of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago."
There's a reason for that. Media merges has resulted in a change in bias. Corporate sponsors tend to mold media bias. News outlets no longer report the news, they bombard us with propaganda. Everyone can see that.
Looking at the Gallup poll results and all these ads that say fake news you can trust shows us that you can fool some of the people some the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. However, I don't see it ever getting fixed simply because there's no money in the truth. There's only money in the paid advertising and when the rich people sit down and fund Communism, you know its not to share their wealth. It's to increase their wealth by making consumers slaves.
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