WEBVTT 00:10.640 --> 00:17.760 If we look back at the last 14 years of this mess rule, as we look back at this gaggle of 00:17.760 --> 00:21.680 obdurate, arrogant, stubborn, unrepentant, heartless, self-serving bunch of a**holes 00:21.680 --> 00:25.900 who have spent the last 14 years trying to keep their useless megalomaniacal political party 00:25.900 --> 00:31.060 together while sleepwalking the country into a kitchen blender. A kitchen blender. 00:41.520 --> 00:47.500 Hey everybody, I have a question for you. What makes something true? 00:47.500 --> 00:58.500 So for this, let's go to the 1894 Webster's International Dictionary, Unabridged. 01:02.420 --> 01:09.200 Just huge and very heavy. Truth. The quality or state of being true. 01:10.980 --> 01:15.320 True. So what's true? Let's go back a page and figure out what true is. 01:15.320 --> 01:21.040 Conformable to fact in accordance with the actual state of things, correct, not false, 01:21.160 --> 01:26.300 erroneous, inaccurate, or the like, as a true relation or narration, a true history, 01:26.760 --> 01:32.660 a declaration is true when it states the facts. When we first started this channel, 01:33.500 --> 01:40.800 I was just making a joke, a snarky play on words. What would the mainstream media be called 01:41.300 --> 01:47.360 if the entire purpose of its existence was hinged upon telling people the truth 01:48.640 --> 01:52.880 about what's happening, or at least aiming for the truth as a goal 01:53.400 --> 01:57.940 without some other agenda getting in the way and twisting the narratives? 01:58.140 --> 02:02.060 The Fourth Estate has claimed that they stand ready, 02:02.060 --> 02:08.200 twist America and peril, a bulwark to creeping fascism, our media. 02:10.980 --> 02:18.440 Because mainstream is a pretty interesting word. As an adjective, it apparently didn't even exist 02:18.440 --> 02:26.980 until 1955. Our subject, new marketing patterns, which have arisen in these United States over 02:26.980 --> 02:31.660 a surprisingly short span of years. The wonder which has made it all possible, of course, 02:32.540 --> 02:38.500 is the Cyclops we have come to know as television. Did you know that? I didn't know that. I was 02:38.500 --> 02:42.480 actually looking that out. I looked it up randomly for a totally different video, 02:42.720 --> 02:47.980 and now here I am making this one because I just found this very fascinating, 02:48.300 --> 02:53.800 the definition of mainstream, which has definitely been evolving over the years. 02:54.500 --> 03:00.500 I appreciate this opportunity to stress the vital place of television in our national life. 03:01.300 --> 03:05.680 So we keep a bunch of dictionaries here. We try to keep one from 03:06.280 --> 03:11.600 every decade of the 20th century. And I couldn't find the word mainstream. 03:11.860 --> 03:15.520 The first dictionary I had that I could find it in was actually this one here, 03:15.520 --> 03:26.460 which I think is from 1967. Yeah, 1967 for the word mainstream. Let's see. 03:27.780 --> 03:36.060 Where'd you go? And all it meant was a prevailing current or direction of activity or influence. 03:36.880 --> 03:46.080 Papaganda has an art. Sabotage has a business. So now they're influencing. Then you have this one 03:48.140 --> 03:55.900 which is from 1991, but it also says 1988, 1989. So the late 80s, early 90s. 03:58.500 --> 04:03.820 It says, the middle of a stream where the current is strongest, the part of something 04:03.820 --> 04:09.560 considered to be the most active, productive, lively, busy, etc. A major or prevailing trend 04:09.560 --> 04:15.320 as of thought, action, literature, music, etc. A prevailing trend. 04:15.860 --> 04:20.840 It is non-matte selling force, to be sure, but television is more, far more. 04:21.320 --> 04:25.620 Nothing in this definition, either one of these definitions has anything to do with 04:25.620 --> 04:29.680 truth just by the way, or informing people of what's true. 04:29.680 --> 04:34.340 It is more than entertainment, more than the means of commercial communication. 04:34.860 --> 04:41.880 Stated simply, television is the greatest power yet created for cultural and educational development. 04:42.500 --> 04:47.420 The first time I saw mainstream media as a phrase get used in the newspaper archive was 04:47.420 --> 04:53.220 actually 1973. Oddly enough in reference to a court case that ended up going all the way to 04:53.220 --> 04:58.260 the Supreme Court, where a theater manager in Georgia was convicted of the crime of, quote, 04:58.260 --> 05:04.020 distributing obscene material for showing the 1971 American comedy-drama film, 05:04.300 --> 05:06.760 Carnal Knowledge, starring Jack Nicholson and Anne Margaret. 05:11.580 --> 05:16.820 And his conviction went all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court, which upheld it, 05:16.940 --> 05:21.920 and then ultimately all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned it on first 05:21.920 --> 05:27.180 amendment grounds. But now, when you consult the Miriam Webster Dictionary online, 05:27.180 --> 05:33.980 it says mainstream means, quote, having reflecting or being compatible with the prevailing 05:33.980 --> 05:40.800 attitudes and values of a society or group. The advertiser, who was fortunate enough to tie in 05:40.800 --> 05:47.080 with this home and family acceptance of television, gains the advantage no other medium can offer. 05:47.320 --> 05:52.080 But the Cambridge Dictionary takes it a step further and defines mainstream as, quote, 05:52.080 --> 05:59.020 considered normal and having or using ideas, beliefs, etc., that are accepted by most people. 06:04.940 --> 06:12.540 So what do we actually have here? We have an entity that has risen in a post-World War II Cold 06:12.540 --> 06:20.480 War era that exists to reflect and be compatible with what are claimed to be the prevailing 06:20.480 --> 06:25.440 attitudes and values of our society. But as many of us have since figured out, 06:26.060 --> 06:29.700 it never really did work that way, did it? The mainstream media wasn't 06:29.700 --> 06:35.540 reflecting ideas back to society about what was going on in reality. The mainstream media 06:35.540 --> 06:41.780 was creating ideas for society to have about that reality. It was giving people a lot of 06:41.780 --> 06:47.560 their ideas, ideas they wouldn't have if they weren't told them under the guise of it being, 06:47.560 --> 06:54.740 quote, news coming from the mainstream media. So it was giving people their ideas, cultivated, 06:55.480 --> 07:00.600 implanted, force-fed, whatever. Choose your word there. But 07:04.680 --> 07:12.280 was there ever a time since television was created, where it was simply unbiased reporting 07:12.280 --> 07:16.360 of what was happening in the world around us without an agenda of any kind? Was there 07:16.360 --> 07:21.180 ever a time where that was the case? Personally, I think there are some people in the older 07:21.180 --> 07:29.220 generations who would really like to believe there was a time like that. But after spending a decade 07:29.220 --> 07:34.580 up to my elbows in archive footage, and with the magical superpower that is hindsight, 07:35.720 --> 07:46.340 I'm just a tad more cynical than that. It has become increasingly obvious in the 07:46.340 --> 07:51.120 not only is incredibly biased one way or the other. Everybody in the mainstream press 07:51.120 --> 08:00.480 is calling all of Bill Clinton's crimes infidelities. Rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment 08:00.980 --> 08:08.620 are not infidelities. But will ignore stories together? Like they will all get together 08:08.620 --> 08:13.620 and ignore something completely? I was told I could not release any information on this increase 08:13.620 --> 08:18.840 in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public 08:18.840 --> 08:23.820 there was no threat at the border. Public health officials were intellectually dishonest. They 08:23.820 --> 08:30.240 lied to the American people. And not talk about it, even though everyone else on social media is 08:30.240 --> 08:35.240 talking about it. We're all seeing the same thing in public. And the White House has 08:35.240 --> 08:40.700 been trying to say, oh, don't worry in private. He's this very sharp, robust leader, 08:40.700 --> 08:44.740 even if you don't see it in public. So the Wall Street Journal was deeply reported. 08:45.680 --> 08:48.940 But the only ones who would go on record were Republicans, even though a lot of Democrats 08:48.940 --> 08:53.300 were saying the same thing. This is North Korea level style propaganda. 08:56.100 --> 09:02.600 Anybody with a minimal amount of shame would refuse to do. But these partisan outlets have 09:02.600 --> 09:07.980 none of that shame. I mean, they're counting on trying to tell American people, 09:07.980 --> 09:11.480 the American people, that what they're seeing, they should not believe. 09:17.640 --> 09:22.160 They will all get together and pair it the exact same talking points. 09:32.860 --> 09:37.300 I mean, somewhere in those cases, there's a memo that obviously gets sent out, 09:37.520 --> 09:39.200 and those people stick to it. 09:39.680 --> 09:42.400 The final days of the campaign can get a little salty. 09:45.260 --> 09:47.600 The final days of the campaign can get a little salty. 09:47.920 --> 09:54.500 The final days of the campaign can get a little salty. 09:54.620 --> 09:57.660 The final days of the campaign can get a little salty. 09:58.040 --> 10:00.240 The final days of the campaign can get a little salty. 10:00.340 --> 10:01.120 The final days of the campaign can get a little salty. 10:01.120 --> 10:02.820 The final days of the campaign can get a little salty. 10:03.100 --> 10:04.380 The final days of the campaign can get a little salty. 10:04.380 --> 10:05.520 The final days of the campaign can get a little salty. 10:05.720 --> 10:08.740 As you probably noticed, the final days of the campaign have been, 10:08.740 --> 10:11.100 Well, you might call them just a little salty. 10:11.440 --> 10:14.340 I mean, it could be that just six major corporations 10:14.340 --> 10:17.180 own 90 plus percent of the world's media. 10:17.800 --> 10:20.100 I mean, we're living in a time where the same media 10:20.520 --> 10:23.940 is constantly reminding us how important diversity is. 10:24.260 --> 10:26.500 But you pull the curtain back 10:26.500 --> 10:28.100 and go into the back room of this media. 10:28.580 --> 10:30.400 It's not really all that important. 10:31.140 --> 10:33.720 But that concentration of media 10:33.720 --> 10:36.000 into very small amount of companies, 10:36.500 --> 10:39.240 all of that has an effect of reducing the appearance 10:39.240 --> 10:42.680 of different points of view about what's going on out there. 10:42.940 --> 10:44.860 It makes it seem like everybody's thinking 10:44.860 --> 10:47.100 this one way or these two ways. 10:47.820 --> 10:52.600 Is that really a true reflection of society? 10:53.060 --> 10:57.020 Or is that what's being imposed on society by this media? 10:57.740 --> 11:00.300 You've got to be especially wary of journalists 11:00.300 --> 11:02.200 when they're all saying the same thing. 11:02.480 --> 11:05.060 Hi, I'm Fox and Antonio's Jessica Hedley. 11:05.060 --> 11:06.060 And I'm Ryan Wolfe. 11:06.140 --> 11:09.660 Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities. 11:09.860 --> 11:11.280 The El Paso Las Cruces communities. 11:11.680 --> 11:12.960 Eastern Iowa communities. 11:13.240 --> 11:14.160 Mid-Michigan communities. 11:14.380 --> 11:15.920 We are extremely proud of the quality, 11:16.200 --> 11:18.920 balanced journalism that CBS4 News produces. 11:19.440 --> 11:21.040 But we are concerned about the trouble 11:21.040 --> 11:22.080 of the country and irresponsible, 11:22.700 --> 11:25.140 one-sided news stories playing in our country. 11:25.460 --> 11:27.760 And so it's not really a surprise at all, 11:28.220 --> 11:30.100 especially with the rise of social media 11:30.100 --> 11:32.140 where people can actually talk to each other 11:32.140 --> 11:33.860 about what's going on out there. 11:33.860 --> 11:35.660 And it's not all concentrated 11:35.660 --> 11:39.080 in just the hands of the official media 11:39.720 --> 11:42.760 that the trust overall in the mainstream media 11:42.760 --> 11:45.200 has been plummeting year after year. 11:45.720 --> 11:48.340 I mean, there are many polls that show 11:48.340 --> 11:50.640 that this trust in the media is tanking. 11:50.900 --> 11:52.680 Gallup does polls on this all the time 11:52.680 --> 11:55.120 and it's near record lows right now. 11:55.440 --> 11:57.980 In fact, just 7% of Americans 11:57.980 --> 12:01.680 who have participated in this Gallup poll of 2022 12:02.360 --> 12:04.380 have a, quote, great deal of trust 12:04.380 --> 12:05.700 and confidence in the media. 12:06.120 --> 12:09.260 I did find it interesting that 70% of Democrats 12:10.000 --> 12:13.600 trust the media while only 14% of Republicans 12:13.600 --> 12:16.040 and 27% of independents do. 12:16.480 --> 12:19.340 But young Democrats also don't trust the media. 12:19.420 --> 12:21.280 So it's actually just older Democrats 12:21.280 --> 12:23.480 that are mostly trusting the media. 12:23.740 --> 12:26.580 This is a historic low that's going on 12:26.580 --> 12:28.360 and it has just been dropping 12:28.360 --> 12:31.500 and dropping and dropping since 1972. 12:32.180 --> 12:33.720 To the point that in May, 12:34.180 --> 12:36.220 the Christian Science Monitor put out this article, 12:36.460 --> 12:37.680 trust in the media has taint. 12:37.860 --> 12:39.900 Are we entering a post-news era? 12:40.440 --> 12:41.640 And I read through this, 12:41.820 --> 12:43.340 just wanted to show you something 12:43.340 --> 12:44.760 I thought was kind of interesting. 12:45.540 --> 12:47.180 Way down here, where'd it go? 12:47.980 --> 12:49.420 It says, cable news, 12:49.660 --> 12:52.760 the original disruptor for TV network news in its day 12:53.340 --> 12:56.260 now serves a largely baby boomer audience. 12:56.260 --> 12:59.880 The median ages of viewers of Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC 12:59.880 --> 13:02.920 are between 67 and 71 years old. 13:03.360 --> 13:05.640 That's a very small window of ages. 13:06.560 --> 13:08.180 So this mainstream media knows 13:08.180 --> 13:09.520 that it is becoming irrelevant 13:09.520 --> 13:12.700 and that the majority of people aren't watching it 13:12.700 --> 13:14.220 and the majority of its audience 13:14.220 --> 13:16.020 is a very small window of people 13:16.020 --> 13:18.140 in their late 60s and early 70s. 13:18.540 --> 13:21.160 In fact, according to Pew Research Center, 13:21.320 --> 13:24.420 adults under 30 now trust information from social media 13:24.420 --> 13:25.980 almost as much as from news outlets. 13:26.680 --> 13:29.400 And especially young adults are getting their news 13:29.400 --> 13:30.680 from places like TikTok, 13:31.700 --> 13:34.020 which kind of makes it interesting 13:34.020 --> 13:36.520 that TikTok underwent that whole thing 13:36.520 --> 13:38.500 where they were trying to ban it not that long ago. 13:39.080 --> 13:40.440 G.I., I can't imagine why. 13:40.780 --> 13:42.960 The sharing of biased and false news 13:42.960 --> 13:45.600 has become all too common on social media. 13:45.920 --> 13:47.920 More alarmingly, some media outlets 13:47.920 --> 13:51.120 have published policies that claim they are true 13:51.120 --> 13:52.620 without checking facts first. 13:52.620 --> 13:55.080 Unfortunately, some members of the media 13:55.080 --> 13:58.300 use their platforms to push their own personal lives 13:58.300 --> 14:01.780 and agenda control to exactly what people think. 14:01.960 --> 14:04.400 And this is extremely dangerous for our democracy. 14:04.760 --> 14:07.320 In fact, trust in media is so low, 14:07.560 --> 14:10.660 according to Fortune, that half of Americans 14:10.660 --> 14:12.440 now believe the news organizations 14:12.440 --> 14:14.620 are deliberately misleading them. 14:14.960 --> 14:17.760 That is the level that the news is at. 14:18.040 --> 14:20.600 This is extremely dangerous for our democracy. 14:20.600 --> 14:24.160 Maybe we as a human race are just outgrowing 14:24.160 --> 14:25.260 the mainstream media. 14:25.560 --> 14:28.700 Maybe large portions of us are tired of being told 14:29.480 --> 14:32.980 what we should consider normal about events, 14:33.440 --> 14:35.120 especially when you look at some of the things 14:35.120 --> 14:37.620 that mainstream has been attempting to normalize. 14:38.320 --> 14:41.820 These are really desperate times for legacy media, 14:42.000 --> 14:45.080 newspapers, magazines, local TV newscasts, and so on. 14:45.500 --> 14:48.180 They are dealing with economic models that no longer work 14:48.180 --> 14:51.060 and audiences that mistrust them as never before. 14:51.480 --> 14:53.800 Because knowing keeps us free. 14:54.500 --> 14:57.140 But when given crucial informational tasks, 14:57.480 --> 14:59.660 they instead build us prisons 14:59.660 --> 15:02.420 of what the fuck are you people talking about? 15:02.860 --> 15:05.900 So as that is going on on one hand, on the other hand, 15:05.940 --> 15:07.740 it really is no surprise at all 15:07.740 --> 15:10.240 that suddenly we have misinformation 15:10.800 --> 15:12.400 being touted as a science. 15:12.540 --> 15:14.160 They're touting it as a science now. 15:14.840 --> 15:16.960 I mean, here's what's going on. 15:16.960 --> 15:20.420 So you have a majority of Democrats, 15:20.700 --> 15:23.220 according to this Gallup poll. 15:23.740 --> 15:25.640 This is a Gallup poll from 2022. 15:26.380 --> 15:31.180 Says here, 70% of Democrats trust the media, okay? 15:31.720 --> 15:32.560 Remember that number. 15:32.720 --> 15:34.140 And now I want to show you this chart. 15:34.760 --> 15:37.320 The political leaning of misinformation experts. 15:37.680 --> 15:40.040 Take a look where the majority of people 15:40.040 --> 15:42.700 who support the idea of misinformation are, 15:43.320 --> 15:44.260 also Democrats. 15:44.840 --> 15:47.300 Okay, and I just wanted to jump in here really quick 15:47.300 --> 15:49.080 because I went and hunted down the paper 15:49.080 --> 15:50.220 just to show it to you. 15:50.360 --> 15:52.340 This is from the Harvard Kennedy School 15:52.340 --> 15:54.040 misinformation review, 15:54.700 --> 15:57.540 which apparently is a thing from July 2023, 15:57.920 --> 15:59.460 volume four, issue four. 15:59.900 --> 16:02.480 A survey of expert views on misinformation, 16:03.280 --> 16:05.160 definitions, determinant solutions, 16:05.480 --> 16:06.820 and future of the field. 16:07.400 --> 16:08.560 And it starts off, 16:08.800 --> 16:12.700 we surveyed 150 academic experts on misinformation 16:12.700 --> 16:16.680 and identified areas of expert consensus, right? 16:17.720 --> 16:20.120 Which sounds like a sentence they wrote, 16:20.360 --> 16:22.960 but if you go down here into the appendix 16:22.960 --> 16:26.140 of their own review, it says right here, 16:26.600 --> 16:29.300 experts leaned strongly toward the left 16:29.300 --> 16:30.600 of the political spectrum, 16:30.600 --> 16:33.280 and then they break down the numbers of people 16:33.760 --> 16:36.460 who were very right wing, fairly right wing, 16:36.620 --> 16:38.140 slightly right of center, center, 16:38.640 --> 16:39.900 slightly left of center, 16:39.900 --> 16:42.640 fairly left wing and very left wing. 16:43.060 --> 16:45.080 And if you take the slightly left of center, 16:45.300 --> 16:47.540 fairly left wing and very left wing group 16:47.540 --> 16:48.860 and you stick that all together, 16:49.420 --> 16:52.420 out of 150 experts they surveyed, 16:53.640 --> 16:56.200 126 were left of center. 16:56.700 --> 17:02.180 That means 84% of their respondents were left. 17:02.700 --> 17:04.280 In fact, they only had seven people 17:04.280 --> 17:06.780 out of the whole thing that were slightly right of center 17:06.780 --> 17:08.940 and the other 15 people were center. 17:09.460 --> 17:12.420 And I guess the other two people just didn't even say. 17:13.200 --> 17:16.960 So 84, a whopping 80, 17:17.060 --> 17:18.660 they should have just named this survey. 17:19.140 --> 17:21.800 We interviewed a bunch of liberal experts 17:21.800 --> 17:24.520 in liberal universities to tell us their opinion 17:24.520 --> 17:25.440 on misinformation. 17:26.380 --> 17:27.200 Don't worry though, 17:27.420 --> 17:29.140 we're sure it's not politically biased. 17:29.480 --> 17:30.420 That could be the subhead. 17:30.660 --> 17:32.520 This information experts largely lean 17:32.520 --> 17:34.180 in a single direction politically. 17:34.680 --> 17:36.520 This skew can, will and does impact 17:36.520 --> 17:38.880 which information is deemed legitimate or not. 17:39.440 --> 17:41.560 And you could say, well, that doesn't really matter, 17:41.620 --> 17:45.680 but then responding to this post was this person 17:46.040 --> 17:47.840 who is a professor at NYU, 17:48.140 --> 17:51.000 but also a chief AI scientist at MEDA, 17:51.640 --> 17:54.800 a researcher in AI, machine learning, robotics, 17:55.680 --> 17:59.600 a touring award laureate who is over here saying this. 18:00.380 --> 18:03.340 People studying misinformation lean left for two reasons. 18:03.340 --> 18:06.400 One, scientists lean left regardless of specialty 18:06.400 --> 18:08.380 because they care about the facts. 18:08.600 --> 18:10.520 I mean, if this was a high school debate class, 18:10.640 --> 18:12.440 you could own this in two seconds. 18:12.560 --> 18:15.380 This is not a logical argument. 18:15.880 --> 18:19.200 Two, misinformation today primarily comes from the rights 18:19.900 --> 18:22.060 which makes it worth studying and fighting against 18:22.060 --> 18:23.340 for people leaning left. 18:24.060 --> 18:27.460 I mean, how is that not a completely biased opinion? 18:28.120 --> 18:29.660 And it doesn't matter how many times 18:29.660 --> 18:32.380 left leaning news organizations have been called on 18:33.220 --> 18:36.720 promoting stories that have turned out later to not be true. 18:37.000 --> 18:38.400 Quote unquote, borders are. 18:39.040 --> 18:41.980 Vice president Harris was not a border czar. 18:42.020 --> 18:43.680 In time vice president and border czar, 18:43.760 --> 18:45.260 Kamala Harris facing some backlash. 18:45.540 --> 18:48.140 What he said about Harris and immigration was not true. 18:48.220 --> 18:49.800 She was never appointed border czar. 18:49.840 --> 18:53.320 Her first visit to the US Mexico border region 18:53.320 --> 18:55.160 since she was appointed as the border czar. 18:55.260 --> 18:56.480 People gonna have to counter the misinformation. 18:56.860 --> 18:58.720 You already hear folks talking about the border czar. 18:58.840 --> 18:59.680 She wasn't the border czar. 18:59.900 --> 19:01.540 President Biden tapped Kamala Harris, 19:01.540 --> 19:04.300 Vice President Kamala Harris to be the border czar. 19:04.360 --> 19:05.960 She wasn't the border czar. 19:06.280 --> 19:08.380 That's what Republicans labeled her. 19:08.480 --> 19:11.260 They were very critical of Kamala Harris, 19:11.320 --> 19:13.600 especially in her role as border czar. 19:13.700 --> 19:15.500 Folks lying about her border record, 19:15.640 --> 19:16.820 calling her a border czar. 19:16.920 --> 19:18.280 She was the border czar. 19:18.400 --> 19:20.700 Calling her sort of the border czar, 19:20.700 --> 19:22.300 which wasn't necessarily the case. 19:22.440 --> 19:24.680 So the border, if they weren't planning to address it 19:24.680 --> 19:26.740 in a major way, do not make her your border czar. 19:27.020 --> 19:30.240 And right leaning news organizations have done the same. 19:30.880 --> 19:35.780 So, but this is the dynamic that we're seeing right now. 19:36.520 --> 19:38.460 You know, when this person works at Metta, 19:38.640 --> 19:42.520 which is a place that has a lot of influence 19:42.520 --> 19:47.220 over what billions of people see and read every single day, 19:47.420 --> 19:50.100 and therefore are going to think about their reality. 19:50.520 --> 19:52.760 Today, we're gonna talk about the Metaverse. 19:53.180 --> 19:55.220 This is really disturbing that this is the way 19:55.220 --> 19:58.960 this person thinks, and this is the position of power 19:59.520 --> 20:01.180 that they're in over information. 20:01.640 --> 20:03.380 Like, that's pretty disturbing to me. 20:03.920 --> 20:05.620 And the fact that they're calling it a science 20:05.620 --> 20:08.200 when it's so-called scientists are talking 20:08.200 --> 20:10.880 in such a biased manner is pretty crazy, too. 20:11.220 --> 20:12.520 You know, up to now, 20:13.220 --> 20:15.800 I kept thinking that everything science did was good. 20:16.520 --> 20:20.320 My training, I suppose, now I'm not so sure. 20:20.600 --> 20:23.900 It does make science as a concept almost meaningless. 20:24.280 --> 20:24.920 In fact, it does. 20:25.360 --> 20:27.440 It turns what is supposed to be science 20:27.440 --> 20:29.320 into something more like scientism. 20:29.740 --> 20:31.340 It becomes absolutely meaningless 20:31.340 --> 20:33.120 when you start talking this way. 20:33.880 --> 20:36.120 Do you need to convince your shareholders 20:36.540 --> 20:40.520 and regulators that your products are safe and effective? 20:41.040 --> 20:43.700 Concerned, they're not seeing things your way. 20:44.080 --> 20:46.140 Why not give them a new perspective? 20:46.640 --> 20:49.520 Throw some professionals science at them. 20:50.360 --> 20:52.500 But the only reason I'm showing this to you 20:52.500 --> 20:56.100 and pointing it out is to say that 20:56.660 --> 20:59.280 every time a system's power is threatened, 20:59.680 --> 21:01.960 historically speaking, censorship gets pushed. 21:02.480 --> 21:03.780 In some way, shape, or form, 21:04.060 --> 21:06.180 misinformation is not even a new concept, 21:06.280 --> 21:08.180 and I've shown you guys that before on this channel. 21:08.300 --> 21:11.540 That is something that has been used throughout time 21:11.540 --> 21:16.640 to shut down opposition to whatever system is in power. 21:17.500 --> 21:19.680 Censorship was the norm under British kings. 21:19.920 --> 21:21.660 That's why freedom of speech and press 21:21.660 --> 21:23.660 is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. 21:23.840 --> 21:25.640 I mean, that's the reason it's there, 21:25.640 --> 21:28.220 because those people lived under a system 21:28.220 --> 21:31.440 where they weren't allowed to talk of parliaments, 21:31.580 --> 21:35.020 they weren't allowed to speak and say certain things outright. 21:35.480 --> 21:37.040 But it isn't just under that system. 21:37.180 --> 21:38.080 You could go back further. 21:38.420 --> 21:41.260 Censorship is a weapon that is always used 21:41.260 --> 21:43.480 by corrupt, tyrannical power systems. 21:43.660 --> 21:45.180 It doesn't matter what kind they are. 21:45.660 --> 21:47.140 We're just now in a digital era, 21:47.260 --> 21:48.880 so it's gonna have a digital overlay, 21:49.020 --> 21:50.100 but it's the same idea, 21:50.120 --> 21:52.460 and it's been done again and again and again. 21:52.960 --> 21:55.500 The greatest weapon on earth is not a bomb, 21:55.720 --> 21:57.920 but it can be delivered by an army, 21:58.400 --> 22:00.860 an army of paid teleprompter readers. 22:01.100 --> 22:02.620 Unfortunately, if they are the one thing 22:02.620 --> 22:04.800 that stands between America and chaos, 22:05.220 --> 22:08.880 we are in trouble because rarely has there been 22:08.880 --> 22:11.620 an institution that has such a distance 22:11.620 --> 22:15.700 between its aspirations and its execution. 22:16.320 --> 22:18.360 Who care more about their careers in the spotlight 22:18.360 --> 22:20.960 than telling people what is actually going on 22:20.960 --> 22:21.920 around them? 22:21.920 --> 22:23.680 Because the historical pattern with the media is 22:24.180 --> 22:27.160 lie, lie, lie again when proven to have lied 22:27.160 --> 22:28.140 hide from accountability. 22:28.540 --> 22:30.240 Which is supposed to be what you do 22:30.240 --> 22:32.360 if you're a journalist and you work in the news. 22:32.600 --> 22:33.900 At least that's what I thought. 22:34.360 --> 22:35.700 When I was little, that's what I thought. 22:35.840 --> 22:37.200 Of course, you know, 22:37.540 --> 22:39.660 when I was really little, I believed in Santa too, so. 22:39.900 --> 22:41.800 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 22:41.980 --> 22:43.900 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 22:44.200 --> 22:48.060 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 22:48.480 --> 22:50.660 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 22:50.840 --> 22:51.900 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 22:52.640 --> 22:55.160 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 22:57.520 --> 23:04.360 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 23:04.480 --> 23:06.400 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 23:06.580 --> 23:08.520 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 23:08.820 --> 23:10.200 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 23:10.200 --> 23:10.520 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 23:10.780 --> 23:11.220 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 23:11.220 --> 23:12.600 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 23:13.000 --> 23:13.100 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. 23:13.100 --> 23:14.860 I mean the whole business with the corporate media 23:14.860 --> 23:21.520 people repeating things from the same script over and over. It's unnerving, but it's also ludicrous 23:21.520 --> 23:28.260 because they're pretending that the quote threat to democracy comes from rogue or independent or 23:28.260 --> 23:35.900 uncontrolled news agencies when it's the corporate-fed fake news that's giving the 23:35.900 --> 23:41.600 false impression to people that's making the choices of quote democracy unworkable 23:41.600 --> 23:46.120 or at least unmeaningful. I'm back and that certainly was validating of the establishment, 23:46.480 --> 23:51.740 but the president's remarks today sure garnered a sharp response and depending on this station's 23:51.740 --> 23:57.480 identification with liberals or conservatives we're damned fired up or we certainly applaud. 23:57.760 --> 24:02.360 The creepiest part of this to me is when they try to introduce themselves by name and their 24:02.360 --> 24:08.320 little local affiliation and act like they're a member of your local community when the fact 24:08.320 --> 24:14.100 is that these are people who have willingly given up their identity and tried to assume this corporate 24:14.100 --> 24:21.440 Borg scripted identity. They're reading a script and they've trained themselves to speak like a fake 24:21.440 --> 24:26.500 person. I've actually known people who've done this. A girl from my high school who was on 24:26.500 --> 24:33.060 newspaper with me went on to become a member of a local TV news station and I saw her after 24:33.060 --> 24:40.120 college when she had this job I was working in the media and she talked differently. She had 24:40.120 --> 24:47.080 changed the way she speaks not only when she's on air but just an ordinary conversation and she 24:47.080 --> 24:54.560 had trained herself to speak like a fake television person and I saw this also when I was in college 24:54.560 --> 24:59.900 I was you know as a film student at UT in Austin and we met in these big studio classrooms 24:59.900 --> 25:07.100 that were huge and right next door to it there was a class for news journalist and I happened to walk 25:07.100 --> 25:14.000 in there one day and their 20 or 30 students were lined a couple feet apart in this large studio room 25:14.000 --> 25:21.400 and they were each practicing speaking that fake news cadence so that they sound like a fake person. 25:21.660 --> 25:26.700 I mean yes of course it makes sense to try to pronounce and speak clearly so everyone 25:26.700 --> 25:31.880 can understand you but where did this come from who invented this idea that you're supposed to 25:31.880 --> 25:38.700 talk like a fake person who is reading the news in an authoritative fashion men do it women do it 25:38.700 --> 25:44.600 every there was no difference everyone tried to learn to speak like a fake person as though 25:44.600 --> 25:50.060 that makes you a real accredited journalist when the fact is just as these clips show 25:50.060 --> 25:55.200 they read prescripted news and try to make it sound like it's their own personal spin. 25:55.200 --> 25:59.600 Up next we'll bring the brutality of war into the comfort of your living room 25:59.600 --> 26:04.940 because it's our job to sell it to you. There were better journalists on my high school newspaper 26:04.940 --> 26:10.340 not because they knew anything about life or had lived a lot of experience but because when they did 26:10.340 --> 26:15.960 a story they approached it from their own eyes and tried to investigate or report on what was 26:15.960 --> 26:21.280 happening in an honest way that was honest to themselves and that's not what these anchors 26:21.280 --> 26:29.120 do they read a script and regurgitate a viewpoint that some corporation wants you to have about some 26:29.120 --> 26:35.300 topic that is either overtly or subtly political and that's supposed to make you feel good about 26:35.300 --> 26:41.420 what you know about democracy and make you feel like you learn the news for the day or for 26:41.420 --> 26:47.320 that cycle. I mean it's absurd they're pretending that the threat comes from random people who 26:47.320 --> 26:53.060 are not necessarily affiliated independently investigating or reporting on what's happening 26:53.060 --> 26:59.220 in our world it's it's not it's never been anything that you've seen on these TV anchor shows. 26:59.680 --> 27:05.200 What they do is something else it's something very creepy and fake they literally train and 27:05.200 --> 27:11.200 learn and practice faking. The greatest weapon on earth is the control of information 27:11.200 --> 27:17.540 the control of what people see and hear and ultimately think about what is happening in the 27:17.540 --> 27:24.600 world and the space around themselves. How could you tell if your mind has been brainwashed or your 27:24.600 --> 27:31.280 mind has been hacked or you've been subjected to mind control or hypnosis or undue influence? 27:31.740 --> 27:36.840 The walls are closing in walls closing in on him walls are closing in the walls closing in 27:36.840 --> 27:45.740 closer and closer closer and closer and closer. So the mainstream media not not defined as something 27:45.740 --> 27:54.540 that's there purely to inform defined as something that's there to be the mainstream of thought and 27:54.540 --> 28:01.020 influence. Why is it that everything the other side says is propaganda or we call what we say 28:01.020 --> 28:08.360 information? People don't trust them anymore they have failed to earn large majorities of 28:08.360 --> 28:18.520 people's trust and droves of people are no longer relying on this media to create their image of 28:18.520 --> 28:24.260 what's going on in the world anymore and it seems like there's one group of people however 28:24.690 --> 28:31.400 who very much are reliant and trust this media even though it has repeatedly been shown to lie 28:31.400 --> 28:37.620 to them but they still are hanging on to that media to create their reality for them and they 28:37.620 --> 28:43.700 want to use censorship tactics to force everyone else to do so as well and it's not going to 28:43.700 --> 28:51.320 work. This media seems pretty desperate to keep itself alive in any way possible and if they 28:51.320 --> 28:57.440 have to do it through a vehicle of censorship that's a pretty last gasp of a dying empire type of 28:57.440 --> 29:15.340 situation. Tonight we're talking about the news media and the mainstream media through the medium 29:15.340 --> 29:20.360 of news has been shaping and defining society's perceptional reality for hundreds of years 29:20.880 --> 29:24.960 in different versions of itself going all the way back to the days of newspaper 29:25.600 --> 29:31.400 it's part of how we got here and why we are where we are right now so everyone keeps talking about 29:31.400 --> 29:36.580 the war war in Ukraine war in the Middle East are we going to have a civil war is there going 29:36.580 --> 29:42.980 to be a world war three there is a war right now and the war is over the narrative of reality and 29:42.980 --> 29:49.080 what you're allowed to think and say about it there is a global crackdown going on on freedom 29:49.080 --> 29:56.320 of speech because the control of the narrative of reality is slipping out of the hands of the 29:56.320 --> 30:03.780 controllers as the only time in history when you see censorship prevail is when a corrupt system 30:03.780 --> 30:09.640 that's in power becomes threatened because if a system that's in power is not corrupt it has 30:09.640 --> 30:16.580 nothing to fear from freedom of speech it has nothing to fear from a free press but the war 30:16.580 --> 30:21.540 itself is over the narrative of reality and what we're allowed to think and say about that 30:22.020 --> 30:28.320 and that is why they've gutted this channel they don't want us to they allow us for a little 30:28.320 --> 30:34.120 while to be able to widely enter the algorithmic pool but now they've shoved our channel down 30:34.120 --> 30:40.420 into that that area that you see when the rain recedes and like part of the stream got sucked 30:40.420 --> 30:44.100 away from the rest of it and there's like the tadpoles and they're just barely making it in 30:44.100 --> 30:47.760 there and you know like another hot day in the sun they're probably going to not be there anymore 30:47.760 --> 30:51.700 that's what that's what it feels like they've done to our channel at this point because they don't 30:51.700 --> 30:56.820 want us to widely be able to speak to people about these things because it's pretty obvious that 30:56.820 --> 31:04.020 somewhere what we're saying is not appreciated by this power structure anyways we get reminded 31:04.020 --> 31:09.440 all the time how much our channels reach has been gutted and we don't even really have to be 31:09.440 --> 31:16.100 because it's been getting increasingly hard to keep things going around here we've been limping on 31:16.100 --> 31:20.620 for a while now because we're trying to get done with the shining this film we've been working on 31:20.620 --> 31:27.160 for years and we have a series after that so anything you guys can do if you're if you're 31:27.160 --> 31:31.640 out there listening and you can help us out we have a patreon we have subscribe star the links 31:31.640 --> 31:37.800 for those are in the description at the underneath this video and really truly every little bit 31:37.800 --> 31:44.460 helps it really does help because we take what we do around here very seriously i'm not here for 31:44.460 --> 31:51.320 somebody else's agenda i'm here to try to figure out what's going on and we believe the truth 31:51.320 --> 31:59.120 actually does matter anyway love you guys i'll talk to you later ice cream you scream you know the 31:59.120 --> 32:05.880 rest ice cream you scream you know the rest ice cream you scream you know the rest ice cream 32:05.880 --> 32:11.780 you scream you know the rest ice cream you scream well you know the rest ice cream you scream 32:11.780 --> 32:17.440 well you know the rest ice cream you scream we all well you know the rest ice cream you scream you 32:17.440 --> 32:22.900 know the rest ice cream you scream we all know the rest ice cream you scream you know the rest 32:22.900 --> 32:27.340 ice cream you scream well you know the rest ice cream you scream you know the rest ice cream 32:27.340 --> 32:32.480 you scream we all know the rest ice cream you scream well you know the rest ice cream you 32:32.480 --> 32:34.000 You scream, you know the rest. 32:34.200 --> 32:36.920 I scream, you scream, and you know the rest. 32:37.000 --> 32:39.860 I scream, you scream, you know the rest. 32:40.040 --> 32:42.340 I scream, you scream, well, you know the rest. 32:42.480 --> 32:45.160 I scream, you scream, well, I think you know the rest. 32:45.460 --> 32:47.780 I scream, you scream, and you know the rest. 32:47.980 --> 32:50.280 I scream, you scream, and everybody knows the rest. 32:50.500 --> 32:52.800 I scream, you scream, well, you know the rest. 32:52.920 --> 32:55.040 I scream, you scream, you know the rest. 32:55.160 --> 32:57.660 I scream, you scream, and you know the rest. 32:57.860 --> 33:00.140 I scream, you scream, you know the rest. 33:01.660 --> 33:03.260 I would like to solve the puzzle.