Welcome to Keith's night. Don't try it on anyone. This is an article from Andrew Sullivan titled. When all the media narratives, collapse in case, after case the United States mainstream media, just keeps getting it wrong.
The news is a perilous business, its perilous, because the first draft of history is almost always somewhat wrong and needs a second draft and a third and so on over time until the historian can investigate with more perspective and And calm the job of journalists is to do the best they can day by day and respond swiftly when they screw up, correct? The record and move forward. I've learned this the hard way not least in the combination of credulous and Trauma.
I harbored in the wake of 9/11, but when the sources of news, keep getting things wrong and all the errors lie in the exact same direction and they are reluctant to acknowledge error. We have a Problem. If you look back at the last few years, the record of Errors small and large about major stories is hard to deny. It's as if the more Donald Trump accused the mainstream media of being fake news, the more acidity ously, they tried to prove him, right?
And these Mass deceptions have consequences. We are seeing this. Now in the red and house case, a gruesome story of a reckless teen, with a rifle, in the wake of the police shootings of Jacob Lake in Kenosha. The impression many got For much of the media. Was that a far-right vigilante in the middle of race riots? Had gone looking for trouble, far from home and injured, one man, and killed two in a shooting spree.
Here's the New York Times on August 26, the morning after the killings, the authorities were investigating. Whether the white teenager who was arrested was part of a vigilante group, his social media accounts, appeared to show an intense affinity for guns, law, enforcement, and the President Trump. In houses races specified. The race of the men he killed and injured were not. They were also white almost immediately. The complicated facts became unimportant.
The far-right viewed Rittenhouse as a hero, which surely wasn't he had no business being there with an AR-15? What business is it of yours to tell Rittenhouse what his businesses? If some people are burning and rioting and looting the property of innocent people, anyone has the right to forcibly Ali, stop them. But why is it your business to tell other people what their business is? If I see one person raping another but I don't know them. Is it my business?
So the police shouldn't ever get involved in anything unless they themselves are the ones being aggressed against because it's not really their business. So governments shouldn't go around, you know, invading countries like Afghanistan or Iraq. Unless that person that exact Soldier has been hurt by. One in Iraq or Afghanistan. Of course. This is just one of those unthinking lines that even smart people. Like Sullivan fall fall victim to the MSM and far-left.
Viewed him as a villain appalled that he was being elevated. In Jamal, buoys words as a symbol of self-defense, another New York Times article painting Rittenhouse as a Maga fanatic. Did note at the bottom of the page supporters of mr. Rittenhouse said he was being attacked by the mob and acted and legitimate. Defense. So they did have a caveat but notice how the narrative embedded in a deeper one that the Blake shooting was just as
clear. Cut as the, Floyd murder that thousands of black men were being gunned down by Cox every year. And that white supremacy was rampant in every cranny of America. Effectively excluded the possibility that Rittenhouse was a naive dangerous full. In the midst of an indefensible Mayhem, who in the end shot a salience in self-defense. And so when this week one of written houses pursuers, Cross Graz admitted on the stand. That Rittenhouse shot.
Him only after gauge pointed. His pistol directly at Rittenhouse is head of few feet away. It came as a shock money quote, from the defense lawyer. It wasn't until you pointed your gun at him. Advanced on him with your gun and your hands down pointed at him that he fired right to which grass krauts answered. Correct? Here's how the New York Times first described this a year ago on August 26. With video footage from the scene of the shooting appears to show mr. Rittenhouse running.
And then firing his gun. Striking a man in the head. He then flees and is chased by standards before tripping, falling onto the ground, and shooting another man a day later in another New York Times piece, which I relied on. At the time. Here's the account of video footage, they embedded as mr. Rittenhouse is running, he trips and falls to the ground. He fires four shots as three people rushed towards him one. Appears to be hit in the chest
and falls to the ground. Another, who was carrying a handgun is hit in the arm and runs away. Any sense of self defense there. And when you watch the full version of the same video on YouTube, you see that for some reason, the New York Times cut off the key moment. Showing Rittenhouse is self-defense. The moment that proved so critical in court. I haven't watched the whole trial, but if you watch for any length of time, you realize you've been led to believe Amy.
Media narrative that was way off independent journalist. Last year, like Jesse single were more clear eyed because of that narrative, Whiplash. We may have more rioting and violence if he's acquitted. The judge is already being targeted. I'm not defending Rittenhouse. And I understand newsgathering is fallible, but there's a media pattern here and it reaches, far, wider than Rittenhouse.
We found this week for example, that a key figure in the emergence of the steel Dot. A Igor Dan Chinko had been indicted for lying to the FBI. He's also charged with asking a Clinton, crony Charles Dolan jr. And he thought rumor allegation. I am working on a related project against Trump. The evidence from another key source for the dossier surgery million touted across all media, including the Washington Post has also been exposed as potentially faked with the has
the post done. As their own indispensable, Eric wimple notes. Instead of a clear retraction. The post has just added editors notes to previous stories, remove sections, and a video and altered headlines retroactively. This is a bizarre way of correcting the record. No, such case comes immediately or specifically to mind at least. No historical case that stirred. Lasting controversy said W Joseph Campbell a professor and
journalism. Dorian at American University, this doesn't mean that Trump wasn't eager for Russian help. But Trump was right in the end about the dodgy dossier. He was right about the duped FBI's, original overreach and the mass media Rachel, Maddow Chief among them or wrong and yet the dossier dominated the headlines for three years and the corrections have a fraction of the audience of the errors Maddow gets promoted. And the man who first published
it, Ben Smith was made. Media columnist for the New York Times, think of the other narratives, the mainstream media pushed in recent years that have collapsed. They viciously defamed, the Covington boys. They authoritatively told us that bounties had been placed on US soldiers in Afghanistan by Putin and Trump's denials only made them more certain. They told us that the lab leak theory of covid-19 Spira, see Theory with no evidence behind
it at all. The New York Times actually had the story of the lab leak Theory. Donald McNeil killed it and then fired McNeil their best covid reporter. After some schoolgirls complained. He wasn't woke wrong. Wrong wrong. The MSM took the ludicrous story of Jesse Smollett seriously because it fit their naughty white supremacy narrative. They told us that a woman was brutally gang-raped at UVA invented that the pulse mass shooting was driven by homophobia on true.
And that the Atlanta spa shooter was motivated by anti-asian bias. No known evidence. For that at all. For good measure, they followed up with the story. After story about white supremacist, targeting Asian Americans. In a new wave of hate, even as the assaults were disproportionately by African-Americans. And the mentally ill as Greenwald noted, the New York Times published an emotionally gut wrenching, but complete fiction that never had any evidence that officer sick.
Nick skull was savagely bashed in with a fire extinguisher by a pro-trump mob until Died. The media told us that an alleged transgender exposure, in the we spawn in Los Angeles, was an Anti Trans hoax also untrue. They told us that the emails recovered on Hunter Biden's laptop were Russian. Disinformation. They did this just before an election and use that claim to stymie, the story on social media, but they were not Russian disinformation. They were a valid if minor new story, the media.
SLI kept from its audience for partisan purposes. More recently. The MSM were telling us for months. That inflation is a Phantasm. We were told that the 2021 inflation scares another series of false alarms going back, several decades. We were sure that the numbers at least for now are on the side of those expecting the trend to subdue and then stabilize at lower levels. Any concern was fear-mongering politics. And now we wait, To the highest
inflation in 30 years. Counterbalancing wage increases still. They tell us all will be well. We were told that vaccines would end the covid pandemic but they merely altered covid to a manageable disease that you could still contract. While vaccinated they told us that the migrants are just, the Border was just seasonal and nothing out of the ordinary even as 1.7 million. Migrants were illegally trying to get into the country.
In the last year. We were told that sending Myron's migrants back to their home countries was wicked, and unconscionable, Trump tactic even as the by didn't ministration swiftly, copied it with In immigrants too much success. The cruelty is the point where we were and still are being told by most of the media that critical race Theory isn't in high schools at all.
Meanwhile, a tsunami of evidence is out there showing that it absolutely is in every subject and every class as the central philosophy behind, many states, educational policies. We all get things wrong. What makes this more worrying is simply that all these false narratives. Just happen to favor, the interest of the left in the Democratic party in Corrections, when they occur take up a fraction of the space of the original falsehood, they are not
randos tweeting, false rumors. They are the established press at some point. You wonder what narrative are they pushing now? That is? Also bullshit. One comes to mind the assurance that the insane amount of debt. We have incurred. This century is absolutely nothing to be concerned about because interest rates are super low and borrowing more and more now is a no-brainer. But when inflation spikes, set off a potential spiral in wages to catch up, will interest rates
stay. So, questioned, and if interest rates go up, how will we service the debt? So easily Sullivan finishes. The article saying I still rely on much of the MSM for so much. I still read the New York Times first thing in the morning. I don't want to feel as if everything I read is basically tilted, through wish-fulfillment narrative, proving and ideology. But with this kind of Record, how can I not quick EPS are from knowledge, reality and value by
Michael humor. I mostly Common Sense guide to philosophy in discussing how the media tends to operate. He says, I've noticed that it falls into three main categories. First ideological propaganda. If you learn about an issue from a partisan source, for instance, you'll read about gun control on a gun control. Advocacy website, or you'll hear the day's news from a conservative. Radio show, you will get pretty
much 100% propaganda. Facts will be exaggerated cherry-picked deceptively phrased or otherwise misleading. Normally, you will have no way of guessing the specific way in which the information is deceptive making the information essentially worthless for drawing inferences. Second sensationalism mainstream news sources.
Make money by getting as many people as possible to watch their shows, read their articles and so on to do that they try to make everything sound as Very exciting outrageous or otherwise dramatic, as possible. Third laziness. Most people who write for public consumption are lazy and lack expertise about the things they write about. If a story, has some technical lacks aspect example, Science News journalist. Probably won't understand it. They um, they may get basic facts backwards.
Also, they often just talked to one or a few sources and for whatever those sources say, even if the source is Have obvious biases. Thank you for watching Keith Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the libertarian Institute. I've had the story for three years. I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air. First of all, I was told who's Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story.
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