I think he has been exposed over the last couple years and his true character has become known (not Good) ...Oh you mean exposed to the virus. He has nothing to be concerned about. He alleges he has been triple vaxxed? Why is he disappearing?
Does anyone know if Canadian truckers union (Canadian Teamsters?) is supporting the convoy? I’f so I hope the US truckers follow. This might be the best way to get people to wake up an quit hitting the snooze button.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance does not support the convoy.
The president of the CTA Stephen Laskowski says (ominously), ‘The regulation is not changing and only way to cross the border in a truck, or any vehicle, is to get vaccinated.’
I have a friend who owns property in Canada. He had to get vaccinated to get to his property. Then he had to get a test before he could cross the border.
He was crossing near international falls and the only place he could find that did rapid testing was a former video store that still looked like a video store only it had a banner taped to the storefront that said ‘rapid covid testing.’
He said he got the feeling the newly minted covid testers had been renting videos until just a couple of days before.
Most of the young reporters have the same issues that infects their entire generation. They put way too much trust in the government agencies, and don't know how to think critically. There's a serious shortage of common sense as well.
Our country is experiencing the result of two generations whose school systems have failed them. The biggest shortcoming--an inability to process data logically. Instead of using their brains they rely on computers and never developed the skill of critical thinking.
Ever made a call to customer service? How about the clerk that can't make change? We have a huge segment of the population that are just plain stupid (through no fault of their own) because of our derelict educational system.
It's disgusting what is happening in the school systems. Students are allowed to take "test corrections" and do so often as a whole class (remember it's not fair if someone fails). They listen to everything as compared to reading it (I have two high schoolers - public school - and they have yet to do a book report). They don't learn to take notes...notes are given to them, and don't even try to figure out common core math! And now so much communication looks like text talk you can't even figure out what it says! But they make sure their pronouns are accurate and everyone has a safe space...
Most people are not truly stupid (they are "average.") I do heartily agree with above comments: the problem of past few generations (two, at least) is some combination of plain ignorance, often the fault of a flawed education system. That's not the victim's fault usually. The other problem, is refusal to think clearly. This could be the fault of lack of skills, but if it willful, then there is no excuse for it.
Reporters today are little religious idealogues that have been molded by the University Communications and Journalism schools they sprang from. They mostly report on Government officials and progressive partisans that are also little religious idealogues of the same stripe. No need to do any investigative reporting as the object of the reports all possess the "magic beans". The "end of history", the ultimate way to govern a society. Nothing to do but support and heap praise upon them. This has been going on since Universities were commandeered by the post modernists and critical theorists who subsequently blocked appointments of any faculty or administrators that adhered to the tenets of traditional western thought. They are all the same creatures from the same hive.
You are right to point to the problems in the universities. This goes way back, unfortunately. You can see post-modern tendencies in the 1950's in the Academy if you look in the right places (hello beatniks and progressives). Socialists have long been on the hunt for more reasons to disdain and coercively reform "capitalist, bourgeois" society.
lol the joke is: if you’re able to get brainwashed at university, you’re part of the bourgeoisie. the cognitive dissonance comes in when these university grads can’t apply what they’ve “learned” about class struggle and identify as proles.
The problem plaguing too many colleges and universities is that too many teenagers went away to college, then never left to develop an understanding of the Real World. The younger generations can't separate fact from fiction because the professors can't either. Those who teach never once kicked the tires of everyday life.
To be sure, distancing yourself from the real world can produce useful insights from time to time. But all too often academia has become a petri dish for cultivating poisonous ideas, which are subsequently foisted on undergraduates.
As I look back on my Jesuit education (an oxymoron these days) I can't recall which group of students was dumber, Education Majors or Communications/Journalism Majors.
because their moms all had to work while pregnant to prove they were equal to men. so thanks for the 9 months of consistently elevated stress hormones!
also, having some form of mental illness doesn’t relieve a generation of responsibility for their own integrity.
Funny, I'm a naturally pretty anxious person, but I've learned how to manage it through critical thinking. "Is that really a threat to me?" "If it is, what can I do about it?" "If I can't do anything about it, how can I accept it?"
When Covid first started, I figured out pretty quickly it wasn't a threat to me or anyone in my immediate circle. Very obvious! But just to be sure, I looked into whatever data I could find, I read whatever unbiased science I could find, and kept my eyes open to see what was happening around me. I found nothing to be scared of. I did all of this by April 2020.
I tried to share this info with anxious friends to help calm them down. I found that they didn't want to calm down! They weren't even curious! How could they not be curious about the fact that we were doing something completely unprecedented: shutting down most businesses and forcing healthy people to quarantine before an outbreak even happened?
Lack of critical thinking skills? Zero curiosity? Are these people robots, I kept thinking? What is going on? Why wouldn't you WANT to decrease your anxiety?
This is a long way of saying: maybe people (not just this generation, but all generations now) WANT TO FEEL ANXIOUS. Maybe they are so numbed they want to feel SOMETHING, ANYTHING.
I don't know, just spitballing here. This era we're in is completely nuts.
Interesting. If anxiety is most of what you've known all your life then it could be very anxiety-provoking to not be in that state. Oh the ironies. I think a lack of critical thinking and lack of curiosity are also factors and maybe having too much faith in authority figures including the "MSM."
I retired from college teaching in 2009, and by the time I retired, most of my students had been taught over and over in the lower schools and in their lower-division courses that supporting a position with reason and objective evidence was not only unnecessary but downright evil -- or as they would variously have put it, patriarchal heteronormative phallologocentric hegemonic colonialism. Now they'd probably add "white supremacist" to the list. (I was a literary historian, by the way, specializing in the 16th and 17th centuries.)
That's the main reason why I retired earlier than I'd planned. For a long time I'd boasted about our students, that they might not all be well prepared but they were bright, eager to learn, POLITE, and just plain good company -- and, most important, they let me love them, which made them very lovable. By the time I retired, though, a fast-growing minority weren't like that any more, even the Honors students. I'd already given up on the graduate students, but the undergraduates remained educable and lovable for much longer. By now, from what I see on the department website and in the faculty listserv, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to teach there at all, and I'd even fear for my physical safety.
I fear that we are well on our way to Idiocracy in real life. Even if we were to instantly fix this now, we have entire generations of kids and young adults out in the real world with zero life skills.
I left college to work in my chosen field, journalism. After I left that career, I took classes at a nearby community college.
My first day in a sociology class the professor introduced himself and asked, “how many of you are immigrants?” Maybe 40 of 45 students raised their hands. He then said words to the effect of ‘you need to understand Americans don’t want you here. They resent you.’
I was appalled. He was setting them up as a victim class and natural born citizens as oppressors. Needless to say I dropped the class, but not without complaining to the department chair. (As if that made a difference.)
JL, I'm probably cutting in line to make this comment, but what you said should be the Headline for a story:
"MOST CURRENT YOUNG REPORTERS ARE INFECTED BY THE SAME ISSUES" LOSS OF CRITICAL THINKING; MISPLACED TRUST IN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; COMMON SENSE LACKING.
Not so. Long ago, possibly before you were born, reporting moved from investigation of facts and witnesses to "he said, she said" reporting. It is admittedly gotten worse now because real reporting is not what the bosses want. As they say, if it bleeds, it leads. The press has always been to the left, though more so now. They will take the side of the left and bring that to the right or opposition. This has just been growing as competition with the Internet has made it tougher to gain audience. That they did NOT believe government during the Trump administration proves my point.
Those leftist boomers who say grandma killers now, called servicemen baby killers in their youth. Those young selfish draft dodgers who hid their cowardice by pretending they were against the war are now selfish senior citizens demanding the rest of society wear masks so THEY can feel safe; they haven't changed, just got older.
Agreed, the leftist Boomers are no different than when they were radicals in the 60's. They started this reaction however there are many younger people who have willfully joined in since they have no ability for critical thinking.
I am a boomer, who opposed the Vietnam war while in college and a democrat, applied and received a conscientious objection but also objected to our involvement in SE Asia. Never called servicemen baby killers, but I was called a draft-dodger, told to love it or leave it.
What is so puzzling to me is why the boomer generation who "learned" to question everything, question nothing about the narrative?
One of my guide-posts has been don't do anything out of fear. Seems to work for me and allows me to question everything. Or as Ronald Reagan said, "Trust, but verify." Now its, "distrust, then verify".
I have no affiliation except with those who seek truth and behave with honesty, integrity and humility.
As a boomer, I couldn't agree with you more. What healthy society is led by octogenarians, believes pets are equivalent to children, and thinks it is noble to sacrifice children in order to "save" as many nursing home residents possible? Narcissistic sociopaths.
My childless 72 year old sister-in-law believes this has been no different from our Civil Defense Drills when we were kids. We hid under our desks for 5 min once a month, then went to play with our friends. Her logic: we survived, kids are resilient, so everything we have done to them for 2 years is no big deal. Truly disgusting.
Neal Young just exemplified the selfish Narcissistic sociopath theory with his demand to have either him or Joe Rogan removed rom Spotify; as if HE was the one more valuable to their bottom line. He just assumed he was apparently and lost.
I am sick to death of those, thinking like leftists, put all people into a group/collective then praise or attack them based on their subjective viewpoint. ALL generations have their good and bad people.
In most cases news is no longer reporting the facts. It's become an opportunity to present information on what the media outlet wants society to embrace or to support politicians working to a goal they support. Alex Berenson is a true news reporter. From the beginning he has been absolutely transparent about the sources he uses whether it's a person or a study. Without his reporting and the efforts of other like him that are punching holes in the crap legacy media is trying to make fact we would be worse off. Thank you, Alex. Stay strong.
It's a cliche but eventually Foucault and postmodernism really did destroy journalism. If there is no objectivity and there is only groups vying for power, then your job is a journalist is to always push your agenda of social change as you see it. So the kids are taught in journalism school.
Gates. He owns Pharma. He owns Media. Reading RFK Jrs.' book has woken me to the fact Gates is controlling much of the world we are living in regarding Covid, vaccines, etc.
Well Alex. You have helped me make a decision. I am going to write regularly again on my free newsletter to become a Reporter since the world is so short of them. You know about the medical and pharmaceutical areas. I know a bit about oil and gas having worked 56 years in the industry. I just returned yesterday from working a well in the middle of a snow storm in a cold 23 degrees. With escalating prices for gasoline, heating oil and natural gas after a period when they were relatively inexpensive, some one needs to shed some insight into how these products are found then processed and then delivered to the end user. I will also try to explain why prices and supply fluctuate a lot. I will do my best to be factual and truthful like a real reporter. Sounds like fun.
So substack is apparently under attack by the corrupt Stasi style censorship organization Center for Countering Digital Hate. From a column written by Eugyppius—also under attack, along with Alex, Dr Malone, et al.
‘Imran Ahmed, chief executive of CCDH, said companies like Substack were under “no obligation” to amplify vaccine scepticism and make money from it. “They could just say no. This isn’t about freedom; this is about profiting from lies … Substack should immediately stop profiting from medical misinformation that can seriously harm readers.”’
Like most of you, I have come to rely on substack for uncurated and uncensored news and information. Stay strong Substack!
Statements like that could lifted from, I don't know, an old Soviet Union propaganda handbook, I suppose. Just change a few words, and it'd read something like this: "Freedom of the press does not mean being able to speak freely. There is a responsibility to present the correct truths, those that the Party supports." Clearly, Substack is a capitalist corporation who exists to make a profit [true enough, apparently this would be a shock to a communist.] It would never in a million years occur to him that Substack makes money off lies, truths and indifferent statements. They are in the business of providing a platform for content providers, not to be anyone's (especially The Party's) arbiter of final truths.
What surprises me is that there are NO reporter’s wondering WHY will the government agencies allow a 95 year delay into showing the ingredients of the vax! That fact ALONE should make bells goes off in the most brain dead person, reporter or not!
"down the tubes" have not heard that in awhile. Wonder where that saying originated hmmmm. I agree though! Let's hope common sense becomes more popular again in time.
This may be the best piece you've written in a while. Unflinchingly clear and simple to understand. Others may have more damning data or scarier stories, but this is one that no matter who reads it, it's clear that the legacy media have fallen down on the job (and have been publicly since the 1990's when they decided to defend a president rather than report on him).
To assert that the media have fallen down on the job is to misunderstand what their job really is. Their job is not to hold the powerful to account. Their job is to attract eyeballs to sell advertising. By any means necessary.
They're whores. One cannot fall down if one lives on one's back.
It becomes their job when it's the business model.
If the business model were "we report current events as objectively as possible, and we do it better than anyone" then reporters would fall in line with that and we'd get actual news.
Their business model relies on in part on legal cartels and coercion. They unfairly benefit from direct access to various government mouthpieces, as well as varying types of government support (including financial).
Yes, much of the general public wants to be lied to, so as to support its favored tribes. But there is still a demand for authentic, honest reporting among the literate. This is why Substack is flourishing but most papers not named NY Times or Washington Post continue to hemorrhage subscribers.
I agree that any business has to attract customers, but the legacy media is doing it in a way that is also limiting the number of people they can attract. It's like a store that offers 50% most of the time, when they're not running that sale, nobody goes in the store.
I know personally or through family members of DOZENS of people who are vaxxed and boosted and got COVID. Most of these people who got COVID after 3 shots firmly believe that they would have been in the hospital or dead if not for the vaccine. That is what the media has done -- by repeating government propaganda over and over and over until people can't even think critically anymore.
Yes. I have heard this from basically everyone. "Thank goodness I got it or otherwise it would have been realy bad" about Omicron. Obviously some ppl who get Omicron will still suffer but the messaging about its relatively lack of severity has definitely been missed by most.
Yes. They truly think it’s deadly to everyone. The powers in charge really brainwashed everyone who was gullible that this affected every human the same way. What a crock. We know it doesn’t. But peeps are scared. The other group I know knows this is BS but gets shots to travel / be free, then people that hate the shots vut were forced as they’d lose their income otherwise and I then folks in free states or with the ability to flee places where vaxes are forced.
.." There is no way of proving that a Vaccinated person had "a better outcome"... How do we know if left Unvaccinated, how symptomatic or asymptomatic they would be ? You cannot prove a negative..."
You're Old School Alex, Digging Deep to Reveal the Truth! New School is about covering up the fraud and protecting the elite from the wrath of the People. KEEP UP THE PRESSURE,Alex !!
Thank god the elections were never federalized. I probably don't agree with Sinema and Manchin on everything but give them both medals of freedom for saving the republic.
Oh, the problem is much, much older than that....remember the "weapons of mass destruction" that Iraq had in the early 2000s? Deceit is not exclusively a Democrat province, although they usually seem to be in the lead. Even earlier, let's see, in the 1980s it was Reagan's Iran-Contra affair. Did the CIA illegally smuggle arms into Central America? Apparently so. Some high level officials even went to jail, I think. Did the CIA smuggle cocaine back north? Certainly plausible. When you're above the law, why not make some money on the side? You could find many more examples: convincing the USA to enter two World Wars, etc. A investigator should ask, whether it's a relatively small, local scam, or an international conspiracy lasting decades, the same basic questions: Who gains? Follow the money. Etc.
Amen! I was a journalism major in college eons ago and worked professionally in the business for a while. This was in the late 1980s, when there was still a holdover sentiment from the Vietnam/Watergate years. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were idols for us. Just like you, we really believed in our role as the Fourth Estate and holding power to account.
Then something happened. Suddenly the most important thing for the newspaper was how many non-whites, women, etc. we quoted or presented in photographs. Anyone with opinions that did not conform to what we now call progressivism was made to feel unwelcome in the newsroom. By this time, I had left the business and pursued another career that was of greater interest to me. Thank goodness because it's just gotten progressively worse over the last 25 years. Now truth does not matter; all that matters is The Narrative, and truth be damned.
So what is The Narrative on COVID? Masks work splendidly at stopping the spread. Vaccines will keep one from becoming deathly ill, so we must force them on everyone lest our hospitals become overcrowded and the virus spreads out of control. Children are living petri dishes who will infect and kill all the teachers. Anthony Fauci is ALWAYS right, and Rochelle Walensky is a brilliant public health administrator. Anyone who questions this Narrative must be cancelled, deplatformed, fired, ostracized, and treated as a pariah.
Thus, our media have gone from searchers for truth to political propagandists spreading the Democrat party line. Sad!
I left the business about 20 years ago. Radically changed. I would've been fired back then if I couldn't back up or attribute what I said. All that is gone. Even when they are caught being wrong now, they remain on the job. I don't know when the big shift happened in news, but it certainly did.
Toss a few bread crumbs of a plausible narrative and wishful thinking, and the public will follow you anywhere. Pied Piper, for the twentieth century. Facts and logic need not apply.
People who write for WaPo aren’t journalists. They are propagandists. I was happy to see that she did not mention you but the comments about substack show that the press is leading the opposition to freedom of the press.
Alex , please highlight 🇨🇦 Freedom Convoy 2022! There are 500K people or more and 50K trucks descending on Ottawa sat Jan 29
And Trudeau has just gone AWOL...Triple Vaxxed and thinks he had an "exposure".
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I think he has been exposed over the last couple years and his true character has become known (not Good) ...Oh you mean exposed to the virus. He has nothing to be concerned about. He alleges he has been triple vaxxed? Why is he disappearing?
And said he tested negative. Quarantine is not necessary for covid.
[Not sure why this double posted] ...could he stay AWOL, pretty please?
See also this excellent JBP discussion of Canada's constitutional crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhFuMDLBDM&t=3678s
I think he is the constitutional crisis!
Trudeau is a coward. And his bud Jacinda in NZ.
Does anyone know if Canadian truckers union (Canadian Teamsters?) is supporting the convoy? I’f so I hope the US truckers follow. This might be the best way to get people to wake up an quit hitting the snooze button.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance does not support the convoy.
The president of the CTA Stephen Laskowski says (ominously), ‘The regulation is not changing and only way to cross the border in a truck, or any vehicle, is to get vaccinated.’
Sounds like time for a new president. I'm sure an election would be completely on the up and up.
Like most:-(
And I read that GoFundMe, through which they were raising donations, pulled the plug on them. Another good outfit goes woke. :-(
I read on Life Site News that Premiere Kenny of Alberta is working with some US state governors to try to get the mandate repealed in both countries.
I haven't seen coverage of this in the legacy media here in Canada.
Doesn't help those of us who are not truckers cross the border however.
I have a friend who owns property in Canada. He had to get vaccinated to get to his property. Then he had to get a test before he could cross the border.
He was crossing near international falls and the only place he could find that did rapid testing was a former video store that still looked like a video store only it had a banner taped to the storefront that said ‘rapid covid testing.’
He said he got the feeling the newly minted covid testers had been renting videos until just a couple of days before.
Which only added to the insane surrealism.
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"Journalists don't have even a basic understanding of their jobs anymore", nor do they have even a basic understanding of their JABS.
More power to # FreedomConvoy 2022
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FreedomConvoy2022&src=typed_query
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Follow Samuel Sey on Insta. He’s there.
Can't find him
Most of the young reporters have the same issues that infects their entire generation. They put way too much trust in the government agencies, and don't know how to think critically. There's a serious shortage of common sense as well.
Our country is experiencing the result of two generations whose school systems have failed them. The biggest shortcoming--an inability to process data logically. Instead of using their brains they rely on computers and never developed the skill of critical thinking.
Ever made a call to customer service? How about the clerk that can't make change? We have a huge segment of the population that are just plain stupid (through no fault of their own) because of our derelict educational system.
This includes journalists with diplomas.
It's disgusting what is happening in the school systems. Students are allowed to take "test corrections" and do so often as a whole class (remember it's not fair if someone fails). They listen to everything as compared to reading it (I have two high schoolers - public school - and they have yet to do a book report). They don't learn to take notes...notes are given to them, and don't even try to figure out common core math! And now so much communication looks like text talk you can't even figure out what it says! But they make sure their pronouns are accurate and everyone has a safe space...
We're doomed 🤯😳🤯
Most people are not truly stupid (they are "average.") I do heartily agree with above comments: the problem of past few generations (two, at least) is some combination of plain ignorance, often the fault of a flawed education system. That's not the victim's fault usually. The other problem, is refusal to think clearly. This could be the fault of lack of skills, but if it willful, then there is no excuse for it.
Reporters today are little religious idealogues that have been molded by the University Communications and Journalism schools they sprang from. They mostly report on Government officials and progressive partisans that are also little religious idealogues of the same stripe. No need to do any investigative reporting as the object of the reports all possess the "magic beans". The "end of history", the ultimate way to govern a society. Nothing to do but support and heap praise upon them. This has been going on since Universities were commandeered by the post modernists and critical theorists who subsequently blocked appointments of any faculty or administrators that adhered to the tenets of traditional western thought. They are all the same creatures from the same hive.
You are right to point to the problems in the universities. This goes way back, unfortunately. You can see post-modern tendencies in the 1950's in the Academy if you look in the right places (hello beatniks and progressives). Socialists have long been on the hunt for more reasons to disdain and coercively reform "capitalist, bourgeois" society.
lol the joke is: if you’re able to get brainwashed at university, you’re part of the bourgeoisie. the cognitive dissonance comes in when these university grads can’t apply what they’ve “learned” about class struggle and identify as proles.
The problem plaguing too many colleges and universities is that too many teenagers went away to college, then never left to develop an understanding of the Real World. The younger generations can't separate fact from fiction because the professors can't either. Those who teach never once kicked the tires of everyday life.
To be sure, distancing yourself from the real world can produce useful insights from time to time. But all too often academia has become a petri dish for cultivating poisonous ideas, which are subsequently foisted on undergraduates.
Just watch the first episode of "All In The Family" and it comes through loud and clear in the exchanges with Meathead and Archie.
As I look back on my Jesuit education (an oxymoron these days) I can't recall which group of students was dumber, Education Majors or Communications/Journalism Majors.
This generation of young people is particularly affected by anxiety. Anxiety makes one prone to Covid propaganda.
because their moms all had to work while pregnant to prove they were equal to men. so thanks for the 9 months of consistently elevated stress hormones!
also, having some form of mental illness doesn’t relieve a generation of responsibility for their own integrity.
Funny, I'm a naturally pretty anxious person, but I've learned how to manage it through critical thinking. "Is that really a threat to me?" "If it is, what can I do about it?" "If I can't do anything about it, how can I accept it?"
When Covid first started, I figured out pretty quickly it wasn't a threat to me or anyone in my immediate circle. Very obvious! But just to be sure, I looked into whatever data I could find, I read whatever unbiased science I could find, and kept my eyes open to see what was happening around me. I found nothing to be scared of. I did all of this by April 2020.
I tried to share this info with anxious friends to help calm them down. I found that they didn't want to calm down! They weren't even curious! How could they not be curious about the fact that we were doing something completely unprecedented: shutting down most businesses and forcing healthy people to quarantine before an outbreak even happened?
Lack of critical thinking skills? Zero curiosity? Are these people robots, I kept thinking? What is going on? Why wouldn't you WANT to decrease your anxiety?
This is a long way of saying: maybe people (not just this generation, but all generations now) WANT TO FEEL ANXIOUS. Maybe they are so numbed they want to feel SOMETHING, ANYTHING.
I don't know, just spitballing here. This era we're in is completely nuts.
Interesting. If anxiety is most of what you've known all your life then it could be very anxiety-provoking to not be in that state. Oh the ironies. I think a lack of critical thinking and lack of curiosity are also factors and maybe having too much faith in authority figures including the "MSM."
Agreed!
I agree. Our reckless vaccine policy has damaged the brains of millions of children.
I retired from college teaching in 2009, and by the time I retired, most of my students had been taught over and over in the lower schools and in their lower-division courses that supporting a position with reason and objective evidence was not only unnecessary but downright evil -- or as they would variously have put it, patriarchal heteronormative phallologocentric hegemonic colonialism. Now they'd probably add "white supremacist" to the list. (I was a literary historian, by the way, specializing in the 16th and 17th centuries.)
That's the main reason why I retired earlier than I'd planned. For a long time I'd boasted about our students, that they might not all be well prepared but they were bright, eager to learn, POLITE, and just plain good company -- and, most important, they let me love them, which made them very lovable. By the time I retired, though, a fast-growing minority weren't like that any more, even the Honors students. I'd already given up on the graduate students, but the undergraduates remained educable and lovable for much longer. By now, from what I see on the department website and in the faculty listserv, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to teach there at all, and I'd even fear for my physical safety.
I fear that we are well on our way to Idiocracy in real life. Even if we were to instantly fix this now, we have entire generations of kids and young adults out in the real world with zero life skills.
They are incapable of reason. They only follow orders.
I'd say they're still capable of reason -- they're human beings, after all -- but they've been conditioned not to use it.
I left college to work in my chosen field, journalism. After I left that career, I took classes at a nearby community college.
My first day in a sociology class the professor introduced himself and asked, “how many of you are immigrants?” Maybe 40 of 45 students raised their hands. He then said words to the effect of ‘you need to understand Americans don’t want you here. They resent you.’
I was appalled. He was setting them up as a victim class and natural born citizens as oppressors. Needless to say I dropped the class, but not without complaining to the department chair. (As if that made a difference.)
I am so sorry for your loss. While your story is sad and tragic, these children are also dangerous.
JL, I'm probably cutting in line to make this comment, but what you said should be the Headline for a story:
"MOST CURRENT YOUNG REPORTERS ARE INFECTED BY THE SAME ISSUES" LOSS OF CRITICAL THINKING; MISPLACED TRUST IN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; COMMON SENSE LACKING.
haha, sadly, it does work as a headline.
We damn better fix that then because they'll be around for a while
Not so. Long ago, possibly before you were born, reporting moved from investigation of facts and witnesses to "he said, she said" reporting. It is admittedly gotten worse now because real reporting is not what the bosses want. As they say, if it bleeds, it leads. The press has always been to the left, though more so now. They will take the side of the left and bring that to the right or opposition. This has just been growing as competition with the Internet has made it tougher to gain audience. That they did NOT believe government during the Trump administration proves my point.
That combined with smugness.
You get one…You get one…EVERYONE get a trophy 🏆
Those leading this charge should all get a sign: IDIOT
Interesting take!
Those leftist boomers who say grandma killers now, called servicemen baby killers in their youth. Those young selfish draft dodgers who hid their cowardice by pretending they were against the war are now selfish senior citizens demanding the rest of society wear masks so THEY can feel safe; they haven't changed, just got older.
Agreed, the leftist Boomers are no different than when they were radicals in the 60's. They started this reaction however there are many younger people who have willfully joined in since they have no ability for critical thinking.
I am a boomer, who opposed the Vietnam war while in college and a democrat, applied and received a conscientious objection but also objected to our involvement in SE Asia. Never called servicemen baby killers, but I was called a draft-dodger, told to love it or leave it.
What is so puzzling to me is why the boomer generation who "learned" to question everything, question nothing about the narrative?
One of my guide-posts has been don't do anything out of fear. Seems to work for me and allows me to question everything. Or as Ronald Reagan said, "Trust, but verify." Now its, "distrust, then verify".
I have no affiliation except with those who seek truth and behave with honesty, integrity and humility.
Actually, the younger generation are the most mask-enthusiastic. They are obedient.
As a boomer, I couldn't agree with you more. What healthy society is led by octogenarians, believes pets are equivalent to children, and thinks it is noble to sacrifice children in order to "save" as many nursing home residents possible? Narcissistic sociopaths.
My childless 72 year old sister-in-law believes this has been no different from our Civil Defense Drills when we were kids. We hid under our desks for 5 min once a month, then went to play with our friends. Her logic: we survived, kids are resilient, so everything we have done to them for 2 years is no big deal. Truly disgusting.
Neal Young just exemplified the selfish Narcissistic sociopath theory with his demand to have either him or Joe Rogan removed rom Spotify; as if HE was the one more valuable to their bottom line. He just assumed he was apparently and lost.
Yes, I laughed at that one. Never liked him or his music. He always was a self-important pompous ass.
I agree with the characterization applying to leftist boomers and later.
As a boomer, I hope you are not painting all boomers with that broad moniker. Some of us are, as in any generation.
I am sick to death of those, thinking like leftists, put all people into a group/collective then praise or attack them based on their subjective viewpoint. ALL generations have their good and bad people.
Julian Assange is being detained without charge in Belmarsh, Alex. That's what's happening to the world's most important journalist and publisher.
In most cases news is no longer reporting the facts. It's become an opportunity to present information on what the media outlet wants society to embrace or to support politicians working to a goal they support. Alex Berenson is a true news reporter. From the beginning he has been absolutely transparent about the sources he uses whether it's a person or a study. Without his reporting and the efforts of other like him that are punching holes in the crap legacy media is trying to make fact we would be worse off. Thank you, Alex. Stay strong.
It's a cliche but eventually Foucault and postmodernism really did destroy journalism. If there is no objectivity and there is only groups vying for power, then your job is a journalist is to always push your agenda of social change as you see it. So the kids are taught in journalism school.
Gates. He owns Pharma. He owns Media. Reading RFK Jrs.' book has woken me to the fact Gates is controlling much of the world we are living in regarding Covid, vaccines, etc.
Correct. I wish everyone would read RFK Jr.'s book.
Too many people, even on this 'stack, are so naive.
Well Alex. You have helped me make a decision. I am going to write regularly again on my free newsletter to become a Reporter since the world is so short of them. You know about the medical and pharmaceutical areas. I know a bit about oil and gas having worked 56 years in the industry. I just returned yesterday from working a well in the middle of a snow storm in a cold 23 degrees. With escalating prices for gasoline, heating oil and natural gas after a period when they were relatively inexpensive, some one needs to shed some insight into how these products are found then processed and then delivered to the end user. I will also try to explain why prices and supply fluctuate a lot. I will do my best to be factual and truthful like a real reporter. Sounds like fun.
Please do!
So substack is apparently under attack by the corrupt Stasi style censorship organization Center for Countering Digital Hate. From a column written by Eugyppius—also under attack, along with Alex, Dr Malone, et al.
‘Imran Ahmed, chief executive of CCDH, said companies like Substack were under “no obligation” to amplify vaccine scepticism and make money from it. “They could just say no. This isn’t about freedom; this is about profiting from lies … Substack should immediately stop profiting from medical misinformation that can seriously harm readers.”’
Like most of you, I have come to rely on substack for uncurated and uncensored news and information. Stay strong Substack!
Statements like that could lifted from, I don't know, an old Soviet Union propaganda handbook, I suppose. Just change a few words, and it'd read something like this: "Freedom of the press does not mean being able to speak freely. There is a responsibility to present the correct truths, those that the Party supports." Clearly, Substack is a capitalist corporation who exists to make a profit [true enough, apparently this would be a shock to a communist.] It would never in a million years occur to him that Substack makes money off lies, truths and indifferent statements. They are in the business of providing a platform for content providers, not to be anyone's (especially The Party's) arbiter of final truths.
What surprises me is that there are NO reporter’s wondering WHY will the government agencies allow a 95 year delay into showing the ingredients of the vax! That fact ALONE should make bells goes off in the most brain dead person, reporter or not!
Ruth stop being surprised. We are not in Kansas anymore :)
I know but there are common sense people still out there!! At least I hope so, or we really are going down the tubes!
"down the tubes" have not heard that in awhile. Wonder where that saying originated hmmmm. I agree though! Let's hope common sense becomes more popular again in time.
This may be the best piece you've written in a while. Unflinchingly clear and simple to understand. Others may have more damning data or scarier stories, but this is one that no matter who reads it, it's clear that the legacy media have fallen down on the job (and have been publicly since the 1990's when they decided to defend a president rather than report on him).
To assert that the media have fallen down on the job is to misunderstand what their job really is. Their job is not to hold the powerful to account. Their job is to attract eyeballs to sell advertising. By any means necessary.
They're whores. One cannot fall down if one lives on one's back.
That is not their job. It's just their business model. And it sucks and it's finished.
It becomes their job when it's the business model.
If the business model were "we report current events as objectively as possible, and we do it better than anyone" then reporters would fall in line with that and we'd get actual news.
Their business model relies on in part on legal cartels and coercion. They unfairly benefit from direct access to various government mouthpieces, as well as varying types of government support (including financial).
Yes, much of the general public wants to be lied to, so as to support its favored tribes. But there is still a demand for authentic, honest reporting among the literate. This is why Substack is flourishing but most papers not named NY Times or Washington Post continue to hemorrhage subscribers.
I agree that any business has to attract customers, but the legacy media is doing it in a way that is also limiting the number of people they can attract. It's like a store that offers 50% most of the time, when they're not running that sale, nobody goes in the store.
I know personally or through family members of DOZENS of people who are vaxxed and boosted and got COVID. Most of these people who got COVID after 3 shots firmly believe that they would have been in the hospital or dead if not for the vaccine. That is what the media has done -- by repeating government propaganda over and over and over until people can't even think critically anymore.
Yes. I have heard this from basically everyone. "Thank goodness I got it or otherwise it would have been realy bad" about Omicron. Obviously some ppl who get Omicron will still suffer but the messaging about its relatively lack of severity has definitely been missed by most.
Yes. They truly think it’s deadly to everyone. The powers in charge really brainwashed everyone who was gullible that this affected every human the same way. What a crock. We know it doesn’t. But peeps are scared. The other group I know knows this is BS but gets shots to travel / be free, then people that hate the shots vut were forced as they’d lose their income otherwise and I then folks in free states or with the ability to flee places where vaxes are forced.
How sad, to take a FORCED shot in order to be ALLOWED to go about their lives, but somehow think that this makes them "free."
The best Tweet I've read on this was:
.." There is no way of proving that a Vaccinated person had "a better outcome"... How do we know if left Unvaccinated, how symptomatic or asymptomatic they would be ? You cannot prove a negative..."
You're Old School Alex, Digging Deep to Reveal the Truth! New School is about covering up the fraud and protecting the elite from the wrath of the People. KEEP UP THE PRESSURE,Alex !!
58% of U.S. Voters think the media are "truly the enemy of the people"
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/media/58_of_voters_agree_media_are_enemy_of_the_people
can't wait for those midterms
Thank god the elections were never federalized. I probably don't agree with Sinema and Manchin on everything but give them both medals of freedom for saving the republic.
They’ll “adjust” the results 😩
Only 58%?
Literally every group was over 50% except "Democrats."
Pre covid, i mostly trusted nyt, wapo, CDC etc. Now i consider them all a joke told by mediocre comedians. I'm not an anomaly.
Lol. So you bought their breathless reporting on "Russian collusion" that turned out to be an enormous crock of shit?
Oh, the problem is much, much older than that....remember the "weapons of mass destruction" that Iraq had in the early 2000s? Deceit is not exclusively a Democrat province, although they usually seem to be in the lead. Even earlier, let's see, in the 1980s it was Reagan's Iran-Contra affair. Did the CIA illegally smuggle arms into Central America? Apparently so. Some high level officials even went to jail, I think. Did the CIA smuggle cocaine back north? Certainly plausible. When you're above the law, why not make some money on the side? You could find many more examples: convincing the USA to enter two World Wars, etc. A investigator should ask, whether it's a relatively small, local scam, or an international conspiracy lasting decades, the same basic questions: Who gains? Follow the money. Etc.
see my recent comment above about Gary Webb and his fate for reporting on the CIA/crack cocaine "epidemic"
I said "mostly" trusted
Same.
I wonder how many of us there are
Amen! I was a journalism major in college eons ago and worked professionally in the business for a while. This was in the late 1980s, when there was still a holdover sentiment from the Vietnam/Watergate years. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were idols for us. Just like you, we really believed in our role as the Fourth Estate and holding power to account.
Then something happened. Suddenly the most important thing for the newspaper was how many non-whites, women, etc. we quoted or presented in photographs. Anyone with opinions that did not conform to what we now call progressivism was made to feel unwelcome in the newsroom. By this time, I had left the business and pursued another career that was of greater interest to me. Thank goodness because it's just gotten progressively worse over the last 25 years. Now truth does not matter; all that matters is The Narrative, and truth be damned.
So what is The Narrative on COVID? Masks work splendidly at stopping the spread. Vaccines will keep one from becoming deathly ill, so we must force them on everyone lest our hospitals become overcrowded and the virus spreads out of control. Children are living petri dishes who will infect and kill all the teachers. Anthony Fauci is ALWAYS right, and Rochelle Walensky is a brilliant public health administrator. Anyone who questions this Narrative must be cancelled, deplatformed, fired, ostracized, and treated as a pariah.
Thus, our media have gone from searchers for truth to political propagandists spreading the Democrat party line. Sad!
I left the business about 20 years ago. Radically changed. I would've been fired back then if I couldn't back up or attribute what I said. All that is gone. Even when they are caught being wrong now, they remain on the job. I don't know when the big shift happened in news, but it certainly did.
Toss a few bread crumbs of a plausible narrative and wishful thinking, and the public will follow you anywhere. Pied Piper, for the twentieth century. Facts and logic need not apply.
People who write for WaPo aren’t journalists. They are propagandists. I was happy to see that she did not mention you but the comments about substack show that the press is leading the opposition to freedom of the press.
Writing this on day 4 of omicron. Mostly good. No meds except aspirin, zinc and vitamin C. Jabbed with J&J last summer so almost unvaxxed.
I've had flus that are worse
Never thought of it like that but now I can't unsee it:)