“When you control a majority of the media and you can invent news, you hold a great deal of power,” reports journalist Edward Lulie as the dishonestly one-sided impeachment hearings play out on television. “Democrats and their wholly owned legacy media” spin everything against the elected President. Their spin is directly transferred to gullible viewers who think they are educating themselves instead of watching entertaining dramas and sports.
Media bias is presented as fact, with networks reading from the same playbook to give the appearance of settled truth. It is a form of lying, says Lulie: “Facts are no longer honorable with legacy media as they work with Democrats to present their crafted version of reality, wherein Adam Schiff is a much abused hero valiantly trying to thwart the ‘white supremacist’ and ‘racist’ Donald Trump.” Has America’s economy been made great again under Trump? “Not according to legacy media.”
Lulie is just one of many emerging dissident news writers who say that the Left is simply turning everything upside down. Good guys became bad guys, and vice versa. It was strong in Hollywood movies—prisoners became the heroes and the jailers villains— and this replacement of one thing with its opposite is even more apparent in television news today.
Unfortunately for our future, this extreme polarity is mirrored in America’s two political parties, where only opposite interpretations are allowed. As Lulie reminds us, “Trump has a knack for communicating with his base — in Hillary Clinton’s words, ‘deplorables.’ They are largely patriotic, which the Left considers nationalistic and imperialistic. They support law enforcement, which progressives often call minority suppression. They believe in borders, something the Left considers nationalistic and racist. Leftists plot to destroy the Supreme Court for actually following the Constitution and repeatedly denying progressive schemes such as gun control.”
Even so, Lulie is a lot more moderate than many when he says that “There are other sources of news, such as the internet and Fox News, but legacy media still wield a great deal of power.” Author of You Will Not Replace Us!, French politician Renaud Camus wouldn’t be so forgiving. Camus believes we live in dangerous times, when people don’t even notice that their lives are being changed for the worse. He seems far more conservative than Lulie. What about Malcolm X’s familiar statement above?
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