Episode 73
Billionaire Puppeteers: Unmasking Media Manipulation
Summary:
Dr. Jim critiques a New York Times editorial video that portrays recent protests as sparsely attended, contrasting them with historic examples. He argues this narrative aims to diminish current protest movements' legitimacy, especially since Trump's inauguration. Dr. Jim highlights overlooked economic protests affecting companies like Tesla and Target, underscoring the media's role in perpetuating narratives favoring the Trump administration. He suggests these misleading portrayals serve powerful interests, urging awareness of media manipulation tactics. Dr. Jim calls for understanding and engagement to counteract misrepresented realities and maintain the fight against misinformation.
Chapters:
0:00
Media's False Narrative
0:04
Historical Protests Highlighted
0:33
Modern Protests Comparison
1:14
Media Crafting Reality
1:42
Indicators of Editorial Leanings
2:30
Economic Impact of Protests
3:24
Media Suppression and Manipulation
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Transcript
New York Times: Look how many people showed up for the civil rights march in 1965, and for these protests against the Vietnam War and the South African Apartheid. Millions of people turned out to protest the Iraq War in 2003 and occupy Wall Street in 2010. Here's the crowd for the Women's March in 2017 and at the height of a pandemic.
Look how many people turned out for Black Lives Matter recently, millions have taken to the streets in Serbia and in Turkey and South Korea to defend their rights. This many people turn up to see Taylor Swift on a single night, and geez, look at the turnout for last year's SantaCon, but in America today,
where's everybody?
how it was well attended by [:Since the inauguration of Donald Trump and the protests that are happening at that point and what's being done is really insidious. What's being done in that video is that they are selectively showing sparsely attended protests since the inauguration to make the claim or at least create the impression that these protests aren't supported or well attended, organized, or having much in terms of momentum.
And the reason why it's insidious is because this is a great example of how media crafts a version of reality that they wanna see. And it's instructive in the era of Trump to watch out for these sort of things because it's an indicator of which media outlets have decided to bend the knee and carry water for this fascist regime.
e New York Times hasn't been [:With the intent of creating confusion and the appearance of a lack of support is really insidious work. And it's actually completely detached from reality. When we look at the actual protests that are happening both in physical protests and product.
Protest. It's having an impact.
You only need to look at the stock price of Tesla to know what kind of impact is being had by the economic protests that are taking place against that brand. Take a look at the stock price of targets since they made their announcements, as well as many of the other Trump aligned organizations who have decided to bend the knee.
nesses? Their businesses are [:Since inauguration there have been several protests that have been AR organized across state capitols all across the us and there have been protests that have been lobbied at the US Capitol as well.
Dr. Jim: And they're not getting covered, and you know why they're not getting covered? Because those protests are largely being driven by the white majority, and the media isn't going to lend a support to that because it doesn't fit the narrative that they want to advance on the behalf of the Trump administration.
s who want to do a speed run [:And because these protests have not. Had significant people of color in attendance and leading from the front. They haven't covered it, to create the spectacle that they need to justify declaring martial law.
So what you're seeing within the US is an. Active effort to suppress the actual protests that are going on and not report on it, and creating a counter narrative that because you're not seeing much of these protests, they aren't well supported and nobody's really interested.
This is a textbook example of media manipulation in order to drive a narrative that is convenient and in service of their billionaire overlords. Be aware of it. Understand that it's going on and respond accordingly. Stay in the fight.
