Media ⋆ Page 16 of 22 ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Besties: Twitter, Facebook, Google, CDC, NIH, WHO

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 3, 2022 / Government, Media, Policy / 8 minute read

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The relationship between Big Tech – and all aspiring reporters and enterprises – is very clearly complex, and elusive of ideological categorization. It is also corrupt, exploitative of the interests of the people, and at odds with the interest of Enlightenment values. How can freedom stand a chance when it is so viciously squeezed between the controlling interest groups, who are the powerful in society? They believe they are the lords and we are the peasants.

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New York Times Goes to War Against Parents

Michael Senger / August 2, 2022 / Media / 3 minute read

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Apparently, the Democrats’ strategy going into the midterms is to gaslight their base into believing concerns over their children’s education, wellbeing, and safety during Covid are nothing but an initiation into a dark underworld of cult-like anti-vaccine radicalism. We’ll see how that works out for ’em.

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Politifact Attempts To Rescue Dr. Birx

Scott Morefield / August 1, 2022 / Media, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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The real question here is, if Dr. Deborah Birx – a prominent member of Trump’s White House coronavirus task force – knew the vaccines didn’t stop infection then, how could the others NOT have known? And if they did, why did they lie about it for so long? Sure, we know the likely answer, but it’ll still be fun to watch them squirm on the stand as the investigations commence.

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The 2014 Template to Export Lockdowns

Michael Senger / July 28, 2022 / History, Media / 5 minute read

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The significance of this pro-lockdown campaign in 2014 can’t be overstated. Even among lockdown skeptics, the widely-held view is that the world essentially bumbled into lockdown in 2020. Although China’s global lockdown propaganda campaign utilizing tens of thousands of bots in virtually every language and dialect across the world is well documented, moderates have argued that this campaign merely represented China celebrating its own “success” against Covid—whether real or not—rather than any premeditated plan to export lockdown as policy.

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The Long Knives Are Out for Elon

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / July 24, 2022 / Media, Technology / 8 minute read

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The hounds have been released on Elon and that they won’t be called back because overt rebellion must be seen to be punished, lest he try again or others are encouraged by his example. But Elon has successfully powered through a lot of threats already, and seems to have locked in many new political alliances that can help tide him over during threats like those he presently faces. If he now lays low enough, he will eventually be forgiven.

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Articles of Inquiry: The Role of Media

Scott Morefield,

Jordan Schachtel,

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 22, 2022 / Media, Policy, Society / 2 minute read

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This report reviews the main issues that require investigation, cites examples of the bias and censorship, presents a timeline of pro-lockdown media coverage, and suggests an agenda for more extensive investigation. The authors hope this report can serve as a useful guide for a deeper look into this unprecedented use of media power to shape the pandemic response.

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The Culpability of the New York Times: Then and Now

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 18, 2022 / Media / 12 minute read

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The whole sorry episode speaks to a much larger and more entrenched problem: the symbiotic relationship between Big Media and the administrative state. It’s the permanent bureaucracy that serves the journalists’ primary and most credible source material. The higher the journalist or the bureaucrat rises in the profession, the fatter the rolodex grows on both ends. They maintain constant communication, as the FOIA’d emails about the pandemic have repeatedly shown.

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The Lockdowns Unearthed American Cultural Rot

Mark Oshinskie / July 17, 2022 / History, Media / 10 minute read

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Many Americans believed the government because, well, they were the government, and were therefore official and legitimate. Because bureaucrats wore business attire— plus scarves—and stood behind seal-bearing podiums, people thought the bureaucrats wouldn’t lie; but they did lie, repeatedly. The Faucist clown show continues, with the Misinformer-in-Chief now ludicrously crusading against “misinformation,” at least when he’s not too sick—after being quadruple-jabbed and double-Paxlovid-ed—to appear in public.

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The Crash and Burn of Credentialism

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 7, 2022 / Economics, Media, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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Whatever it is that the World Economic Forum is promising does not look especially impressive by comparison to the normal freedoms we took for granted. Indeed, we let the experts have a go at it and they created a monstrous experience for billions of people the world over. This will not be soon forgotten.

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The Courage to Dissent…From the Left

Laura Rosen Cohen / July 7, 2022 / Media, Policy / 6 minute read

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The unprecedented public health response to the pandemic; lockdowns, the censorship by Big Tech of dissenting medical voices and treatment options along with conflicting views on masking, vaccine, school closures and social-distancing policies have all contributed to deep and potentially irrevocable distrust of public health and government.

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We Lost Too Much Freedom, Polls Say

Michael Senger / July 6, 2022 / Media / 2 minute read

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This poll may be the most promising news we’ve seen since Covid began. As lonely as it may sometimes seem being an anti-lockdown activist, these poll results go to show that it’s not just a handful of us who feel as we do—it’s actually billions. In India, especially, an overwhelming majority of respondents agreed that the government took away too much freedom during Covid, which is unsurprising when remembering scenes like these during lockdown.

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insufferable arrogance of the laptop class and fact checkers

The Insufferable Arrogance of the Constantly Wrong

Clayton Fox / June 30, 2022 / Media / 10 minute read

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The saddest thing is that these media outlets and their flag bearers really think their readers are all morons. The New York Times believes that, in the midst of the Omicron wave as boosted person after boosted person was getting COVID, they could tell you these particular vaccines are still the way to eradicate this thing, and expect you to deny reality and nod your head.

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