(WND)—Two commentators at the pinnacle of their industry, Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino, have concluded that the legacy media – those mainstream outlets that have taken on the aura of the establishment – are not Americans’ friends.
“These are your blood enemies,” Carlson charged in an interview exchange with Bongino.
Bongino got the media lovefest started with the blunt assessment: “The old media sucks. It just sucks.”
He differentiated the “new” media as that being what he and Carlson do – both run their own presentations of news and commentary to Americans, without a network behind them.
Bongino said, “Nobody trusts them after Spygate, the Russia hoax, the impeachment disaster…”
He cited a Gallup poll showing Americans’ trust in legacy media is at an alltime low.
Carlson explained, of the media, “It’s only been in the last several years you can feel the malice in it.”
He cited a report that life expectancy in the U.S. had declined, and media were “like … that’s fine.”
“They hate you and want to hurt you, and that’s scary,” he said.
“And they seek your destruction,” he continued, pointing out the media reaction to people jailed for no more than being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Michael Byrd murdered this girl, the media are totally fine that that,” he said, citing the Jan. 6, shooting death of protester Ashli Babbitt. “So if they’re happy seeing Ashli Babbitt get murdered, how would they feel about my murder. Well, they would celebrate it of course.”
“These are your blood enemies.”
Bongino agreed, “They jut freaking hate you. They think you’re a piece of s***. They hate your guts.”
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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