The year of our Lord, 2024, was chock-full of moments from the corporate media that will go down in history as drops in the bucket that led to its downfall. From MSNBC to CNN, ABC to CBS, the legacy media seemed addicted to shooting itself in the foot.
Grabien, the company that clips corpo media moments, put together a top ten moments in 2024 where the media got especially bad.
Starting from the top, we have the “cheap fakes” controversy, where MSNBC accused “right-wing media,” including an RNC account on X, of creating edited videos of President Joe Biden to make him look out of it and incapable of doing his job. The goal, said MSNBC, was to make people question Biden’s fitness for office.
Only they weren’t fakes. These were just unedited videos of Biden looking lost and confused, and the media was effectively telling you not to believe your own eyes and ears, and buy into the propaganda they were setting before you.
Number nine features a CNN reporter being shocked by Trump supporters he spoke to. As he was asking them a question, he mentioned that America is a “democracy,” to which the Trump supporters politely corrected him, letting him know that America was actually a republic. CNN ran with this on Anderson Cooper’s show, attempting to claim that the Trump supporters were wrong. […]
— Read More: redstate.com
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.
But even as it seems nearly impossible to make a living, there are blessings that should not be disregarded. By highlighting strong sponsors who share our America First worldview, we have been able to make lifelong connections and even a bit of revenue to help us along. This is why we enjoy symbiotic relationships with companies like MyPillow, Jase Medical, and Promised Grounds. We help them with our recommendations and they reward us with money when our audience buys from them.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
