Your friends and family honestly believe that the Mainstream News "is not allowed to lie." That's why these same friends and family think you are an insane fucking moron for not believing what Mainstream News tells you.
They do not understand that propaganda was very quietly LEGALIZED IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2013. After that, the news outlets no longer "had" to tell the truth.
This is how MSM gets away with it.
Not too long ago the Rachel Maddow show was sued for lying and spreading garbage as "news." But the courts pointed to this 2013 ruling and said shows like that were not news, but "entertainment," and nothing changed. She's still on the air doing exactly the same thing.
This change was made very quietly in 2013. Who was in the White House as President of the United States in 2013?
If the normies ever do realize that this happened, and that we know about it but they do not - that could change an awful lot.
Show it to everyone you know and see what happens.
Here is one link, but this is easily researched. Anyone can find a link to a source they are willing to believe: https://citizentruth.org/government-allowed-use-propaganda/
They didn't have to prior to, they are corporations which are now considered PERSONS (corporations) under the law that was changed a long time ago allowing them "free speech" this was used previously by the pentagon in order to insert topics into the main stream news for decades! Propaganda being legalized only allowed them to do this in the light of day and allows government funded stories to be aired, where before they had to be paid in other ways, kick backs. Today they just cut a check. The taxpayers are paying for these stories!
Indeed, the fact these are corporations at all is a telling.
Citizen journalists are the way forward. No sponsorships.
Corporations having person hood at all is very alarming.
There is a way to allow advertising, which pays for media currently, that do not interfere with the media. I hope anyway. It would be nice for people doing the work to be able to make a check in a way that doesn't endanger the Republic.
There are lots of ways to earn income via citizen journalism, and it’s far more cost effective for companies to ‘advertise’.
The problem with the advertising machine today is it’s about buying ‘air time’ over state-sponsored media outlets, broadcast over tax-funded dollars (you and me), …
It’s like a very complex money laundering scheme.
The large majority of these Ad revenues go towards opex, and the ‘stars’ of these networks (anchors, .. they are brands in of themselves).
So then the race to be profitable is then about increase advertisement air-time.
So what you get then is this…
The Media/News is Really an Advertising business first, News second.