America’s New Great Awakening
A majority of Americans distrust the media and view the press as a threat. And as usual, the media seems utterly clueless that they have created the darkness in which democracy dies.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/11/04/ameri...reat-awakening/
By Rod Thomson
November 4, 2022

Americans’ Great Awakening is now so well underway that even pollsters and left-of-center opinion writers are finally coming to understand the public’s hatred for a legacy, corporate media that has fully abandoned any pretense of being a common source for information. It has ripped off its mask to reveal itself as the partisan propaganda machine for the state narrative that it has long been undercover. It’s no exaggeration to say the media is the preeminent domestic threat to America.

As someone who spent 20 years in daily newspapers and has been working diligently for a generation to wake people up to the dangers of trusting the media, I’m dancing a rare jig of joy—though not without shedding a small tear for what could have been.

Take a gander at what Peter Savodnik, a left-of-center writer formerly of Vanity Fair and the London Guardian, wrote last week after the jaw-dropping Fetterman-Oz debate debacle:

From Russiagate to the lab leak theory to the riots in the summer of 2020 to the effect of school closures during the pandemic, reporters seem increasingly incapable of reporting honestly and comprehensively on the most important issues of the day. Last night, for anyone who was watching the debate with eyes wide open, that much was indisputable.

Savodnik is hardly alone as we see an increasing array of serious left-wing journalists being red-pilled about their industry and walking away, including former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss; Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald; Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi; Vox reporter Matt Yglesias and even former magazine columnists such as the far-left Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, to name a few. Again, not a right-winger among them, but all see what the corporate media has become and at least have the integrity to publicly acknowledge it.

But what is essential in any Great Awakening is that a critical mass of normal people opens their eyes wide. Exhibit A that it’s happening is nothing short of what’s reported in the Washington Post about its own poll with Siena College:

As it turns out, 84 percent of respondents said yes, the mainstream media posed a threat to democracy, including 6 in 10 who said it posed a major threat. That was the highest percentage of any of the 10 options the pollsters presented—in part because it was one of the few options for which there was bipartisan support.

The last comment is an attempt at spin, but it only reinforces the reality that Americans of every political stripe are waking up to the threat that a partisan, radicalized, state-aligned media poses to a free society. It’s 84 percent! -- excerpt, rest at link above --