Mainstream media upset because we know they lie
They are clutching their pearls over at CNN, as an “Alarming new study finds half of Americans believe news organizations intend to mislead and misinform with their reporting”. They state: “Perhaps more startling: the report found that 72% of Americans believe national newsrooms are capable of serving the public, but that they do not believe they’re well intentioned. Only 23% said that they believe national newsrooms care about the best interests of their audiences.” They even know who to blame: “the sad reality is that one party — operating in an entirely different media ecosystem largely void of fact-based journalism — tells lies and promotes misinformation at a far higher rate than the other”. Source.
That must be it, it’s all because of ‘the deplorables’. Surely couldn’t have anything to do with that time the mainstream media aided President Bush’s wars. Or that time they falsely credited a sportsball player for a company’s declining stock price. Or when they interviewed a dead woman. Or that one time they were actually nice to President Trump, because he finally lobbed some bombs around, as presidents are wont to do. Or when they totally lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which could have single-handedly cost Trump re-election. Surely trust in CNN hasn’t dropped because they slandered a human taking human medicine prescribed by a human doctor as if he took ‘horse medicine’; a medicine shown to work in humans for what it was used for; and then went ahead and promoted the use of another medicine in humans, one used in horses. And surely we haven’t become more sceptical over the MSM because they helped downplay natural immunity to COVID-19, even basically saying those keen on it were conspiracy theorists, before finally admitting (once pretty much everyone was jabbed) it was actually as good or even better than the jabs. Certainly would have nothing to do with that time they claimed the unjabbed were doing so much worse than the jabbed, when the data they linked to actually showed that the unjabbed are doing better with regards to both non-COVID deaths and even COVID deaths (the negative effectiveness of the ‘safe and effective’ jabs). Or any other time they got it wrong, as we at Okay Then News have to sadly document on a dailyish to weeklyish basis. Surely has nothing to do with the WaPo printing that, “increasingly, reporters, editors and media critics argue that the concept of journalistic objectivity is a distortion of reality”. Source. And it definitely, absolutely, unquestionably has nothing to do with the easily verified fact (thanks largely to CNN’s financial reporting) that the same few people own the mainstream media (including Fox News), Big Tech, major pharmaceutical and jab manufacturers (including Pfizer), food companies (both actual and junk), energy companies (both fossil and green), and just about everything else, and have their tentacles in science and government. Nope, it’s all because Trump came down the escalator and was rude to Mexicans.
Okay then.