Tag Archives: media

The corrupt nature of mainstream media

Posted on April 23, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

TPOL tends to be very hard on so-called “legacy” or mainstream media (MSM). That is, the television and radio networks and their local affiliated TV and radio stations, together with the newspapers (chains or independents and especially the “national” press) … Continue reading →

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Press freedom going with a whimper, not a bang

Posted on December 1, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Thomas Jefferson said in 1807 about newspapers: “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with … Continue reading →

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Celebrity-murderer or adult delinquent?

Posted on July 23, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

An article from Rob Morse back in April triggered some thoughts about the recent killer in Pennsylvania. And the media (mainstream, social, and alternative) response to it: to say nothing of the usual hoplophobes and hoploclasts in high places. We’ve … Continue reading →

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Media tactics to combat homeschoolers

Posted on May 23, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

The education establishment is closely aligned with mainstream media, or so it appears to outside observers. Homeschooling is seen as a serious threat to the educrats and is weakening the monopoly on education in many States. Therefore, the education establishment … Continue reading →

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“Battleground States” in 2024 and beyond

Posted on May 8, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Paradigm (formerly Agora) recently discussed dying media: specifically broadcast television (TV). The writer believes that 2024 may be the last gasp of broadcast media as Biden, Trump, and hundreds of candidates flood the old networks and local stations with billions … Continue reading →

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Is the world exploding?

Posted on April 13, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

Chicken Little had nothing on the modern media, and not just the clickbait brigade! (Although all the oldline, mainstream media and much of the new and supposedly independent media seem to have adopted that modus operandi.) Consider: Newsweek: Lake Mead’s … Continue reading →

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Need more reasons not to trust mainstream media?

Posted on December 23, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

If we cannot trust some entity (like the media) on small things, we surely cannot trust them on big things. Such as life and death and the truth about anything. Continue reading →

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The ministry of truth – heart and soul of government

Posted on March 3, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

The recent news of how the US Department of Energy has figured out that the SARS virus was developed from and escaped from a Chinese government “health” lab in Wuhan is bouncing back and forth. The FBI claims that they … Continue reading →

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Behind the curtain – modern mainstream media considered

Posted on January 11, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Around the world and here in the States, mainstream media is frequently a major group of enemies of liberty. The wokeness, political correctness, social justice warrior agenda and many other characteristics are obvious. Various reasons are postulated for this bias. … Continue reading →

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The opium pages

Posted on June 19, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Once upon a time, I am told that the letters-to-the-editor, opinion pages, and comments pages actually did have an impact on public discourse. If such a time existed, of course, it is long past. Recently reading a local daily newspaper’s … Continue reading →

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