The deception in the media has never been worse. We should pray for fair and balanced news, not carefully controlled narratives.

From The Federalist. “The Washington Post is on track to lose money this year,” The New York Times reported. The Atlantic is losing another $10 million this year, Axios said. And The Los Angeles Times is still struggling to sustain itself, according to Politico.

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“The fake news business ain’t too healthy these days,” tweeted the New York Post’s Miranda Devine in response.

Her view is shared by many other Americans who are victims of the propaganda press and thus love hearing stories about their financial troubles. …

But major Democratic donors … likely consider these losses a remarkably low price to pay for controlling the outcome of elections. The Atlantic doesn’t exist to put out journalism but to control narratives. And even with the significantly declining quality of its journalism, a sufficiently deranged and gullible establishment is more than happy to lap it up and spread the propaganda around.

It was The Atlantic, after all, that cooked up the false and damaging Aisne-Marne cemetery hoax that played such a large role in determining the outcome of the 2020 election. For that error-riddled, unsubstantiated, and completely debunked story, Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg claimed to have a few secret anonymous sources who said Donald Trump attacked dead World War I soldiers. He later admitted the key detail of the story was likely wrong, but that was no barrier to the entirety of the corporate media running to amplify its claims. …

The Atlantic was also a key player in pushing the debunked and false Russia collusion hoax, the “Anonymous” operation, the Afghan bounty falsehood, and essentially every other disinformation operation being foisted on Americans. And when they push their lies, other media outlets amplify them.

The left-wing media are able to control narratives despite their weakened credibility not just because they retain so much power over establishment opinion but because the media outlets that wage war against their disinformation are so weakly funded.

To preserve the republic, Americans must fund those outlets fighting back. …

“The left does not win its battles in debate. It doesn’t have to. In the twenty-first century, media is everything. The left wins because it controls the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media. The left is the media. Narrative is everything. I call it the Democrat-media complex,” said the late Andrew Breitbart. …

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(Excerpt from The Federalist. Photo Credit: Bank Phrom on Unsplash)