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Father, we pray and ask that you would stop the truth twisting of the Media and Corporations. We stand on the side of Truth and proclaim freedom for the captives.
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If you follow the news, you know that something has changed. I’m not talking about media bias. The media has always been biased, sometimes in obvious and childlike ways, sometimes more subtly.  . . .

What’s different is that corporate news outlets, together with major corporations of all kinds, now routinely present what is false as true and what is true as false. They deceive on purpose and without apology, and they do so in service of a leftist ideological and political agenda. . . .

Examples of this new media unreality are ubiquitous. Almost all the reporting on Georgia’s election reform law, for example, has been incorrect, misleading, or outright deceptive.

Amid a barrage of “reporting” and commentary on the law—including outlandish and false statements from President Biden, who said it amounted to “Jim Crow in the 21st century” and called the law “sick” and “un-American”—it has been nearly impossible to find any straight news articles that describe, in simple and dispassionate terms, what the Georgia law actually does.

It would not be hard to write such a story if any news organizations cared to do so. As it happens, the Heritage Foundation has posted one of the few articles that simply describes what the law does in an effort to correct the false corporate media narrative that this is a “voter suppression” law.

Contrary to what has been reported by The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and many other corporate outlets, the Georgia law doesn’t contain any onerous voter ID requirements. It simply replaces a shoddy signature match system with a voter ID system, and provides that any Georgia resident can get a state ID for free if he doesn’t already have one (97 percent of registered voters in Georgia already do).

Also contrary to widespread reports, the law doesn’t eliminate drop-boxes for mail-in ballots.  . . .

The bill simply codified them into law, providing a certain number of drop-boxes for every county.

The law also doesn’t ban drinking water while waiting in line at the polls, it simply prohibits political groups from distributing food and water at polling places to prevent efforts to influence voters. . . .

In reality, Georgia’s voting law is a ho-hum tweaking of state voting laws. But in the phantasmagoria of corporate media, it’s the new Jim Crow. Major corporations have committed to this fantasy, publicly denouncing the law, intentionally mischaracterizing what it does, and in the case of Major League Baseball, which pulled its All-Star Game out of the state, taking concrete actions.

Other corporations have settled for issuing intentionally misleading statements. Delta and Coca-Cola, two of the largest employers in Georgia, came out against the law last week. Coca-Cola’s chief executive James Quincey said the new law “makes it harder for people to vote, not easier.” Delta’s chief executive, Ed Bastian, said more or less the same thing. . . .

The bill does not make it harder for anyone to vote. Period. Any assertions that it does make voting harder would be treated as lies or errors of fact in a reality-based media world.

But we don’t have a reality-based news media, so corporations feel no need to be reality-based. On Monday, United Airlines declared, “Legislation that infringes on the right to vote of fellow Americans is wrong.” Yet there is no such legislation, in Georgia or anywhere else. It is not real. Yet United—and Delta, and Coca-Cola, and many others—are asking us to believe that it is. . . .

The ‘Insurrection’ Was a Largely Peaceful Protest

Other examples abound — indeed, we are deluged by them on a daily basis. A writeup of a new Reuters/Ipsos poll about the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol opens with a line about how “former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event that left five dead and scores of others wounded. His supporters appear to have listened.” The poll itself found about half of Republicans “believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest.” . . .

Tens of thousands of Trump supporters, possibly more, peacefully marched from the White House Ellipse, where Trump spoke, to the U.S. Capitol grounds, where they demonstrated. Out of this mass of peaceful protesters, several hundred people fought with police and stormed into the Capitol.

If the words “largely non-violent protest” have any meaning at all, that’s what Jan. 6 was. Eyewitness accounts of the day, coupled with subsequent investigations by law enforcement, confirm that the vast majority of protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 were peaceful. Given the size of the Capitol grounds and the number of people involved, many protesters were completely unaware of the breach of the Capitol and only learned about it later that day from news reports.

But corporate media outlets like to use misleading phrases like, “the insurrection that left five dead and scores of others wounded” to make the events of Jan. 6 seem like something they were not, like a violent mass riot — something more like the Black Lives Matter riots we saw across the country last summer, which the media downplayed or justified.

Yes, five people died that day. Two died from medical complications (a heart attack and a stroke), one was trampled to death in a crush of people, one was shot dead by Capitol police, and one, a U.S. Capitol Police officer named Brian Sicknick, died of still-unknown causes. (The New York Times and other major outlets initially spread false reports that pro-Trump rioters beat Sicknick to death with a fire extinguisher. There is no evidence that ever happened.) . . .

Because prosecutors have yet to charge even one rioter with treason or sedition. Instead, most of the rioters are being charged with misdemeanor trespassing and will likely not even face jail time. . . .

Tomorrow there will be a new crop of stories based on pure fantasy, lies presented as truth and truth denigrated as lies. This is a new era for the news media, and indeed for American society as a whole. We used to disagree on the importance of things; now we disagree on the things themselves, on what’s real and what isn’t, what happened and what didn’t. . . .

That’s why it’s so important right now to insist that our corporate media, and indeed corporations of all kinds, are honest about reality. If they refuse, if they persist in their deceptions and lies, then it’s up to ordinary Americans to stop reading, stop watching, stop subscribing, stop patronizing. Insist on a modicum of honesty — and if they can’t give that, don’t give them a cent. . . .

Share your prayers about media bias in the comments below. . .

(Excerpt from The Federalist. Article by John Daniel Davidson. Photo Credit: Unsplash.)

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brian
April 10, 2021

What a sad commentary of our national media! It is coming down to this: The ONLY thing that we have to put our trust in , is in the Lord. Our government, from the top down, continually lies to us, feeding us total lies. The media, with a few exceptions, is totally complicit in this evil misguiding of the people. It is obvious that our government does not represent the people who wish to know the truth, nor does about 99% of the media. Lord Jesus, thank You that You are the Truth. May we continually put our faith and trust where it is safe to be put-in You.

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Voco Veritas
April 10, 2021

Of COURSE media & corporations lie! That has become their sole reason for existing, that being to be propaganda arms of the federal government to constantly push the fed’s evil, satanic agenda on us all.

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MN
April 9, 2021

The new law absolutely does NOT make it harder to vote. The woke corporations and their strategically placed leftist voices are upset because (1) it helps to ensure more stringent guidelines will be followed, which results in increased integrity and honesty {which the left hates}…(2) decreased ‘irregularities’ {a nice word for cheating, fraud, etc.}… the woke corporations, leftist, Dems and Stacy Abrams zombie puppets really hate that (3) the new laws are falsely being portrayed as racist. Baloney!! It has nothing to do with that. Those resisting are using the race narrative because they’re afraid that they won’t be able to get away with what they did the last time. GA wasn’t legally won by Biden or the 2 Dem senators. The voters of GA know full well they were shafted by a fraudulent election.
It’s truly sad to watch a select few control the narrative and try to sell America that “this is what the majority says”.
The truth will continue to prevail. God will continue to reveal the lies and we must be faithful to pray for that. The truth is nowhere to found on 90% of today’s news or media corporations or SocMed threads/posts… ignore, expose and challenge them consistently. Pray faithfully for revival and repentance to saturate our nation.

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    Voco Veritas
    April 10, 2021

    The entire concept of “racism” is a lie fabricated by marxists to divide the People. This is proven by recognizing that from a biological perspective, there is only ONE race of humans on earth, that being Homo Sapiens, so it is impossible to hate other “races” since there is only one!

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