The first place to look for the beginning of the homogeneous headline would be the EIB network website. Rush Limbaugh was playing clips of media talking points years ago--at least a decade, I would say. He would link together a bunch mainstream media personalities repeating the same exact phrase about a given topic over and over again--across the board, and the very day the topic became news.
The first place to look for the beginning of the homogeneous headline would be the EIB network website. Rush Limbaugh was playing clips of media talking points years ago--at least a decade, I would say. He would link together a bunch mainstream media personalities repeating the same exact phrase about a given topic over and over again--across the board, and the very day the topic became news.
Back in the 90's Bernard Goldberg (formerly of CBS News) wrote a whole book documenting how all US news orgs took their lead from the New York Times. Once the NYT put out their take on something, all the other news orgs adopted their left-wing talking points in lockstep, often verbatim.
This stuff has been going on for decades, the difference today being that the internet allows immediate unanimity whereas decades ago it took a few days for the party line to congeal.
The real question is who is setting the party line, not how long it's been going on. Seems pretty clear it's the US intelligence community and it has been for decades, since at least the 1970's as far as I can tell.
The question I have is who is controlling the US intelligence community? Clearly the Bank for International Settlements has been used by "the overlords" to finance the political take-down of the Western Gov'ts and the kill-shot genocide of the US and the West by buying up the entire western world with unlimited money printing. Attorney Todd Callender has posited that these unseen overlords are the Rothschild family, the British Crown and the Vatican. I have seen no reason to dispute his conclusion.
There are three places with independent jurisdiction--Washington DC, City of London, and the Vatican. Switzerland also a hotbed for globalist money and organizations. There's reason to believe Operation Paperclip scientists were part of the CIA from the beginning. Who knows but I believe the answer to the problem is the best of the human spirit- love, creativity, and our connection to a Divine loving power.
Isareal is behind all of it.............they had lots on money in the failed bank. There leader has stated they will take down America several times. Its on tape.
Agreed! But the world is getting smaller. I'd like to think at some point even they will fall... with a little push. Still if they can for once be identified, that's more than has been accomplished before.
Yep - was going to mention the whole "Journolist" issue but I figured someone else would get to it first. They literally had "daily talking points" to refute any criticisms of Obama and when the same word or phrase kept showing up in headlines across the country it became WAY too obvious that there was major co-ordination amongst the top media outlets!
Affirmative. The first Limbaugh clip of that type I ever heard focused on the word "gravitas". Literally two dozen television reporters used the word "gravitas" describing the same story on the same day. This was no later than the mid 1990s.
It was 2000 when Bush announced Cheney as his VP selection. Cheney supposedly brought "gravitas" to the ticket. I'm pretty well read and had never heard that word in my life, suddenly every talking head in the country was saying it.
It didn't make sense to me back then as the libs hated Cheney, how could he bring "gravitas"? In hindsight his warmongering neocon impulses exactly aligned with the Intelligence Community's forever war plans. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, ad nauseum.
Rush talks about the more recent "dangerous to our democracy" talking point and then brings us back to 2000 when news networks talked about W. Bush's lack of "gravitas"
Yes, it has been at least a decade since my eyes were opened to the media shenanigans, i.e. blatant lies. It's been about a decade since I enlightened my husband. I remember telling him what I had discovered and he didn't believe me. Then, he started watching different news sources and came back about a week later and told me I was right, the media was lying.
Those of us that are of a certain age may recall that in the 70s, most TV news broadcasts had a 'counter point' segment at the end of the broadcast. The one on our local station always fascinated me. There could be a left-wing professor on one night touting socialism, and then a right-wing business man the next arguing the opposite. Marx -vs- Adam Smith discussions back to back, in 5 min clips. For me it was the best segment of the news---respectful grown-up debate! They disappeared once cable TV became widespread. Only in adult-hood did I realize that they were mandated by law, and once the law changed (I think in 1983?) then they disappeared.
For me, the Twitter Files debacle is the natural extension of this trend to the internet: control what people can hear/read, and one can control how they think (at least for a short while, until this deception is revealed.)
So they own the world--then. Christians will definitely be a disparaged group of people--because we believe in our Constitutional Republic and owing allegiance and reverence ONLY to JESUS CHRIST THE LORD of heaven and earth. I will NEVER bow to any "governance person"--ONLY TO YESHUA!!
The last 23 years in civilization have seen so many PRECISION MOVES toward the GLOBAL SOCIETY....most of us were too busy to take notice--but I'm feeling this "tightness" in my heart and mind and I know why. SUPPRESSION, TOTALITARIANISM--is running amok!! No more will our country be a 'BEACON OF FREEDOM' if WE THE PEOPLE do not take decisive action.
back in the 70's The NY Times had printed on the front page "all the news that's fit to print". At that time it used to be said that "anybody who is anybody between Boston and DC reads The NY Times". I wonder if either os the two adages still holds true!
Good point. TV/Radio spectrum is one area where I do think some regulation is a good thing---to avoid the tragedy of the commons. On the other hand, I'm I firm believer that the general increase of regulations is one driver of consolation across a number of industries. e.g. It requires a lawyer (or team of lawyers) to navigate the regulatory landscape, and larger organizations are better able to bear those costs. The 1996 TCA was advertised as a way to increase competition, and it some ways it helped---internet and cellphone advances for example. But that expansion also led to less consumption of traditional media, which drove consolidation as some media companies became unprofitable---particularly in smaller markets.
As in so many areas of life, it's difficult at times to find the proper balance.
I am not sure it didn’t happen in 2008;under Obama ….the health care act was so unknown for details ….even after it passed …. The era of thousand page acts which no one could comprehend …. A disaster for citizens…activists….
Actually--the "news" has been "funneled" much longer than even 76 years ago. This has been the case since the beginning of the 20 th century. Perhaps we should revert to the "town crier" method of yore!!
The good thing is that people now grab those for the Twitter-bots and post how many different people "say" the same exact thing ... word for word.
But I do appreciate those super-cuts of the media talking heads doing it. Always interesting to see how the local news all across the country uses the exact same phrases.
Louise, thanks for reminding us of the great Rush Limbaugh. He was definitely the Bellwether of communication and news. His passing left a huge void in our world.
I loved Rush Limbaugh and listened to him from 1988 until he passed away. There is no one even close to Rush in his steady conservative commentary and he is dearly missed. He was a brilliant thinker.
AM…my husband was a huge Rush fan. He calls Clay and Buck, Dumb and Dumber. 😂 And almost daily makes the comment that NOBODY comes close to Rush. As you said - not even in the same universe.
George Washington: Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
There were no formal Bolsheviks in Washington's day yet he very clearly explains why the very first sign of tyranny is the "burning of the books" and the censorship and persecution of free speech. Having allowed Communism (the Bolsheviks) to take over the Gov't of the United States, it is going to be very difficult indeed to eject the Bolsheviks from power - perhaps too difficult.
It seems that most of us have become consumers of outlier news. I think of it in terms of underground news, and often tell people that you can’t believe anything from MSM, which includes online sources. We were just discussing this morning how deceptive the big G is. Haven’t we been conditioned to look up everything online? The days of having Encyclopedia Brittanica or World Book on your shelves are gone. And what you find online is so untrustworthy that you should almost reject out of hand everything it says. The most egregious are Google, Wikipedia (owned by Google?) and WebMD.
Someone posted somewhere years ago, about the time of Rush Limbaugh's revelation, that they were all taking their daily orders from one of the alphabet agencies. Fact or rumor, unknown.
Rush talks about the more recent "dangerous to our democracy" talking point and then brings us back to 2000 when news networks talked about W. Bush's lack of "gravitas"
DESPICABLE and SCARY at the same time. I have not listened to "broadcast news" since the cessation of the "Huntley/Brinkley Report"--remember those glorious days when you actually got a bit of "true journalism"!
The first place to look for the beginning of the homogeneous headline would be the EIB network website. Rush Limbaugh was playing clips of media talking points years ago--at least a decade, I would say. He would link together a bunch mainstream media personalities repeating the same exact phrase about a given topic over and over again--across the board, and the very day the topic became news.
Back in the 90's Bernard Goldberg (formerly of CBS News) wrote a whole book documenting how all US news orgs took their lead from the New York Times. Once the NYT put out their take on something, all the other news orgs adopted their left-wing talking points in lockstep, often verbatim.
This stuff has been going on for decades, the difference today being that the internet allows immediate unanimity whereas decades ago it took a few days for the party line to congeal.
The real question is who is setting the party line, not how long it's been going on. Seems pretty clear it's the US intelligence community and it has been for decades, since at least the 1970's as far as I can tell.
The Church Commission in the 1970's uncovered collusion with the three letter agencies and the news media. This has been going on a long time.
The question I have is who is controlling the US intelligence community? Clearly the Bank for International Settlements has been used by "the overlords" to finance the political take-down of the Western Gov'ts and the kill-shot genocide of the US and the West by buying up the entire western world with unlimited money printing. Attorney Todd Callender has posited that these unseen overlords are the Rothschild family, the British Crown and the Vatican. I have seen no reason to dispute his conclusion.
There are three places with independent jurisdiction--Washington DC, City of London, and the Vatican. Switzerland also a hotbed for globalist money and organizations. There's reason to believe Operation Paperclip scientists were part of the CIA from the beginning. Who knows but I believe the answer to the problem is the best of the human spirit- love, creativity, and our connection to a Divine loving power.
Isareal is behind all of it.............they had lots on money in the failed bank. There leader has stated they will take down America several times. Its on tape.
Good Question, but irrelevant Comrade. We will never be in close enough proximity to deal with such traitors even those in the Coup Gov of the USSA.
Just be sure to CYA there will be enough to keep you busy on the ground in front (or behind) you. :-)
Agreed! But the world is getting smaller. I'd like to think at some point even they will fall... with a little push. Still if they can for once be identified, that's more than has been accomplished before.
journolist was called out on party line dissemination a few years ago and was disbanded
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2010/07/the-journolist-scandal/
They probably have replacement for sure.
Yep - was going to mention the whole "Journolist" issue but I figured someone else would get to it first. They literally had "daily talking points" to refute any criticisms of Obama and when the same word or phrase kept showing up in headlines across the country it became WAY too obvious that there was major co-ordination amongst the top media outlets!
5 years passed and the. There was the BBC’s TNI.
2007 for Journ-o-List
https://www.conservapedia.com/JournoList
JFK would like to comment when this iteration started to overthrow the textbook version of gubmint.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kwnorton/p/modern-totalitarianism-2023-style?r=3ux2x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Good link. Totalitarianism is the real virus.
Affirmative. The first Limbaugh clip of that type I ever heard focused on the word "gravitas". Literally two dozen television reporters used the word "gravitas" describing the same story on the same day. This was no later than the mid 1990s.
It was 2000 when Bush announced Cheney as his VP selection. Cheney supposedly brought "gravitas" to the ticket. I'm pretty well read and had never heard that word in my life, suddenly every talking head in the country was saying it.
It didn't make sense to me back then as the libs hated Cheney, how could he bring "gravitas"? In hindsight his warmongering neocon impulses exactly aligned with the Intelligence Community's forever war plans. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, ad nauseum.
Sorry, @Jeff C, my reply belongs under yours:
Here's one such clip: https://youtu.be/oMO6Ic00or4?t=12
Rush talks about the more recent "dangerous to our democracy" talking point and then brings us back to 2000 when news networks talked about W. Bush's lack of "gravitas"
ad nauseum!!!!!!
They forgot their dictionary that day and thought it was a cool word.
😝
I remember “hubris” repeated over and over... I miss Rush 
Yes, it has been at least a decade since my eyes were opened to the media shenanigans, i.e. blatant lies. It's been about a decade since I enlightened my husband. I remember telling him what I had discovered and he didn't believe me. Then, he started watching different news sources and came back about a week later and told me I was right, the media was lying.
I’m sure your husband got a attaboy! Lol
Jeff, "Media Consolidation" is the search phrase I use to dig into the homogeneous headline trend. This article is a good example that summarizes some of the changes since the mid-90s https://truthout.org/articles/democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act/
* 1983: 50 corporations owned 90% of the media market (TV/radio/print-news)
* 1996: 13 corporations
* 2006 : 6 corporations
(Any time a market is distorted, look for the <sarc>helpful</sarc> government thumb on the scales.)
By 2020, we were left with things like the "dangerous to our democracy" narrative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BJ1JKMcGM4
Those of us that are of a certain age may recall that in the 70s, most TV news broadcasts had a 'counter point' segment at the end of the broadcast. The one on our local station always fascinated me. There could be a left-wing professor on one night touting socialism, and then a right-wing business man the next arguing the opposite. Marx -vs- Adam Smith discussions back to back, in 5 min clips. For me it was the best segment of the news---respectful grown-up debate! They disappeared once cable TV became widespread. Only in adult-hood did I realize that they were mandated by law, and once the law changed (I think in 1983?) then they disappeared.
For me, the Twitter Files debacle is the natural extension of this trend to the internet: control what people can hear/read, and one can control how they think (at least for a short while, until this deception is revealed.)
WOW--I guesstimated a few dozen companies "owned" the media--only SIX??? Disgusting! No wonder I don't listen to "news" anymore.
And Blackrock, vanguard and state street own those six
So they own the world--then. Christians will definitely be a disparaged group of people--because we believe in our Constitutional Republic and owing allegiance and reverence ONLY to JESUS CHRIST THE LORD of heaven and earth. I will NEVER bow to any "governance person"--ONLY TO YESHUA!!
Look at how the hospitals have also merged Nationwide ……
Black rock , etc ….
The last 23 years in civilization have seen so many PRECISION MOVES toward the GLOBAL SOCIETY....most of us were too busy to take notice--but I'm feeling this "tightness" in my heart and mind and I know why. SUPPRESSION, TOTALITARIANISM--is running amok!! No more will our country be a 'BEACON OF FREEDOM' if WE THE PEOPLE do not take decisive action.
back in the 70's The NY Times had printed on the front page "all the news that's fit to print". At that time it used to be said that "anybody who is anybody between Boston and DC reads The NY Times". I wonder if either os the two adages still holds true!
Our local newspaper had that slogan too--when I was growing up. No more--because it's not locally owned.
I never read the NYT.... The Philly Inquirer was my "big city" go to newspaper - :-)
Except in this case it was government taking its thumb off and deregulating so the consolidation could happen.
Good point. TV/Radio spectrum is one area where I do think some regulation is a good thing---to avoid the tragedy of the commons. On the other hand, I'm I firm believer that the general increase of regulations is one driver of consolation across a number of industries. e.g. It requires a lawyer (or team of lawyers) to navigate the regulatory landscape, and larger organizations are better able to bear those costs. The 1996 TCA was advertised as a way to increase competition, and it some ways it helped---internet and cellphone advances for example. But that expansion also led to less consumption of traditional media, which drove consolidation as some media companies became unprofitable---particularly in smaller markets.
As in so many areas of life, it's difficult at times to find the proper balance.
Yes , but who understood that would be the result ?
2010 Citizens United officially sealed the deal.
I am not sure it didn’t happen in 2008;under Obama ….the health care act was so unknown for details ….even after it passed …. The era of thousand page acts which no one could comprehend …. A disaster for citizens…activists….
We’ve been following Swiss Policy Research for years (used be Swiss Propaganda Research) Great charts and info https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/
Helped us understand early Covid narratives.
Actually--the "news" has been "funneled" much longer than even 76 years ago. This has been the case since the beginning of the 20 th century. Perhaps we should revert to the "town crier" method of yore!!
The good thing is that people now grab those for the Twitter-bots and post how many different people "say" the same exact thing ... word for word.
But I do appreciate those super-cuts of the media talking heads doing it. Always interesting to see how the local news all across the country uses the exact same phrases.
Since they are at the end of the day owned by the same conglomerates, not surprising. Agree it is fun to watch.
Louise, thanks for reminding us of the great Rush Limbaugh. He was definitely the Bellwether of communication and news. His passing left a huge void in our world.
I loved Rush Limbaugh and listened to him from 1988 until he passed away. There is no one even close to Rush in his steady conservative commentary and he is dearly missed. He was a brilliant thinker.
and caustically funny to listen too!
So conspiracy-theorist of me but wow, the timing of his passing could hardly have been worse.
I miss Rush Limbaugh!
Me too. Clay and Buck are ok (Clay gets on my nerves) but they're not in the same universe as Rush.
AM…my husband was a huge Rush fan. He calls Clay and Buck, Dumb and Dumber. 😂 And almost daily makes the comment that NOBODY comes close to Rush. As you said - not even in the same universe.
Not even in same galaxy!
George Washington: Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
There were no formal Bolsheviks in Washington's day yet he very clearly explains why the very first sign of tyranny is the "burning of the books" and the censorship and persecution of free speech. Having allowed Communism (the Bolsheviks) to take over the Gov't of the United States, it is going to be very difficult indeed to eject the Bolsheviks from power - perhaps too difficult.
Thanks to GenEarly and the Mom from Tennessee...
https://kwnorton.substack.com/p/modern-totalitarianism-2023-style?r=3ux2x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This reminds me of the chilling prediction of Nikita Khrushchev that America would be conquered by Communism without firing a shot.
that has already happened at the university and education level, especially the tenured ones
We'll know our disinformation campaign will be complete when everything the American public believes is false. - William Casey, CIA Director 1981
Seems like it's complete, but there will always be outliers.
Nice quote, thank you!
It seems that most of us have become consumers of outlier news. I think of it in terms of underground news, and often tell people that you can’t believe anything from MSM, which includes online sources. We were just discussing this morning how deceptive the big G is. Haven’t we been conditioned to look up everything online? The days of having Encyclopedia Brittanica or World Book on your shelves are gone. And what you find online is so untrustworthy that you should almost reject out of hand everything it says. The most egregious are Google, Wikipedia (owned by Google?) and WebMD.
Someone posted somewhere years ago, about the time of Rush Limbaugh's revelation, that they were all taking their daily orders from one of the alphabet agencies. Fact or rumor, unknown.
Here's one such clip: https://youtu.be/oMO6Ic00or4?t=12
Rush talks about the more recent "dangerous to our democracy" talking point and then brings us back to 2000 when news networks talked about W. Bush's lack of "gravitas"
Operation Mockingbird still in play.
El Rushbo, I miss that man... Talent on loan from God.
Operation Mockingbird ( CIA operatives media infiltration) never ended. It’s been going on since the 1950’s.
Yet another good example of coordinated media talking points: https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo
This was posted PRE-COVID!! Apr 2, 2018 in fact.
DESPICABLE and SCARY at the same time. I have not listened to "broadcast news" since the cessation of the "Huntley/Brinkley Report"--remember those glorious days when you actually got a bit of "true journalism"!
Who needs AI and bots?? very well done example of mockingbird media!
I remember him doing that about things they said about GW Bush in the early 2000s!