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by thebigjewbowski 1395 days ago
> Media companies have layers of editors, they have at least some diversity, a woman will hopefully look at a story or script before it goes out, sometimes even a lawyer might tell them to tone it down a bit

Sometimes editors and a corporate machine behind the news isn’t the best thing.

Take, for example, Amy Robach. A CBS reporter who wanted to air the Jeffery Epstein story years before he was arrested for the second time. Then ABC tipping off CBS and the leaker being fired.

There’s also the Chris Cuomo basement scandal.

Or Brian Williams lying about his experience covering Iraq.

Or Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss being pushed out of their newspapers.

Or studies showing that the media covered Russia’s invasion of Ukraine far more than the US invasion of Iraq.

Or censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Also haven’t seen much about the contents of the diary in the mainstream press…

The media has failed time and time again on what I outlined above and much more. They have an agenda, be it left or right, that is larger than any one person and are largely beholden to advertisers and whatnot.

I applaud independent media. There are a lot of people doing really great work on substack. Jimmy Dore, for example, does amazing reporting and really shows the bias of the media.

People like Alex Berenson, Matt Taibi, Glenn Greenwald, etc are doing really great investigative reporting that I once respected mainstream outlets for.

Just because someone has a large audience doesn’t mean they should be censored. Talking to people about things for hours is invaluable and Rogan does a great job on his show.

https://nypost.com/2019/11/05/abc-news-amy-robach-claims-net...

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/cbs-fi...

https://freebeacon.com/media/chris-cuomo-fakes-emerging-from...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brian-williams-credibility-ques...

https://www.globalissues.org/news/2022/04/12/30585

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers...