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However the Digital News age has also been destructive to the entire realm of media as far as credibility goes, as anyone can post a story real or imagined, and they can be picked up with little fact checking.The internet and social media are the reason this has been discovered, there is no longer a monopoly on information. If any person doesn't understand what Brad has stated above by now, I'm not sure they ever will.
Interesting you bring those three topics up as they are all interesting tidbits that have threads of truth to them, but all where skewed heavily.Nothing I have seen credited to Russia or any other foreign actor is within orders of magnitude of the discredit the MSM brings on itself. Conservatives have watched the Russian Collusion lie, the Laptop Is Russian Disinformation lie, and the Biden Is Sharp and Fit lie all play out.
1) Russian Collusion: The issue was that it got muddled together - nothing could be tired criminally directly to the 2020 Trump campaign - but there was evidence of Russian efforts to support Trump, and evidence that some on the Trump team did in fact have discussions with Russian officials.
2) Early on the FBI verified that the Laptop was genuine - however the chain of custody had lent itself to the appearance of impropriety, and yes there was a clear effort on behalf of some officials to mislead the media about the origins - I am not so sure I place all the blame on the media for that - as well as certain officials in the USG who wanted to smear the Trump Campaign.
3) Biden is Sharp and Fit: at his age, one can be easily fatigued, and also go from very capable to incapable in a short span. I don't necessarily think that it was a lie that went on for years, I know some folks who have briefed him in the last few months - and it appears the decline has been fairly recent, as he was "on the ball" in the spring.
I would be very careful before I make a statement like none of them where instigated by foreigners - the Russian, Chinese, Iranian ( and with a lot less effect North Korean) governments all attempt to plant seeds of doubt into the West daily on multiple different things.All of them went on for months to years. All of them involved multiple major media agencies. All of them consumed vast amounts of published space and broadcast time. None of them was instigated by foreigners.
BS sells - and unfortunately in a profit motivated world, the hierarchy of the MSM are to blame - they get richer off instability and as such have no reason to stop -- people and governments need to hold them accountable - and hit them hard in their pocketbook before any significant change will be implemented.The power to restore some sort of useful reputation to the MSM rests with the MSM. Stop lying. Stop propagating unverified anonymous rumours. Read written sources carefully. Listen carefully when people are speaking and don't snip quotations out of context. Understand the difference between fact and conjecture. Stop injecting bullsh!t premises into questions.