Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: On issue after issue, the transnational media class toes the same line. These ...

On issue after issue, the transnational media class toes the same line. These journalists share a similarly disdainful attitude towards what they see as the backwards ‘masses’, and agree with each other on issues from immigration to gender-identity theory. And the more the transnational media seal themselves off from a plurality of their fellow citizens, the more closely they hew to the views of the powerful.

This is already coming at a huge cost to their reputations, as the public increasingly looks to alternative sources of news and opinion – sources that resonate with and reflect their own experiences and concerns. The mainstream media’s response to all this has been to double down. This has involved talking up the threat of ‘misinformation’ from alternative media, and even happily celebrating the ban on Elon Musk’s X in Brazil on the grounds it is spreading misinformation and worse.