Thread title is a paraphrase, but basically the stalwarts at the DAVOS World Economic Forum are admitting that they can no longer control the narrative that the people see. And they are not happy about it. Thanks to the internet, the mainstream media have lost their ability to monopolize the stories, the topics, the talking points.
Oh, they still have a LOT of influence.
Conservatives who ONLY watch Fox/Breitbart/Wash Examiner/Etc only get 1 point of view.
Liberals who ONLY watch CNN/MSNBC/NY Times/Politico/Etc only get 1 point of view.
Viewers don't even get to see the same stories covered under different points of view, they get completely different stories most of the time. Literally totally different stories. Some news aggregation websites (like "Real Clear") do a great job of presenting stories from both the left & the right. But most only cover 'selected' stories from their own side. If you want to really know what is happening, you need to seek out BOTH sides and pay close attention to the bias.
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Oh, they still have a LOT of influence.
Conservatives who ONLY watch Fox/Breitbart/Wash Examiner/Etc only get 1 point of view.
Liberals who ONLY watch CNN/MSNBC/NY Times/Politico/Etc only get 1 point of view.
Viewers don't even get to see the same stories covered under different points of view, they get completely different stories most of the time. Literally totally different stories. Some news aggregation websites (like "Real Clear") do a great job of presenting stories from both the left & the right. But most only cover 'selected' stories from their own side. If you want to really know what is happening, you need to seek out BOTH sides and pay close attention to the bias.
WSJ Editor-in-Chief Admits To Davos Elites 'We No Longer Own The News' | ZeroHedge
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WSJ Editor-in-Chief Admits To Davos Elites 'We No Longer Own The News'
Thanks to the internet and (shrinking) press freedoms, legacy media outlets no longer have a monopoly on information and narratives.
Case in point, during a WEF discussion at Davos entitled "Defending Truth," Wall St. Journal EIC Emma Tucker lamented this loss of control over 'the facts,' as Modernity.news reports.
"I think there’s a very specific challenge for the legacy brands, like the New York Times and like the Wall Street Journal," Tucker said, adding "If you go back really not that long ago, as I say, we owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well."
"If it said it in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, then that was a fact," she continued, adding "Nowadays, people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news and they’re much more questioning about what we’re saying."
Watch:
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European Commission VP Věra Jourová also piped up during the same discussion, calling the rise of "disinformation" a "security threat," and suggesting that "It was part of the Russian military doctrine that they will start information war, and we are in it now."
Like when the Hillary Clinton campaign used a former (?) British spook's Russian source to fabricate a hoax against Donald Trump, which was peddled through the Wall Street Journal and every single other legacy media outlet? That kind of information war? Or when 51 former US intelligence officials used disinformation to influence the 2020 election, suggesting the NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop bombshell was Russian meddling?
"Disinformation is a very powerful tool," Jourová continued, adding that "In the EU we are focusing on improving of the system where the people will get the facts right. We don’t speak about opinions. We are not correcting anyone’s opinions or language. This is about the facts."
Bitch please.
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