John Nolte at Breitbart has written a lively essay on the declining fortunes and influence of the Legacy Media and how they are reacting to their accelerating loss of power. And reacting to it they are. Nolte begins by pointing out that the entire establishment was on deck in the 2016 election in order to stop Donald Trump from winning the election. There was no effort that they did not make in the service of their goal of getting Felonia von Pantsuit over the finish line.
As a 25 year media-watcher, I have never seen anything close to the propaganda campaign the national media launched to defeat Donald Trump last year. It was 24/7, it was coordinated across every news outlet, it was all-hands-on-deck. And Trump still won. Which can only mean that the media’s influence has eroded to a point where, despite hurling every kitchen sink available, they suffered a humiliating loss last November.
Before I get into the grit of the nit, it is important to keep in mind that our media is nothing more than the communication branch of the Democrat Party. When you look at everything the media does — the lying, the campaigns of personal destruction, the fake news, the focus on stuff like Melania’s shoes — this explanation is the only one that makes sense. The media is a full-blown leftwing political operation run, for the most part, by former Democrat operatives like Jake Tapper, George Stephanopolous, and Chuck Todd, as well as those related to Democrat operatives.
Donald Trump’s win in November of last year was not just a political earthquake; it was a cultural one as well. For it signaled that not only is the political power of the Democrats and the left on the decline, so too is the power of the Legacy Media. There was a time when the Elite Media Monoculture controlled the content and terms of the debate and nothing got through that wall of power that was not approved by them. But that has all changed because of the digital technology that we all enjoy today.
Computers, tablets, cell phones and the Internet make it possible for people of like mind to find each other and to share their knowledge, understanding, and experience. Through blogs, chat rooms and social media conservatives and others on the right have been able to organize and work together to advance their own ideas and, perhaps even more importantly, to pull back the curtain on the left and show them for who and what they are. Through the Internet, we offer observations and commentary that the Legacy Media does now allow or deign to publish.
And those views have spread far and wide on the right until now virtually every rank-and-file member of the right understands the situation we are in, what we are up against and knows what we have to accomplish to win our country back from the left. There are few on our side who do not understand the goals and tactics of the enemy. And knowing that means that the Legacy Media has lost their power to influence the outcomes of events both political and cultural. As Nolte explains, this decline in the left’s power is the reason they are lashing out to silence the voices on the right using whatever power they still have.
At this point, pretty much every conservative position on abortion, homosexuality, border security, the police, affirmative action, immigration, terrorism, etc., has been labeled as hate speech by the establishment left and many in the media. Moreover, the holding of these beliefs makes you an automatic member of the “alt-right,” which aligns you with white supremacists.
Now that this phase is in place, now that mainstream conservative and Christian beliefs have been toxified as hate, whether they are already aligned with the media or because they have been bullied by the media into joining the cause, the mega-corporations that now control our primary means of communication — the public square that is the Internet — are instituting a wave of censorship.
Hiding behind the media’s absurdly expanded definition of hate (or fake news), America’s Googles, Facebooks, Twitters, advertisers, and Web servers are blacklisting conservatives, banning populists, and outlawing their ideas. People are being disappeared from the public square or, out of fear of being disappeared, they no longer feel comfortable to speak freely.
While this wave of censorship has already caused some short term disruptions, in the end, I don’t think it will succeed in stopping the right. The Internet is so big and so diverse a medium that those on the right will soon find ways to adapt and redeploy their assets. Google, Facebook, and Twitter are big, but they are by no means the entire Internet and their reach only goes so far. The conservative right will quickly adapt and find other venues to get their message out. The Elite Media Monoculture’s attempt to regain power and silence their critics is doomed to fail, just as every socialist experiment in history has done before.
