mainstream media
Where each worldview places it
The later books' term for the news media, which the earlier books profile under Media. It is "The Spider's propaganda network", "psychological warfare on the public", and "almost entirely fake news" serving the Deep State[1]. The hierarchy runs "the Web dictating to media owners who dictate to editors who dictate to journalists who tell the readers and viewers what the Web wants them to believe"[2]. In Perceptions of a Renegade Mind it is "owned and controlled by the Cult" and "Goebbels-like"[3].
- Aliases
- Cult-owned mediacorporate mediaglobal medialapdog mediafake news mainstream media
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Lineage
- Six corporations own the US media; they are owned by a handful of billionaires, "the billionaires are owned by the Web and the Web is owned by the Spider"[4]. In Perceptions of a Renegade Mind the Cult has dismantled print and broadcast, and what is left belongs to a tiny number of corporations[5].
- Dates
- 1967 (the CIA's "conspiracy theory" dispatch)
- late 2016 (the "fake news" campaign)
- 2020–2021 ("Covid")[6]
- Places
- —
- Key events
- Members / notable people
- News Corp, Viacom, Time Warner, Disney, CBS and NBC Universal[4]the BBC, CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Postthe CIA's journalist assets, among them Anderson Cooper, once a CIA intern[4]
- Author's claims · 5
- 01The intelligence agencies control journalists; the 1976 Church Committee admitted the CIA's media assets, and Udo Ulfkotte and the PSYOPS officers at CNN confirmed it[4].
- 02About 90 percent of journalists are ignorant of what is happening and about ten percent are aware but silent[9].
- 03In the "Covid" era it spews propaganda, leads the demands for censorship, and its "journalists" act as enforcers for the Cult[10].
- 04In the 2018 book MSNBC and Fox News are "illusory polarities"; Trinity Mirror owns many British titles; the Daily Mail, which does some genuine investigation inside the Postage Stamp, was banned as a source by Wikipedia in February 2017[11]. Walt Disney has patented soft-body robots to replace costumed performers[12].
- 05In the 2021 book even Tucker Carlson bought the Wuhan lab-leak story, which fits his "China is the danger" narrative[13]. The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story was blocked by Silicon Valley[14].