NOBODY KNEW

     So the Internet is abuzz today with revelations from Elon Musk about Twitter's interference in the 2020 (and doubtless other) U.S. Elections. To recap that specific year, recall that from President Trump's election in 2016 to his overthrow in 2020; we were regularly informed by MSM figures like Michael Moore, John Oliver, and Don Lemon as to the corruption of our electoral system. People like this did documentaries on easily voting machines could be hacked; election workers bribed; and a general lack of transparency. The narrative fully reversed itself after the November 2020 Putsch. Without explaining why or how; the same people who just a month before were wringing their hands over the "possibility of Trump stealing another election" were assuring us---backed by threats---that allegations of fraud were baseless and unfounded. Our electoral workers were suddenly frontline heroes too.

   These 'baseless allegations' were based on things like highly anomalous voter turnouts, several arrests of ballot-harvesters, and eyewitness testimony. More significantly, 17 State Attorneys-General thought enough of it to address the Supreme Court for intervention. California's Supreme Court ruled their voting system unconstitutional just days before the election, and Great Reset oligarchs like the Washington Post's Jeff Bezos and Time Magazine's Marc Benioff openly boasted about how they'd pulled off the coup. More recently, the Wisconsin Supreme Court found Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook guilty of undue electoral interference. 

   And guess what? None of this mattered to the Intelligencia on the Right until another billionaire Oligarch said so. 

    Yes, Conservatives have discovered suddenly that the Media is corrupt and works in the interests of 'woke' Corporate overlords. Nobody knew until Musk's revelations. 

    Victor Davis Hanson---who has become something of the archetype of the out-of-touch Conservative---penned an article detailing all of the crimes of the Corporate Media. While most of what he says is accurate, can anybody with the patience to read the whole thing find a single assertion that they haven't already known for years now?

   Then we have to consider what Hanson didn't say. How did the media get to this condition? In 1982, the largest media outlets were owned by about 50 different companies. In 2022, the ownership has been reduced to 5. In the last three decades alone, 83% of independent media outlets have been closed or absorbed by supranational conglomerates. 

  According to Hanson, it's all the Democrats' fault; in fact, he strongly implies that the problems with our media only began recently. However, in 1996, the Republican-controlled Congress gave the Clinton Co-Presidency the Telecommunications Act which lifted restrictions on Corporate ownership of the press and especially limited interlocking corporate directorates in the media. Today, it's not uncommon for one stockholder in a media cartel to own stocks in others. In 1999, the GOP gave the Clintons a repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act which took down most barriers against supranational corporate mergers. 

  The Bush Administration appointed Colin Powell's son Michael to head the FCC, and the agency has been under Regulatory Capture ever since. For Bush we have to thank for the insinuation of governmental domestic espionage and erecting the internet's current algorithm, fact-checking, and organized disinformation systems. In 2013, the GOP-controlled Congress gifted Obama with an extension of the previous laws, repealing restrictions on media market-shares; along with a repeal of the Smith-Mundt Anti-Propaganda Act of 1948, which opened the door for government agencies to act as journalistic enterprises. In 1987, Republicans repealed the Fairness Doctrine of 1949 which ensured equal time be given for opposing viewpoints (which in effect legalized media bias) and in 2000, lifted laws against personal attacks and editorial sniping. Formerly, media outlets actually had to give persons or groups a week's notice of an intended attack and details of what it was along with an opportunity for an on-air rebuttal. Likewise, editors endorsing or opposing a candidate or voter initiative had to notify the opposing person or group a reasonable opportunity and a platform to respond. 

  What all of this accomplished was to create a Media Cartel with an Official Narrative faction and a Controlled Opposition faction. The fact that certain vested interests profit from this kind of antagonism ensures that the so-called 'Conservatives' will never take any measures to rectify the situation. That, and the fact that broadcast media operates a massive network of 425 Beltway lobbyists to the tune of nearly $50 million annually; while the Tech Lords have even more lobbyists at 613 and a budget exceeding $70 million. 

   

     Understand that the narrative being pushed here is another stalking horse. What's being pushed is the illusion that Corporate Media concentrations are the norm; and all that is needed for a 'free press' is having 'based and red-pilled' Corporate control as opposed to 'woke.' The general consensus among the leadership on the Right seems to be that the status quo is acceptable---only a change in the 'narrative' is important.  An MSM with a Neoconservative spin is no improvement; if anyone doubts that just look at Fox News and ask if the likes of Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto, Brian Kilmeade, and Bruce Jenner ought to represent the future of American journalism. Neither faction of the Uniparty actually wants a free and independent press. 

   As for Elon Musk's 'revelations' they will go nowhere, nor are they really intended to. Musk is simply positioning himself as the official mouthpiece of the Controlled Opposition. Musk himself is a proponent of transhumanism and merging human souls into the Corporate Machine. He has a long history of donating heavily to Democrats (with a few RINOs scattered in for good measure). His biggest donation came in 2015 to then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. Emmanuel later tapped Tesla to build Chicago's proposed mass-transit upgrade. SpaceX was partly funded by CIA financial operative Michael Griffin who later became Bush Jr.'s head of NASA. Griffin picked up Musk after failed negotiations to build in Russia (which is likely responsible for Musk's fanatical anti-Russian mindset). 

   Musk was also picked by Klaus Schwab as a WEF Young Global Leader in 2008. His brother Kimbal Musk is a WEF/Great Reset activist. Besides Kimbal Musk, Tesla's Board of Directors features Controlled Opposition Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch's son, James; along with WEF operatives Hiromichi Mizuno and Joe Gebbia, head of AirBNB and another WEF Young Global Leader. 

   SpaceX' Board also includes Kimbal Musk, along with Gwynne Shotwell a wealthy businesswoman with deep ties to NASA and the Military-Industrial Complex. Steve Jurvetson, a former consultant WEF Strategic Partner Bain & Co. and Obama's  Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship also sits on the Board. Another Board Member, Antonio Gracias is a Trustee of the shady Deep-State connected Aspen Institute. In 2021, the Aspen Institute "launched the Commission on Information Disorder to counter “malicious” actors “undermining trust and sowing discord in civil society” by spreading false information. The commission has been criticized for its left-of-center political bias, criticism of conservatives and President Donald Trump, and support from leading liberals. Some of the commission’s liberal advisors have been accused of censoring news critical of the Democratic Party and left-wing interests." One of the participants in this scheme, interestingly enough was involved in Twitter's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal which Musk now purports to 'expose' (as the linked article shows, this has been known for nearly a year). SpaceX Board Member Brian Gower is a figure in the legal Marijuana trade. Donald Harrison is an executive at Google which manages stakeholder relations.

   Just a few more details that Conservative pundits will claim they didn't know about at some point in the future. 

  After the so-called 'purge' at Twitter ends, we can expect people just like these to fill their positions. Twitter is a prime example of why Corporate Media concentrations are dangerous to any free society. Pundits on the Right can claim ignorance all they want to, but it doesn't change the fact that our Media is hopelessly compromised regardless of which Oligarch operates it.