This AGE OF INFORMATION is harming our ability to be critical thinkers. In Finland and Denmark they start teaching media literacy to grade schoolers. Why aren’t we doing that here? If we all become MEDIA LITERATE—able to recognize media tactics and methods—we safeguard our brainpower, as well as our rights and freedoms. 

News departments don’t have time for context or complexity. Corporate-owned media expects their audience to believe what’s being broadcast is the truth—but it can only be a sliver of reality. 

That sliver of reality is easily massaged into one frame or another.

And information is missing so people who get their news from corporate-owned media are turning into a sub-class whose emotions are regularly manipulated. Here’s one potent example. For many years, big pharma has hired “influencers” to be in all social media spaces where children gather in order to normalize gender confusion—to  make it rad, cool and edgy. Gender confusion did not arise naturally. (See Jennifer Bilek for the facts and history) Big Pharma’s psychopathic marketing causes tragic harms but nets billions in drug sales and profits. The vultures are circling.

Causing gender confusion in children is Age of Information warfare and a crime against humanity. And the news never reports any of it—because those who are heavily invested in big pharma also own the dinosaur media. We all need to understand this. Learn everything you can about Blackrock and Larry Fink.

To become a critical thinker, try this. Observe how TV is made for one minute. Notice all the moving parts: edit cuts, camera changes, close-ups, wide shots, rapid pacing, zooms, voiceover narration, aerial drone footage, etc. The screen jumps every few seconds—that’s by design. It’s been proven that the illusion of action overwhelms our rational faculties and puts our minds into a state of hypnosis, making us receptive to advertisers and propaganda.

Fear baiting. Many news stories contain the words “could”, “studies suggest” and “experts are concerned”. Since anything could happen but is not happening now, why foment fear? Because anxious, worried people are easier to direct.

Corporate-owned media hammers their “official” narratives day in and day out—climate crisis, immigration, Trump, far right extremist bogeymen—and drops them into the airwaves with dizzying frequency—which is by design. Their misinformation treadmill produces rage, confusion, exhaustion. Best if we are worn down by Trump news than informed about devious legislation like Bill C-8 removing our rights and free speech and advancing the globalist agenda of digital IDs, one world banking, and the bio-tech surveillance state. Power is shifting to the dark side so fast it will make Trump look like a silly buffoon. The 1% care about grabbing more for themselves, not the farce of Left/Right politics which keep us plebs preoccupied. 

Want to know more about the hot mess of this Age of Information, keep reading.

Sam Cooper from TheBureau news : “Influence from various sources is making its way into your TV news.” In this informative interview with Jason James of Brave New Normal about propaganda, “This is how the sausage is made. And the sausage is rotten.”

GASLIGHTING is another well-worn tactic used by unscrupulous media.

The movie Gaslighting is a classic; it illustrates how devious persuasion is used to undermine a person’s critical faculties. The goal is to make someone unsure of what they believe and implant false beliefs for the benefit of someone with bad intent.

Another facet of this hot mess is the PSYOP, which is short for psychological operation.

THE OVERTON WINDOW. You may see this phrase but not understand what it means in terms of the way media manipulates what we know and believe. Here’s a primer.

Wikipedia page: In the early 1990s, Overton described a spectrum from “more free” to “less free” with regard to governmental intervention, which he presented graphically on a vertical axis to avoid comparison with the left-right political spectrum.^[6] As the spectrum moves or expands, an idea at a given location on the scale may become more or less politically acceptable. Overton claimed that politicians typically act freely only within the “window” of those seen as acceptable.