F*ck Tha Media
There are so many debates about whether you are informed or not depending on if you read the news, the media. I have always had a distaste for the news, for media and it hasn’t stopped as I have aged.
There are various moments in time that have always stuck with me. The time reading a headline newspaper that had on its front page ‘REJOICE’ Boris Johnson wins the election in 2019. That is not news, that is opinion, on the front page of what I believe but can’t remember for sure, was the Daily Mail, and look how that turned out. Boris was in the end a complete failure.
Every single media outlet at the time denigrated Jeremy Corbyn as an Anti-semite and look at the situation now, the man was right on the money. He warned us that the situation in Isreal/Palestine was heading for disaster and was he proved right, he certainly was. Here was a man who had at the forefront of his plans, a message of hope, ideas that would have cleaned up the rivers, brought back the NHS, created more affordable public transport, helped the energy cost crisis, all things that still need fixing, here was a man who actually had a plan to help the majority of the British population, but as we see time and time again, the media had another plan, Corbyn was an Anti-Semite, end of, and the punters believed them and voted for an Eton boy failure who had no interest in the majority, no plan, a consummate liar. The media wanted Boris to win from The Guardian to the BBC, the media won that election for Boris.
Not long after 9/11, the American news networks started promoting their ‘WAR ON TERROR’. A double down of atrocity, terror and then war, what an awful combination, bound to bring disaster, and did it, another complete failure. Well, not for the military complex that always profits from their wars, but for the women of Afghanistan and for millions of people that lost their lives fighting the Americans. Twenty years the Americans spent on their war on terror, and still today it continues, this was legitimised by the western media especially the Murdock group. There is no doubt that the media is in bed with the military industrial complex, wars are part of media and when someone challenges sanctioned wars like the War on Terror, there is little chance it will have any effect on the outcome.
More recently, there has been a rise in podcasters, radio hosts, you-tubers, the likes of Brand, Rogan, Morgan, Peterson, Bannon and more I don’t care to mention. Stars that use the media for the own self monetisation, often fronting themselves as being men of the people, people that rock the establishment, providing the punters with media that you can’t get anywhere else.
People like Russel Brand, a man who was supposedly anti establishment, in fact built a career talking about how he had the inside scoop on everything, a man who speaks more than anyone that has ever lived, just be quiet for a while please. A man who despite his claims to be for the people, ends up becoming a church going religious cult member and supporting another religion, that of Trump. It's a real fall from grace for a self titled sex and drug addict. But then again, the Church is a great place for sex offenders and predators, just type in Church scandal in google in any week of the year and you will find copious stories from around the world of men of the cloth abusing people. So go figure, a man under scrutiny, accused of being a sexual predator and rapist, where does he head, oh yeah, the church. Sound familiar, Trump is no different, pretending to be religious to get the religious vote. Put all this together and you can see that there is a stronghold of men who look for prestige and power and they don’t care how it comes, and all of them use the media to promote themselves and whatever they happen to be thinking about on anyone day. Can we really accept anything that Trump or Brand say? Do we really want to listen to Joe Rogan speak for three hours, or watch Piers Morgan talk over every one he speaks to, or read inane comments from Musk on X, how fucking boring.
That brings me to another bore Piers Morgan, a man with his nose right up Rupert Murdocks ass. Morgan is a sensationalist, a man who thinks his opinion is worthwhile, a man who thinks he is always on the right side of everything, and yet at the heart of Morgan is a man who is a complete fraud, a fake, a charlatan, a man who offers the viewer nothing, despite his claims to the contrary.
You have to ask, why is Piers Morgan so obsessed with Prince Harry And Meghan, well its obvious. Although Morgan has never been punished or found guilty, he was implicated in the phone hacking scandal for News of the World. Since Prince Harry has spent some time going after people involved in that scandal, trying to bring some accountability to the lies, deceit and fraud that many journalists in the Murdock group commit, it would make sense that an arm of the Murdock Media group, that Morgan would go on the offensive if under attack. This is a tactic used by the media incessantly, the more you attack the less people will look at what’s behind these attacks, and Morgan’s grotesque attacks on Harry and especially Meghan are vile but they are rooted in fear. It is the bully who goes on the offensive for fear of being found out, for fear of people really seeing who they are, the more you shout about someone else, the less people look at you, Trump uses this tactic all the time, and people fall for it. Putin is using this tactic, saying his own people are Nazis, when really who is becoming the Nazi, who is talking about deporting immigrants, murdering people, often those that say vile things, are that themselves.
In the case of Morgan, I challenge you to find one good thing, one solution, one positive change to society that has ever come from listening to Piers Morgan, it's a complete waste of your time. It’s like going to a sermon in a church of your choosing, no offence church goers, most of it is nonsense. In fact listening to Christians or Catholics talk about how Jesus was born and resurrected makes no sense at all, and thats because you are supposed to believe, much like you are supposed to believe the media makes you informed.
This idea that you are informed by the media is a fallacy. On most occasions what you are really being informed of is opinion, is ideology, is an agenda, you are not informed, there is a difference of being informed upon and being informed.
The media moguls love to taut this ideology of informing us. The idea that newspapers, social medial outlets and news channels owned by a few individuals are informing the public of what’s going is a joke. Why do billionaires need to own their own media outlets? Duh, to colour the rhetoric of things, to make people believe their viewpoint. Whether it’s Bezos, Musk or Murdock, they are all playing the same game, control the narrative and therefore control power.
All kinds of entities are involved in the work of the media, they look to make money out of media. Watch TV and any commercial and the power of the media is apparent. The power of companies to create adverts to sell you products you don’t need. Fast food, junk food, soda, chips, cars, and more. They are advertising this to you because you actually don’t need soda or chips or fast food or cars to survive as a human, in fact most of the things they advertise will make you sick. This is the same for content that is geared towards the mind. Content that is so called news, content that is designed for you to consume so that money can be generated while you watch it. This is the fallacy of being informed, the reality of looking at lots of media is that for many people it will make you sick, in both the head and the body.
When NWA wrote ‘Fuck tha Police’ they wanted to highlight the excessive force and humiliation that people were going through. There is no doubt that the police in the USA has been a force in which they targeted, killed and imprisoned people of colour. The police where long used in various parts of the USA to enforce a white supremacy, this is a fact. It may be slightly different now as more white folk are in prison, but take the chain gains of Louisiana or nearly any prison in the South not long ago and you would have found most of the prisoners were black males. So it makes sense that black men would want to ‘Fuck tha Police’.
When I say ‘Fuck tha Media’ I am trying to highlight the misery, lack of solutions and gaul that the media outlets try to hold over society. But it's not that they try to hold sway of society, they do own many of our minds. Hitler knew this all too well, he spent a lot of energy on his propaganda machine. He knew that in order to do his bidding he would have to convince people of his thoughts, that of the extermination of Jews, Gypsies and disabled people, and he succeeded.
Most media outlets do not bring solutions to the world. Fox News isn’t creating a safer more harmonious place to live. Twitter isn’t making people more understanding of one another. The Zuckerberg suite isn’t bringing a more diverse and constructed discussion to communities. What you see in many of these media outlets is that people are being put into silos, soap box upon soap box is being stood on by everyone, everyone has an opinion, and here is another one, mine.
Opinion is easy, solutions are much harder. It’s much harder to bring people together, to solve problems, to create an atmosphere of collaboration and information. It’s obvious that most of the media we consume today is more about a mental explosion of opinion than actually creating cohesive solutions for the world. The media does not have your back, they are not trying to inform you, they don’t care about you.
The media of today is a mix of human exploitation and opinion. As I watched Donald Trump become President again, I thought about a channel I had listened to prior to the election, The MediasTouch, and how they had through their YouTube channel been saying over and over again, there was no way Trump could win, and yet he did. Right after he won they continued to produce programming about Trump.
I realised that despite their dislike of Trump, despite everything they said and how I agreed with them, the truth was, as a media outlet, a more modern version, a podcaster, a YouTube streaming company, they were no different. They were making money out of talking about Trump, Trump was their mainstay. People made money out of Trump on both sides of the aisle, and the shitshow I will now have to endure because of it, I hold the media outlets accountable, they have coloured the human mind with one fucking story, that there seems to be only one man in the world to talk about, luckily for humanity people only live on average of 71 years.
The media aren’t forward thinkers, they are not solution makers, they are money makers. Listening to Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson is like watching paint dry, and what are these kinds of podcasters providing. What are the Jeff Bannons, and the Nigel Farage people of the world providing, they provide a Rhetoric, they provide food for the mind to trip out on, but they don’t provide any solutions, they will not be there for you when you truly need anything. This is most of media, which ever way you cut it, they media is contriving to formulate an ideology that is not your own, an ideology that they want to colour your will.
It doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you stand on, whether you are reading stuff on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, Tick-Tock, Fox, BBC, New York Times, Guardian, the Montecito Journal, it’s all the same in the end, it’s all becoming opinion. Opinion is not fact, opinion is not news.
Here’s some news, one day you will die, if you are reading this I can guarantee this fact, and when you do, what will have mattered to you, what will you have focused on, what will you have believed, my advise don’t be fooled by any of it, the media wants to influence you, how about you influence you and find out what it really means to be a human being. The media does not have your back when it comes to the real matters in life, to you, Fuck tha Media, and grow as human, grow in yourself, grow in your own understanding, look at life as a human being, a finite fragile entity that will end, once you get that, you realise that most of opinion is a complete waste of yours and my time, and yet we continue to be slaves to media. P.S I know there are many that make a living working in the media, in some form or another, and to you, I don’t know what to say, maybe there is another way for humans, maybe there is another way to share opinion and information that isn’t so fixated on capital growth, maybe there is a way for us as people to look at things through a different lens, my suggestion, lets work on that way before we all become puppets controlled by media outlets.