“It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.” —Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1965).
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
I know it sometimes feels like the you’re losing your mind when you read and watch reporting by the mainstream media. You watch a presidential debate and think one thing and then listen to the media analysis the next day and wonder whether you actually saw what you saw. You watch a candidate tell lie after lie without the moderators fact-checking her only to see the media lie about what the other candidate said.
This is industrial strength gaslighting. Don’t let the corporate state propagandists demoralize you. Remember, they all told you that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian information. They told you that Trump praised neo-nazis and white supremacists at Charlottesville, incited a riot on January 6, 2021, and told people to inject bleach into their veins and drink fishtanks cleaner during the COVID-19 pandemic. They told you Ivermectin was horse dewormer and that mRNA shots were safe and effective, that they would provide you with immunity from COVID-19. They told you cloth masks provide protection from the virus.
I remember reading a study a long time ago that the majority of the public knows the media is biased but at the same time finds it credible. This is what George Orwell called “doublethink,” the ability to hold to contrary positions in one’s head simultaneously and believe both of them. Overcoming doublethink requires purging from your belief system the thing that cannot be true. This takes practice because lifelong conditioning is a powerful force in shaping your assumptions. Say it out loud: “If the media is biased, then it is not credible.” The media is not reporting the news but disseminating propaganda. Therefore, the default position of a rational mind is that the media is lying or misrepresenting the facts. Until you can verify that what they are telling you is true, do not believe them. Getting to this place involves self-deprogramming.
Long ago, linguist Noam Chomsky asked us to consider what the media is. It is this: mainstream news media is a propaganda tool that serves the interests of corporate entities and powerful elites, filtering information in ways that protect the interests of the wealthy and those in power by confusing and deceiving the masses. The media operates within an institutional framework shaped by ownership, advertising, sourcing of information (especially reliance on corporate and government sources), and other factors that lead to systematic bias. The media manufactures consent by controlling public perception, steering discussions towards topics that reinforce the status quo while marginalizing dissenting viewpoints.
Today, the mass media pushes out the progressive worldview, i.e., the corporatist-statist standpoint, advancing the aims of Democratic Party and allied Republicans who represent the interests of the corporate entities that control the world economy. Central to these aims is quashing the populist-nationalist movement to restore our constitutional republic and return to classical liberal norms and values.
freedom and reason 
Bravo.
Sorry to come so late to so vigorous a party, but may I ask you; if Trump is telling the truth that the 2020 election was stolen (when he and his loyalists held the proverbial keys to the kingdom) then why was it not stolen this time? Do the democrats not hold power now, even in swing states like Pennsylvania, which they did not possess then?
If as seems to be the case he was lying willfully, and therefore every action he took back then in the waning days of 2020 were based on lies (industrial strength gaslighting), then how can you conclude that he is anything less than an insurrectionist? Did he not send fake electors to Congress, summarily rejected, only to pressure the Vice President into circumventing his duty and recognize them anyway? Did he not rile up a crowd of malcontents which he had for months used the office of the presidency to DELIBERATELY mislead, and set them on a terminal march towards the Capitol?
How dare you claim to be impartial, when you are nothing more than an agent provocateur. How dare you claim to be a patriot. You rail against gaslighters and hypocrites, and yet you hold a match snd the lantern cover is open. You should be ashamed.