With the most recent news of CBS quashing a report because Trump didn't like it we need to acknowledge the 4th estate is dead. Yes there are legitimate sources of news but the main media in the US is all complicit or controlled by Donald Trump and the MAGA party. We can no longer trust media to be fair or unbiased. Especially given media like CBS claims such things.
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Keep in mind this will get much worse if (when) the Ellisons capture CNN through their desire to buy WBD. The same right wing oligarch will then control both CBS and CNN.
They've already done this to some extent, CNN has slowly been shifting right.
There is still a ton of online print media that's good.
Good sources with no paywalls (although some require registration):
Govexec.com
Politico.com
Propublica.org
Theguardian.com
Npr.org
https://thehill.com/
BBCNews.com (but most articles are now paywalled)
Aka continue to contribute and donate to these media sources, and fight back against their defunding!!
The intercept does some good investigative work also.
And of course AP and AFP agencies for breaking news.
Good list. Don't forget us Canucks - CBC is free and does a lot of reporting on US and International news.
Including the hill and politico lol
Politico is not a good source 🤣
The only real issue with both the Hill & Politico is passing opinion off as news. John Solomon tainted the Hill for a hot minute
Heather Cox Richardson has a great take on this, and at least 1 historical precedent of it in JUST the U.S.'s history.
https://youtube.com/shorts/6eLintxRhp8?si=Ay7tTZXrGKPlu3Kg
We dump legacy media and let all those billions the modern day robber barrons are spending to control it go to waste.
And we turn our attention, our eyes and our subscruption dollars, to smaller independent media and not-for-profit media.
We live in the "Attention Economy". We need to boycott the platforms and businesses of the oligarchs and turn our focus to sources that are more firectly answerable to the people they serve.
Her daily updates are great for sifting through the bullshit and getting a good overview at what's going on with the administration (and how it relates to our history as a country).
Strongly recommend following her Substack for anyone that isn't already.
Maybe someone could come up with a simplified way to communicate this?
Knowing is one thing, but KNOWing is a different thing. People deciding that they want useful information would be a huge 1st step.
Them (the 1%) buying all the media and us (99%) opting out would be an amazing thing to witness.
Aaron Parnas is another good independent journalist- on Substack.
Legacy media isn't DIRECTLY controlled by the current president or his regime. It's controlled by the oligarchs who want to consolidate their power further and will do whatever they need to do to accomplish it. The oligarchs OWN the politicians, and push any policy that gives them more money, tax breaks, and power over what we see and hear. In return they turn over their platforms to the party currently in power. This is what we are seeing. The only minority that is destroying this country is the ultra-wealthy.
And this is exactly what has been happening ever since the Heritage Foundation put their man in the presidency. It was always about putting those few in charge of everything.
Cancel the Oligarch services and subscribe to NPR NOW!
This is on PBS rn
Doxed, Stalked & Swatted: When the Far Right Goes After Journalists: https://youtu.be/ogTSk-Ilh3s
The fourth estate is ever so silently shifting to independent journalism at this point. As we see with how quickly people managed to leak and spread the CECOT expose, the truth will out. No one is willfully interested in abandoning our democracy for this nonsense. The rich strive on the inevitability of their power and greed. You just cannot let it get you into a doom spiral and do your part to help suppress it at every angle
They only win if we all back down and give up. The internet still belongs to the masses and that means information cannot easily be suppressed. And as they get more desperate they make more and more moves that anger the people. It’s having the opposite effect and no one’s backing down
Epstein is a sword of damacles hanging over their head, and they cannot cover up enough fast enough to outweigh the efforts of independent patriots and dissent.
Keep on keeping on, it’s only a matter of time before they make a mistake that ignites the anger of the people enough to bring them down. The rich have this delusion from time to time that they can do this to us, and all through history it’s been proven to be a folly
The missed pulling it in Canada and several Canadians recorded and posted it.
Here it is:
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment?fbclid=IwY2xjawO25BJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFlNmVuYk1qUlVVc3prSkNqc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqTLxRi-djjNJE--p8As8uvfVuqut8H-nNfOpXoh63F3NiZ2LjlUUX4bnIz2_aem_rpOhgGTExmvG4gsUAKGsJQ
Oh yes. The 4th estate has been dead for a while now. They are enemies of the people now. Traitors!
Yeah, we've been living in competitive despotism lite for decades.
Anyone still surfing American news sources in 2025 needs to change their blinker fluid.
Substack, Guardian, Atlantic, Youtube.
Main stream media is for Trump, online media is for their mid video ad reads….both are cowards and need Trump in office to keep the money rolling in.
What’s CBS? Never heard of them
Orange finger prints🎃 R suspected.
The Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column.
I was always under the impression the press has always been the mouthpiece for rich people
It over in like a dystopian way.
I agree that 4E is gutted, but why is it being referred to as the media? The Fourth Estate refers to the various federal agencies that are specialized in areas of government.
> "The Fourth Estate refers to the various federal agencies ..."
"The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media in their explicit capacity, beyond the reporting of news, of wielding influence in politics."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
TIL it originally (and still in the UK) refers to the press.
In the US though, 4E refers to Defense Agencies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate_(Department_of_Defense)
5th column.
I alao suggest this one. Norm and Jen know exactly what is going on. Profits go towards fili g and winning lawsuitsagaint thr regime. The Contrarian
Journalistic integrity is in the toilet and starting to stink. Someone please FLUSH!
It died years ago but I think what rises from the ashes will be better.
I mean it’s been dead for a long time now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKz9mfHxQlA
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