The WinePress on many occasions have called out the left and right paradigm ideology. We are nonbiased when it comes to politics. We are only interested in reporting the facts and calling out the lies in the process.
We have continually noted that both liberal-progressive and conservative-patriot media outlets are highly biased and is one of the core mechanisms for deception in America, including the rest of the world. We reported last week that Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch said they will continue to target the center-right audience. We analyzed his statements and noted that that is not real and honest news: that is pandering and selling a product to a specific group. Therefore, Fox will only report things that a center-right viewer will pay attention to. This applies to any mainstream media outlet and their “market angle.”
This report will break the mold from our previous reports as we will cover five different reports, two from conservative outlets and three liberal outlets, and will demonstrate how both sides are guilty of pushing total lies and hypocrisy. I will give commentary proceeding each report.
Making Money Off Of Fear
WarnerMedia (the parent company of CNN which is owned by AT&T) CEO Jason Kilar was in a meeting yesterday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference stating that CNN’s rating are doing very well because of hype surrounding Covid-19.
In this meeting, Kilar stated the Covid-19 fear has boosted ratings, and they plan to continue to generate momentum with that fear. Benjamin Daniel Swinburne of Morgan Stanley, Research Division – MD asked Kilar how they plan to keep momentum and ratings going. Here is what they said:
Swinburne: Yes, I was just wondering what your perspective is on the ability for CNN to keep this momentum and what, I guess maybe knock
on wood, is a slower news cycle for a bit?Kilar: So it’s a great question, Ben. I’d say that it turns out that pandemic is a pretty big part of the news cycle, and that’s not going away anytime soon.
And so there’s no doubt that from a political drama perspective, that’s different. I’d say in many ways, that’s good for our society.But if you take a look at the ratings and the performance, it’s going well. And I think it’s going well because, a, the team at CNN is doing a fantastic
job. And b, it turns out that the pandemic and the way that we can help inform and contextualize the pandemic, it turns out it’s really good for
ratings.
Kilar was then criticized on social media and gave an apology after getting caught.
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[9] But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. [10] For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. [11] But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.1 Timothy 6:9-11
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Joseph Goebbels
You just read this corporate bigwig admit that Covid is good for ratings, so why stop when you are reaping in the dough scaring the snot of people?! This should infuriate you on so many levels. As long as the money flow keeps pouring in, the more hysteria they will push. The King James Bible got right it again when it said “the love of money is the root of all evil.”
This demonstrates that the claims that they push are not based on science and logic, but anyway they can scare the broad masses to collect a check.
“America Is Doing Great”
Former Director of the Economic Council under the Trump administration, Larry Kudlow is back to doing media work. Kudlow for years worked in mainstream media. He worked with Jim Cramer on CNBC’s “Kudlow and Cramer” (2002-2005), “The Kudlow Report” that also aired on CNBC (2009-2014), “America Now” aired on, you guessed it, CNBC (2010-2014), and others along the way.
Kudlow got his early career started by working at the New York Federal Reserve, and then eventually worked with the Regan administration as associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget. In 2018 he was hired to aid with the Trump administration.
Kudlow, most notably, throughout 2020 completely downplayed the true state of the American economy and habitually pushed the propaganda of a “v-shaped recovery” just as President Trump did, which The WinePress has explained meticulously that that is very disingenuous.
After Trump left office, Kudlow returned to the media where now he has his own segment on Fox simply called “Kudlow.” Kudlow is still pushing the propaganda calling for a “booming super v-shaped recovery.” He even tells you not to worry about rising inflation and rising interest rates, and paints the very high jobless claims in a positive slant.
He also told CNBC that the U.S. economy is “holding up nicely” and says “it is in very good shape,” claiming “All I can do is look at the numbers.”
Kudlow also was a keynote speaker at CPAC last week, and he touted the rollout and creation of hundreds of thousands of 5G towers across the nation. This was an initiative signed by President Trump in 2019 to construct 5G and also 6G to beat out China.
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The WinePress has continually warned that America is in economic freefall. There is no fixing it. It is dead. The greedy politicians shut it down. But what can you expect from a politician and media whore who has been in “the system” for quite some time, not to mention that he worked with the Federal Reserve banks? I’m sure we can expect him to be “so honest” with us.
Just yesterday it was announced that the United States’ productivity in the fourth quarter fell 4.2%, which is the lowest it has been since 1981 – a 40 year low! And this is the “booming economy,” right?
When I do my weekly jobless claims reports noting how all the mainstream financial “experts” are totally and utterly lying about the state of the economy, I am referring to purposeful liars like him. If you want to see what the economy is doing, read our reports under the economy tab.
I’d also like to note that Trump and Kudlow are proud of the 5G rollout. I will not digress too much on that, but the health effects of 5G are enormous. But what made you think that politicians care about you? Have you been watching the tv at all lately?
McEnany Joins Fox
Staying on the Fox side of things, another member of the Trump administration gets speaking time on Fox. Former Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was announced to be a contributor for Fox News.
McEnany has also done the rounds in the media before becoming the Press Secretary for Trump. She used to be a production assistant assigned to “Huckabee” on Fox. Her notoriety grew when she worked for CNN before the 2016 election where she acted as some what of a pro-Trump surrogate, though she did criticize him on certain points.
Fox has rumored we will be seeing more of her, hinting towards the possibility of plenty of air time.
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So beyond another politician (who was also Jesuit-trained at Georgetown University I might add) who is working hand-in-hand with the media, why am I bringing this up? Because this is the same network in 2020 that censored her after the election.
In our report discussing how Fox would remain center-right, we shared a clip where Fox News completely cut her off air when she simply mentioned fair and honest voting practices. I am not cheerleading for her, but the five seconds we hear her speak had a spin on it by the Fox News host that did not align with what she said. This just validates that all of this, in the media, is just one massive manipulation and propaganda game.
Fight Terror With Terror
Jumping back to the liberal-leaning media, two weeks ago MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace made a crazy insinuation of what to do to some Trump supporters.
Liberal media, especially the likes of MSNBC, have pushed the narrative that Trump incited violence by his posts on social media and speech at the Capitol in January. Since these riots have been deemed as terrorist acts, Wallace insinuates that they should be dealt with as terrorists.
While discussing some of this with her guests, she makes the implication of using “drone strikes” at the threat of an insurrection.
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The WinePress has been critical of President Trump of his many statements and policies that have proven to have failed and/or lied about, most of which both liberal and conservatives outlets conveniently ignore; but there has been no real evidence that Trump himself incited violence or an insurrection. We have shown that the Capitol riots were indeed planned and Trump certainly had in a hand in it, but what I am saying is the information that the MSNBCs’ present does not prove that: they say he did. I hope you have the discernment to know what I mean.
But to have the press, from any angle or perspective, actually insinuate the idea that a drone strike should be used against American citizens, in this case Trump supporters, is beyond insanity, needless to say! These are the subtle provocations that the liberal viewer is fed, to hate and want to kill someone they are not even sure why they want to, but because the tv screen has manipulated these viewers so much, they are not able to give coherent and logically thought in most situations.
Don’t Use Critical Thinking
For this last example, we will stay on the progressive direction and review an article released by the New York Times.
It was written by Charlie Warzel and the piece is entitled “Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole.” The title description then reads “Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.”
Right off the bat a massive red flag should be waved. We are to believe that critical thinking is a negative thing? I will post most of the article below for you to read. I have underlined some key sentences. Keep also in mind what this author says. Some of his points are valid, but the spin he puts on it is to be noted.
Warzel writes,
For an academic, Michael Caulfield has an odd request: Stop overthinking what you see online.
Mr. Caulfield, a digital literacy expert at Washington State University Vancouver, knows all too well that at this very moment, more people are fighting for the opportunity to lie to you than at perhaps any other point in human history.
Misinformation rides the greased algorithmic rails of powerful social media platforms and travels at velocities and in volumes that make it nearly impossible to stop. That alone makes information warfare an unfair fight for the average internet user. But Mr. Caulfield argues that the deck is stacked even further against us. That the way we’re taught from a young age to evaluate and think critically about information is fundamentally flawed and out of step with the chaos of the current internet.
“We’re taught that, in order to protect ourselves from bad information, we need to deeply engage with the stuff that washes up in front of us,” Mr. Caulfield told me recently. He suggested that the dominant mode of media literacy (if kids get taught any at all) is that “you’ll get imperfect information and then use reasoning to fix that somehow. But in reality, that strategy can completely backfire.”
In other words: Resist the lure of rabbit holes, in part, by reimagining media literacy for the internet hellscape we occupy.
It’s often counterproductive to engage directly with content from an unknown source, and people can be led astray by false information. Influenced by the research of Sam Wineburg, a professor at Stanford, and Sarah McGrew, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, Mr. Caulfield argued that the best way to learn about a source of information is to leave it and look elsewhere, a concept called lateral reading.
For instance, imagine you were to visit Stormfront, a white supremacist message board, to try to understand racist claims in order to debunk them. “Even if you see through the horrible rhetoric, at the end of the day you gave that place however many minutes of your time,” Mr. Caulfield said. “Even with good intentions, you run the risk of misunderstanding something, because Stormfront users are way better at propaganda than you. You won’t get less racist reading Stormfront critically, but you might be overloaded by information and overwhelmed.”
Our current information crisis, Mr. Caulfield argues, is an attention crisis.
“The goal of disinformation is to capture attention, and critical thinking is deep attention,” he wrote in 2018. People learn to think critically by focusing on something and contemplating it deeply — to follow the information’s logic and the inconsistencies.
That natural human mind-set is a liability in an attention economy. It allows grifters, conspiracy theorists, trolls and savvy attention hijackers to take advantage of us and steal our focus. “Whenever you give your attention to a bad actor, you allow them to steal your attention from better treatments of an issue, and give them the opportunity to warp your perspective,” Mr. Caulfield wrote.
One way to combat this dynamic is to change how we teach media literacy: Internet users need to learn that our attention is a scarce commodity that is to be spent wisely.
In 2016, Mr. Caulfield met Mr. Wineburg, who suggested modeling the process after the way professional fact checkers assess information. Mr. Caulfield refined the practice into four simple principles:
1. Stop.
2. Investigate the source.
3. Find better coverage.
4. Trace claims, quotes and media to the original context.
Otherwise known as SIFT.
Mr. Caulfield walked me through the process using an Instagram post from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent anti-vaccine activist, falsely alleging a link between the human papillomavirus vaccine and cancer. “If this is not a claim where I have a depth of understanding, then I want to stop for a second and, before going further, just investigate the source,” Mr. Caulfield said. He copied Mr. Kennedy’s name in the Instagram post and popped it into Google. “Look how fast this is,” he told me as he counted the seconds out loud. In 15 seconds, he navigated to Wikipedia and scrolled through the introductory section of the page, highlighting with his cursor the last sentence, which reads that Mr. Kennedy is an anti-vaccine activist and a conspiracy theorist.
“Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the best, unbiased source on information about a vaccine? I’d argue no. And that’s good enough to know we should probably just move on,” he said.
He probed deeper into the method to find better coverage by copying the main claim in Mr. Kennedy’s post and pasting that into a Google search. The first two results came from Agence France-Presse’s fact-check website and the National Institutes of Health. His quick searches showed a pattern: Mr. Kennedy’s claims were outside the consensus — a sign they were motivated by something other than science.
The rest of the piece goes onto explain the SIFT method and its application. The piece made another statement that I thought was worth noting:
Think about YouTube conspiracy theorists or many QAnon or anti-vaccine influencers. Their tactic, as Mr. Caulfield noted, is to flatter viewers while overloading them with three-hour videos laced with debunked claims and pseudoscience, as well as legitimate information. “The internet offers this illusion of explanatory depth,” he said. “Until 20 seconds ago, you’d never thought about, say, race and IQ, but now, suddenly, somebody is treating you like an expert. It’s flattering your intellect, and so you engage, but you don’t really stand a chance.”
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The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs 12:5
[8] The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. [15] The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. Proverbs 14:8, 15
Believe me when I say there are a LOT of scriptures I could give. But just on the very premise of saying we should not use critical thinking is one of the core problems America (and the rest of the world) has. But that is how bad the deception is – that is how bad the lying has gotten. If you could summarize this piece in one sentence, it be: “Don’t think for yourself, we’ll do that for you.”
And as you read Warzel’s piece, it is not like every point that he made is wrong, but the application of it is just ridiculous to say the least. I totally agree people from their youth are taught the wrong ways to think, but what Warzel and his professor buddy advocates is precisely what the youth are taught. People are not taught how to critically analyze multiple perspectives and draw a conclusion from that.
And to make the claim that conspiracy theorists, like Qanon as they mentioned, want your attention by using critical thinking which translates to “deep thinking” is laughable, but is as frightening to know that this is what the press prints and people take this stuff seriously. But with Qanon, yes, it is very true that Qanon attempts to propagandize the audience with very long videos filled with truths and lies (I know, I’ve watched them; but because I wanted to learn what they had to say and discern for myself if I think they are making legitimate claims – you know, the thing that the professor tells us not to do).
It should also be noted that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was lied about in this hit piece. Kennedy is NOT an anti-vaxxer. Yes, he is very critical of vaccines and their connections to other diseases and adverse effects, but Kennedy even vaccinates his own children. Whether you agree with that is for YOU TO CRITICALLY DISCERN (I advocate against that practice for various reasons); but what was said in the article is a total lie. But how did he come to that conclusion?
Did you notice how Warzel and the professor mentioned the top listings on Google, Wikipedia, and professional fact checkers? So instead of using critical thought, we are supposed to believe that everything that we are told is the truth, and that no one would ever try and lie to us, which pretty much assumes that everything in the mainstream feed is honest. Or what happens if someone makes an “honest” mistake? So if Snopes or Wikipedia says it, it must be true. Well then, how was that conclusion reached?
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Proverbs 17:4
I have talked about the verse in some of our reports about Qanon, and beyond the simple fact that Q is trying to deceive the masses, it is because, as I stated in those reports, liars love being lied to. As the old saying goes, “You can’t con a sucker unless he himself is crooked.” Proverbs 17:4 also applies in another aspect. Something that is very common among intellectual types and in the “science” community is a person or group creates something that is based off lies so they can lie to themselves. And then their buddies take that information build off of that. For example, it’s like with the theory of evolution. These scientists hypothesize the age of a fossil or rock formation they believe has to be 100,000 years old or so. So then they themselves or their pals in the field create programs and devices that are manually programmed with the information they wanted to hear, so when the device and/or method is applied, it tells them what they WANTED to hear, thereby deceiving themselves. See how it all works?
But this issue, the idea of critical judgment, can only be accomplished when a “floor” and truth is established. So the goal, for both liberal and conservative media, is only to REESTABLISH what is truth.
[31] Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; [32] And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [33] They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? [34] Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. [35] And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. [36] If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.John 8:31-36
You see, I am a FREE MAN. I have a STANDARD from which I am able to use critical thought because I know the right from the wrong. I am able to have a sound mind and use discernment, prudence, and equitable judgment to determine what someone says or does. But that is GONE and has been removed in this world for quite some time now. I remember when I was in high school they were telling us “that my truth is my truth, and your truth is your truth, so lets just agree to disagree and accept each other.” In other words, relativism: there is no standard of truth, just what YOU deem to be truth. That is not freedom, that is SLAVERY TO THE HIGHEST ORDER.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 14:12. This verse is repeated in Proverbs 16:25, so you know it must be important
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
1 Corinthians 14:33
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7
[9] And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; [10] That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; [11] Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:9-11
This is why The WinePress takes the time to explain this to our readers. Other Christian outlets and ministries will not cover this stuff because the large majority of them are just as conceited and self-righteous as the mainstream networks. Not to be pompous-sounding, but what other Christian outlets point these things out?
Bottom line: both liberal and conservative outlets are liars are deceivers. Do not take them seriously.
The clowns are running the carnival!
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