The recent suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the resignations of journalists from local newspapers are examples of the media distorting the truth and getting caught. Despite their pious claims of censorship, these two events are just the most recent examples of how the public is constantly being fed a distorted narrative by the mainstream media in an attempt to influence us.
Google and Facebook Censorship During Pandemic
The issues of censorship and propaganda in this country are real. Google and Facebook have both come forward, admitting they censored people during the covid pandemic and after the fraudulent election of 2020 at the request of the Biden administration. In contrast to the protests the liberals made after the Kimmel and Homer News events, there was actual censorship being conducted by the government against conservatives, and the press was complicit, most likely because the censorship favored the policies of a Democrat president.
What Google and Facebook did is out in the open, but what is not so clear is the constant daily propaganda that we are fed by the media. Here are a few examples.
The Palisades Wildfire
Wildfires have devastated California over the past decade. When one broke out on January 1, 2025, it resulted in the devastation of the Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles. The LA Fire Department said they suspected the ignition source was fireworks shot off to celebrate New Year’s, and the large extent of the fire was caused by climate change and exacerbated by high winds.
That is a convenient narrative, but the truth of this event has now come out, and it paints a very different picture, one critical of Democrat leadership in the state. The fire was actually caused by a depressed Uber driver, by the name of Jonathan Rinderknecht, who was arrested two days ago. Inconveniently for the Democrat narrative, Rinderknecht was both an immigrant and had donated to the Joe Biden election campaign. However, even those facts don’t tell the whole story.
An investigation revealed that after two days, the fire was contained by the Los Angeles Fire Department, but after stopping the initial fire, they failed to monitor the area for flare-ups, which is a standard wildfire practice, especially when the weather forecast is for high winds. The fire smoldered in dense underbrush for a week until it rekindled later because of the winds. It destroyed over 6000 homes and killed 12 people. The underbrush that trapped the initial fire and where it reignited was the result of 50 years of vegetation growth in Topanga State Park, where brush clearance to proactively prevent fires was not permitted by the state of California.
In this example, the devastation appears to be a result of failures on the part of city and state governance. That is a very different story from what we were initially told about fireworks and global warming. You have to wonder if this was an intentional effort to cover up Democrat incompetence?
James Comey and Leticia James Indictments
Another example of a false narrative supporting Democrats is the indictments of James Comey and Leticia James this week. Both of these individuals lied in very public ways. Comey perjured himself in Congressional testimony, and James lied on a mortgage application, which has been made public. The lies are obvious, but the press is telling us these prosecutions are examples of Donald Trump weaponizing the justice system against his opponents. They conveniently forget to mention that indictments like these cannot be made at the will of the President alone. Before any indictment, the cases must first be presented to a grand jury, which reviews the evidence and must find probable cause to indict. Both indictments were made by grand juries in Virginia, a blue state. If a group of Democrats in Virginia has concluded that Comey and James should be prosecuted, the cases have merit and are not the product of malicious prosecution. Not quite the story you are being told by the media.
New York Gubernatorial Race
The media can also influence us based on how they present information, which can be seen in news coverage of the upcoming New York gubernatorial election. Yesterday, it was reported that the Democrat incumbent governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, has a 5-point lead over her Republican opponent in the election to be held in just over three weeks. This is accurate, but less widely reported is the fact that the Republican is quickly closing the gap and may soon lead the polling. By highlighting that it is the Democrat who is leading the race, it could discourage Republicans from turning out on election day and influence the election results. Even if only a small percentage of conservative voters believe the story, it could change the election outcome. The press may be trying to support a Democrat who they align with politically.
These examples show how mainstream media distorts the news to achieve a political objective. Whether it is shielding Democrats in power or helping them to win elected office, the lesson from these examples is to distrust what the mainstream media tells you. Don’t believe the first story you hear as gospel. Seek alternate sources of information for confirmation. The reality is often quite different from what we are being told.
Greg Sarber is a lifelong Alaskan. He is a petroleum engineer who spent his career working on Alaska’s North Slope. Now retired, he lives with his family in Homer, Alaska. Greg serves as a board member of Alaska Gold Communications, Inc., the publisher of Must Read Alaska.
Communist have taken over our media. Censorship is communistic. That’s why we don’t censor back. Call out all commies.
Sarber. Maybe broaden your news sources.
There’s nothing wrong with the news. What r u talking about
Are you serious Damien!!! 99% of the news is democratic and hate Trump
and lie thru their teeth. Makes me sick!
It wouldnt make it any more truthful to listen to a hundred different communists all telling the same lies
CNN tells the lies and MSNBC swears to it.
Shouldn’t you be over infesting a site closer to your own views? Instead of inflict ing your crap on us??
His sources are very broad. That is how he can identify the BS when he sees it.
It’s crazy how all this is coming out. All democrap BS.
Maybe they distort, maybe they don’t. But why should I trust MRAK or any other alternative source since they are all capable and motivated to do exactly the same thing?
Truth, if it ever existed in the media at all, is now long, long gone. Everything is spin, and that’s why this website exists, too.
Greg: Thanks for pointing out these truths.
A brilliant expose, Greg!
Then, we have the news that never makes it to “mainstream” sources — like the morbidity and mortality rates of women who use the supposedly safe abortion pills, which is over 10% … or their husbands/boyfriends who slip the pills into their food and beverages … or what an aborted baby looks like … or how paid and unpaid trolls infest conservative commentary websites to sow confusion … and how they demand accountability from conservatives, but never from their fellow communists … or how the Democratic Party is now a full-throated communist party … or how many Republican officials are really Deep State plants.
Or how the lies of 911 are now getting a fair re-examination, a cause that the Left was part of when the nefarious Bush Family was in office, but have since abandoned the effort … or what really happened at OK City, Las Vegas, Boston and other false flag attacks.
Toscano. You’ve been conned. You want to be conned.
Mainstream, legacy media, have all learned to shade facts, omit, commit, outright lie if they think they can get away with it, to further an agenda, and not a traditional US Constitution based one. Follow the money. Who are the investors, owners, people in management and power? It is well.known that he who controls the information can hold the power and the movement of Marxism and communism in our country has known and pursued that well early on. Not just the media but also our institutions of learning, government agencies, and elected officials. It has been insidious and then add in the foreign funding of groups that want to destroy our nation such as Antifa. It is all part of the same big picture.
There is absolutely nothing presented here which has not been reported in the mainstream media. The claims against Comey and James have been frequently reported on, as have clarifications of what may have actually happened. Sarber is just another red hatted flame thrower, living in a trumpian fantasy, where every deck is stacked by the evil Democrat’s.
This is just being discovered. It’s been happening since the early 2000’s, proliferated during the Obama administration, then went full steam during Covid. Thankfully, mainstream media delivered by conventional means is dying. Personalities like Joe Rogan carry more clout than the old famous names. More are waking up.
Greg, you make a good point. More ppl should expand their horizons when reading through news stories. Regardless which side of the aisle one is on, getting out of their echo chamber is essential to real understanding.
Since 2011 when the Obama/Biden administration granted our State Department & intelligence agencies permission to disseminate policy propaganda for domestic consumption by executive order, American media began to slowly be captured by the federal government. In 2013 this policy was codified by Congress with the passage of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act. Fast forward to today where the USA is now, arguably, one of the most heavily propagandized nations in the world, a dubious distinction shared by the likes of North Korea, China, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia. et al. Thomas Massie R-KY, has introduced legislation in Congress – HR-5704 – that would repeal the Smith-Mundt Act but the Trump administration and both parties in Congress have shown little inclination to endorse it. Take everything you read or see on the Legacy Media in the United States with a heaping pinch of salt!
I cannot speak for anyone else, but I have had to replace my BS meter dozens of times over the last five years because of the absolutely fake news coming out from the MSM. Oh, I am sure there are folks who believe it, and point to it as factual, but not me. Not any more. When I see a headline, I immediately question it. What is the real story? Oh… look, there it is, hidden in paragraph 17.
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What is the old saying?
If you read nothing, you are uninformed. If you read the newspapers, you are misinformed.
Something like that.
Mainstream media’s lack of reporting of all the pardons Joe handed out to his family members and other key members of his “weaponized army” is a great example of ignoring the truth.
Liz Cheney Tony Fauci etc. is just the tip of the iceberg.
Thank you Greg for a true news article. I appreciate it.