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6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing

Phillip Schneider, Staff 

Waking Times December 5, 2015

There is an information awakening taking

place right now, and mainstream media is

being outed for what it really is corporate

and government controlled propaganda!

People are turning to alternative news

sources more swiftly than ever now, and as a

result, the old guard of media is collapsing at

free"fall speeds!

#ere are 6 positive signs of the collapse of

mainstream media

$! Mainstream Media is %wned by a #andful of Corporations and the People &now 'tIt's no secret anymore that nearly everything we see, read, and hear comes from !st a handf!l of mega"

corporations# $han%s to the alternative media, it has become a widely %nown fact that (ust si) corporations

control *+ of the media we consume# $hese big si& have the ability to ma%e %ey decisions and delegate thenews to their lower s!bsidiary companies by c!tting o!t important stories or alternative points of view# People

recognie this and are moving over to the indy media as a res!lt#

-! .o) Stops /isclosing 0ive 1iewership 2atings(o& )ews, a s!bsidiary company owned by *!pert +!rdoch of )ews orp and top mainstream media o!tlet has

 !st anno!nced that it will stop disclosing its ratings for live $- viewership# $hey arg!e that these statistics are no

longer relevant beca!se of how many record their television shows, b!t it is also being seen as a way to hide a

decaying a!dience# (o& will now be repac%aging statistics on a wee%ly basis to ma%e even the most modest

res!lts appear positive#

3! *4 of 5oung dults /o 7ot Trust Mainstream Media. recent poll shows that only - of young adults trust the mainstream media to do the 8right thing8 on a

regular basis# $his poll, which was cond!cted at the /arvard Instit!te of Politics on over #000 1"2 year olds,

shows that only - of young adults trust the media to 8do the right thing8 8all of the time8! (!rthermore, 103

said that they do the right thing 'most of the time', while 43 said 'some of the time' and a whopping 3 said

that the media 'never'  does the right thing#

9! Mainstream Media is #og"Tied by Corporations and the People &now 'tn e)cerpt from the documentary The Corporation ill!strates in their own words the story of two o!rnalists

wor%ing for (o& )ews in the mid 10's# /ere is an e&cerpt from the film, of an investigation of the 'h!man health

implications' of inecting ovine 6rowth /ormone into the cows which were !sed for prod!cing mil%7'With Monsanto, I didn't realize how effectively a corporation could work to get something on the

marketplace'  , said journalist Jane Akre. Before the story aired, a letter was received from Monsanto

saying that there would be 'dire conseuences for !o" #ews' if it does. After receiving the letter, the

general manager at !o" in !lorida called them into his office and demanded that the story be altered.

$he ne"t thing that he said was '%e just &aid three billion dollars for these television stations. %e'll

tell you what the news is. The news is what we say it is…if you refuse to present this story the way

we think it should e presented you'll e fired for insuordination defiance('.

8o! can tell by the amo!nt of protesters at 'March gainst Monsanto' protests that the corporate controlled

media does not have a stranglehold on information li%e they once did#

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:! Mainstream Media is 0iterally 0ying to ;s So <latantly that 7obody Pays ttention nymore. recent analysis cond!cted by Pundit.act revealed that, according to this study, over half of all statements

made by .o) 7ews are false# )ow this is not s!rprising, b!t what might be is that )9+S) is right !p there

at 4:3 of their statements being anywhere between '+ostly (alse' to 'Pants on (ire'# )) and . rated better,

b!t national new sho!ldn't be a race to the bottom#

6! 'ndependent Media More Successful than =ver <efore$he positivity that comes o!t of this is simple7 people are wa%ing !p to this madness# )o longer are we in a

sit!ation where the media controls the narrative li%e they once did, beca!se the new media is there to pic% !p

the ball and roll o!t the stories that the mainstream media ref!ses to get into#

$he alternative media is ma%ing s!ch enormo!s waves now that the older media is act!ally starting to listen to

alternative voices and stories that are being p!blished by new media o!tlets# $he fact that ;evin (olta, a

<niversity Professor at the <niversity of (lorida, was receiving large !nrestricted grants from +onsanto to

promote 6+='s and ro!nd"!p was even reported on by the )ew 8or% $imes than%s to alternative media ma%ing

it s!ch a big story that if they hadn't they wo!ld have lost credibility7 'If the $imes is telling !s the tr!th, then why

didn't they tell !s abo!t ;evin (olta>'

.s long as the independent media %eeps moving, there's nothing that can stop the tr!th from getting o!t#

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