4 Big Fake News Fiascos
NEWS NOT FIT TO PRINT The mainstream media, eager to find evidence of racism in America, bought into the Jussie Smollett hoax when the actor staged a bizarre “hate crime” against himself. Then they went after U.S. Border Patrol oficers who were wrongly accused of using whips to restrain migrants illegally crossing the southern border. Progressive editors at major news outlets ignored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which broke three weeks before the 2020 election and revealed corruption in the Biden campaign. And it turned a blind eye to the decline in Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities despite seeing him frequently at the White House.
administration even lined up 51 former intelligence officials to discredit the story. The coverup of President Joe
Biden’s decline in mental acu- ity, which was witnessed by re- porters at the White House and elsewhere for more than a year but never reported on, except in conservative outlets. Savage argues that legacy
What Is Legacy Media?
The term refers to newspapers, television networks, and radio broadcasters — traditional outlets that dominated the media nationwide before the internet. Centralized out of New York and Los Angeles, the Big Three networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — were the principal source of national and international news for radio and TV audiences across the country. The major newspapers — The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times — were also influential beyond their local markets as newspapers in cities and towns across the country reprinted their stories, particularly political coverage out of Washington, D.C.
media’s embrace of contro- versial cultural issues, such as biological men competing in women’s sports, is another ma- jor factor that led Americans to seek news from other sources. “There is a norm in society
that is inherently biological,” said Savage. “There is a limit to what liberals can push out and expect society to take them se-
riously, and that breaking point has arrived.” Moreover, the media’s adop- tion of identity politics, which reached its height during the riots following George Floyd’s death in 2020, alienated many viewers who were not part of a preferred class, according to Savage. He believes the left should be most concerned that the revolt against the mainstream media is being driven by young men. “A lot of white middle-class
kids growing up were picked on for being racist, or homopho- bic, for espousing traditional family values,” he said. “Now, they
are rebelling against it and
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