A sobering reminder from the editor of PJ Media, Paula Boyard

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Boyard is wrong, I think, to describe much of the false news spewed by our mainstream media as merely false; deliberately deceptive is closer to the mark, but her main point is spot-on: a lot of us on the right, myself included, forget how little of the news we read, the information we hold, is known by the majority of Americans.

You Really Need to Understand What We're Up Against

In an October 1903 article, the New York Times predicted it would take "one to ten million years" for man to develop a working "flying machine." 

We all know how that turned out. Sixty-nine days later, on Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their historic first successful flight in the heavier-than-air Wright Flyer in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. 

The New York Times was wrong then, and they continue to be wrong about many important things. One of the most dangerous in recent years was the Russia collusion story, for which they were awarded a Pulitzer Prize. For months before the 2016 election, the Times shouted Russia, Russia, Russia! from the rooftops, even after it became clear that the story was a psyops pushed by Hillary Clinton's campaign. That was the real "election interference," not the nonsense the Times was pushing. 

There were also the myriad conspiracy theories: Hunter's laptop was fake, Trump told people to inject bleach into their lungs and suggested they take horse pills, and conservatives (especially the scary Christian ones) are the biggest threat to democracy anyone has ever seen.  

More recently, the Times, desperate to protect Joe Biden, claimed that videos showing him to be frail and confused are "cheap fakes." 

On June 21, they wrote, "In the last two weeks, conservative news outlets, the Republican National Committee, and the Trump team have circulated videos of Mr. Biden that lacked important context and twisted mundane moments to paint him in an unflattering light."

… . Yet the Times hasn't paid a price for its many years of lies and disinformation. According to Wikipedia, "As of May 2024, The New York Times has 10.5 million subscribers, with 9.9 million online subscribers and 640,000 print subscribers, the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States behind The Wall Street Journal." That's 4% of the U.S. voting population. 

It's easy to get excited about Fox News being the most-viewed cable news station, but that's just a drop in the bucket compared to network news. The average number of viewers (in millions) for each network tells the story: 

That's 18.78 million eyeballs on mainstream/left-wing news stations compared to Fox News's 1.9 million (I left out ESPN, Ion, and HGTV... why are those even on that list?). 

In 2016, millions of viewers tuned in night after night after night to hear the Russia collusion hoax parroted on these networks.

The same holds true for news websites. This chart shows the percentage of U.S. market share: