{"id":941552,"date":"2021-10-30T12:28:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941552"},"modified":"2021-10-30T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T16:28:41","slug":"fncs-carlson-mainstream-media-final-hope-for-keeping-its-scam-alive-is-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-mainstream-media-final-hope-for-keeping-its-scam-alive-is-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"FNC&#039;s Carlson: Mainstream Media &#039;Final Hope&#039; for Keeping Its &#039;Scam&#039; Alive Is Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffncs-carlson-mainstream-media-final-hope-for-keeping-its-scam-alive-is-censorship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941552&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Carlson94-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News Channel\u2019s Tucker Carlson argued the mainstream media\u2019s last gasp for survival was coming in the form of censorship to maintain its \u201cmonopoly\u201d and that it was using Big Tech to make it possible.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson explained how media outlets, including CNN, were still obsessed with former President Donald Trump even though he is nine months out of office, and their TV ratings were suffering because of it.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than adapt, Carlson said media companies were determined to eliminate the competitors.<\/p>\n<div id>\n<p>CARLSON: About 20 minutes into the 2016 presidential campaign, it was pretty clear the American media were horribly addicted to Donald Trump. They hated Trump, obviously, but they also needed Trump in order to live, and that\u2019s the face of addiction.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever seen a person grimace while gulping warm vodka before breakfast with shaky hands, you know what it looks like.<\/p>\n<p>So there was really never any question about what was going to happen for sure when news organizations were finally cut off from their vital daily supply of Donald Trump. They were going to collapse in a pile and that\u2019s exactly what they\u2019ve done, they\u2019ve collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday for example, not a single show on CNN, once the most important cable news channel in the world \u2014 \u201cThis is CNN\u201d \u2014 not a single show on the whole channel approached even 800,000 viewers, that\u2019s really low. Chris Cuomo would be better off doing free concerts in the park, which in fact he may soon be doing.<\/p>\n<p>So with Trump gone, the old formula no longer works. That\u2019s easy to understand.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more confusing, harder to understand is how they\u2019ve responded to this fact? So, let\u2019s say you\u2019ve made billions of dollars over the years selling rice crispy treats to a hungry public, dentists may have complained about what you were doing, but for you it was always a great business and you assumed it would go on forever because we always think everything good will go on forever, but it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, consumers started to figure out that a marshmallow coated with breakfast cereal, not a very healthy food option. It tastes great at first, eat enough, and it starts to make you feel sick.<\/p>\n<p>So they began to buy less of what you were selling. Following this?<\/p>\n<p>How would you react to that? Well, if you were smart you\u2019d probably just rebrand, you\u2019d change the color, you\u2019d throw in some vitamin additives, you\u2019d rename the product. You might call it crunchy kale treats or healthy life nutrition bars. You\u2019d have figured out that people don\u2019t want sugary garbage, they want something that\u2019s good for them, so you would sell it to them. That seems like a pretty rational choice.<\/p>\n<p>What you probably wouldn\u2019t do if you were selling rice crispy treats to a rapidly shrinking market is convince yourself that you are not in the snack food business, but instead on some kind of mission from God. You would not claim that eating marshmallows is a vital moral imperative. You would not attack your own consumers for preferring something else.<\/p>\n<p>You would not denounce them as morons or racists for eating less sugar. You wouldn\u2019t try and ban the Atkins Diet to make keto illegal. That\u2019d be insane, you\u2019d go bankrupt if you did that.<\/p>\n<p>And yet that\u2019s exactly what the legacy media have decided to do as they face extinction. They\u2019ve amped up the moral outrage. They\u2019ve turned the self-righteousness all the way up to 11, and above all, they pretended that nothing has changed and that Donald J. Trump still strides the horizon as a great orange colossus who threatens the very existence of this fragile nation.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not overstating it. Here\u2019s a recent sample of cable news coverage in this country, and keep in mind as you watch, every one of these clips was recorded this week.<\/p>\n<p>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: Election officials are growing more fearful for their lives as Donald Trump continues his big lie.<\/p>\n<p>POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: President Trump continues to push lies about the election, about election results across the country.<\/p>\n<p>DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Where would \u2014 where would we be today if the Trump White House simply listened to the science?<\/p>\n<p>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Trump wants to overturn the next election. He wants to overturn the last one. He wants to disagree. He wants to limit voting and overturn elections at the state level.<\/p>\n<p>JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST: Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy denounced the insurrection, denounced Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: President Trump has found a surprising new platform to spread the big lie.<\/p>\n<p>MOLLY JONG-FAST, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, \u201cTHE DAILY BEAST\u201d: I mean the thing with Trump is Trump is always bad for democracy.<\/p>\n<p>ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST: It has metastasized much far beyond President Trump, right, from multiple sources. I hear you there. However, the original cancer was President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: What a freak show. No wonder nobody watches. Who would watch that? But listen to what they\u2019re saying. Trump wants to overturn the next election, screams the pudgy midget. They all do.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, got it.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact is that Donald Trump is no longer the President of the United States. He is golfing right now in Florida. Good for him.<\/p>\n<p>How about covering what\u2019s happening in America right now? Ton of change. Maybe you could explain it to us or even tell us about it. Nope. They refuse. And they refuse because they are caught in an earlier age. They can\u2019t adjust to a new reality. It\u2019s depressing when you think about it. That\u2019s going to be all of us someday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly very sad for them. Just a few years ago, hosting a Sunday show on television was considered a very big deal especially in Washington. Now, nobody cares. It\u2019s irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if you\u2019re the host of one of those shows, Chuck Todd doesn\u2019t need to imagine. He is the host of one of those shows. He spent his entire life trying to get this gig, only to discover once he got it that it\u2019s not worth having. No wonder he seems so bitter and fragile.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): This was started when the mainstream media stopped \u2014 dropped any pretense of being unbiased and actually chose sides during this election. This fire was started when you completely ignored for example our investigation of Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>You know, no evidence of wrongdoing there and now we find out after the election, no, there is a fair amount of evidence to the point that we have a real F.B.I. investigation.<\/p>\n<p>CHUCK TODD, NBC NEWS HOST: Senator, all right. I\u2019ve had enough of hearing this.<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: It\u2019s the \u2014 no, listen, I\u2019ve had enough of this, too.<\/p>\n<p>TODD: Senator, it is \u2014 you have spent the last two years \u2014<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: You have created a situation where Republicans and conservatives do not trust the mainstream media and that is what has destroyed the credibility of the media and our institutions and really shaken the confidence in this election result.<\/p>\n<p>TODD: Right. No, the destruction of the institution \u2014<\/p>\n<p>JOHNSON: So, I didn\u2019t start this.<\/p>\n<p>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/p>\n<p>CARLSON: Senator, I\u2019ve had enough. Chuck Todd literally can\u2019t even bear to listen to someone criticize the American news media. Oh, but he has to now. Settle down, Chuck. No one is interested in what you think anymore. Your moral authority is long gone, along with your relevance. You\u2019re shouting into the void. They all are.<\/p>\n<p>Deep down, Chuck Todd knows that. They all know that, but rather than accept the truth about themselves and their careers, rather than change their behavior or acquire brand new skills \u2014 that\u2019d be nice \u2014 or gracefully retired to Cabo, again this is coming for all of us, they won\u2019t. They have one final hope for keeping their scam alive and it\u2019s censorship.<\/p>\n<p>So the dying media companies have convinced themselves that somehow they can get the government and their friends, the tech monopolies, to shut down their competitors, maybe they can keep it going. Maybe they\u2019ll be important and lucrative businesses again. Maybe we can return to 2003, a time when people delayed their golf games to watch \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d Wouldn\u2019t that be great?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s their goal, deluded as it is, and it explains why all of a sudden, journalists of all people are leading the charge against the First Amendment that you thought made their jobs possible. This tells you exactly why they hate FOX News so obsessively, and \u201cSubstack,\u201d too. This is the key to their campaign against what they call misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you\u2019re a literal-minded person and we certainly are, you\u2019d laugh every time you hear them say that. Misinformation? Aren\u2019t these the exact same people who told us that Putin got Trump elected? The ones who swore that some high school kid from Kentucky was in the Klan? Yes, same people.<\/p>\n<p>So of course they\u2019re not against misinformation, obviously. The point is, they want to restore their monopoly on it and that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News Channel\u2019s Tucker Carlson argued the mainstream media\u2019s last gasp for survival was coming in the form of censorship to maintain its \u201cmonopoly\u201d and that it was using Big &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}