It is startling to realize that news coverage of the major issues of the past several decades has been largely incorrect.
The erroneous analyses cover topics that run the gamut from crime to international affairs. They are not fringe mistakes. They are, indeed, broad misstatements, in which ideology supplants factual research and honest evaluation. By warping public opinion away from facts and towards falsehoods, they have altered election results and produced defective policies.
One of the major stories had its roots in the 1960’s cliché’s, “Give peace a chance.” Starting in the 1990’s and dominating the Obama Administration, the U.S. military was dramatically reduced in size, even as Russia built the planet’s best nuclear arsenal and the Chinese increased its spending on arms at a pace faster than the Soviet Union or the USA during the height of the Cold War. American weakness produced nothing but a more dangerous planet.
As Autumn moves towards Winter, much of Europe faces the terrifying prospect of a massive shortage of energy. Residents will face the prospect of freezing within their homes, and having their electricity cut off for several hours each day. In the United States, the globe’s most powerful economy has been hobbled by massive inflation, due to a jihad against fossil fuels. The problems on both sides of the Atlantic are the direct result of a belief widely propagated in the majority of media sources that “green” or “alternative” energy sources could replace fossil fuels. That’s not even remotely accurate. Only 20% of global energy needs can be met in this manner. Worldwide suffering will accelerate to extraordinary levels unless this absurd concept is corrected.
The underlying motivation for the assault on energy comes from yet another flawed concept. In the latter half of the 20th Century, the press highlighted the intensely advocated concept of “global cooling.” That didn’t turn out to be accurate, and the media, with equal unfunded confidence, tuned to “global warming.” One of the bedrock foundations of that theory came from research from the University of East Anglia, which, as it turned out, was fraudulent. The media falsely claimed that “all scientists” agreed with global warming ideology, wholly ignoring contrary voices. Even worse, scientists who accurately pointed out that the Earth was warmer in past epochs, including, for example, the 11th Century and the era of the Caesars, were labelled as “climate deniers.”
Some organizations over the past several decades began pushing a theory that sharply reducing incarceration rates was an experiment worth trying. The idea caught on with much of the press, which gave it a vote of confidence and a lot of air time. It was eventually combined with the radical concept of defunding the police. The results have been disastrous. American cities have descended into nightmarish realms of violent crime. Despite that, many press outlets have portrayed those exposing this defective concept as somehow being racist, underlying their own racist views that minorities are uncaring about their community safety.
Certainly, the most divisive media campaign, at least in the United States, was the false claim of “Russian collusion” levied against Donald Trump. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) stated that he had clear evidence that this occurred. House speaker Nancy Pelosi made it her major priority. The media made it their headline story for years. The whole story has been conclusively, beyond the shadow of a doubt, proven to be utterly false. So far, many of the press outlets that headlined the story have failed to admit their error. There have been no major media calls to prosecute Schiff for his fraud, which tore the nation apart for years.