Against the Corporate Media

Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You

Michael Walsh

• Publisher: Bombardier Books
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9798888454220
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The citizens of Western democracies have been relentlessly propagandized, lied to, and fed a steady diet of distortions and untruths by their media for decades. Editor Michael Walsh brings together a stellar collection of critical thinkers and writers to explain how and why this is happening, its negative effects on our democracies, and what we can do to reverse it. An informed electorate is a prerequisite for free and fair elections. But rather than striving for accuracy and objectivity, today's journalists openly celebrate the death of objectivity, arguing that they have a "higher duty" to reject the conservatism, police speech, and suppress news that contradicts the liberal narrative. Now, on the heels of his magisterial volume Against the Great Reset, editor Michael Walsh presents Against the Corporate Media, a collection of more than forty essays on the decline and fall of the American and international news media. The book's list of distinguished contributors includes Lance Morrow, Andrew Klavan, John O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Nickson, Monica Crowley, Charlie Kirk, Glenn Reynolds, Steven F. Hayward, John Fund, Armond White, Michael Ramirez, Walsh, and others. Readers around the world deserve to know how badly their media has been corrupted, how eagerly they have embraced the role of official propagandists, and what a threat to democracy they have become. This book marks an important strike against the corporate media, and its unholy alliance with the enemies of freedom everywhere.

Table of contents

• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: A “Higher Loyalty”
• PART ONE: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
• Journalism Was a Rascal An excerpt from The Noise of Typewriters
• Letter to a Young Journalist
• The Press, the Professors, and Postmodern Progressivism
• The Van Jones Rule
• Through the Revolving Door: How the Fourth Estate Vanished
• The Falling Half-Life of a Lie
• Journalists: Heroes in Their Own Minds
• PART TWO: ON THE NEW YORK TIMES
• The Sins of the Gray Lady
• The Davos Times: Bespoke Propaganda
• PART THREE: THE PAST AS PROLOGUE
• The Founders’ Notions of the Freedom of the Press
• Check Your Opinions with Your Parka
• Media Objectivity, 1920–2023, RIP
• Partisan Media? ’Twas Ever Thus
• Checking the “Fact Checkers”
• That Sullivan Decision
• Spies and Journalists: A Very Special Relationship
• PART FOUR: THE MEDIA VS. AMERICA
• Nixon and the Weaponization of Media Hate
• The Media vs. Donald J. Trump: The Russia Hoax
• How the Media Missed What I Saw on January 6
• How “Woke” Conquered the Media
• We Shall Never Overcome
• The Media vs. the Nation’s Borders
• The Media vs. the Military
• What the Media Doesn’t Know About Guns
• Green Media, Green Monolith
• The Media vs. the Police
• PART FIVE: FOREIGN AFFAIRS
• Inside the Woke BBC
• Canada: The Media as State Collaborator
• The CBC: From Crown Jewel to Jacobins
• The One-Party Media State in Ireland
• The Duplicitous Media Down Under
• PART SIX: CRITICISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
• Who Needs Criticism, Anyway?
• How We Lost It at the Movies
• The Death of Book Publishing
• The Triumph of Deaf Stockbrokers
• PART SEVEN: WOMEN AND SEXUALITY
• How Women Changed Journalism
• Letters to an Acclimatised Beauty
• All Gay, All the Time
• PART EIGHT: THE RISE—AND FALL—OF THE INTERNET
• The Birth of the Blogosphere
• Citizen Journalism and the Breitbart Legacy
• Present at the Creation
• Censorship: The First Refuge of Cowards
• Contributors