“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
― Thomas Paine
January 22, 2018 - Edelman ‘trust barometer’ finds 37-point drop in US public’s trust in government, media
The least trusted institution of all, as seen by the survey, is the media, w hich 22 out of 28 countries don’t trust.
March 4, 2020 - During A Disease Outbreak, Public Trust In Government Officials Is Crucial
March 9, 2020 - People Don’t Trust Their Government s to Handle the Coronavirus Crisis
April 22, 2020 - News Media Credibility Rating Falls to a New Low
April 29, 2020 - No , trust in the media has not collapsed because of Coronavirus
A con, short for “confidence game”, is a swindle executed when someone puts on false guise and then takes advantage of someone else after first gaining their trust.
A story below from Australia from February 2020 is headlined “Public trust dives after bushfires .”
Trust is dropping rapidly in Australia because the public knows that it was the government that set the fires in the first place, and that the purportedly-innocent, bumbling response on the part of the con-artist Australian Feds was nothing of the kind.
A lot of rubes all over the world are getting wise to what I’m saying, even here in my country, where the public actually believed previous presidents who said “no new taxes” and “I’ll shut down Gitmo”.
A story below from March of 2020 is headlined “Poll finds Americans disapprove of media’s handling of coronavirus. But it’s the same polarized picture as ever .”
Where "Americans disapprove " is general. As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda.
You have to read the article to learn that “A Gallup survey released this week found 44 percent of Americans approve of the news media’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.”
Wait, what? The headline clearly states that the story is about Americans’ disapproval , but the author Satanically inverted it, to "44 percent of Americans approve " . They’ve brazenly inverted it, to avoid saying “56% of Americans disapprove of the news media’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.” Or the even stronger “A majority of Americans.”
But it is just these sorts of bullshit linguistic tricks which have a majority of Americans supporting my assertion that the folks in charge are not our friends, and are lying to us about basically everything.
Here’s a ripper, from August 2019: “Amazon asks for public’s trust of their unmarked white vans after dropping FedEx”.
The fact that Amazon is asking for trust proves that Amazon is untrustworthy. Because, in any language, if someone says “trust me”, that person is untrustworthy.
You would not tell a 14 year old girl that it was okay to get into an unmarked white van driven by someone saying she can trust them. Even moreso if they were wearing an Amazon shirt as their only form of identification.
The fact that the bizarre request for our trust of Amazon’s cliche-masked human trafficking vans is being made through a purportedly neutral press emissary makes it that much more blatant, and alarming.
Amazon is the first business in history that does not wish to or cannot afford to place company identification on its delivery vehicles. It’s not that they don’t have the motivation, or, God knows, the money. It’s a brazen social engineering gambit, one which they hope will make unmarked white vans ubiquitous and unremarked upon.
Delivering packages to shopping-addicted zombies by day and capturing human trafficking victims by night in the same unidentifiable vans.
Or you can affirm their request and trust that’s not the case.
Oh, but they wouldn’t, they couldn’t!
It’s the Big Lie, it’s how these people roll. It’s so juicy I’ve devoted an entire upcoming article to the subject.
People didn’t trust the media, or the government - or even Amazon, for that matter - prior to the recent, barely-clandestine release of an overhyped, underperforming designer bat virus.
And trust is dropping even further, as I predicted that it would:
April 22, 2020 - News Media Credibility Rating Falls to a New Low
I love that headline. But I love this one, from just a week later, even more:
April 29, 2020 - No , trust in the media has not collapsed because of Coronavirus
We’ve already won the thing. It’s a mop-up operation from here.
That said, at the moment I’m still under orders to remain in my house against my will for fictitious reasons, and am currently out of work, both because of The Covid.
And so, having exercised my right to free speech by writing this article, there’s nothing left to do but ride my bike around the five boroughs, distributing simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices based on Wilhelm Reich’s work.
Jeff Miller, Brooklyn, New York, May 27, 2020
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2008 - Ten reasons for decreasing political trust in the Netherlands
January 22, 2018 - Davos 2018: Edelman barometer reveals record drop in trust
January 22, 2018 - Edelman ‘trust barometer’ finds 37- point drop in US public’s trust in government, media
The least trusted institution of all, as seen by the survey, is the media , which 22 out of 28 countries don’t trust.
(I’m going to break the propaganda down for you:
" The least trusted institution of all, as seen by the survey, is the media, which 22 out of 28 countries don’t trust."
That’s Orwell’s “cuttlefish squirting out ink.” " As seen by the survey " is a hedge they cut into the middle of the sentence, to call it into question. We’ll excise it:
“The least trusted institution of all is the media, which 22 out of 28 countries don’t trust.”
Where " of all " is redundant. We’ll cut it:
“The least trusted institution is the media, which 22 out of 28 countries don’t trust.”
“22 out of 28” is verbose, and makes the point more vague. We’ll do the meath, then use the stronger “78%”:
"The least trusted institution is the media, which 78% of countries don’t trust. "
“The Media” is the subject of the sentence. They’ve Satanically inverted it, hedged it back, made it secondary by pushing it to the middle of the sentence. And trust is redundant. They’ve used a lot of gymnastics to avoid writing the plain truth:
“78% of countries don’t trust the media.” - ed)
February 14, 2018 - Behind the collapse of public trust in America
January 31, 2019 - Americans’ Trust in Government to Handle Problems at New Low
May 26, 2019 - Putins public trust ratings keep dropping
August 18, 2019 - Amazon asks for public’s trust of their unmarked white vans
September 26, 2019 - Americans’ Trust in Mass Media Edges Down to 41%
August 16, 2019 - Pew finds public trust in scientists is low but rising
February 4, 2020 - Americans’ Trust in Nonprofits Has Dropped to 50% . Here’s What To Do
February 12, 2020 - Industries Face Declines in Trust
One thing that all industries have in common is their need for the public’s trust. Unfortunately, this year’s Edelman’s Trust Barometer [pdf] shows that while the public still trusts business in general to do the right thing, that trust has declined across all examined industries.
In Edelman’s global survey of more than 34,000 adults across 28 global markets, Technology remains the most trusted industry despite dropping 4 percentage points year-over-year, with three-quarters (75%) now trusting the sector (based on a top-4 box from a 9-point scale). This decrease in trust comes after the Technology industry experienced its highest amount of public trust (78%) in 8 years just a year earlier. Past research places the fall in public trust in these companies squarely at the feet of technology companies misusing personal data.
February 20, 2020 - Australia - Public trust dives after bushfires
(Because the public knows the government set the fires, and that the “bumbling” response was nothing of the kind. - ed)
March 4, 2020 - During A Disease Outbreak, Public Trust In Government Officials Is Crucial
March 9, 2020 - People Don’t Trust Their Governments to Handle the Coronavirus Crisis
March 25, 2020 - Poll finds Americans disapprove of media’s handling of coronavirus. But it’s the same polarized picture as ever.
The news media has the worst approval rating of all major American institutions grappling with the novel coronavirus — but the public’s opinions on the matter are highly polarized and mirror their complex feelings from before the pandemic.
A Gallup survey released this week found 44 percent of Americans approve of the news media’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. It found 61 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters approve of the media, compared to 25 percent of Republicans.
April 10, 2020 - Trust in Trump’s Virus Response Is Falling . What Does It Mean?
April 22, 2020 - News Media Credibility Rating Falls to a New Low
April 29, 2020 - No , trust in the media has not collapsed because of Coronavirus
