Alex Marlow - Breaking the News : Exposing the Establishment Medias Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption

A must-read. PETER SCHWEIZER

Editor in Chief of Breitbart

Alex Marlow

Breaking the News

Exposing the Establishment Medias Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption

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Names: Marlow, Alex, author.

Title: Breaking the news : exposing the establishment medias hidden deals and secret corruption / Alex Marlow.

Description: First Threshold Editions hardcover edition. | New York : Threshold Editions, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: From the editor in chief of Breitbart News, a firsthand account of how the establishment media became weaponized against Donald Trump and his supporters on behalf of the political leftProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021009229 (print) | LCCN 2021009230 (ebook) | ISBN 9781982160746 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781982160753 (paperback) | ISBN 9781982160760 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Mass mediaPolitical aspectsUnited States. | Press and politicsUnited States. | Right and left (Political science)United StatesHistory21st century.

Classification: LCC P95.82.U6 M365 2021 (print) | LCC P95.82.U6 (ebook) | DDC 302.230973dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009229

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009230

ISBN 978-1-9821-6074-6

ISBN 978-1-9821-6076-0 (ebook)

To Wynn and Robert

T his is not a book merely about liberal media bias. Since Donald Trump descended that escalator and announced his candidacy for president in 2015, bias is far too benign a word for the establishment medias collective tendencies. The notion that our mainstream press is merely reporting the news with a subtle tilt away from a neutral viewpoint seems quaint in the year 2021. No, in our modern media landscape, advancing chosen agendas drives Americas newsrooms far more than fact-finding or truth-telling, and examining newsrooms using a liberal/conservative dichotomy is too simplistic. Leftism, globalism, and corporatism have emerged as the dominant ideologies that drive major content decisions by leading news outlets. More and more, newsrooms in recent years have gravitated toward stories that advance the notion that an interventionist government combined with powerful, well-funded global bureaucracies provides the path forward for America. Rarely do newsrooms, increasingly owned, financed, and operated by the worlds biggest companies, provide a check on the corporations that control so much of our lives and culture.

Yes, our media is on the attack, looking to harm and even destroy the personal lives of their perceived adversaries. And theyve gotten nastier. Much nastier.

The American media is the principal player in our modern day cancel culture, the recent phenomenon where a person is banished from polite society, or at least social media, for offending popular cultures prevailing consensus.

Their ultimate goal is to cancel America, at least in the traditional sense. Next theyll replace it with a woke-topia where political correctness, corporatism, and globalism replace liberty, In God We Trust, and E pluribus unum.

Breaking the News is about the modern era of political media. In this book, I track the evolution of the Democrat Media Complex, which was Andrew Breitbarts expression for the incestuous nature of the establishment media elite and Americas ideological Left. I explain why and how certain stories are coveredor not coveredand who benefits from those coverage decisions. I examine the deals cut, the corporate connections, the family ties, and the global ambitions that are shaping the news that you consume every day, even if you cant always see it in plain sight.

And in the spirit of Andrew Breitbart, Ill give you some tools to fight back.

And we must act now, because a free American press hangs in the balance.

While I believe Breaking the News covers more ground than any book on this particular moment in media, it doesnt cover all of the ground that there is to cover.

This is, at times, a pity. So many of the hundreds upon hundreds of stories I reviewed during the research process are worthy of discussion, but I simply couldnt make them all fit.

For example, Newsweek published a piece in 2019 suggesting it could be time to rethink cannibalism. Its undeniably compelling and alarming, but it gets just this one mention.

Another amazing story that didnt fit elsewhere: CNN legal analyst Areva Martin accused my SiriusXM Patriot colleague David Webb of white privilege during a radio interview. If only I could have seen her face when Webb told her that he is black.

And what about when CNNs Jake Tapper suggested that longtime Trump associate Roger Stone might like going to prison; the consensus among some in the Internet commentariat appeared to be that this comment by Tapper was a homophobic joke about prison rape. Tapper also anchored an entire television segment on Trumps penis.

All of these stories cry out for additional discussion, and there are seemingly half a dozen more like them that occur each day.

In the chapters dedicated to specific news outlets, I chose to focus my research and analysis on three case studies: Bloomberg News, because of their subservience to China and the uniqueness of Michael Bloombergs presidential run; MSNBC, because it was the ultimate media arm of the anti-Trump Resistance; and the New York Times, because it was the most influential establishment media outlet in Trumps America. I think taken together, these three outlets use nearly every tool in the medias kit that can be used to advance the interests of big corporations, the political establishment, and the globalist left. I believe after reading those chapters, youll agree.

Thats not to say that other news outlets arent covered in great detail. If you picked up the book hoping for a beat-down of, say, CNN, or the Washington Post, I dont think youll be disappointed, but they dont get the full case study treatment.

Maybe Ill take those on in the sequel!

I mention this at the outset for one specific purpose: just because it doesnt appear in Breaking the News, it doesnt mean it isnt fake news. The corporate media establishment is constantly trying to manipulate their audiences and the world to serve their political, personal, and financial ends. Nearly every major outlet is doing this, and theyll never stop. Ultimately it is on the citizens of the United States of America to be conscientious consumers of the news media. Only then can we begin to fight back.