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Access to authentic diverse viewpoints is a luxury good you must pay for. Everyone who would be accurately informed must fund their own private intelligence ser
by ctrlp 4y ago
Access to authentic diverse viewpoints is a luxury good you must pay for. Everyone who would be accurately informed must fund their own private intelligence service. The legacy media of a "multitude of voices" under one imprint is pretty rare and will still be editorialized within a local Overton window for any given publication. The plebs can only afford one or two subscriptions to their politically-approved list of "news" sources and must be satisfied with being told what to think from a limited menu. If you can't afford it, you're not meant to have it.
You need to budget at least $200 USD per month for substack subscriptions. After that, you will need to budget about 10-20h per month to parsing their output and deciding which of the approved media outlets they would be allowed to write for if they weren't making more money with their own audiences. This will help you think critically about what they're trying to have you believe. For those who would not be welcome at even the most heterodox mainstream publications, you will need to spend a bit of time deciding how it is they can afford to be writing for a living. You will need to track down their incomes until you are satisfied that their shadowy patrons are either dark money influence campaigns and/or CIA-NGO grants. Use this information to triangulate the various positions you are presented with. The truth is somewhere in the nexus of lies.
- aiappreciator 4y agoThere's no need to play the edgelord here. Your average person does not have $200USD/month lying around for news. Even cable packages aren't that expensive. But they don't need that much either, just budgeting $15 a month is more than sufficient to have a favorite paid substack, and several other free substacks. Most people don't have the time to analyze that much information. Its sufficient to know that viewpoints other than MSM-peddled-narratives exist, that gives people a healthy skepticism, without needing to spend days each month just analyzing the news.
- ctrlp 4y agook, shoot. $5/mo per sub. Pick three for your $15 budget and a few freebies. I submit it is not sufficient merely to know that non-MSM narratives exist to have the skills sufficient to detect military-grade influence campaigns.
- ctrlp 4y agoThe fact your "average" person can't afford premium information is the point. Truth is free to those who can afford it, very expensive to those who can't.
- miklosme 4y agoGreat copypasta, you almost got me.
- ctrlp 4y agocopypasta from where?