Mainstream journalism

Correct.

Reuters is pretty trustworthy and reliable. It can be correlated with other reports from credible outlets, including independents, freelancers and so on. If someone wants to be really paranoid they can tune into e.g. Nordic news outlets, considered among the free in the world.

In history there are people who try to discredit the facts for all sorts of disingenuous reasons. They use the same technique, "don't trust mainstream history, here swallow this alternative revisionist history instead".

Likewise in science the same thing occurs. Individuals try to discredit scientific fact for whatever reasons, and use that technique to do so.

Credible outlets, historians, scientists, etc obviously aren't perfectly infallible. I was watching BBC news the other day and they made a mistake. Unfortunately individuals seize on isolated mistakes or issues to claim it's systematic - "look they can't be trusted, here go to this dodgy other source instead". Which is another technique.

Why? It's effective. If you want to get people to believe something that isn't true, you first have to get them not to trust journalism, history, science, etc.

But why do record numbers of Americans not trust the media, including huge numbers of Democrats? Look at the Gallup poll results.

The Western media are a nightmare.

To paraphrase what Churchill said about democracy, they’re the worse apart from all the rest.
Knock yourself out with the alternative media, where else can you get the real facts on things that just happened (or never happened)from someone who is sitting on their bedroom whose only talent is having wi fi access and a phone.

Chemtrails are making a comeback, I’m sure there’s some great stuff in non mainstream media on that.

James Delingpole is worth reading. As is John Nolte. John Nolte regularly lists a huge number of hoaxes in his articles that the mainstream media have pushed to explain why hardly anyone trusts them. In fact, 54% of Americans agree with Trump that the media are "truly the enemy of the people": (https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/54_still_agree_media_are_the_enemy_of_the_people)

» But 99% of the media is made up of hard left outlets.

Outlets can be checked on various sites (like Mediabias/factcheck, Allsides, Newsguard, etc) to get an idea of roughly where they might lean. And also credibility/quality. It's not an exact science but the consensus is usually close enough.

It's a relatively even spread, overall aggregate in the US I'd say it's a fairly even spread now. Also keep in mind that e.g. "left" in modern US politics might be considered more in line with centrist policies in many European countries.

A cheap way to dispel modern journalism is to claim it's mostly "extreme left" or "extreme right". Those types of shortcuts are a slippery slope.

Nolte is a far right writer, who is into the "great replacement", "cultural marxist" conspiracy stuff.

The links are mostly to Breitbart, which is a hard right/extreme right outlet

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/breitbart/

Reasoning:

 Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Failed Fact Checks

Bias Rating: RIGHT (8.1)
Factual Reporting: MIXED (6.4)
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY

And from allsides.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/breitbart

If someone wants to follow that kind of stuff, that's fine, but at least be aware of what it is.

And for the list of talking points, obviously won't go into each one, but having a glance, some I recognise as true, some are questionable.

To use an analogy it's like producing a list of "things journalists got wrong about Putin" in order to demonise global journalism and make Putin out to be a victim.

As for the belief that "99% of news is hard left", the most watched news in the US is Fox news.

They are populist, which is very different from conservative / right wing. They are all pro-abortion, for example. They go on about "common sense" and focus on things such as political correctness and transexuals and pronouns. The Conservative Party in the UK is also not conservative. It's a bit populist, but it's almost identical to Labour. Peter Hitchens often writes about how they're pretty much indistinguishable from each other.

And The Independent is extreme left too. And the BBC. They pretend to follow their Charter, but all you have to do is read Peter Hitchens to learn all about their so-called impartiality.

They are hard left insofar as on anything that matters, such as life and preserving thousands of years of tradition, they agree with each other. The things they disagree somewhat on are trivial in the grand scheme of things. But my argument is that there is no difference between 'centrist', which I believe isn't a real thing, and left / extreme left. They all hold the same opinions on anything that matters.

But if you believe in "centrism" then you won't be able to see where I'm coming from. In the entire of Western Europe I would argue that there is only one truly conservative party. That party is Vox. The rest are populist, but not conservative or right wing. Another populist party is Fratelli d'Italia.

And there is no conservative media outlet on the island of Ireland. Gript would be, but it's not widely read. But there will never be a conservative media outlet here because it's not possible. The conditions aren't there for one. It's the most anti-Catholic country on earth and hates conservatism and it's full of identical political parties, radio stations, etc.