6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing

Phillip Schneider, Staff

Waking Times December 5, 2015
There is an information awakening taking
place right now, and mainstream media is
being outed for what it really is: corporate
and government controlled propaganda.
People are turning to alternative news
sources more swiftly than ever now, and as a
result, the old guard of media is collapsing at
free-fall speeds.
Here are 6 positive signs of the collapse of
mainstream media:

1. Mainstream Media is Owned by a Handful of Corporations and the People Know It

It's no secret anymore that nearly everything we see, read, and hear comes from just a handful of megacorporations. Thanks to the alternative media, it has become a widely known fact that just six corporations
control 90% of the media we consume. These big six have the ability to make key decisions and delegate the
news to their lower subsidiary companies by cutting out important stories or alternative points of view. People
recognize this and are moving over to the indy media as a result.

2. Fox Stops Disclosing Live Viewership Ratings

Fox News, a subsidiary company owned by Rupert Murdoch of News Corp and top mainstream media outlet has
just announced that it will stop disclosing its ratings for live TV viewership. They argue that these statistics are no
longer relevant because of how many record their television shows, but it is also being seen as a way to hide a
decaying audience. Fox will now be repackaging statistics on a weekly basis to make even the most modest
results appear positive.

3. 98% of Young Adults Do Not Trust Mainstream Media

A recent poll shows that only 2% of young adults trust the mainstream media to do the 'right thing' on a
regular basis. This poll, which was conducted at the Harvard Institute of Politics on over 3.000 18-29 year olds,
shows that only 2% of young adults trust the media to 'do the right thing' 'all of the time'. Furthermore, 10%
said that they do the right thing 'most of the time', while 49% said 'some of the time' and a whopping 39% said
that the media 'never' does the right thing.

4. Mainstream Media is Hog-Tied by Corporations and the People Know It

An excerpt from the documentary The Corporation illustrates in their own words the story of two journalists
working for Fox News in the mid 1990's. Here is an excerpt from the film, of an investigation of the 'human health
implications' of injecting Bovine Growth Hormone into the cows which were used for producing milk:
'With Monsanto, I didn't realize how effectively a corporation could work to get something on the
marketplace', said journalist Jane Akre. Before the story aired, a letter was received from Monsanto
saying that there would be 'dire consequences for Fox News' if it does. After receiving the letter, the
general manager at Fox in Florida called them into his office and demanded that the story be altered.
The next thing that he said was 'We just paid three billion dollars for these television stations. We'll
tell you what the news is. The news is what we say it isif you refuse to present this story the way
we think it should be presented you'll be fired for insubordination (defiance)'.
You can tell by the amount of protesters at 'March Against Monsanto' protests that the corporate controlled
media does not have a stranglehold on information like they once did.
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6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing

5. Mainstream Media is Literally Lying to Us So Blatantly that Nobody Pays Attention Anymore
A recent analysis conducted by PunditFact revealed that, according to this study, over half of all statements
made by Fox News are false. Now this is not surprising, but what might be is that NBC/MSNBC is right up there
at 46% of their statements being anywhere between 'Mostly False' to 'Pants on Fire'. CNN and ABC rated better,
but national new shouldn't be a race to the bottom.

6. Independent Media More Successful than Ever Before

The positivity that comes out of this is simple: people are waking up to this madness. No longer are we in a
situation where the media controls the narrative like they once did, because the new media is there to pick up
the ball and roll out the stories that the mainstream media refuses to get into.
The alternative media is making such enormous waves now that the older media is actually starting to listen to
alternative voices and stories that are being published by new media outlets. The fact that Kevin Folta, a
University Professor at the University of Florida, was receiving large unrestricted grants from Monsanto to
promote GMO's and round-up was even reported on by the New York Times thanks to alternative media making
it such a big story that if they hadn't they would have lost credibility: 'If the Times is telling us the truth, then why
didn't they tell us about Kevin Folta?'
As long as the independent media keeps moving, there's nothing that can stop the truth from getting out.
Read more articles from Phillip Schneider.
About the Author

Phillip Schneider is a student and a contributing author to Waking Times.

References:

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/sites/default/files_new/IOPSpring15%20PollTopline.pdf
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-20/fox-to-stop-issuing-live-ratings-for-most-shows-on-itsnetwork
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2014/jul/01/introducing-scorecards-tv-networks/
http://www.truthwiki.org/dr-kevin-folta-university-of-florida/
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