Podcasters bust the global elites

Younger Canadians tend to go to social media for their news. Many are part of a growing subculture who see that traditional mainstream news media is no longer telling the truth. These people look to independent news sources and independent journalists on X, Rumble, Youtube and other internet platforms.

This is a minefield. It can be difficult to avoid confirmation bias. By clicking on news items that only agree with your point of view, one can erect silos of like-minded people, while isolating from others. But for those seeking the truth, they can quickly build up a credible list of reliable sources.

Thanks to these new social media voices — Independent journalism fact-checking the fact checkers — we are learning that we have been lied to about many world events. These news pioneers have to be delicate in their reporting because it is very difficult for people to accept new ideas that blow away what one might have thought was a rock-solid fact. Studies have shown, and our own experience concurs, that when we hear something that is so incredible, or so terrible, so contrary to what we thought was true, our reaction is not to believe it. It can’t be true. To think otherwise, could be a crushing blow to one’s reality. One might have to rethink just about everything.

This is a challenge for journalists who want to know what is really going on. They know that they cannot get too far ahead of their readers. So, these journalists chip away at the big stories, to bring people around. It is much like eating an elephant. How do you do that?

Small bites.

This job is becoming easier, however, when it comes to the most important events in our lives. Since trust in the big news media companies has plummeted, people are open to new sources.

There are numerous reasons: Big media is subsidized in Canada, and, like in the U.S., is increasingly controlled by the state and reflect disdain for traditional values. They are also continuously proven wrong: they said COVID did not come from China, that the vaccine worked and that it was safe. They also commit errors of omission by not reporting big issues. Such as? That fentanyl has killed more Canadians than did the Second World War; that Christianity is attacked far more than any other religion in Canada and that Christian churches are burned down and vandalized far more than sacred buildings of any other religion.

Those independent sources on social media, who have been trying to warn people about a looming, growing evil around the world, have had their fair share of insults and detractors, but they have been more right on this issue than the mainstream news.

They are telling us that it is time to believe our own eyes and trust our guts. Think World Economic Forum, global elitists and ultra-rich people with more money than some countries. Now that they have made it to the very, very top, they want it all for themselves. They don’t want competition and use their money to influence world leaders.

Famed U.S. historian and Hoover Institute fellow Victor Davis Hanson said it best last year when speaking with the former deputy prime minister of Australia John Anderson when discussing the international globalists. Hanson said that the globalists have no loyalty to their own countries and “they don’t believe in democracy. They have so much money that they feel that they are sort of like platonic guardians and they can tell everyone how the world is going to work and ‘it is not going to apply to (the ultra-rich) because we have to be healthy and have jets and estates and compounds and multiple homes.’ They have nothing but disdain and hatred for the middle class. They are very dangerous people.”

We should know by now that sometimes danger arrives with a smile and is wearing suit and a tie.

Patrick Meagher is editor of  Farmers Forum.