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"What If We Had a Functional Media?"

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unctional_mainstream_media_149732.html>

"Could you imagine the difference if, in the fall of 2020, the Washington
Post had accepted a copy of the Hunter Biden hard drive and actually
investigated the thousands of emails, photos, text messages, and other
evidence that implicated not just Hunter but his father Joe Biden in
sundry unethical and criminal enterprises? What about CBS, NBC, and ABC?
Shouldn�t we as news consumers expect these leviathans �to give the news
impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or
interests involved,� as the new owner of the New York Times declared way
back in 1896? Yet in October..."

"Yet in October 2020, when the New York Post wrote a series of stories
describing the corrupt nature of the Biden family as exposed by the
Hunter Biden laptop, there were few mainstream media outlets that dared
to follow. Or really, not dared, but chose. Because there is nothing
daring about doing your job correctly.

You would think that when all the major social media companies like
Facebook and Twitter blocked any discussion of the New York Post�s
reporting on the laptop, these other major news corporations would have
come to the aid of the Post. If any of them had done their own
investigation of the laptop, do you think that Twitter could have
continued to censor the news under the false claim that it was Russian
disinformation? Hardly. But no mainstream media outlets were willing to
put their own reputations on the line to support free speech � because
their reputations are based entirely on being guardians of the left, and
protecting Hillary, Barack and the Bidens is more important than fidelity
to any chimeric sense of fairness and honor.

And Hunter Biden�s laptop is just a symptom. In instance after instance,
most of the media either closes its eyes to stories that implicate
liberals or Democrats in unethical or illegal behavior, or pretends they
are of no importance. Examples abound, from the whitewashing of Hillary
Clinton�s involvement in the invention of the Russia collusion hoax to
the complete lack of curiosity about the sweetheart deal offered to
Hunter Biden by the so-called independent Justice Department.

It�s no wonder that much of the public at large is convinced there is no
evidence that warrants the impeachment of Joe Biden for bribery or
treason. That�s what happens when you depend on biased news sources to
form your opinion. And what�s worse: These are not just biased news
sources, but ignorant ones. Take, for example, the case of Philip Bump of
the Washington Post.

Bump, a prized columnist and news analyst, was recently embarrassed by
podcast host Noam Dworman, who is best known as the owner of a New York
City comedy club. Bump claimed there was no evidence that President Biden
had done anything improper in regard to his son�s business deals with
foreign adversaries, and when Dworman rattled off some of the most
important evidence suggesting otherwise, Bump took off his headset and
walked away.

The interview ended when Dworman asked Bump: �What do you take from
[Hunter�s] text message to his adult daughter � Hunter texted her, �I had
to give 50% of my income to Pop.�

Bump, the Washington insider who molds public opinion by telling the rest
of us what to think, declared meekly, �I have no idea what that means. I
don�t. I have no idea what that means.�

And let�s be clear. He doesn�t want to know what it means. That�s because
he is not a real journalist; he is a propagandist for Democratic
officials, ideas, and policies. Most importantly, it is when Dworman
challenged Bump to acknowledge what a real journalist would do � ask
questions of Hunter Biden�s daughter to get to the bottom of the story �
that the columnist walked out.

DWORMAN: Has anybody asked her?

BUMP: I don�t know. I don�t know!

DWORMAN: Don�t you think somebody should ask her?

Hell no, because then the mainstream media would be serving the American
public instead of Joe Biden. Perhaps even more nefariously than what it
has done to protect the Bidens, the media has fed the public with a
steady stream of lies about Donald Trump. Most relevant today, as the
former president faces 91 felony counts and four indictments, is the
insistent drumbeat of claims that Trump led an insurrection against the
federal government or that he knowingly lied about election fraud.

Again, just like with the Hunter Biden laptop, the average citizen is
supposed to sheepishly accept the dismissive reporting of the media about
election irregularities as the unadulterated truth, and any deviation
from that narrative is met with silence or scorn.

We have a perfect example of that in the investigative reporting of the
Gateway Pundit last month that revealed extensive election fraud in
Michigan during the 2020 election. If you are scratching your head, and
asking what the heck I�m talking about, then it�s because you have fallen
victim to the media�s refusal to cover any news that reflects positively
on President Trump.

Chances are, you have never even heard of the Gateway Pundit unless you
are a dedicated conservative who has sought out alternative sources of
news that counter the mainstream narrative. Anyone else would probably be
scared away by the public assessments of such left-wing institutions as
Wikipedia, which calls the Gateway Pundit �an American far-right fake
news website�. known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy
theories.�

But if you want to know the facts about a police investigation that
started in October 2020 and found that more than 10,000 mostly fake voter
registrations were submitted to election officials in Muskegon County,
Michigan, you would need to read the Gateway Pundit, or one of the
conservative websites that picked up their stories. Because there is no
way that the New York Times or NBC will ever report on this explosive
story.

And it doesn�t matter whether the Gateway Pundit is a conservative
advocacy website or not. True, the website doesn�t have journalistic
credentials, but who cares? Journalism as an institution is in total
disrepair. No one cares about credentials; we care about credibility.
What matters is the evidence the website�s reporters provide to
substantiate their claims that a pattern of election fraud in Michigan
and other states was discovered prior to the 2020 election and then
covered up after the election. And there is plenty of evidence. Most
importantly, the Gateway Pundit�s reporters obtained the Michigan State
Police report that detailed an extensive preliminary investigation found
credible evidence of a scheme to create fake voters.

In many ways, the oppression of the Muskegon election interference story
parallels the techniques used to oppress the New York Post�s laptop
story. If you do a Google search for �Muskegon voter registration police
report� (without the quotes) you will see an interesting pattern.

First, the blacklisting of Gateway Pundit from the Google results.
Second, the utter silence of the elite media on this hugely significant
story. Third, a number of so-called �fact checks� that downplay the
veracity of the story. The only thing missing is a letter from 51
intelligence agents calling the whole thing a �Russian information
operation.�

The closest we ever got to a mainstream news acknowledgment of the
Gateway Pundit�s reporting was when the Detroit News ran a shocking
admission from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel�s office that the
facts of the story were accurate and that the election fraud was reported
to the FBI:

Nessel�s press secretary, Danny Wimmer, said the total number of
suspected fraudulent forms delivered to the Muskegon clerk by the
individual was 8,000 to 10,000 ahead of the Nov. 3, 2020, presidential
election.

�The city clerk in Muskegon detected the fraudulent material provided and
alerted the proper authorities,� Wimmer said in a statement. �A thorough
investigation was conducted by multiple agencies within the state and no
successful fraud was perpetrated upon the state�s election process or
qualified voter file.�

In other words, because the 10,000 fake registrations were detected by an
alert election official, there was nothing to worry about. Huh? First of
all, attempted election fraud on that scale should worry us all, but more
importantly, there is no reason to think that all the election fraud was
caught just because one election scammer was caught one time.

The Michigan State Police report on the investigation was extensively
redacted, but on page 14, the authorities failed to redact the name of
GBI Strategies, a Democrat-aligned election-turnout specialist that has
been confirmed as having 2020 operations in multiple states. The office
of GBI Strategies that was searched under a warrant turned up as many as
19 vehicles used by the company�s workers, certainly more than one lone
worker would need. In addition, the woman who tried to submit more than
10,000 fake registrations told state police that she had �done work� in
Detroit, Ypsilanti, Southfield, Flint, and Lansing as well as Muskegon.

Despite Nessel�s celebration of how 10,000 fake registrations were
detected by an alert election clerk, there is absolutely no reason to
believe that thousands of fake registrations were also uncovered in those
other cities where GBI Strategies was hard at work. Conclusion? Joe
Biden�s victory by 154,000 votes in the Great Lakes State may have been
less great than we were led to believe. In fact, it may not have been a
victory at all. The only way to find out would be to demand a forensic
audit of voter registrations submitted in the month or two prior to the
election.

But that will never happen if the only voice demanding it is the Gateway
Pundit. Because just as there was a concerted campaign to discredit the
New York Post when it revealed the extent of the corruption in the Biden
family as exposed on Hunter�s laptop, there has been an equally dishonest
campaign to discredit the Gateway Pundit.

Although you won�t find one story published by the Gateway Pundit when
you look at the top 100 results of a Google search for the Muskegon
police report on election fraud, you will not surprisingly find three
�fact checks� claiming the story is fake news. Politifact, Lead Stories,
and Newsweek all managed to find their way into the top 100 search
results to debunk a story that Google was pretending didn�t even exist.

Each of these �fact checks� followed the same pattern. They repeated the
evidence in the Michigan State Police report that the Gateway Pundit
based its reporting on, and then they said �It doesn�t matter� because
the state attorney general said no fraud occurred. Really? That�s what we
call a fact check these days?

How about this? Let�s get the New York Times, CBS, the Washington Post
and NBC to assign their best investigative reporters to comb through
voter registration records in Michigan. Why not track down the CEO of GBI
Strategies and question him about what techniques the company uses to
increase voter turnout, which states they operated in during the 2020
election, and what relationship exists between GBI Strategies and the
Democratic Party or the Biden campaign?

But that will never happen, which is why the Gateway Pundit and similar
citizen journalist organizations are necessary. They may not be perfect,
but they provide a service we can�t get from most media outlets today �
they aren�t a mouthpiece for the official narrative being sold to us by
the Deep State, the Democratic Party, and the donor class.

And until the mainstream media rediscovers the value of reporting the
news �without fear or favor,� I�ll rely on the Gateway Pundit, Breitbart
News, and Citizen Free Press to provide the news the powers that be don�t
want me to know."