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00:01:26.000More than the darkest imaginable realms seem to be secretly rooting for him because when Trump's out of office and out of the picture, they have to lay off legacy media workers.
00:01:38.000So, is it possible that the reason the hysteria and amplification of the anti-Trump narrative continues to abide and even increases because the legacy media need Trump, Now Trump is expected to win New Hampshire tonight and of course he rinsed it in Iowa.
00:01:53.000But there was a rush to announce his victory, perhaps preemptively, because legacy media outlets wanted to be the first to unveil the information.
00:02:02.000Let's have a look at some legacy media reporting around Trump and see if we can see where the hypocrisy emerges.
00:02:07.000Oh, we don't know the number yet, Julie Fine.
00:02:37.000That means they select information to amplify, they select information to ignore, and significantly they are funded by their partners in marketing.
00:02:44.000In this case, in talking about cable news, overwhelmingly by Big Pharma.
00:02:48.000Have you noticed any news stories in the last couple of years that were biased towards outcomes that might be favourable to Big Pharma?
00:02:54.000Let me know in the chat and the comments.
00:02:56.000So when it comes to covering Donald Trump, they are massively compromised because clearly, ideologically, they do not like Donald Trump.
00:03:09.000Those are just a few of the things about Trump they loathe and despise.
00:03:12.000And yet Trump for them is ratings gold.
00:03:15.000So how do legacy media organizations that are dependent on advertising revenue support in an unbiased way on Donald Trump?
00:03:22.000The simple truth is they are unable to.
00:03:25.000We have to get that we'll get to the Hitler stuff in a second.
00:03:28.000I mean, I think that story's been covered.
00:03:30.000He was a really bad, genocidal lunatic that used folk myth, the music of Wagner, even Hindu symbolism and Roman pageantry to revivify a dormant German nation that had been crushed by the First World War.
00:03:42.000We don't need to get back into, oh, you're going to say that Trump's here.
00:04:04.000But this guy, he's looking so old, he's shuffling around.
00:04:09.000They act as if it's ethically incorrect as well to condemn Biden on the basis of his physical appearance and his age, but they do it for Trump because they've got no principles at all, have they?
00:04:18.000All the while they're talking about this, they're thinking, we need Donald Trump.
00:04:21.000Without Donald Trump, pretty soon it's going to be, Micah, oh, sorry, you don't have Micah.
00:04:25.000We had to make her redundant because Biden is doing another term, basically at this point, like an ash cloud from a crypt and we can't afford to pay Micah's wages.
00:04:34.000He's going through this thing and then about why he should have total immunity, total immunity even when he crosses the line.
00:04:44.000It is pure, sheer authoritarianism and tyranny.
00:04:50.000If that is your depiction and understanding of authoritarianism and tyranny, I'd love to see how they're handling the numerous stories around Hunter Biden, his business interests and their potential connection to Joe Biden, whether that's the Burisma stuff in Ukraine, these potential Chinese deals, of course, the reporting that was censored during the time of the election, because if something is corrupt, and tyrannical, then it has to be corrupt and tyrannical
00:05:51.000There's a good degree of hysteria there and agitation.
00:05:54.000So it would be surprising to learn, wouldn't it, that during the periods where Trump was not in office and not in the news cycle, their figures and revenue suffered.
00:06:05.000Let's have a look at some more MSNBC hysteria.
00:06:08.000Donald Trump supporters are right there with him.
00:06:11.000Even as his rhetoric has become more blatantly fascist, they want what he wants.
00:06:16.000Like, if you're going to scrutinize rhetoric right down to the sort of colloquial idiosyncrasies, what about the moment where Joe Biden says, no, the bombing of the Yemen isn't working in so much it isn't impacting the Houthis, but we're going to continue with it.
00:06:31.000That's into the kind of Orwellian dystopianism of the reversal of the meaning of language.
00:06:37.000And of course, many of you will be saying right now, and perhaps even typing in the comments, the goal is not to end wars, the goal is forever wars.
00:06:43.000Don't you think that these kind of deeply cynical globalist issues are more significant than the tribal polemicism and fanfare that surrounds either of these two candidates, frankly?
00:06:54.000In short, if they are indeed legitimately concerned about Donald Trump, why are they not analysing and scrutinising corruption, hypocrisy and authoritarianism within the party that they support?
00:07:04.000In the past year, Trump has called for the termination of the Constitution, said he wants to be dictator for a day.
00:07:18.000Now, the fact that they must know that that's a joke and they're reporting on it as if it's serious shows you that they are kind of tweaking the dials.
00:07:26.000What if we portray that in its worst possible light?
00:07:29.000I know about these legacy media tactics because I know how I personally have been victim to it.
00:07:34.000They take something that was out in the open and clear and explicit, for example my promiscuity, dial it up, amplify it, make it look as awful as possible and then present it to you as news.
00:07:44.000What do the legacy media report on and what do they ignore?
00:07:47.000They ignore things that could be detrimental to the interests of the powerful and they celebrate and amplify stories that are antithetical to your personal and particular interests.
00:07:56.000Trump has fundamentally transformed the Republican Party to the point that the party itself has taken on his grievances and the agenda of vengeance that he's openly planning if he wins a second term.
00:08:09.000Aside from agenda of vengeance sounding like a bit of a Sith sequel, From an overly franchised Star Wars movie.
00:08:17.000Doesn't it seem to you that there is a bit of an agenda of vengeance against Trump himself as he deals with indictment after indictment after they continually pursue him through various courts?
00:08:25.000It seems to me somewhat politically motivated rather than, we must have justice for all of these various diffuse frauds.
00:08:33.000As Tom Nichols wrote in The Atlantic this week, quote, these voters now want to get even with their fellow citizens, not for what's been done to Trump, but for what they feel has been done to them.
00:08:43.000They were certain that 2016 would finally bring them the recognition and respect they craved.
00:08:48.000Instead, Trump set them up for a steady diet of ego-bruising rebukes from other voters.
00:08:54.000Ego bruising, rebukes from other voters.
00:08:56.000It's an interesting piece of analysis and you would think, given the nature of that invective, that these news organisations would legitimately be opposed to Trump.
00:09:07.000About 30 minutes into counting the first votes of the Iowa caucus, the Associated Press, CNN, NBC and various other news networks called it for Donald Trump.
00:09:15.000Donald Trump wins the Iowa Republican Caucuses.
00:09:22.000There was little doubt that the former president would easily dominate the rural state but the rush to declare him the victor in violation of policies that prohibit such calls before the polls close was a blatant attempt to soak up the election night audience.
00:09:33.000It is difficult because of course they have an agenda beyond conveying information.
00:09:38.000This followed another departure from traditional editorial practices when MSNBC and CNN refused to screen Trump's victory speech MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, casting herself and her network as defenders of the Republic, justified the unusual decision with typical exaggerated commentary.
00:09:52.000Maddow said her network would suffer by knowingly broadcasting untrue things, which is an extraordinary claim to present themselves as gatekeepers, and that is why you cannot trust the legacy media.
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00:12:09.000In response, the media abandoned objectivity.
00:12:11.000Journalists inserted themselves into the story, often challenging Trump directly and darkly warning readers to oppose him.
00:12:17.000The New York Times and Washington Post broke tradition and used the words lie and liar on their splash to describe a presidential candidate.
00:12:24.000The media used any opportunity to present Trump in a negative light.
00:12:27.000MSNBC, despite its supposed rule against broadcasting falsehoods, reported salacious stories casting Trump as a Russian intelligence asset, of course referring to Russiagate, which Rachel Maddow and MSNBC et al all enthusiastically reported, even though it's been proven to be untrue since then.
00:12:43.000The press peered itself against the candidate.
00:12:45.000While popular on cable television, this approach is very much divorced from journalism that seeks to understand why voters were attracted to his message on trade, his unorthodox opposition to foreign military interventions, or the anger he mobilized against establishment elites.
00:12:58.000For his part, Trump embraced this approach, even encouraging his supporters to jeer the assembled journalists at his campaign rallies.
00:13:04.000I think the political press is among the most dishonest people that I've ever met, Trump would say, to be met with uproarous applause.
00:13:11.000Undoubtedly, Trump's instincts around elitism, the establishment, neoliberal, globalist politics are pretty acute, astute and well observed.
00:13:21.000The fact is, Trump cannot rise to prominence and ongoing success unless there is an appetite for Trump.
00:13:26.000And a big part of that appetite, I believe, is the antipathy that the government, legacy media, corporatism, globalism are all collectively held in.
00:13:34.000Whether or not you believe Trump has delivered on the promises and rhetoric that he's delivered in his previous presidential campaign and whether or not he will deliver on the rhetoric during this one, there is no question that the more the legacy media says that they hate Donald Trump, the more other people regard him as a populist icon and an anti-establishment figure.
00:13:52.000What's baffling about all of this is there's never a time of atonement or a reckoning You never see Morning Joe and all them others sat around the table going, you know what, we should probably talk about the corruption within the Biden family.
00:14:03.000We should probably talk about the lack of infrastructure in American life.
00:14:06.000We should probably talk about why all of these people feel so unheard and angry.
00:14:09.000Unless you're willing to campaign along the lines of, listen, we don't think Donald Trump's a very good political figure for these reasons, but we recognize that what he's tapped into in you is a kind of rage and anger and despair and a desire for a different type of America.
00:14:24.000All they've ever really offered is, you slot must be racist.
00:14:27.000And so much of it doesn't make sense when you find out that the Democrat Party has already lost the white working class vote of its own former supporters and is well on the way to losing non-white, black, Hispanic voters.
00:14:39.000So who is it exactly that Donald Trump's being racist against?
00:14:43.000One of the things he was most condemned for was the cages.
00:15:02.000Make them in fact the pariah that they are.
00:15:05.000Then he does a series of arms deals and energy deals with Saudi Arabia.
00:15:09.000Their inability to address the problem leaves us open to the rhetoric, charisma and phenomena of Donald Trump.
00:15:16.000They can never I don't want to directly address it, because to directly address it you would have to acknowledge the culpability of the system itself.
00:15:22.000You'd have to say, this system doesn't work, it's probably at an end now, we're resisting that change because we won't let someone like Robert F. Kennedy even debate our current candidate.
00:15:31.000We won't send Biden into the debate, Marianne Williamson.
00:15:33.000And because of that, because Joe Biden is a symbol of the establishment, he is a symbol of that party, elderly, perhaps once efficient, but certainly not anymore.
00:15:42.000Because of these failings, all they can do is sort of marvel at All decorum gone, the clashes drove record viewership and unprecedented profits for media corporations.
00:16:00.000Meanwhile, the endless anti-Trump headlines in the liberal media only made his point about bias while also keeping him right at the heart of every story.
00:16:46.000But if it gets proven at some point that by amplifying Trump, by showing Trump, by finding the right line, what we'll do is we'll talk about Trump but we won't show his speeches.
00:16:54.000If they can't continue this delicate dance around the issue of Trump, their model is doomed.
00:16:59.000And perhaps with the rise of independent media anyway, their model is no longer effective.
00:17:04.000What we're watching, I think, is a bunch of institutions falling apart, doubling down on hysteria and authoritarianism in order to resist what seems to me to be the inevitable decentralization of many of their models.
00:17:16.000Let me know what you think in the chat.
00:17:17.000The Washington Post and New Yorker enjoyed record circulation.
00:17:20.000MSNBC and CNN also claimed unprecedented viewership, finally outflanking Fox News as each network competed for an audience hungry for Trump controversies, some of which, like the Steele dossier, were outright fabrications.
00:17:33.000A story we've covered, the Clinton campaign funded lies that made it all the way onto legacy media shows and they've never really acknowledged that.
00:17:40.000They certainly don't ever acknowledge it when they talk about lack of trust in the media or the rise in Trump's popularity.
00:17:45.000Another one of the things they just don't cover.
00:17:47.000The heightened political climate continues to benefit CNN, John Martin, head of Turner, told the Financial Times.
00:17:53.000Even the New York Times boasted about its Trump bump.
00:17:55.000Mark Thompson, then the Times' chief executive, celebrated a continued revenue spike well after the campaign ended, as coverage of exceptional news events, including the firing of James Comey, helped add 109,000 new digital customers.
00:18:09.000Ultimately it's a business model that needs to alter and amend and it needs to exist in these type of spaces.
00:18:14.000I believe that's why these kind of spaces are under significant attack because they represent the emergence of entirely new perspectives or old perspectives re-heard and it's an enormous threat to the media unless they can start penetrating these spaces.
00:18:29.000The Washington Post lost nearly a third of its digital audience and last October announced large cutbacks to its workforce.
00:18:35.000Viewership rates are down at all the major cable and television networks, with NBC and MSNBC just earlier this month reporting yet another round of layoffs.
00:18:42.000When you consider that the Democrat Party essentially exiled RFK rather than have a candidate that could stand up against Trump, and wouldn't even let Bernie Sanders run as a candidate, preferring Hillary Clinton inexplicably, how do you imagine the legacy media, the propagandist arm of the same establishment interests, Feels when it comes to a decision between we're going to have to cut our own workforce and make less money with Biden in office or we can continue to contribute to this hysteria around Trump even knowing that potentially we increase his chances of being elected but also keep our advertising revenue and subs nice and high.
00:19:19.000How do you think they might respond to that internally knowing what we know about their ethics?
00:19:23.000No wonder then that the anti-Trump narrative is rearing its head again.
00:19:26.000The Iowa coverage already points to what lies ahead as Trump is described as a psychopathic criminal.
00:19:42.000And his entire base built on a cult of personality.
00:19:45.000The media will again do battle in an attempt to prevent the former president from returning to the White House.
00:19:50.000Paradoxically though, this is bound to help not hinder Trump's campaign.
00:19:54.000In 2016, journalists were so distracted by the latest Trump tweet that they paid no heed to the electorate.
00:19:59.000It's deep frustration at the establishment and it's longing for a change agent.
00:20:03.000But such are the incentives and outlets are bound to overplay their hand again.
00:20:06.000The professional and financial advantages are such that non-partisan journalism is forgotten.
00:20:11.000The media will cast themselves as defenders of democracy and joust with Trump and his campaign, little realizing that their crusade may well lead him straight back into office.
00:20:20.000I suppose the question we're left with is, is that exactly where they want him?
00:20:24.000What an extraordinary time we live in where our trust in media is so low we can't even trust them in their own evident passion and enthusiasm when it comes to ultimately what matters most to them, ongoing profits.
00:20:37.000When we know how their model is funded, when we know what their affiliations are when it comes to corporatism, when we saw during the pandemic period how they advocate and align in particular with the interest of the pharmaceutical
00:20:47.000industry, which is why we want you to subscribe and watch our
00:20:50.000"8% Excess Death in Children" video if you can, because I believe strongly the legacy media model is
00:20:56.000They have no authenticity, they have no vitality, they have no real connection to the issues they talk about.
00:21:01.000When you see Micah and Morning Joe and those various other pundits pontificating,
00:21:06.000What I believe you're watching is the end of a particular type of institution that has no ideas left except the ongoing vilification of someone in the figure of Donald Trump who has harnessed a tide of anti-establishment zeal and they are completely at a loss as to how to oppose it because to oppose it would mean radically altering their entire model and everything that they advocate for.
00:21:25.000But that's just what I think more important than any of that.