What this article doesn’t discuss, is what is the justification for mainstream media to choose not to “inform”, to choose not to speak truth to power, to choose to omit half the information on issues — all on obviously partisan grounds.

Furthermore, in an era of technological change, it is obvious that the mainstream media has to move with the times; or creative destruction will do to them, what happened to Kodak. It is telling that the success of “new media” is based not just on the platform being “up with the times”, it is also based on “telling the stories and including the information that the legacy media won’t”.

There is such a thing as institutional capture, and many media “experts” would find it too painful to admit that they have become part of the establishment that needs truth speaking to it.

One example — merely the example that has irritated me the most in the last 48 hours: mainstream media reports on “neo Nazi” rallies against immigration, in Germany. Alternative media lets me see the crowds involved (not just from one narrow angle) and listen to interviews with some of their number. I don’t see a “neo-Nazi” rally at all: I see obviously ordinary decent people becoming motivated to protest over a growing crime wave for which non-vetted illegal immigrants are responsible, the realities and implications of which the establishment including the legacy MSM (shame on them) refuses to acknowledge. I see heartbroken ordinary decent people carrying posters bearing the images of loved ones they have lost forever to murderers.

The label of “neo Nazi” being deployed against such people, is such an abominable ploy, that the legacy-media people responsible, are the ones acting like real Nazis. Sickeningly, in our time, the label “Nazi” itself, is being used for classic “de-humanization” of identity groups who are targets. The corollary to this, is that the real Nazis of history have the memory of their evil watered down by the promiscuous association of the term with modern-day movements and people who are no such thing. Youth today are so frighteningly ignorant, that all they know, may be that Nazis are evil and Nazis oppose mass immigration; Hitler must have been evil because he opposed mass immigration. So who needs to know about the Holocaust, and real evil?