Full disclosure: I spent most of my career working in Mainstream Media.
So I have a particular interest in following its death throes.
I was a bit giddy in January 2021 with the birth announcement of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG).
Their mission per their website: “TMTG will fight for the First Amendment protections and freedoms of all Americans, protect democracy, and defend capitalism.”
TMTG was created to take on Big Tech and Big Media.
And to save our First Amendment.
Lots happened for TMTG in the first year. Some highlights:
October 2021—A merger between TMTG and Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), a publicly-traded SPAC (special purpose acquisition company), announced that they had entered into a definitive merger agreement that would combine the two entities, allowing TMTG to become a publicly-traded company. (Yes, I bought stock).
December 2021—TMTG said it had raised $1 billion in PIPE funding (private investment in public equity).
December 2021—TMTG announces an agreement for technology and cloud services with Rumble.
January 2022—Congressman Devin Nunes resigned his seat to become the CEO of TMTG. And a month later, Truth Social.
February 2022—Truth Social launches.
Going through the Company Overview of TMTG is instructive. They’ve defined their competitive targets very specifically.
The market opportunity is specifically defined.
The most fascinating slide of TMTG’s Company Overview is the one entitled, “Galvanizing a Conservative Media Universe.”
The players are in place. In no particular order, the media companies shown on this slide are Daily Wire, OAN, Examiner, the Blaze, Fox News, Twitchy, GETTR, Turning Point USA, Rumble, Gateway Pundit, Revolver, NewsMax, Parler, Gab, and Prager U.
A clue lies in mouse type at the bottom of the slide: “TMTG has the opportunity to galvanize & unify the fragmented ‘non-Big Tech’ universe.”
Interesting. Very interesting.
Let me share with you some observations.
The MSM dominos really started falling for me in August 2022.
On August 15, I was searching for a movie to watch on Amazon Prime. We landed on a movie called “Flight/Risk.” Its description: “Flight / Risk follows everyday people who find themselves in the midst of a global tragedy when two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed only five months apart in 2018 and 2019. This powerful documentary is told through the perspective of affected family members, their legal teams, whistleblowers, and Pulitzer-winning Seattle Times journalist, Dominic Gates.”
At the end of the movie, my reaction was, “Why in the WORLD would AMAZON put that movie on their platform?” It was a whistleblower movie, by in large. It was very critical of both our government and Boeing in their roles in the tragedies tied to the Max.
Very, very weird for “woke” Amazon, right? Especially because of their newspaper sibling, the WaPo.
But don’t forget that Amazon is on the “competitor” list for TMTG in the form of AWS. That’s Amazon Web Services—you’ll remember them for the time they decided to TURN OFF Parler.
A few days later on August 18, I was listening to Warroom with Steve Bannon. I was listening live when regular guest Steve Cortes mentioned his “article in Newsweek.” WHAT?!?! Did I hear that right? A CONSERVATIVE market strategist got real estate inside NEWSWEEK? I couldn’t rewind to hear it again, so I went to the Newsweek website.
Yes, Steve’s column was there. But there was more. MUCH more. Other conservative commentators like Gordon Chang and Mike Davis were also there.
WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO NEWSWEEK?
And a month later, on September 20, my jaw dropped again. The NEW YORK TIMES had an HONEST article about the invasion on our southern border!
It became obvious to me at that moment that THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING CAPTURED.
Not all at once. Maybe even one writer, one anchor, one producer at a time. But it’s happening.
Then this week happened. Holy WOW.
On October 3, DJT sued CNN for willful deception and defamation to the tune of $475 MILLION. Again, VERY interesting. Makes me recall the cases brought by Nick Sandman and Kyle Rittenhouse.
The last line in POTUS’ release about the law suit says, “I am proud to file today’s lawsuit in order to begin the process of standing up to Fake News and the Mainstream Media.”
We’re just getting started, folks.
The most interesting piece of the suit against CNN is who “owns” CNN right now.
CNN is currently owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a company formed after merger of WarnerMedia & Discovery Inc. on 8th April, 2022.
(SIDEBAR: Dang it, I can’t resist. Read this headline.
Awwwwwww. Isn’t that CUTE? WarnerMedia and Discovery became Warner Bros. Discovery—or WBD. Because they thought the better of becoming WarnerMedia Discovery—or WMD. Hehehehehehehe).
John C. Malone is a director at Warner Bros. Discovery and has 26.6% voting power as of March 2022.
Per Vox, John Malone sat down for a CNBC interview in November 2021, where he said, “I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”
From DailyMail.co.uk: “Is this the end of CNN's left-wing bias? Billionaire Trump donor, who is the largest shareholder of the network's new owner Discovery, wants to restore it to impartiality—and INSISTED on Jeff Zucker's departure after his affair was exposed
“John Malone is chairman of Liberty Media, Discovery's largest shareholder
“He previously donated $250,000 to Trump's inauguration, and told of wanting to restore CNN to impartial journalism after years of left-wing bias
“After CNN chief Jeff Zucker's relationship with colleague Allison Gollust was revealed, Malone reportedly made it clear policies must be followed”
Hmmmmmm. So John Malone wants a kinder, gentler CNN. And he’s a major donor of our POTUS. Very, very interesting.
Could it be that all the moves to “capture” CNN by Warner Bros Discovery might have been planned? Could it be that John Malone and his crew were “placed” at CNN to gut the place and clean it up for—ummmmm—the future?
There’s no doubt that Trump will win the suit against CNN, if for no other reason than he just doesn’t do anything if he won’t win. (Yes, the exception would be November 3, 2021).
Wouldn’t it “funny” if, because of CNN’s cratering ratings performance, it wouldn’t even be worth $475M? What if they decided to, instead, just turn CNN over to DWAC/TMTG?
Let me remind you what DWAC stands for: DIGITAL. WORLD. ACQUISITION. CORP.
WORLD. ACQUISITION.
I’m getting giddy again.
What if TVs in airports ALL OVER THE WORLD could be used to continue to redpill our planet’s citizens?
A girl can dream, can’t she?
Also this week—Elon’s Twitter deal is back on. HILARIOUS.
AND I’m adding the New York Times to my list, for sure, now. First the story about “Qanon” and the Konnech conspiracy theory. Then today the about-face about the arrest of Konnech’s Eugene Yu has been cracking me up. There’s no doubt that our beloved White Hats have, at the very least, infiltrated the Gray Lady.
“Would you like to play a game?”
I LOVE dominoes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/06/hunter-biden-tax-gun-charges/
I will continue to post links to other MSM dominoes that fall. Please feel free to join me so we can enjoy the view TOGETHER!
https://www.newsweek.com/garland-wray-must-impeached-unconscionable-trump-raid-opinion-1733523