{"id":60287,"date":"2021-11-05T06:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60287"},"modified":"2021-11-05T06:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:34:36","slug":"super-serious-news-reporting-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60287","title":{"rendered":"Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/11\/05\/super-serious-news-reporting-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2.jpg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-2-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-10720\" class=\"post-10720 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-capitalism tag-democratic-party tag-msm tag-narrative-matrix tag-politics tag-propaganda\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/super-serious-news-reporting\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1154150584&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Hi I\u2019m a very serious news reporter. The Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working fine and our wars defend freedom and democracy. The government never lies. Here\u2019s Bob with the weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hilarious that people still think the Democratic Party cares about winning elections. That\u2019s not its job, children. That\u2019s not why the Democratic Party exists. The Democratic Party exists to kill leftward progress in the world\u2019s most powerful nation. That\u2019s all it cares about doing.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party doesn\u2019t care about winning elections. The Democratic Party doesn\u2019t care about promoting popular policies. The Democratic Party doesn\u2019t care about passing legislation. The Democratic Party only cares about doing things like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1455278758760525836&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F11%2F05%2Fsuper-serious-news-reporting-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix%2F&amp;sessionId=ec34f03ce7b418c13ba2c416447b300a52384ca9&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1455278758760525836\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>They were always going to blame Biden\u2019s failures on the left.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1455705503464673282&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F11%2F05%2Fsuper-serious-news-reporting-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix%2F&amp;sessionId=ec34f03ce7b418c13ba2c416447b300a52384ca9&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1455705503464673282\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe political spectrum has moved too far to the left. I believe this because I was told to by a millionaire with a vested interest in stifling support for socialism.\u00a0Also I think \u2018left\u2019 means having pink hair and using words like \u2018polycule\u2019 in casual conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>So mad at American leftists for forcing the Democratic Party to be a right wing imperialist oligarch front who nobody wants to vote for.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>US troops are four times more likely to die by their own hand than in combat. They\u2019ve figured out how to protect US military personnel from enemy fire, but not from the psychological consequences of working for the US military.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Hi I\u2019m a very serious news reporter. The Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working fine and our wars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,171,14545,637,655],"class_list":["post-60287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-corporations","tag-narrative-control","tag-politics","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60288,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60287\/revisions\/60288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}