Elon Musk Just Exposed the Oil Oligarchy’s Control Over Mainstream Media In Epic Rant

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 Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, the founder  of Tesla, Space-X, and Paypal, recently posted a series of Tweets  pointing out how media organizations have an obvious incentive to give  bad press to electric cars and alternative energy in general.  Musk was unforgiving towards the mainstream media  in his epic Twitter rant, calling them hypocrites and saying that the  public no longer trusts them. 

He said that he doesn’t advertise  for Tesla, his electric car company, which means that he contributes no  money to the media, who depend on advertising dollars to stay in  business. On the other hand, the traditional auto industry and fossil fuel  companies are among the world’s largest advertisers, meaning that they  are one of the primary industries keeping the mainstream media in  business. 

When it comes time to cover a story that involves these  industries, journalists, and media organizations have an obvious bias  and conflict of interest that will influence their coverage of the story  even if they were not given explicit orders to create propaganda. 

“The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay  claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why  the public no longer respects them. Problem is journos are under  constant pressure to get max clicks & earn advertising dollars or  get fired. Tricky situation, as Tesla doesn’t advertise, but fossil fuel  companies & gas/diesel car companies are among world’s biggest  advertisers,” Musk said.     

One of the dark secrets of the advertising industry is the fact that  commercials are not always intended to sell something, but are sometimes  an undercover bribe, which corporations use to control the narrative on  the sponsored news sources. 

An obvious example of this is how military  arms suppliers like Boeing or Lockheed Martin will advertise on major  networks despite the fact that their products are not available for sale  to the people watching the advertisements. It is no coincidence that international stories are covered with a  pro-war slant on every major media platform when the arms dealers are  advertising on each one—in fact, that is the very reason they advertise.  

The same goes for recruitment ads for the military, these serve the  double purpose of recruiting and also controlling the narrative of the  media outlet by becoming their sponsor. Next, Musk announced that he was planning on creating his own media  ranking website that would rate the credibility of journalists by  crowdsourcing reviews from readers. 

He also put up a poll asking his  followers if it would be a good idea, or gave the sarcastic option of “no, media are awesome.”   Musk suggested that he would call his site “Pravda,” and while it would seem that these were thoughts coming off the top of his head, one Twitter follower pointed out that one of Musk’s agents “incorporated Pravda Corp in California” in October 2017. 

As opposed to centralized fact-checking sites like Snopes or  Politifact, which have an obvious bias, a site that allowed the public  to decide who they trusted could be an interesting way to rate  journalists. Of course, any type of rating system is dependant upon the  opinions of the masses, which can sometimes be wrong, and are almost  always controversial. However, this seems to be the best model that has  been proposed thus far, and it does not seem to favor the mainstream  media as other popular “fact checkers” do. 


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I don't buy this one bit. There is a clever game being played here with the public. If anyone thinks Musk is anti-establishment, then think again.

He is part of the same revolving door political/corporate industrial complex. This graph explains the reality

https://steemit.com/corporatism/@geke/gekevenn-tesla

The website will be manipulated by the same people with an extra layer of anonymity through endless amount of fake accounts controlled by them.

BEWARE

I wouldn't be surprised if 90% or more of Fortune 500 companies have lobbyists and people in government. It's not like we have a free market economy in the USA. It's like the mafia. Musk better pay to play if he doesn't want to be shut down and possibly even put in jail.
I think he does make a good point about the media. It is about ratings and revenue and it is also rigged as well.

DING DING DING! KO!

Great to see Musk calling out the bullshit that runs rampant in the media. He really is a genius and we are lucky enough to have him working for the good of humanity.

Every time musk opens his mouth he calls bullshit! Stealing the name of Tesla was a genius con though...

Musk really should have called his fake company Einstein after the famous plagiarist...

Nice to see him speak up!

It is the same with the pharmaceutical companies. MSM can't report on harm done by prescription drugs or vaccines because they will lose the $$$.

The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them https://t.co/Ay2DwCOMkr

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23

This is really heating up

A rating system is unnecessary and might be used by troll armies to legitimize the illegitimate even so. What is necessary is what people like Jan Irving have already developed: https://www.gnosticmedia.com/links/brain/

Once you can demonstrate who pays for who it's not a question of "are they credible", but only of who to stay the hell away from, and anything else is a legitimization of the fifth branch of the government.

I completely agree with you on this one.

yup - follow the money.

I heard about this. Yeah he isn't wrong. The media is in bed with all the elites, corporations, and authorities and they try to sway opinion in ways that are favorable to those interests.

I suspect that this is the reason that YouTube suddenly started attacking weed channels just as legalization is looking more and more inevitable. They have alcohol and prescription drug advertisers and legal cannabis scares the hell out of both of those industries so it seems awfully convenient that they pick now to start silencing people who are actively supporting the cannabis cause.

You could probably tack on Tabacco and Coffe as well to those opposing it, the new coffee shops will be decaffeinated ;)

If Musk can figger a way to keep bots out, he'll make Steemit much easier to clean up as well.

Thanks!

Elon Musk billionaire conman...

Would you buy a used car off this man?

I bought this one at half price.

Hey some places would just weld that back up and say good to go lol.

Your car is ready to go sir

Could I maybe have some sort of engine with that car?
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I wouldn't buy a battery charger off the prick!

I'd pay up front for a flight to Mars though...

LOL a flight through the Van Allen belt, best of luck with the radiation field my friend, even NASA say they misplaced the technology to get through that lol.