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

 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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My name is John Vibes and I am an author and researcher who organizes a number of large events including the Free Your Mind Conference. I write for numerous alternative media websites, including The Free Thought Project @tftproject and The Mind Unleashed. In addition to my first book, Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance, I have also co-authored three books with Derrick Broze @dbroze : The Conscious Resistance: Reflections on Anarchy and Spirituality, Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion and Manifesto of the Free Humans

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