The Media is Like an Abusive Partner

How the media facilitated the destruction of our economies then pretended to be our friend by offering lame household budgeting advice

It’s a pity we don’t hold our news media to the same standard that we hold each other. If we did, then their behaviour in the last two and a half years alone would be more than sufficient to permanently render them persona non grata, if not cause for serious criminal penalties. Because the fact is that the way the corporate media behaves towards us, the people they claim to serve, is indistinguishable from the violence and gaslighting of the typical abusive spouse.

There are three key aspects to the cycle of abuse:

Firstly, the perpetrator will attack their partner physically or psychologically, or through some other coercive means, in order to exert dominance and control, and ultimately to tear down the other, undermining their sense of self and leaving them anxious, ambivalent, and afraid.

But then, once this damage is done, the abusive one will step in to fill the void, firstly by gaslighting the victim – convincing them that they’ve misunderstood the situation, that the violence did not actually occur, or that it was somehow warranted. The perpetrator will obfuscate the situation, causing the victim to question their own recollection of events and, in extreme cases, even their own sanity. Once the gaslighting is complete, the perpetrator then becomes the caring and reliable partner once more, offering solutions, support, and solace to the frightened and confused victim. This rebinds the victim to their persecutor and closes the toxic loop, thus perpetuating the cycle of abuse.

The media behaves in the same way. Take the past two and a half years:

Without the complicity of the global media establishment, the monumental fraud of the Covid narrative would never have been viable. From the start, our so called ‘news’ outlets adopted a uniform party line, falling in lockstep behind the technocrats of the WEF and WHO and painting the virus as an existential threat to society. They swiftly crafted and perpetuated a hysterical narrative of fear and immediately became mouthpieces for the various authoritarian politicians who pounced on this so-called crisis to roll out unprecedented and entirely disproportionate police state responses.

The media championed lockdowns, masks, business closures, police and political overreach, mass money printing, and, eventually, vaccine mandates and the establishment of a two-tier society of compliant Class-A citizens, and dirty unvaccinated Untermenschen.

And even as the data mounted up and it became clear that none of these things were having their intended effect, and that they were in fact making things much worse, the media continued to push for them – on and on and on, for two years straight, until the situation became so absurd that they simply had to change the conversation – and this they did by pivoting to the war in Ukraine.

The media were instrumental in facilitating the destruction of our society; in dissolving our civil liberties; in wiping out a huge section of the productive middle class; in transferring trillions of dollars of wealth from regular working people to the billionaire class; in destroying our economies and causing historic inflation; in hobbling the development of an entire generation of children; and in aiding and abetting hundreds of thousands, if not millions of vaccine injuries and deaths.

Given what we know now (and what many of us, including the media, knew all along) – that the virus was virtually harmless to all except the elderly, obese, and immuno-compromised; that lockdowns and masks were ineffectual; that the cost of paying for these ridiculous measures would create crippling inflation; and that the vaccines are neither safe nor effective – given all this, in the context of the relationship the media has with the people, their behaviour was supremely abusive.

Identical, in fact, to that of an abusive partner – a deliberate, dishonest, and unrepentant attack on our sense of calm, control, and wellbeing. Their weaving of an almost entirely fabricated narrative around Covid and the supposed dangers it posed, and then around the vaccines and their supposed safety and effectiveness – despite piles of evidence to contrary – successfully terrified and traumatised hundreds of millions of people, and even drove many of them completely insane.

Then suddenly they stopped talking about Covid – remember? It was in February 2022, right around the time Putin conveniently invaded Ukraine. What a windfall for the global media establishment (if you believe in such coincidences, which I do not) for by this time the narrative was collapsing so completely that even the most enthusiastic establishment propagandists were struggling to maintain the façade. Many indeed had begun to backpedal on their previous positions, attempting to distance themselves from their more hysterical headlines and reframe their conversations to be more inclusive of evidence and points of view that they had up until then excluded with extreme prejudice. Gaslighting.

The media’s attempt to obfuscate their way out of culpability for the vast fraud that was the Covid narrative is no different from the abusive spouse gaslighting their victim into believing that ‘it wasn’t that bad’ or ‘you’re not recalling the events clearly’, or simply ‘that never happened – you must be crazy’. But even the media outlets who did not directly backpedal engaged in a form of gaslighting just by pivoting their conversation to Ukraine. Abruptly abandoning an apocalyptic two-year long global narrative which saturated every waking minute of everyone’s lives merely because Russia invaded one its former republics… I don’t care how you dress that up – it’s gaslighting.

And what are our good friends in the media doing now?

Well, they are nothing if not true to form, and unsurprisingly, they are faithfully acting out the third aspect of the cycle of abuse – they are offering us solutions.

You know what I’m talking about… I’ll bet you’ve seen it on TV or read it in the newspaper… those cheery, chummy pieces about how to tighten your belt and combat the rising inflation.

This is the part that drives me absolutely wild.

Like are you fucking kidding me right now? So, first you actively facilitate the destruction of our economy despite the mountains of evidence that what you are doing is wrong. Then you try to pretend you had nothing to do with it.  And then you turn around and try to ingratiate yourselves by offering us lame household budgeting tips and thrifty shopping guides to help us through the shitstorm that YOU CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE?!!

I generally try to avoid profanity in my writing – it’s cheap and unprofessional – but sometimes there’s simply no better way to express one’s disgust.

Fuck the media. With the exception of a very few outliers like Sky News Australia, fuck the entire corporate ‘news’ complex and every contemptible lying piece of shit who works within it.

I say this with an unbridled venom that has burned with the intensity of the Chernobyl nuclear fire since the early days of the ‘pandemic’ and has not wavered since. Unlike Chernobyl though, no amount of sand and boron will extinguish my ongoing reaction. My absolute contempt for our so-called news media could not be more complete, and any time I’m unfortunate enough to catch a snippet of one of their gushy How to Fight Inflation pieces I am vividly recalled of this searing hatred.

I invite you to consider the way the media abused the people of our world during the Covid scam, and then how they flippantly attempted to distance themselves from this behaviour, and now – how they sit there on TV night after night, and every morning in their $2,000 suits, talking down to us like the stupid half-wit children they take us for, offering up their latest Ten Tips to Make Your Grocery Budget Go Further, or Five Local Staycations That Won’t Break the Bank…

I invite you to consider the absolute state of these cockroaches and, in turn, to treat them accordingly – as you would treat the perpetrator in any other abusive relationship.