Cover Up and Exposure: The Self Serving Nature of Establishment Media and the Right's Embrace of Fantasy

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121525125/heres-why-conspiracy-theories-about-jeffrey-epstein-keep-flourishing

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121648290/a-publisher-abruptly-recalled-the-2-000-mules-election-denial-book-npr-got-a-cop

And a follow-up:

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/25/1131077739/heres-what-changed-in-dinesh-dsouzas-2-000-mules-book-after-it-was-recalled

I've had these links in my backlog for a few months now. The stories appeared on the same day. The combined reporting could be described as both lies and attacking liars – covering up and exposing at the same time. It's enough to make your head spin.

On the one hand, NPR is defending the ridiculous narrative about Jeffrey Epstein's death. The anomalies are just too much and given the way Epstein's larger role and political profile have been covered up – it's hardly shocking that his death is also a cover-up. He had to die. This is certain. The holes in the official story are glaring and so when Establishment outlets like NPR push this line and then go on the attack – yes, people become sceptical of the mainstream media, and rightly so.

The Right has picked up on this as evidenced by the proliferation of alternate media outlets – once the province of the Left. And yet, their narratives have gone off the rails and they've fallen into the same patterns of self-serving spin, and cover-up. D'Souza continues to play an important if utterly deceptive role in this process. A scam artist in every way – from his scholarship to his personal life, the man is an utter fraud. And yet, he tickles ears and as such remains quite popular.

In his case, he concocts conspiracies that do not exist, nor can they exist within any coherent framework. His assumptions are wrong and often ignorant and as such the edifice he builds is a house of cards. His analysis is reckless, hypocritical, and ridiculous. One would think his track record of falsehoods, false predictions, criminality, and personal immorality would discredit him but no, he's a star – and a teflon one at that it would seem.

And yet in his election claims, D'Souza may have reached a little too far. His wild and unfounded accusations have opened him up to lawsuits. His critics didn't have to shut him down – his publisher and media allies did in order to protect themselves. It demonstrates how flawed and baseless his claims are. No one wants to risk having to defend these accusations in court – because they know that they won't stand. D'Souza is revealed as a clown, a person who cannot be taken seriously. He plays to an audience that has money, and he makes money for his backers who use him and find him convenient – but that doesn't mean that he's credible or possesses any integrity.

And on that note, serious Christians need to reconsider their use and reliance on the Salem media empire and the farce that is SRN news.

It's right to question the media, but to careen from spin and obfuscation to outright mendacity and buffoonery isn't just foolish – it's tragic. The answer to mainstream media's propaganda and cover-up campaigns cannot be a turn to the likes of D'Souza, John Birch (JBS), and other Alex Jones-type figures.

There's plenty to be suspicious of and many secrets and obfuscations, but in the end some of the exposé agents are revealed as little more than charlatans on a grand scale – every bit as deceptive and immoral as the Establishment media figures they're critical of.