Important read, lots of good info-names to find Truth!-----Truth wins as ‘citizen journalists’ rise — and legacy media fades - Glenn H. Reynolds

If you don’t follow the press, you are uninformed, goes the old saw; if you do follow the press, you are misinformed.

Nowadays you can actually be, you know, informed if you carefully follow the alternative press and social media.
It’s a major reason why the organized left, the Democrats and the traditional media — but I repeat myself — have less traction today than they used to...
But things are different now: 

• Musk transformed Twitter into X and made it a free-speech platform, not a conventional-wisdom echo chamber. Today it’s the leading news source in many countries.
• A plethora of independent media platforms, like Canada’s Rebel News, Great Britain’s GB News, and PJ Media, Substack and many other American outlets, make sure that truth gets out, despite the old-line media’s best efforts.
• Independent reporters like Andy Ngo and Brandi Kruse brave Antifa beatings and harassment to expose the reality of leftist “protests.”...

Gallup recently discovered that 69% of Americans distrust the media; only 31% generally believe their reporting.
That’s a huge change: In 1976, after Watergate, 76% trusted the media...
Traditional media in America have served three different roles, and they’re losing influence in all three realms.

• First, they have stifled conservative perspectives. The leftist echo chamber in entertainment and the press drowned out many voices and left others hesitant or afraid. That’s mostly over. “Cancel culture” has lost its sting, and the right has its own platforms now.
• Second, the traditional media set narratives for the people in the middle — the disengaged, passive news consumers who assumed what they heard was true. As Gallup’s results demonstrate, that group is nothing like a majority anymore.
• Finally, the traditional media served to keep the left’s true believers fired up. Constant repetition of talking points, nonstop targeting of whoever counts as Hitler this week and an unending sense of crisis meant that hard-core supporters stayed engaged and motivated. That’s still going on, but the plummeting audiences for networks like MSNBC and CNN mean it’s a lot less effective than it used to be...