How lefty infrastructure enforces its narrative

Ever wonder how the Merc, SJ Spotlight, and Labor-backed pols at SJCC all seem to take the same position with the same talking points at the same time on issues they care about? It's not serendipity. Stephen Green of PJ Media opines on how the Left's communication scheme isn't really about persuading anyone of anything, but rather is a strategy to crowd out dissenting perspectives. 

Aren’t you sick to death of the Current Message? I know I am.

Did you notice that something that had never been an issue before,  suddenly popped up everywhere all at once? That’s how it works. One message is repeated, amplified, repeated again, and reamplified, across every available medium.

Whatever the Current Message is, media outlets will include it plotline. The search engine you use — and it doesn’t matter which one — promotes pages selling the same pablum and squelches dissenting views. Social media algorithms void your shares and silence your comments. 

Each of us has a voice. But what does it matter when all our voices are shouted down in the cross-media din? Or as PJ Media’s own Richard Fernandez tweeted today, shortly after I’d turned in this column:

In totalitarianisms, the credibility of the media is actually unimportant. Their actual function is to suppress information, reduce the bandwidth and semantically impoverish speech. In such a system, you never know the truth but you know with precision the offical party line.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 1, 2023

This article originally appeared in PJ Media. Read the whole thing here.

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