Hey friends, welcome to the Natasha Crane Podcast. In today's episode, we're going to

talk about how mainstream media gas lights Christians,

and pretty much everyone else who disagrees with them.

If you're not sure what that gas light word means, I'm going to explain that in a second,

but let's back up here.

So I had a revelation last week that in retrospect was many years overdue.

In fact, it is so overdue that it borders on embarrassing to admit that this was a revelation in 2022,

but here it is.

Mainstream media doesn't try to be objective.

Now, before you laugh too hard,

let me make a clear distinction. I have long known that mainstream

media is not objective. But I had somehow strangely held on to this assumption that they thought

they were being objective, but they just woefully

lacked enough self-awareness to see how crazily biased they were. What I realized

last week is that of course they know how biased they are,

whether they've ever stopped to acknowledge the changed nature of so-called news or not.

We've simply drifted over time into this land where the unstated new normal is that virtually all news is essentially

op ed. I think the reason honestly that I naively held on to this idea that news

is inherently supposed to be objective is that I started out as a broadcast journalism major in

college. Way back in the ancient days of 1994 I was taking classes that

presupposed gasp every good journalist should be objective.

Our news story homework assignments would come back to us with the finest of edits designed

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