The media lies to you, not all the time, sometimes they do.

Then there are journalists who are just too lazy or inept to actually do the work,

and thus they put out stories that are factually incorrect and misleading.

But there's also a group of journalists and academics and people on the far left

who talk to each other on forums online and conspire to push certain political narratives.

It's not a conspiracy, this is actually true, and it was uncovered nearly eight years ago.

So today we're going to explore some of the issues of how journalists manipulate the narrative

by conspiring with each other, and we're only going to be able to just touch the surface of this.

So I hope you're ready to dive into the rabbit hole and look at some contemporary issues

as well as some of the issues that took place nearly ten years ago.

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The story I'm about to bring up warrants a much larger documentary.

But what I'm going to do is lead you to the water, and it's your choice if you're going to drink.

This is the story of the journal list.

The journal list or J list was a private Google groups forum for discussing politics

and the news media with 400 left-leaning journalists, academics and others.

As recline created the online forum in February 2007, while blogging at the American prospect

and shut it down on June 25th, 2008, amid wider public exposure.

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