This is thanks to the media's former trustworthiness from the last century, back when families used to gather around the television to get updates from around the world or watch major events like the moon landing or JFK's assassination. 

But the world you once lived in is gone. Now, what matters more than anything is money and political power, and that has infected every inch of mainstream society. Nothing is safe, everything is subject to influence, and there is nothing that is sacred enough to escape revision. 

A complete cultural overhaul is the goal. 

You see this in every aspect of mainstream society from movie studios to the nightly news. Commercials, talk shows, and comic books are all created with the leftist bent in mind. 

But no one drives this forced cultural change quite like today's journalism. Media manipulation has been perfected by today's mainstream news outlets to the point where they can collapse a person's entire life with a mere accusation. 

Russell Brand is a great example of this. As you know, the media's quest to destroy him has been purposeful and very far-reaching. While the media has turned up no hard evidence to prove the rapes they're accusing him of, they don't need the evidence. All they need is an accusation, and to have that accusation repeated by various news sources. He could be completely innocent, but in the court of public opinion, he's already guilty. 

(READ: Lauren Boebert and Russell Brand Are Proof the Media's Gun Only Points One Way)

You'll notice that this is exactly what the Washington Post tried to do to Dave Portnoy. As my colleague Ward Clark wrote on Wednesday, Portnoy got wind that the Washington Post was accusing him of "racist and misogynistic" comments to the businesses sponsoring his upcoming "Pizza-fest" event happening on Saturday. Portnoy called the WaPo journalist in question, Emily Heil, and confronted her about the accusations and asked when she planned on talking to him. Heil attempted to lie and say she never said it, but Portnoy had the proof that she said those things in front of him in the email she had sent his advertisers. 

As Clark noted, this wasn't an accident. In fact, it's a pattern: 

It would be nice if the Washington Post's Emily Heil was one of the worst offenders, but she's not even in the top ten. Earlier this month my colleague Brad Slager gave us a compilation of Chuck Todd's Greatest Hits, and there were some doozies. And Sister Toldjah also brings us the tale of yet another "tell all" book accusing Ron DeSantis, literally, of kicking puppies. There are many others, many more prominent, many even less forthright and honest.

These aren't journalist outlets, they're political organizations. The media has a vested interest in making you believe certain narratives because these narratives reward corporations, political parties, and themselves with power. Anyone who questions the narrative or disrupts it in any way must be destroyed. 

Today it's Portnoy and Brand. Tomorrow it's you. 

But like the lower-case "g" gods of old, they only have power so long as you believe in them. If you truly want to take power out of the media's hands, everything they say must be taken with a grain of salt and further verified. Think of it as dealing with the boy who cried wolf. 

The way our justice system is supposed to work is innocent until proven guilty. That's not the way it works in the court of public opinion, or at least that's how the media wants it. 

Fine. 

If that's the case then the media is deemed guilty of lying about any given subject they report on until they're proven truthful. Until then, nothing they say can be taken as fact until it's verified by the people. The very same people that the media has treated as enemies.