As we all saw, every MSM outlet, including Fox news, NY Times, Washington Post, and media companies such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Reddit have all come out strongly against the Pizzagate story, unified behind their fake news narrative.
Of course, this is nothing new, since the MSM has been lying to the American people for years, or perhaps even decades.
However, during the election cycle, we saw emergence of alternative media personalities such as Dave Rubin, Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, etc offered alternative viewpoints, covering the new with a bit more objectivity, especially compared to the MSM.
Curiously, some of these folks, like Steven Crowder, have voiced their skepticism regarding pizzagate.
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1472867
Ben Shapiro even called it fake news on his daily podcast (Ben Shapiro show).
Alex Jones has scrubbed Pizzagate content from his site.
Paul Joseph Watson is not convinced by it: https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/806311758629634048
Even Stefan Molyneux, who is consistently objective on most subjects, seems silent on the matter, and Milo Yiannopolus, who previously was supposed to give a talk on Pizzagate, seems to have reneged on that.
How is it that the entire MSM and most of alternative media personalities are all either against pizzagate or silent on the matter?
tl;dr: alternative media is either not covering pizzagate or signaling against it
Against or doubtful about pizzagate
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Ben Shapiro
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Paul Joseph Watson
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Steven Crowder
Silent on pizzagate
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heks_ ago
Well, to be honest, I don't think skepticism is negative. I'm still skeptical about whether the ultimate conclusions of pizzagate are true or not, but feel free to peruse my comments and see if you think I'm anything less than completely open-minded that it might be true and that something is going that seems to be connected to both occultism and pedophilia. In reality, I think everyone who is actually investigating this should be skeptical, even if they have to force themselves to be, because it will help fend off confirmation bias. I'm just an observer to this investigation, but my skepticism helps me to focus on the things that, taken together, really do seem damning, while ignoring most of the other stuff that seems like a major reach bordering on paranoia.
That said, I was a little surprised by Crowder's take on the issue. He essentially dismissed it but didn't even claim to have looked into it, which seems pretty odd to me given my impression of him. He has said in the past that he's not a conspiracy theory guy, but I'm not really one either, per se (though there's some subtlety in my position on conspiracy theories). Still, pizzagate is not your run of the mill conspiracy theory, but merely the suspicion, based on a mountain of circumstantial evidence, that something is happening in the U.S. that has already happened in plenty of other places around the world, along with the claim that all this stuff warrants a legitimate investigation by people who have the tools and authority to probe it fully.