unz | Once we recognize that weakening the media is a primary strategic
goal, an obvious corollary is that other anti-establishment groups
facing the same challenges become natural, if perhaps temporary, allies.
Such unexpected tactical alliances may drawn from across a wide range
of different political and ideological perspectives—Left, Right, or
otherwise—and despite the component groups having longer-term goals that
are orthogonal or even conflicting. So long as all such elements in
the coalition recognize that the hostile media is their most immediate
adversary, they can cooperate on their common effort, while actually
gaining additional credibility and attention by the very fact that they
sharply disagree on so many other matters.
The media is enormously powerful and exercises control over a vast
expanse of intellectual territory. But such ubiquitous influence also
ensures that its local adversaries are therefore numerous and
widespread, all being bitterly opposed to the hostile media they face on
their own particular issues. By analogy, a large and powerful empire
is frequently brought down by a broad alliance of many disparate
rebellious factions, each having unrelated goals, which together
overwhelm the imperial defenses by attacking simultaneously at multiple
different locations.
A crucial aspect enabling such a rebel alliance is the typically
narrow focus of each particular constituent member. Most groups or
individuals opposing establishment positions tend to be ideologically
zealous about one particular issue or perhaps a small handful, while
being much less interested in others. Given the total suppression of
their views at the hands of the mainstream media, any venue in which
their unorthodox perspectives are provided reasonably fair and equal
treatment rather than ridiculed and denigrated tends to inspire
considerable enthusiasm and loyalty on their part.
So although they may
have quite conventional views on most other matters, causing them to
regard contrary views with the same skepticism or unease as might anyone
else, they will usually be willing to suppress their criticism at such
wider heterodoxy so long as other members of their alliance are willing
to return that favor on their own topics of primary interest.
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