Every day, I'm further radicalized by the legacy media, and not in the way they hope.
I was watching the interview Elon Musk did with The Economist, and I'd like to tell you I was flabbergasted by the conversation, but really I was just annoyed to the point of anger. As my colleague Nick Arama reported, The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, had one of the most intriguing men in the world sitting right across from her, and she was more preoccupied with berating him about his politics than exploring his genius.
You could sense Musk's frustration behind his smile, too, as he laid down one hell of a retort when Beddoes tried to get him to see why so many people "loathe" him, asking him if he understands why like he's an idiot.
"I don't care. The fact that... a quarter billion people follow me is that a lot more people like me than don't, and I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize," Musk replied.
🚨 Elon Musk just NUKED this reporter to her face in a MASTERCLASS
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 23, 2026
"People loathe you!"
ELON: "I don't care. The fact that a quarter billion people follow me means a lot more people like me than don't."
"I think a lot more people hate YOU and the MEDIA than you realize!"
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Read: Boom: Elon Delivers Mic Drop Moment Against the Media During Fiery Interview
Musk is spot-on, and that's not just my bias speaking. The media is consistently polled as being highly distrusted by the people, and for good reason. They lie so habitually that if the media were a singular person, a psychiatric doctor would've diagnosed them with some form of sociopathy. They lie with impunity, have zero regard for the havoc it brings, and feel no guilt or shame when they're either caught or the lie ends up getting many people hurt, or both.
Let's look back at recent history for a reference.
Black Lives Matter was a movement that became a series of destructive and deadly riots because the media decided to stoke the flames as high as they could in the name of not racial equality, but a Democrat Party that needed a boost. Innocent people died, properties were destroyed, but man, were the headlines good!
And this isn't just commentary from me. This was something a Harvard professor researched. He found that massive spikes in crime in any given area weren't due to more police, as was the case being made at the time, but more media presence, especially when said media presence is hostile to police, none of whom want to become the next supervillain of the year just for doing their job.
When this professor, Roland Fryer, took this info to the media, they told him to shut up:
Certain shootings that did not result in national media attention did not cause fatality or felony rates to increase. While additional research is still needed to find the direct cause of the increase in homicides, the real culprit seems to be the media.
And the media, according to Fryer, isn’t wanting to give him the time of day about it. Fryer attempted to show his information to the media but was dismissed out of hand. According to the Harvard professor, the media has an “absolute refusal to grapple with the data,” and what’s more, there was an “insistence” that he shouldn’t publicize the data at all.
This is the same media that, when there's an incident that should cause incredible amounts of outrage across the Western world, goes completely silent if the narrative is too inconvenient to their left-leaning sentiments.
A trans person shoots up a school and kills children? Forgotten in a week.
Black Lives Matter kills a retired police officer just trying to defend his friend's electronics store? Not a word.
Man drives a car into an LGBTQ+ Pride parade?
Get on that immediately. I want round-the-clock coverage, I want interviews with experts about LGBTQ+ hate, I want the victim who died memorialized day and night, and I want at least two Netflix documentaries about the incident, and a movie about it to boot, and I want it ready for next June, and I want it to star Timothy Chalamet...
...the driver's name was Abdul?
Actually, you know what, the queer community gets enough coverage, don't you think?
❗️A car plowed into a crowd at an LGBTQ+ Pride parade in Berlin, killing one person and injuring at least 16 others
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) July 26, 2026
According to police, one or more suspects fled the vehicle after the attack. Several people were also reportedly stabbed.
Police are searching for 21-year-old… pic.twitter.com/4u1ZCpgZAx
Trump once referred to the media as the "enemy of the people," which is something they got collectively b**t-hurt about. They spent quite a good many wasted minutes of airtime trying to argue how even saying such a thing puts reporters in danger.
And I think he's wrong, too. I don't think the press is the enemy of the people.
I think they're the enemy of humanity.
I don't know what they're for nowadays. It seems their job is just to make any given situation worse. They don't report the news; they give you a story as told by a radical lunatic. I never flip on the television nowadays. I rarely go to a legacy media news site anymore. All of my news comes from people I've learned to trust who aren't legacy media reporters, or I'm piecing together the story from various sites, videos, and reports.
Should any of that info come from a legacy media source, I always try to read between the lines, because that's where the real story genuinely is.
Other than that, I'm not sure what the purpose of them is nowadays, but I know what their outcome is, and it's not good for anyone.
