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Sandy Hook lawyers’ request for $2.75 trillion in punitive damages from Infowars host Alex Jones was so ridiculous that many mainstream publications either did not report on it, or greatly downplayed the development.
In the wake of the wildly astronomical amount reported by Bloomberg News Friday, several news outlets attempted to run cover for the lawyers’ outrageous monetary demand. First, Reuters downplayed the calculation – which supposedly factors in 550 million Infowars Sandy Hook social media impressions and multiplies them by a fine of $5,000 – saying families merely sought “steep” damages. The fact lawyers “said that by one metric, they could be entitled to $2.75 trillion” was relegated to the eighth paragraph.
That report was aggregated to several other news sites which echoed Reuters’ whitewashed headline. Here are just a few sites that ran Reuters’ headline. The Hartford Courant , which bills itself as “America’s oldest continuously published newspaper and Connecticut’s largest news organization,” only told readers the families “ask for massive punitive damages,” evidently deeming the nearly $3 trillion figure unworthy of a headline mention. Irish news site RTE buried the 2.75 trillion dollar number in the sixth paragraph of their article, with a headline bluntly reporting plaintiffs “seek punitive damages.” However, even that mundane headline did more due diligence than many highly respected mainstream publications like The New York Times , The Washington Post , and CNN , which apparently did not find the ludicrous sum newsworthy enough to cover. The report on the trillions appears to have gone so ill-received that even Bloomberg , first to announce the news, abruptly moved to change their headline and rewrite their lede sentence.
See changes in Bloomberg ‘s headline and opening paragraph below: Per Bloomberg, here’s exactly what SH lawyers asked for in their filing: “ The only appropriate punitive […]
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker