The media wields immense power in shaping narratives, often aligning with specific agendas to control public perception. It prioritizes spin over truth, as seen in exaggerated reports on events like the Haditha incident, where initial stories of a massacre by Marines were later disproven. Outlets like Facebook and Twitter form a Media-Industrial Complex, pushing progressive biases and punishing deviations. Public trust in media often overshadows factual evidence, evident in misconceptions about the Iraq War. Truth emerges slowly, revealing media reliance on questionable sources and rushed judgments. We must withhold hasty conclusions, allowing reality to unfold, as information becomes a tool of control surpassing even oil in influence.

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Exposing the Media Industrial Complex

Commentary by David F. Maas

Last month, commentator Mark Dice published a thoroughly-researched, massively-documented book titled The Liberal Media-Industrial Complex, exposing the globalist elite's plan to totally commandeer the narrative of every branch of media—broadcast, print, and internet—severely punishing deviations from the Progressive party line espoused by the state-controlled mainstream media. This massive confederation includes integral parts such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, which many have participated in, forming key components of the Media-Industrial Complex.

Jena Sixed

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The media plays a significant role in shaping public perception, often aligning with certain activists to promote specific agendas. It has been instrumental in perpetuating narratives that fit a liberal template, as seen in cases like the Jena 6 and the Duke Lacrosse incidents, where racial animosity is stirred regardless of the actual presence of racism. Information has become the ultimate commodity of control, surpassing oil, with spin overshadowing truth. Whoever controls the bias in the news holds sway over the populace, evident in issues like the Iraq War, climate change hysteria, homosexual-rights movement, and immigration. Polls reveal that Americans often trust media reports over factual evidence, such as the misconception that the troop surge in Iraq increased casualties when, in reality, casualties decreased. The media's relentless focus on exaggerated atrocities contributes to a public outcry that does not reflect the improved situation on the ground.

The Haditha Non-Story

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The major media outlets in the United States and worldwide initially reported the Haditha incident as a brutal massacre by Marines, accusing them of slaughtering 24 Iraqi civilians in retaliation for a comrade's death on November 19, 2005. Media accounts suggested a My Lai-style atrocity, portraying the Marines as having gone rogue, wantonly killing unarmed civilians, some even execution-style. However, as sober investigations and pre-trial hearings unfolded, it became evident that the media had rushed to judgment and got the story backwards. The Marines were following the rules of war, while Iraqi insurgents used civilians as human shields, allowing them to suffer for the insurgents' terrorism. Further scrutiny revealed the media's reliance on questionable sources, such as a gruesome video shot by Taher Thabet al-Hadithi, head of the Hammurabi Organization for Human Rights and Democracy Monitoring, who was filming in the area because insurgents routinely record their ambushes for propaganda. Reporters also took the word of local Iraqis at face value, despite inconsistencies in their accounts. The political environment at the time, with eroding support for the Iraq War and media bias heavily favoring liberal causes, likely contributed to the narrative of a massacre by the Marines. Ultimately, the lesson is clear: we cannot fully trust media reports, especially in breaking news stories where not all facts are known. Truth often emerges only over time, and we must avoid hasty judgment, allowing the reality to speak for itself as more details come to light.

Without a Clue

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Today, every large media organization is controlled by five corporations; each is guided by liberal standards, accepting adultery, homosexuality, and abortion.

Blindness or Disregard?

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The network news programs do not produce stories on the Palestinian's use of women and children as human shields for fighters. Why?

How Was it Accomplished So Easily? (Part Four)

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Satan's few lying words motivated Adam and Eve to sin, acts which have affected us all. We must guard ourselves from the propaganda of the mainstream media.

Deception by Silence

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Those who are obeying Christ's command to 'watch therefore, and pray always' should not be so naïve as to trust any one source for news of the world.

Give It to Us Straight!

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The American people used to express shock when the President was caught in a lie, but post-Clinton, we have become blasé about it. We almost expect it.

Deceiving the American Public

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Although previously cohabiting and homosexuality were viewed with repulsion, political correctness has coerced society to look upon these as normal.

Always an Angle

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Though God does not spew propaganda or use spin, He does have His own—and totally accurate—angle or perspective. To Christians, it should be growing more familiar.

News Is In The News

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Satan is the author of slander and fake news. We must be diligent, not allowing out minds to be twisted along with a sizable portion of our fellow citizens.

More Than Conquerors

CGG Weekly by Martin G. Collins

Verbally vilify a homosexual, an abortion advocate, or Muslim terrorist, and it is a 'hate crime.' Do the same to a Christian, and it is free speech.

The Real Science-Deniers

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The media portrays conservatives as 'science deniers,' yet proclaims that gender is not a matter of observable, testable biology. Who is denying science?

Following the Bean

'WorldWatch' by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Keeping an eye on the news in order to 'watch world events' can be both time-consuming and maddening. Is it distracting us from more important pursuits?

What to Believe?

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The absolute flood of words available to digest every day can make us a little crazy, carried this way and that by persuasive rhetoric or a new fact or angle.

Shaped by the News

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Pilate realized that people can easily twist truth from half-truths to bald-faced lies. Public media today, shaped by Satan, is no different.

Newsworthy?

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

It is blatantly apparent that the dominant (state controlled) media is deliberately tilting the slant of the news to the extreme far left.

Our Enervating Culture

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

If a person cannot honestly ascertain whether a thing is true or false, it will not be long before he loses his grip on reality—which truth defines.

A Telling Reaction

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Some demonstrators called for Donald Trump's assassination, as they 'peacefully' smashed windows, beat white people, and taunted the police.

The Price of Arrogance

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

No matter whether it is good policy or not, a close-to-the-vest style of governance infuriates friend and foe alike because it comes across as arrogant.

Exalting the Base

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

A person who received his knowledge through the mainstream media might be convinced that Yasser Arafat stood as a colossus on the world stage.

1619 and 1984

Commentary by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)

Totalitarian governments often attempt to perpetuate their regimes through policies of 'reschooling' their citizens to bring about behavioral changes.

The Only Path to Reconcliation

Commentary by Mark Schindler

We must avoid being drawn into political conflicts because resolution and reconciliation is only available through yielding to Jesus Christ.

Overlooking Evil

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

America has descended into the cesspool of immorality in its entertainment as well as in its highest political circles, surpassing the surrounding nations.

Putting It In Perspective

CGG Weekly by David C. Grabbe

Catholic clergy have been the target of the media, yet Protestant ministers actually have a higher rate of sexual abuse. The rate is even higher among teachers.

Housing and Property Redistribution

Commentary by Martin G. Collins

The United Nations Agenda 21 plan recommends the confiscation of private property for the sake of an equitable economic and social system.

Christians and Politics

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Even though conservative views seem to be more compatible with the Bible, neither Republican nor Democrat standards are consistent with God's standards.

Disintegration

CGG Weekly by David C. Grabbe

Our advanced communications, which have allowed globalism, are also bringing about tribalism. Rather than uniting everyone, they are dividing.

The Big Lie (Part One)

Commentary by Mark Schindler

Though we are not to become involved in politics, we need to be aware that enslaving lies are everywhere, generated in the mind of the father of lies, Satan.

Entertainment Lies Matter, Too

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

The original production of the television miniseries, Roots, was alleged to be a true history of Alex Haley, while in fact it vastly distorted the truth.

Polling Problems

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The problem with polls is that they are fundamentally worthless. The media uses them, not to provide a snapshot of Americans' opinions, but to influence.

Solving the School-Shooting Crisis

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Resolving these problems is not possible unless policy-makers factor in human carnality. The solution is character reform, not political reform.

Part of the Narrative

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Narratology posits the existence of a contract between author and reader to adhere to a predisposed belief system with fixed rules and explanations.

The Beat Goes On

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Secular progressive propagandists began spreading the rumor that young women were dying in make-shift abortion clinics in an effort to force legislation.

Tyranny by the Few

CGG Weekly by David C. Grabbe

The media bears responsibility for our downward spiral through marginalizing the conservative majority. It presents a warped reality, and gradually makes it stick.

The Abuse of Freedom

Commentary by Joseph B. Baity

Change agents in the United States are engaging in a deliberate assault on free speech, which the Founding Fathers protected through the Bill of Rights.

Passing on an Untruth

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Ty Cobb was perhaps the best baseball player ever, but his reputation was destroyed by media hucksters. The entire narrative was a blatant lie.

Truth Has Fallen in the Streets

Commentary by Clyde Finklea

The news media cannot be trusted as a source of objective truth. In an age when truth has fallen in the street, the media, together with Big Tech, Big Pharma, and some rich and powerful people, stands behind those in power and supports their lies. The shifting claims about masks and vaccines show the problem: so-called experts say masks do not work, then that they do, then that two are needed, then that they do not work after all, and the vaccinated are told they will not need masks and then told to wear them. Those who are vaccinated and still get sick are blamed on the unvaccinated, and some even call the unvaccinated murderers. Anyone who speaks against this narrative is cancelled and has his life targeted for destruction. All of it is really about controlling people. Isaiah 59:14-15 describes such a time, when justice is turned back, the innocent are condemned, and the one who departs from evil becomes prey. A well-packaged web of lies sold gradually to the masses makes the truth seem preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. This corruption is like the days of Noah and shows that the stage is being set for the end.

Our Historical Myopia

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Most people's window of experience and knowledge—their perspective on life—does not stretch beyond their own memories.

Different Signs of the Times

CGG Weekly by David C. Grabbe

If the mainstream media is a bellwether, the earth is about to be invaded by beings from another planet—or it already has been.

Hollywood Propaganda: The Insidious LGBT Agenda (Part Four)

Commentary by David F. Maas

Today, however, every kind of sexual perversion imaginable filters into our living-rooms through Hollywood productions, promoting evil and castigating good.

Zika: A Real Health Emergency?

'WorldWatch' by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

All the sensational headlines obscured the fact that the relative handful of infections by the Zika virus did not make it true a threat.

Has America Gone Crazy? (Part Two)

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

The word 'crazy' comes from the image of an object full of cracks. It implies that a crazy person is so untrustworthy that he must be handled with caution.

So Easily Deceived

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

We desperately need to keep ourselves from the deception and deleterious effects of bad information.

Children Will Be Their Oppressors

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

God, in Isaiah 3:12, prophesies the recruitment of children for propaganda purposes, which we see happening regularly by the secular humanists.

A Political Hurricane

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Mass media and social media have been deliberately poking political hot buttons, purposely dividing the people of this nation to take adversary positions.

Beware the Second Flood (Part One)

CGG Weekly by David C. Grabbe

The immediate danger lies not as much in the specific teachings of the flood from the serpent but in their sheer volume. The peril lies in being swept away.

The Blame Game

Commentary by Joseph B. Baity

People revere doctors and technology above God. We are obsessed with negative and fake news, all assigning blame and pointing critical fingers.

No Time to Think!

Commentary by Martin G. Collins

The media attempt to hypnotize the citizenry to hate Donald Trump and love Hillary, pretending to explain complex situations by two second sound-bites.

Strategies for Escaping Babylon (Part One)

Sermon by David F. Maas

Every form of government fashioned by carnal human beings, including democracies and constitutional republics, are riddled with fatal flaws.

Hollywood Propaganda: The Insidious LGBT Agenda (Part Three)

Commentary by David F. Maas

The Disney company was an American cultural icon which formerly was synonymous with wholesomeness and family values. Now it advances perversion and immorality.

You Deceitful Tongue!

Commentary by Martin G. Collins

Mainstream journalists cannot be trusted as the sole source of news and information. A study commissioned by the London Press Club and conducted by neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart found that journalists have less brain power than other workers to regulate emotions, solve complex problems, and think flexibly and creatively. They are less able to suppress bias, and they drink more alcohol than average, which likely lowered their scores. They are no more stressed than other workers. The press club's own statement lamented these problems but never asked how they affect reporting, accuracy, or honesty. Journalists remain relentless in their belief that they are called to shape thought and opinion, and they are unbothered that their work is distrusted. A Fox News poll found 65% believe reporters make up fake news. Stupid people are not necessarily liars, but liars are foolish, and Psalm 52:2-5 warns that those who love lying and deceitful words will be destroyed, whether they are journalists or anyone else. Truth is a consistent sequence from A to Z, while lies are jumbled and unstable, so news should be tested for context and consistency. Each person must question the shortcomings of all news and information, place confidence only where it is earned, and absolutely trust only the Word of God.

'Dangerous' Speakers of Truth

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Watchwords of our time are 'Islamic terrorism' and 'Muslim extremists,' and nearly every point of conflict on the planet involves Muslim aggression.

Grow Up!

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The age of maturity used to be somewhere between 18 and 21 but it has steadily risen past college graduation to the threshold of a person's fourth decade.

Let No One Deceive You

'Prophecy Watch' by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Increasing knowledge and other modern factors lend themselves to deception, yet this is one of the primary end-time trends that Jesus warns us against.

A Disagreement With the Truth

Sermonette by Joseph B. Baity

God alone possesses truth and we must seek this truth as we would seek precious gems. Pride could be described as disagreement with the truth.

Surreal Events

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

We need to keep our eyes open and not let ourselves be deceived by the professional, state-run media spin masters.

The Ambiguous Mind

Commentary by Martin G. Collins

We cannot vacillate between allegiance to the world's standards and God's perfect standards. As one asks for wisdom, one must relinquish doubt.

Israel's Case Regarding the Land

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

The so-called Palestinian refugees became so when fellow Arabs refused to absorb them, hoping to create perpetual tension and hatred toward the Jews.

What Does It Say?

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

What does it say about a nation that lacks both the heart and the leadership to stop itself from committing suicide? God says we are headed for a fall.

A World Upside-Down

CGG Weekly by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Hezbollah has been successful in its public-relations coup because it set Israel up under a set of parameters for victory that no nation could accomplish.

The Flood Is Upon Us!

'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh

Revelation 12 pictures a flood proceeding from the mouth of the dragon, sweeping many away in a torrent of information that drowns out the truth.

A Famine of The Word (Part One)

Commentary by Martin G. Collins

Billionaires have commandeered Apple, Twitter, Google, and Facebook, all ostensibly created for promoting free speech, for the purpose of censoring comments.

Strategies for Escaping Babylon (Part Two)

Sermon by David F. Maas

In the Olivet prophecy, Jesus gave His disciples a pointed warning about rampant deception occurring at the close of the age, engineered by the arch deceiver.

What's the Endgame?

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Leaders will use crises to consolidate their power and further their agenda. The real devastation may occur after the coronavirus runs its course.

Follow the Herd?

Commentary by Mark Schindler

Greed has caused panic buying and selling of pharmaceutical stocks and has spawned a booming vaccine industry coupled with shameless scientific fraud.

Reinterpreting History

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

The New York Times asserts that Charles Manson was a precursor to the alt-right movement. Yet there was nothing conservative about Manson.

The Same Plumb Line

Commentary by David C. Grabbe

A former president was sexually immoral, lied with impunity, and misused his position. The same is true of the current one. Will we apply God's standard equally?

Unmasking Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Part One)

Commentary by David F. Maas

The mainstream media is mendacious, and together with the leftist Silicon Valley censors, who act as a thought police, it works to silence truth-tellers. Dr. Francis Boyle, the man responsible for the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, warned about the U.S. biological warfare industry, and the media and tech censors tried to suppress his warnings. Only the work of Dr. Joseph Mercola and others has unearthed the censored transcripts. The leftist media also manufactures public heroes. It has created Dr. Anthony Fauci as America's most beloved doctor, even though he funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan laboratory, and it conditions the public to revere Bill Gates as a philanthropist whose vaccines will supposedly save mankind. Such figures may look fair, but they feel profoundly foul. They are wolves in sheep's clothing with messiah complexes. By shaping what people see and believe, the media helps progressively manipulate citizens to conform to a tyrannical globalist order. This is part of the deceit and delusion God allows to come upon those who take pleasure in wickedness and refuse the truth (II Thessalonians 2:11-12). Even the elect are not safe from such compelling false delusions (Matthew 24:24).

Fear and Fire

Commentary by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Mainstream media has perfected the technique of keeping people in perpetual fear, with the objective of scaring gullible viewers into conforming to their will.

Staying On Point

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

We need to carefully consider whether TV and the Internet are really a blessing or a potentially life-threatening curse—another pull we are forced to resist.

Faith and Technology

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As technology becomes more available, the material world threatens to crowd God out of the picture. The information age will destroy us unless we manage it.

Today's Christianity (Part Two): Southern Christianity Moves North

'Prophecy Watch' by Charles Whitaker

Contrary to the intention to marginalize Christianity through the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, it instead gave rise to a new strain of conservative Christianity.

Vaccine Safety

Commentary by David F. Maas

Media coverage of the vaccine controversy surrounding An Inconvenient Study demonstrates a pattern of institutional deception that connects directly to broader themes of discerning truth in a corrupted world. When attorney Aaron Siri testified before Senator Ron Johnson about Dr. Marcos Zervos's suppressed Henry Ford Health study, which found vaccinated children were 2.5 times more likely to develop chronic disease than unvaccinated children, the mainstream propaganda narrative immediately labeled the censorship claims as conspiratorial nonsense. This establishment response is portrayed as part of a broader effort to discredit figures such as RFK Jr., who opposes what Scripture in I Timothy 6:20 calls "science falsely so-called." Jeremy Hammond's reporting exposes how public vaccine apologists, including the WHO, CDC, and pharmaceutical executives, conveniently omit that the admission of censorship did not originate with critics but with the researcher who headed the study itself. This pattern reveals an institutionalized bias in how information is filtered and presented to the public: studies finding vaccine harms are dismissed as fatally flawed, while seriously flawed studies claiming safety are trumpeted as conclusive proof. Hammond's conclusion, that the real disinformation originates not from vaccine skeptics but from the public health establishment that dominated recent government administration, is reinforced by his free 95-page e-book, The New York Times vs. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: How the Mainstream Media Spread Vaccine Misinformation. This resource is recommended as a tool for understanding how major media outlets participated in spreading false narratives rather than reporting truth. The treatment of RFK Jr. by media and government cohorts is framed as evidence of a deeper spiritual and political corruption, one that enabled tyrannical mandates, including vaccine and mask requirements and restrictions against worship assemblies, enforced by political figures. Had RFK Jr. held greater influence, such tyranny might have been avoided. His subsequent action imposing black box warning labels on childhood vaccines is presented as a corrective step against the misinformation media had helped propagate. This media critique extends to the treatment of political figures more broadly, as seen in the description of the "leftist, woke press corps" directing biased and asinine questions at Karoline Leavitt. Rather than responding with anger, the appropriate posture is one of restraint, recognizing that God sovereignly uses even evil, biased people to accomplish His ultimate purposes, as affirmed in Proverbs 16:4 and Daniel 2:21. This connects the media discussion to the larger call for God's people to prioritize obedience to divine law over human authority, as commanded in Acts 5:29, and to recognize themselves as ambassadors of heaven's government rather than participants in earthly politics or media narratives. The corruption evident in mainstream media's handling of vaccine science thus becomes a case study illustrating why discernment, patience, and trust in divine justice, rather than personal vengeance or political entanglement, must guide the faithful through a world where human institutions, including the press, frequently conflict with divine truth.

Why Do You Believe?

Sermonette by Hunter D. Swanson

Combatting the ubiquitous falsehoods is an obligation entrusted to every saint. But the sword of truth cannot be properly used without conviction.

The Answer is in the Bucket (Part Six)

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

Americans once held high ethical standards. However, America has egenerated into a cultural cesspool, now providing a poor example for the rest of the world.

What's in the Bucket? (Part Three)

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

The elected politicians who refuse to dispel the myths promulgated by the media demonstrate their complicity in the deception.

Simplifying Life (Part Five)

Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by David F. Maas

The seventh-day Sabbath is God's design for rest, sanctification, and restoration, both today and for the entire creation in the Kingdom of God.

Intensity is Increasing: Are You Listening?

Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

It is far more important for God's called-out ones to be ready than to know the time of Christ's return, an event to which even He is not privy.

Is America a Christian Nation? (Part One)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

The founding of the United States and the other nations of modern Israel was not random or accidental, but purposely orchestrated by our Creator.

Are You Being Brainwashed? (Part 1)

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

We must embrace the fruits of the Spirit, preferring God's truth to the deceitful spin, brainwashing, and doublespeak of the world's institutions.

Many Excuses

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

We need to avoid the trap of self-justification, allowing our hasty words to lure us into sin. We must be quick to listen, and slow to speak.