Message for Stuff Circuit - Penfold, Longbottom, etc 1 of 2.
As journalists you know that context is everything.
Your reporting could be improved by widening your perspective to explore in better detail and with some sympathy the real concerns of those who have decided they can no longer trust mainstream narratives and in particular those who now believe that the mainstream media suffer from the disability of not being truly independent. The issue of distrust of the media & institutions is a consequence of the betrayal of that trust over decades, but it seems to be culminating about now. Your use of the image “Mainstream MEDIA = TRAITORS was an apt choice. The scorn for the media is the same scorn shown by a jilted partner – a betrayal. If this comes as a surprise, then you have not been paying attention and you have a visual impairment. This is the context behind the stories “False Profit” & “Infinite Evil”.
When a citizen holds values that run counter to the propagated views, they quickly become aware of the partiality and prejudice demonstrated by the MSM on a daily basis. The smell of hit-pieces fill the nostrils like gasoline. The relationship of co-dependency between institutional powers and the media is real and completely inverts the mantra that Journo’s provide – “Our job as journalists is to hold power to account.” Who will hold the power of journalists (and their powerful backers) to account when they are an essential part of the very power matrix they claim they hold to account.
8Chan is an open media space which by-passes the control gates of the established media. Like a voluntary gulag, it is a space for lepers, criminals and undesirables - particularly those with undesirable, non-conformist world views. This is known to the three letter agencies and opponents of free speech who deluge the space with demoralizing material in a bid to dilute its effectiveness and to paint us all as idiots. It is also an habitat for the so-called basement dwellers extending their infantilism into their middle years and beyond.
Yes there is a lot of horrible content, but that is not all there is.
8Chan is also an habitat for informed people with life experiences who have served in positions privy to inside knowledge and as a back-channel for the release of information that would otherwise endanger the informant. Such information has been vectored in real time from multiple sources and disseminated at a rapid rate.
To characterize all who participate on Qresearch as your interviewees suggest - as adolescent, neo-nazi, misogynistic losers is to fall into the same trap as Hillary Clinton who declaimed a vast swathe of her USA population as "deplorables". This alienation did not go un-noticed and the label (like the word "queer") has become a term of empowerment for that class of people. Please widen your vision to understand that in amongst the morass of mis-information there are also nuggets of truth that have stood up to scrutiny. Just one example is that the Anons on QResearch knew that the Russia collusion narrative was a lie three years ago – not only that, but why it was a lie and who the liars were. They have also observed the MSM studiously avoiding counter-narratives because of their obsession with Donald Trump. In this they have mis-used their power and betrayed their audience.