{"id":12380,"date":"2019-05-08T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12380"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:13:57","slug":"how-independent-journalists-are-beating-the-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/how-independent-journalists-are-beating-the-mainstream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"How Independent Journalists Are Beating the Mainstream Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Timcast-YouTube-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Timcast-YouTube-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Timcast-YouTube-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Timcast-YouTube-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Timcast-YouTube.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em> <br>\u201cI don&#8217;t know who to believe. Why don&#8217;t I just go there and see for myself?&#8221; <\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reason<\/strong>, by John Stossel &#8211; May 8, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to let them bully me out of reporting,&#8221; said Tim Pool  after recording an Antifa protest where angry activists cursed at him.  There might have been violence, but Antifa&#8217;s &#8220;de-escalation team&#8221;  protected him, he says.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That surprised me. &#8220;Antifa has a de-escalation team?&#8221; I ask Pool in my latest internet video.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They have people who try and make sure nobody from their side starts it\u2014because cameras are rolling,&#8221; he answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pool is part of the new media that now cover stories the mainstream media often miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve  become part of that new media, too. I still work at Fox, but now most  of my video views (117 million plus) come from short videos I post on  YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/05\/08\/how-independent-journalists-are-beating-the-mainstream-media\/\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/05\/08\/how-independent-journalists-are-beating-the-mainstream-media\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t know who to believe. Why don&#8217;t I just go there and see for myself?&#8221; Reason, by John Stossel &#8211; May 8, 2019 Excerpt: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to let them bully me out of reporting,&#8221; said Tim Pool after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/how-independent-journalists-are-beating-the-mainstream-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12382,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380\/revisions\/12382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}