Mainstream Media Timeline

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1962 <- "And that's the way it is."

1976 <- "There are questions as to whether Carter is too close to the eastern-sea-board-establishment."

1985 <- "Of course the Federal Reserve is part of the government. It's the FEDERAL reserve!"

1995 <- "They have on their tin-foil hats to stop the mind control rays from the black helicopters."

2001 <- "We must not tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories."

2005 <- "You can't believe everything you read on the internet."

2010 <- "Dangerous ideas have been circling from fringe website, infowars.com."

2012 <- "Some guy, we don't know who he is. He's not a patriot. He's a pinhead."

2014 <- "We've debunked the conspiracy theories of Alex Jones here already."

2015 <- "Didn't we debunk Infowars last week?"

2016 <- "We're debunking Alex Jones every day now. Get your facts checked here!"

2017 <- ?

 

It used to be that the media would not touch anything cooky. Then it was brushed off as sad fantasists reading The Lone Gunmen newsletter. Then it was jokes about tin foil hats. Then it was the slurs of conspiracy theorist. Then it was making things up to assassinate individuals. Then it was brushing words off with the most cursory of glances. Then the words had to be more critically 'debunked'. Then debunking became a common affair. Then a mainstay. I think we're now at a point where the mainstream and alt-media are addressing each other more or less evenly. It used to be them debunking our conspiracy reallies. Soon we won't even be aware what their conspiracy theories are.