🧩 BND Motif Index · M826
Lying media
The press is taken to lie as a matter of course, about the country, its people and the news itself: the media is lying again. (Fake news is for a particular story said to be made up.)
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Information integrity
- 9claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 6right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Disinformation campaign 🧩 Fake news 🧩 Manufacturing consent
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Mainstream media outlets like CNN and the New York Times are partisan hacks rather than objective sources.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-22 “Mainstream media outlets are partisan hacks who are not smart or good people.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-22 “Media outlets use anonymous sources to push agendas and smear people rather than to report news.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-15 “The networks lie about the people, who go to MAGA media instead.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-09 “Mainstream media networks are lying to the people.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ HasanAbi (podcast) 🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show - 2026-10-08 “The mainstream media is lying to and about the American people.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-07 “The media is lying again.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-06 “She is a highly skilled and relentless liar who will continue to lie effectively, especially in environments like Fox where lying is common.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-03 “Left-wing media outlets blatantly make up stories.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show
M826 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works