Mainstream

The Old English word stream refers to “a course of water”, which comes from the Proto-Germanic “strauma”.

Other words meaning “stream” are as follows:

Old Saxon - strom
Old Norse - straumr
Danish - strøm
Swedish - ström
Norwegian - straum
Dutch – stroom

The Old English word “mægen” meaning “power”, “strength” or “force” became the word “main” over time.

By the 1660’s the word mainstream would refer to a “principal current of a river”, and by the 1830’s the word mainstream would also mean a “prevailing direction in opinion” or “popular taste”.

In the early 1980’s the term “mainstream media” began to become popular, and would refer to large organised media outlets, usually licensed and controlled by the state.

NEWS

The word news is in fact an acronym meaning North, East, West and South, and referred to the compass that was used to navigate the oceans.

A mainstream media outlet would “cast” their “net” in a “broad-cast” to reach a large audience, where a news “anchor-man” would “anchor” you within the “current” events.

Both TV and “news-papers” use “head-lines” to catch the “fish”, and are referred to as “the hook”, with television “channels” directing or "channelling” your thoughts in the direction of the official narrative.

You are the “fish”.

Note: all mainstream media is now considered as “infomercials”, with the title “news” being nothing more than a logo, hence they can now give opinion-based editorials, or just lie.

151 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 23 Apr freebie

The word news is in fact an acronym meaning North, East, West and South, and referred to the compass that was used to navigate the oceans.

wow TIL, this is blowing mind. Good tip for today!

100 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 23 Apr

I subscribe to "news" coming from "new"

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 23 Apr

No, it make more sense now that is an abbreviation. Do not underestimate how powerful is the maritime law and the implications of it.

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 23 Apr

Do not underestimate that new is the singular of news

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 23 Apr

so south just disappeared?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 23 Apr

No, just wasn't discovered by the English yet

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 25 Apr

TILed

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 23 Apr

Another good information.. Thanks mate.

210 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 23 Apr

I was kid in the 80s and my dad would listen to Rush Limbaugh. It was my intro to politics and I believe he was the one that popularized the term "mainstream media". It was his way of differentiating himself. I've noticed over the years, especially with those that have only lived in an Internet world that there is a huge gap in knowledge about the past. It often seems that if someone isn't in the first page of the search results it didn't happen.

I've never heard of the news acronym things before. That's interesting if true. What I've always heard is news was based on the root word new. As in new things. Today there is rarely anything on "news" that is new.

I don't like the term "mainstream media" anymore though. In a sense it used to mean something but today it really has little meaning. The label "Corporate Press" is one I like better. It better describes the incentives and includes things like Fox who don't really consider themselves mainstream.

To me as I talk to people I know or even just meet in public, I find that they do not share the values of the corporate press. I guess I'm saying calling the corporate press mainstream has become a kind of psyop. As if one that doesn't align with them is out of step.

55 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 23 Apr

Drive by media

Rush used to say this in his later years

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 23 Apr

lol, I forgot about that one.

55 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 23 Apr

The acronim doesn't really matter, even if it's not true. Can't verify it.

The label "Corporate Press" is one I like better

how about Collective Brainwash Complex? jk

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 23 Apr

Yeah. Pretty much

131 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 23 Apr

The word news is in fact an acronym meaning North, East, West and South, and referred to the compass that was used to navigate the oceans.

Fake news as far as I am concerned 👀

or folk news