Rolling Stone has evidently moved on from libeling random lacrosse teams for being gang rapists to writing hit pieces about random YouTubers.
Of course, the random YouTuber in this piece, Cody Crone AKA Wranglerstar, has 2.41 million subscribers, meaning he has more than five times as many viewers as Rolling Stone has subscribers.
I’ve watched the occasional Wranglerstar video for homesteading and prepping information, but never noticed any bomb-throwing proclivities. But the Rolling Stone piece by Miles Klee seems to be a blatant hit piece.
One of the main contentions is Klee’s portrayal of Crone’s comedic or satirical videos as factual and instructional. The blending of satire with fact can often create misleading perceptions. It’s important for journalists to differentiate between the two, rather than painting everything with the same brush.
Moreover, Klee’s article leans heavily on the negative aspects of Crone’s channel, with little consideration of its broader context. For instance, discussions about preparedness or self-defense can be essential for people living in remote areas, where reliance on immediate help might not always be feasible. The article also fails to mention the vast amount of educational content Wranglerstar has provided over the years, focusing solely on the more controversial topics.
The growth of platforms like YouTube and TikTok allows for diverse content and narratives. However, it’s essential for journalism to remain objective and provide a balanced view. Misrepresentation not only undermines the credibility of media outlets but can also unjustly tarnish the reputation of individuals who rely on these platforms to share their voice and experiences.
It is also important to note that Klee recently openly mocked and ridiculed the movie, “Sound of Freedom”. “I watched Jim Caviezel’s QAnon-ish child-trafficking drama “Sound of Freedom” with the kind of muttering, coughing, “Amen!”-bellowing boomers who have made it a right-wing indie hit. Hard to overstate just how disgusting it was!” Klee wrote on his Threads account.
So Klee is evidently someone that hates preppers and movies about people who fight sex trafficking equally.
Here’s Wranglerstar’s own response, how received tons of threats after the Rolling Stone piece, how law enforcement offers reached out to him with credible threats against him and his family, and how he initially took down his videos, then regretted doing so.
The amazing thing to me is how Rolling Stone, a theoretically still-important member of the Fifth Column Fourth Estate, literally went after a random guy on YouTube for daring to suggest prepping for hard times and potential government oppression. So much for those “counterculture” roots, Rolling Stone declares itself firmly in the camp of Team Bootheel and seems very, very concerned that some random guy in Washington state might not knuckle under to The Man…
Tags: Cody Crone, Media Watch, Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, video, Wranglerstar, YouTube
I think Rolling Stone also libeled some UVA fraternity about a rape that didn’t happen. They ended up paying $1.65 million on that one. And had to retract the article.
They have a track record for that kind of disinformation.
Makes you wonder about all the “journalism” they’re famous for, from back in the day.
Personally, I find any of the mainstream media highly suspicious and disreputable, going back to Hearst. When newspapers became big business, they became unaccountable forces, and everything that’s flowed from that forward has been corrupt.
If you paid attention, back in the day, you could tell the bastards were lying about damn near everything. I never bought into the idea of “glorious journalism” that culminated with Watergate. The fact that Woodward and Bernstein never cottoned onto the fact that Mark Felt, aka “Deep Throat” was a pissed-off FBI apparatchik that wanted Hoover’s job and was angry that Nixon gave it to someone else…?
I mean, honestly… Why didn’t any of the same assholes get upset when LBJ put FBI agents into Goldwater’s campaign? Why was that OK? They got upset when Nixon did it, like it was some unprecedented crime?
There’s been more than a scent of rot wafting off the corpse of “journalism” in this country. It’s become undeniable. What we do about it? Well, I don’t know, but I do know I don’t believe a damn thing they say about anything, other than the raw fact that an event happened somewhere…
I’d never heard of Wranglerstar nor seen his videos before. Just got done subscribing to his YouTube channel. Neither Miles Klee nor his genius editors at Rolling Stone have heard of the Streisand Effect, evidently.
It’s amazing what time and money has done to the would-be bomb throwers of the late 20th century.
It’s equally fascinating to observe how the “counterculture” evolved into control-freak anti-free speech types the moment that they gained ultimate primacy inside the system. During the 1960s, had you said that this would happen, and told the people who were then agitating for all the “openness” and “freedom” what they’d be doing in their old age…?
They’d have called you a liar, mad, deranged. They’d never do such a thing, they were believers in the principles.
Yet, who do we see today behind all this DEI indoctrination? Who is doing all this quashing of free speech? They are, and their ideological heirs.
“A Rape On Campus”
No forgiveness. Ever. I’m so effing sick of the constant refrain of ‘misogyny’. We need to start having a conversation about the blatant misandry rampant throughout Western Civilization at this point. There is a hot boiling undercurrent of antipathy for men generally by a large cohort of women who have been raised to believe that men ‘owe them’ success, success in all things.
They’re owed success, adoration, love, marriage, being a ‘girlboss’, not just children but happy children, etc. They DESERVE it all but 10 or 20 years after they graduated college they haven’t gotten it and by god they’re going to make sure men know how disappointed they are in us.
Ladies, kindly get bent. Men have been telling you since the 60s nobody owes you jack and we also told you that marrying big daddy government wasn’t going to be anywhere near as fulfilling as government led you to believe, and now you’re finding that out when you’re 37. That’s what “A Rape On Campus” was, a giant adolescent temper tantrum in print. Rolling Stone is toilet paper.
Kirk, I agree 100%. The same stick-it-to-the-man, power-to-the-people, ‘drop out and turn on’ leftists of the 60’s and 70’s have morphed into leftists who not only yearn to control and censor the rest of the country— they’ve also become the left that *loves* ‘the Man’. Whether it’s big government or big business, the left digs having their hands on those levers of power— and don’t hesitate to demonize anyone who’d stick it to the Man now that *they’re* the Man.
I think the only things that have remained constant about the left after all these decades is their deep, abiding love of abortion, and their invincible ignorance re: basic economics.
Unless he’s moved again, Wranglerstar is in Oregon.
In the late-60s the counterculture magazine Mother Earth News featured “back to nature” articles. The writers were busy denouncing the excesses of capitalism and urging their readers to adopt a simpler, often nomadic lifestyle.
Similarly, Wranglestar is encouraging his viewers to learn woodcraft/bushcraft and other skills as a hedge against societal collapse. Evidently, this is grounds for lumping him in with Randy Weaver and live off the land survivalists.
I may get thrown in jail with the J-6 protesters for admitting the recent purchase of a Hudson Bay forest axe and Gerber Prodigy knife. There are three dead spruces in the back yard that are scheduled for downing, bucking and splitting. With the axe and knife, I intend to learn the fine art of wood carving and feathersticking before venturing out into the wilds for a camping trip.
If this be sedition, make the most of it!
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