August 8, 2025 • 10 mins
For over two decades, the legacy media failed catastrophically in its responsibility to expose Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal empire. Rather than investigate, they actively suppressed the story, ignored survivors, buried leads, and protected the powerful individuals within Epstein’s orbit. Outlets like ABC, NBC, and The New York Times had ample evidence but chose access over accountability, prestige over principle. When whistleblowers and independent journalists tried to sound the alarm, they were smeared as conspiracy theorists. The media wasn’t just absent—they were complicit, operating as PR agents for the very elites they were supposed to scrutinize. Even after Epstein’s 2019 arrest, the media presented the scandal as if it were new, rewriting history to conceal their cowardice and protect their image.
Now, years later, those same outlets have shamelessly returned to the story, parroting talking points and revelations that the so-called “conspiracy crowd” had documented long ago. They grandstand as if they were in the trenches, all while ignoring their own role in shielding the system that allowed Epstein to thrive. Their sudden concern is not about justice—it’s about optics, narrative control, and political expediency. The Epstein scandal is not just about one man—it’s about the elite networks that enabled him and the media institutions that kept those networks safe. Until the press admits its role in the cover-up and holds everyone accountable—not just those who are no longer useful—its credibility remains broken. They were never the watchdogs. They were the gatekeepers. And their gates are stained with blood.
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Now, years later, those same outlets have shamelessly returned to the story, parroting talking points and revelations that the so-called “conspiracy crowd” had documented long ago. They grandstand as if they were in the trenches, all while ignoring their own role in shielding the system that allowed Epstein to thrive. Their sudden concern is not about justice—it’s about optics, narrative control, and political expediency. The Epstein scandal is not just about one man—it’s about the elite networks that enabled him and the media institutions that kept those networks safe. Until the press admits its role in the cover-up and holds everyone accountable—not just those who are no longer useful—its credibility remains broken. They were never the watchdogs. They were the gatekeepers. And their gates are stained with blood.
to contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're getting right back to
the legacy media and their hypocrisy when it comes to
Jeffrey Epstein. The legacy media didn't uncover this story. They
suppressed it, and now in the twilight of their trustworthiness,
they want to rewrite their part in the tragedy. But
(00:20):
the record stands and the people remember they were not
in the trenches. They were not manning the gates, and
now that those gates are on fire, they want to
call themselves firefighters. Spare us the theater. The damage is done,
and here's a bitter irony to choke down. The very
same legacy media outlets that once mocked, dismissed, and blacklisted
(00:40):
the independent researchers, rogue journalists, and survivor advocates who carried
this story on their backs. They're now repackaging those same
conspiracy theories as breaking news. The same networks that rolled
their eyes at Epstein flight logs, scoffed at the allegations
involving intelligence agencies, and call questions about his finances Internet
(01:01):
paranoia are now six years later, acting like they just
cracked the case. They didn't. They just finally arrived at
a destination mapped by the very people they used to
sneer at for years. It was independent journalists, many of
whom were running on fumes, publishing on substack, YouTube, and Twitter,
who connected the dots, documents, the flights, filed freedom of
(01:23):
information acts and took the public where mainstream news refused
to go. And what did they get in return? Labeled
as cranks, tinfoil, hat brigade, fringe, irresponsible, the quote unquote
real journalists dismissed them all while taking dictation from lawyers
and network executives terrified of lawsuits from the powerful. Now
(01:44):
those same quote unquote real journalists are writing stories about
Epstein's meetings with CIA officials, his emails with Bill Gates,
and his visits to Harvard and MIT, his secret financial
connections with billionaires, and disuspected intelligence ties. Stories the sole
called conspiracy theorists were screaming about in twenty eighteen, seventeen,
(02:06):
even two thousand and seven. The press didn't just ignore them,
they actively discredited them. They told the public to look away,
that there was nothing to see, and now they want
credit for showing up late to the truth it's better
late than never, yes, but it sure as hell doesn't
earn you a victory lap. When the wall started closing in,
when Epstein was finally behind bars and the cover up
(02:29):
was fraying at the seams, the legacy media didn't leave
the charge. They followed it. And now they want to
stand in front of the parade holding up banner they
never carried, claiming to be champions of justice and truth,
and I find it revolting. Now. Look, there are reporters
who genuinely care, there always have been. But the institutions themselves,
(02:50):
the ones that shelve the stories ghosted victims and protected predators,
do not get to launder their cowardice through a few
revisionist headlines. They don't get to co op. The more
they tried to strangle, they tried to choke the Epstein
story out of existence, They tried to memory hold it
into obscurity, and now they want to pose as the
moral conscience of the country. Spare us. Survivors were ridiculed,
(03:13):
witnesses were ignored, whistleblowers were silenced, and when they refused
to go away, when the facts became too loud, too
grotesque to ignore, suddenly the press decided it was safe
to care, safe to report, safe to get sanctimonious, but
it wasn't safe when it mattered. When the doors to
justice were still closed, they didn't knock. They sat in silence,
(03:34):
or worse, they held keep them locked. It's astonishing to
see headlines now about Epstein's private meetings with global power
brokers as if their revelations they're not they're reruns. The
internet slews and independent researchers, many of whom had no
institutional backing, uncovered all of this. They built timelines, They
(03:54):
published unsealed depositions, They posted redacted logs and courtroom photos.
They gave the story oxygen when every legacy outlet tried
to suffocate it. And now the media finally concedes that, yes,
Epstein's crimes were vast, systemic and protected by power. They
want to reframe themselves as early warning signals. They weren't. Instead,
(04:17):
there were noise canceling headphones turned up to drownd out
the voices that mattered, And when they couldn't drown them
out anymore, they flipped the switch and acted like they
were the ones who were shouting all along. And there's
a word for what they're doing now narrative laundering. They're
laundering their role in the cover up through retrospective coverage,
subtly erasing their years of failure by pretending they were
(04:39):
just under informed or cautious. They weren't, they were complicit.
And they're still more interested in optics than the truth,
still more concerned with their image than justice. So no,
the grand standing doesn't land. The retrospective specials don't absolve you.
The selective outrage doesn't disguise the cowardice that came before.
You had a chance to be brave when it counted,
(05:01):
and you chose access, you chose silence, you chose power.
Now that it's politically convenient and socially acceptable to talk
about Epstein, you talk, but don't for a minute pretend
that you led, You followed reluctantly and late, and the
people don't forget. And as we bring this reckoning to
a close, let's make something brutally clear. Journalism is supposed
(05:23):
to be about truth telling in the face of power,
not sick of fancy, not brand management, and certainly not
delayed morality. When the Jeffrey Epstein story begged for exposure,
the legacy media made a collective decision to look the
other way, not out of ignorance, but out of fear.
Fear of offending donors, fear of losing access, fear of
lawsuits from the very institutions and people who sat atop
(05:47):
Epstein's grotesque rolodex. Their cowardice was not passive. It was deliberate, institutionalized,
and defended in boardrooms. They had the platform, they had
the reach, they had the credibility, and they used it
to build a wall around the truth. Not to protect
the public, but to protect themselves, the power class they orbit,
(06:08):
and now their selective memory and desperate need for relevance,
they've returned to the very story they once buried, waving
flags they never carried. Instead, it's image rehab disguised as
investigative zeal and it reeks. If they were truly sorry,
we'd see retractions. We'd see on air apologies. We'd see acknowledgment,
(06:28):
not just of Epstein's evil, but of their own role
in insulating them. But instead of accountability, we get glossy
documentary specials and thing pieces that pretend the story only
began when they finally decided it was safe to tell.
It's not just dishonest. It's offensive. It's an insult to survivors,
to whistleblowers, and to the independent voices who risked everything
(06:51):
to keep the story alive when the powerful wanted it dead.
And still the most dangerous truth remains largely untouched. Epstein's
operation wasn't just a perverted playground for the elite. It
was a system, a machine intelligence, built and connected and
certainly sustained by more people than one dead man and
(07:12):
a woman in a jail cell. That system still hasn't
been dismantled, its operatives still having faith justice, and the
media still dances around this fact, preferring to reduce the
scandal to one man's twisted crimes rather than acknowledge the
web of institutions that enabled and benefited from them. Real
journalism would be demanding answers about the intelligence links. Real
(07:35):
journalism would be exposing the donors who kept his money flowing.
Real journalism would be dragging the banks, the tech moguls,
the law firms, and the universities through the mud until
every piece of Epstein's infrastructure was shattered. But we don't
get that. We get deflection, We get slow dripped disclosures,
We get performative outrage long after it matters, and now
(07:57):
that Epstein is dead, conveniently suspiciously, the media thinks the
story has an expiration date. But the crimes didn't die
with them. The networks are still alive, the players are
still operating, and the silence surrounding them isn't just frustrating,
it's dangerous, because every day that passes without full exposure,
more survivors suffer without justice, and more predators leave soundly
(08:20):
knowing the press still won't come knocking. And look, the
public isn't stupid. They know when they've been lied to,
They know when a story's been suffocated, and they know
when the same institutions that failed them are now trying
to reinvent themselves as heroes. That's the fatal mistake of
the legacy media. They think trust can be faked, that
after two decades of suppression, they can slap a chirn
(08:43):
on the screen and pretend they were part of the resistance.
But credibility, once lost, doesn't come back with the headline.
It has to be earned, and they haven't even started.
So as they roll out more exclusive Epstein xpose six
years too late, the public has every right to be skeptical,
every right to ask where were you when it mattered?
(09:03):
Where were you when these girls were being raped, when
the lawsuits being dismissed, when settlements were being quietly buried
under NDA's You weren't fighting for justice. You were fighting
to keep the doors closed. And that's the final truth
that they can outrun. The greatest media scandal of our
time wasn't just Epstein. It was the full blown institutional
(09:25):
failure to expose them, the decades long dereliction of duty,
the alliances with silence, the open contempt for those who
dared ask the right questions too early, And now that
the truth is politically convenient, they want to pretend they
lit the match. They didn't. They hid the fire extinguisher,
and now, long after the flames consumed everything, they're selling
(09:47):
ashes as revelations. So no, we don't want your victory lap.
We want the truth. We want the full scope of
this evil named dismantled and exposed, and we want you,
the Legacy Press, to finally admit you aren't the watchdogs.
You are the gatekeepers, and the gates are staying with blood.
All of the information that goes with this episode can
(10:09):
be found in the description box
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're getting right back to
the legacy media and their hypocrisy when it comes to
Jeffrey Epstein. The legacy media didn't uncover this story. They
suppressed it, and now in the twilight of their trustworthiness,
they want to rewrite their part in the tragedy. But
(00:20):
the record stands and the people remember they were not
in the trenches. They were not manning the gates, and
now that those gates are on fire, they want to
call themselves firefighters. Spare us the theater. The damage is done,
and here's a bitter irony to choke down. The very
same legacy media outlets that once mocked, dismissed, and blacklisted
(00:40):
the independent researchers, rogue journalists, and survivor advocates who carried
this story on their backs. They're now repackaging those same
conspiracy theories as breaking news. The same networks that rolled
their eyes at Epstein flight logs, scoffed at the allegations
involving intelligence agencies, and call questions about his finances Internet
(01:01):
paranoia are now six years later, acting like they just
cracked the case. They didn't. They just finally arrived at
a destination mapped by the very people they used to
sneer at for years. It was independent journalists, many of
whom were running on fumes, publishing on substack, YouTube, and Twitter,
who connected the dots, documents, the flights, filed freedom of
(01:23):
information acts and took the public where mainstream news refused
to go. And what did they get in return? Labeled
as cranks, tinfoil, hat brigade, fringe, irresponsible, the quote unquote
real journalists dismissed them all while taking dictation from lawyers
and network executives terrified of lawsuits from the powerful. Now
(01:44):
those same quote unquote real journalists are writing stories about
Epstein's meetings with CIA officials, his emails with Bill Gates,
and his visits to Harvard and MIT, his secret financial
connections with billionaires, and disuspected intelligence ties. Stories the sole
called conspiracy theorists were screaming about in twenty eighteen, seventeen,
(02:06):
even two thousand and seven. The press didn't just ignore them,
they actively discredited them. They told the public to look away,
that there was nothing to see, and now they want
credit for showing up late to the truth it's better
late than never, yes, but it sure as hell doesn't
earn you a victory lap. When the wall started closing in,
when Epstein was finally behind bars and the cover up
(02:29):
was fraying at the seams, the legacy media didn't leave
the charge. They followed it. And now they want to
stand in front of the parade holding up banner they
never carried, claiming to be champions of justice and truth,
and I find it revolting. Now. Look, there are reporters
who genuinely care, there always have been. But the institutions themselves,
(02:50):
the ones that shelve the stories ghosted victims and protected predators,
do not get to launder their cowardice through a few
revisionist headlines. They don't get to co op. The more
they tried to strangle, they tried to choke the Epstein
story out of existence, They tried to memory hold it
into obscurity, and now they want to pose as the
moral conscience of the country. Spare us. Survivors were ridiculed,
(03:13):
witnesses were ignored, whistleblowers were silenced, and when they refused
to go away, when the facts became too loud, too
grotesque to ignore, suddenly the press decided it was safe
to care, safe to report, safe to get sanctimonious, but
it wasn't safe when it mattered. When the doors to
justice were still closed, they didn't knock. They sat in silence,
(03:34):
or worse, they held keep them locked. It's astonishing to
see headlines now about Epstein's private meetings with global power
brokers as if their revelations they're not they're reruns. The
internet slews and independent researchers, many of whom had no
institutional backing, uncovered all of this. They built timelines, They
(03:54):
published unsealed depositions, They posted redacted logs and courtroom photos.
They gave the story oxygen when every legacy outlet tried
to suffocate it. And now the media finally concedes that, yes,
Epstein's crimes were vast, systemic and protected by power. They
want to reframe themselves as early warning signals. They weren't. Instead,
(04:17):
there were noise canceling headphones turned up to drownd out
the voices that mattered, And when they couldn't drown them
out anymore, they flipped the switch and acted like they
were the ones who were shouting all along. And there's
a word for what they're doing now narrative laundering. They're
laundering their role in the cover up through retrospective coverage,
subtly erasing their years of failure by pretending they were
(04:39):
just under informed or cautious. They weren't, they were complicit.
And they're still more interested in optics than the truth,
still more concerned with their image than justice. So no,
the grand standing doesn't land. The retrospective specials don't absolve you.
The selective outrage doesn't disguise the cowardice that came before.
You had a chance to be brave when it counted,
(05:01):
and you chose access, you chose silence, you chose power.
Now that it's politically convenient and socially acceptable to talk
about Epstein, you talk, but don't for a minute pretend
that you led, You followed reluctantly and late, and the
people don't forget. And as we bring this reckoning to
a close, let's make something brutally clear. Journalism is supposed
(05:23):
to be about truth telling in the face of power,
not sick of fancy, not brand management, and certainly not
delayed morality. When the Jeffrey Epstein story begged for exposure,
the legacy media made a collective decision to look the
other way, not out of ignorance, but out of fear.
Fear of offending donors, fear of losing access, fear of
lawsuits from the very institutions and people who sat atop
(05:47):
Epstein's grotesque rolodex. Their cowardice was not passive. It was deliberate, institutionalized,
and defended in boardrooms. They had the platform, they had
the reach, they had the credibility, and they used it
to build a wall around the truth. Not to protect
the public, but to protect themselves, the power class they orbit,
(06:08):
and now their selective memory and desperate need for relevance,
they've returned to the very story they once buried, waving
flags they never carried. Instead, it's image rehab disguised as
investigative zeal and it reeks. If they were truly sorry,
we'd see retractions. We'd see on air apologies. We'd see acknowledgment,
(06:28):
not just of Epstein's evil, but of their own role
in insulating them. But instead of accountability, we get glossy
documentary specials and thing pieces that pretend the story only
began when they finally decided it was safe to tell.
It's not just dishonest. It's offensive. It's an insult to survivors,
to whistleblowers, and to the independent voices who risked everything
(06:51):
to keep the story alive when the powerful wanted it dead.
And still the most dangerous truth remains largely untouched. Epstein's
operation wasn't just a perverted playground for the elite. It
was a system, a machine intelligence, built and connected and
certainly sustained by more people than one dead man and
(07:12):
a woman in a jail cell. That system still hasn't
been dismantled, its operatives still having faith justice, and the
media still dances around this fact, preferring to reduce the
scandal to one man's twisted crimes rather than acknowledge the
web of institutions that enabled and benefited from them. Real
journalism would be demanding answers about the intelligence links. Real
(07:35):
journalism would be exposing the donors who kept his money flowing.
Real journalism would be dragging the banks, the tech moguls,
the law firms, and the universities through the mud until
every piece of Epstein's infrastructure was shattered. But we don't
get that. We get deflection, We get slow dripped disclosures,
We get performative outrage long after it matters, and now
(07:57):
that Epstein is dead, conveniently suspiciously, the media thinks the
story has an expiration date. But the crimes didn't die
with them. The networks are still alive, the players are
still operating, and the silence surrounding them isn't just frustrating,
it's dangerous, because every day that passes without full exposure,
more survivors suffer without justice, and more predators leave soundly
(08:20):
knowing the press still won't come knocking. And look, the
public isn't stupid. They know when they've been lied to,
They know when a story's been suffocated, and they know
when the same institutions that failed them are now trying
to reinvent themselves as heroes. That's the fatal mistake of
the legacy media. They think trust can be faked, that
after two decades of suppression, they can slap a chirn
(08:43):
on the screen and pretend they were part of the resistance.
But credibility, once lost, doesn't come back with the headline.
It has to be earned, and they haven't even started.
So as they roll out more exclusive Epstein xpose six
years too late, the public has every right to be skeptical,
every right to ask where were you when it mattered?
(09:03):
Where were you when these girls were being raped, when
the lawsuits being dismissed, when settlements were being quietly buried
under NDA's You weren't fighting for justice. You were fighting
to keep the doors closed. And that's the final truth
that they can outrun. The greatest media scandal of our
time wasn't just Epstein. It was the full blown institutional
(09:25):
failure to expose them, the decades long dereliction of duty,
the alliances with silence, the open contempt for those who
dared ask the right questions too early, And now that
the truth is politically convenient, they want to pretend they
lit the match. They didn't. They hid the fire extinguisher,
and now, long after the flames consumed everything, they're selling
(09:47):
ashes as revelations. So no, we don't want your victory lap.
We want the truth. We want the full scope of
this evil named dismantled and exposed, and we want you,
the Legacy Press, to finally admit you aren't the watchdogs.
You are the gatekeepers, and the gates are staying with blood.
All of the information that goes with this episode can
(10:09):
be found in the description box
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