Posted on 03/14/2017 10:14:57 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
It is time for facts in journalism, and respect for those who put their lives on the line for our freedom; including freedom of the press
With recent national polls showing the lowest levels-ever of public trust in the media, columnist Georgie Anne Geyer’s recent piece, “America’s Security begins with Questions,” reads with a bit of irony.
:: respect for those who put their lives on the line for our freedom; including freedom of the press ::
Sorry Canoogians.
You don’t enjoy 1st Amendment protections unless and until you move your “press” to the confines of the US.
There are more legal restrictions in the Canadian press, but the CFP has more content that nearly all American printings of the news. America has more freedom of the press theoretically, but spend their time censoring themselves.
They don’t regard it as censoring themselves. They view their “censoring” as their duty to shape the news so that the sheeple who unthinkingly consume it will reach the “correct” conclusions about a given state of affairs.
Because the media is 95%+ liberal, they have little or no military experience, and even less knowledge about its actual workings, this is not going to change.
I found it interesting during Gulf War II when they were forced to be embedded into the units (instead of freelancing, as they had done in Vietnam) they came to have a far greater respect for the job our military does (because they actually saw what they had to do, and how they had to do it) and the stupid liberal negative reporting we have been accustomed to reading since 1965 dropped off dramatically.
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