[Savage Beast]

A free press must be unwavering in its quest for TRUTH--TRUTH for its own sake.

The 21st century US press has become a propaganda machine for the Democrat Party and Democrat politicians. Those who control this propaganda machine, including its so-called "journalists," have abandoned any quest for TRUTH and have dishonored themselves before history and all the world.

Some might not be aware of their dishonor, so suffused are they with the propaganda they have allowed to pervade themselves, but they cannot escape the responsibility and the dishonor. It is they themselves who have brought this dishonor upon themselves.

[Wallace T.]

There has been no “objective “ press for several generations, if ever. In the 1930s, the New York Times whitewashed the massacre of the kulaks and the starvation in Ukraine by calling it agrarian reform. The same newspaper treated Mao and Castro as agrarian reformers and romantic revolutionaries. One significant difference between the pre-World War II press and the present was the existence of conservative newspapers like the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Hearst and McCormack newspaper chains. However, these newspapers are as leftist as the New York Times or Washington Post, which even back in the Nixon era were nicknamed Pravda and Izvestia by conservatives.

Since 1960 or so, the liberals had a virtual monopoly on the establishment press Interestingly, it was Herbert Hoover, a Republican, who established the predecessor to the FCC. Franklin Roosevelt, his successor, used this agency to silence critics of his administration, e.g., Father Coughlin, Fulton Lewis, etc. Lyndon Johnson three decades later used the FCC to silence critics like H.L. Hunt and Carl McIntyre with the so-called Fairness Doctrine. As usual, the GOP provided a tool of expanding Federal power that Democrats exploited to harass their enemies.