I had to glance up at the source to see if this was an article from "The Onion".Congressional Democrats want to ban Pentagon propaganda on the Iraq war, ....
The greatest force multiplier that America's enemies have is the Democrat Party. After that comes the liberal news media which marches in lock step with the Democrat Party.
My theory is that the causation runs the other way. The Democratic Party exists in the "liberal" form that it does because it conforms itself to the natural ideological implications of the news industry. The news industry is "liberal" because liberalism is simply cheap talk, and self-promotion at the expense of those who take responsibility for getting things done. Which is the default position for the news industry to take. And the news industry is unified, and freed from competition, by the Associated Press monopoly. Within the AP, all journalists are "objective" because without that conceit no newspaper has any justification for relying on the reports of other papers' reporters.Newspapers in the founding era, and well into the Nineteenth Century, were truly independent of each other and made no affectation of being anything other than representative of their editors' POV. The advent of the telegraph and the Associated Press put the newspapers into a different line of business than elucidating their editors' and publishers' POV - suddenly the newspapers actually had national and international news which the public did not have access to independently of the AP newspapers. And the idea that the public's access to the latest news is vital to the public interest traces directly from the business interest of the Associated Press newspapers.
With its emphasis on the superficial, negative, and unrepresentative, the Associated Press distracts the public from the enduring and important. That is the propaganda wind down which the "liberal" politician sails.
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The Democratic Party exists in the "liberal" form that it does because it conforms itself to the natural ideological implications of the news industry.Well said! Democrat pols excel at pretending to embrace the mass media oligarchy's proffered zeitgeist.