If you are white and love America, you’re a white nationalist.
Worse than being a Constitutionalist, er, I mean “birther”
To neü t’s as uf MSNBC, CNN etc...don’t exist.
They are not credible in any way.
It’s like crazy people yapping. Avoid.
What is it with this entitled white princess talking about entitled white supremacism. Give me a break.
The unanimous 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan decision basically shut down the idea of politicians suing for libel.In 1964, “the media” was at the height of its propaganda power, with the maturation of TV (and the beginning of color TV). The conceit that “journalists are objective” sold best in the mid-to-late seventies. Ronald Reagan had to run into the teeth of it.
But, as became clear to me during the Carter Administration, “the media” was not objective then - and it is not objective now. The question is, “Why was that such an easy sell in the first place???” My answer is that it was the culmination of a massive self-serving propaganda campaign by all major journalism, acting as a cabal.
Anyone who reads " People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices” - and who understands that all major journalism continuously “meets together,” virtually, via the wire services - has every reason to be extremely skeptical of any self-serving statement by journalists. Clearly, anyone who has been meeting, about business, on that kind of basis just has to have found a way to “conspire against the public” some time between the meeting’s inception before the Civil War, and the 1900s.
The conceit that “journalists are objective”:
- cannot be true, because objectivity is not a state of being but an elusive goal which can only be approached via serious self-discipline. Anyone who allows another to assert objectivity for him is participating in a racket.
- marks any journalists who claim it as cynical - in that journalists know that journalism is negative. They know perfectly well that they are on the lookout for bad news. And only a cynic could claim that “negativity is objectivity.”
- incentivizes journalists to go along and get along, using unanimity as a dodge where actual disciplined search for truth is called for.
Preventing politicians from suing for libel does not affect “liberal" because journalism defines “liberal” as someone who goes along perfectly with them. It only affects conservatives, allowing “liberals” to have not only their own opinions but their own facts. Which is the very definition of PC. One difference between the the 1964 Warren Court and the 1988 Rhenquist Court which got Morrison v. Olson wrong by an 8-1 vote is, of course, that the Rhenquist Court had Antonin Scalia on it. The Warren Court, of course, did not - and it was unanimously rather than merely preponderantly wrong.
Republicans must sue for libel into the teeth of the Sullivan decision, and give the Roberts Court a shot at getting it right.
As if it wasn’t obvious already, the modern left is anti-intellectual. They are not even capable of analyzing a logical argument without injecting identity politics and reflexive offense at dissenting views. One can be pro-women and disagree with tactics of pro-women marches. One can be pro-gay rights and disagree with the political tactics of advocates. But today’s left is Machiavellian. Eventually they will eat their own.