The Democrats are proving to be a party of shameful prevaricators intent on the wreckage of President Trump for power.
Posted on 04/16/2020 10:18:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
I think in some ways they feel invulnerable in their lying and a lot of that has to do with the right rolling over for them for so long. When they lie and distort about those on the left for whatever reason they feel equally bulletproof. All their colleagues in the MSM usually have their back as well. The few conservative voices out there are easily dismissed in their massive arrogance but that is their weakness in the long run.
The Press is mostly Propaganda these days.
I think that was our conclusion as far back as Komrade Kronkite was delivering the news about the Vietnam War.
People like Elon, who’s reputation is at risk of being damaged, need to bring lawsuits against fake news outlets in every instance. I know the MSM has deep pockets, but I seriously doubt their money pockets are endless.
Trump should suspend broadcast licenses of major offenders. Let them sue and then go bankrupt during the years long legal fight to get them back.
It has been said many times on FreeRepublic that it would be a shame if we had a real crisis on our hands because the press has cried wolf so many times that no one would believe them.
The Democrats are proving to be a party of shameful prevaricators intent on the wreckage of President Trump for power.
Nixon, Reagan, and Joe McCarthy can tell you it started long before 1992, although I do agree with you that Democrats became bulletproof behind their media shield that year.
You’re right. For example, the Vietnam War would have turned out much better had it not been for the biased US media.
The American leftist press is truly the number one threat to America by far. The left runs on the media as their fuel.
The “media” needs to be dealt with immediately! They have an agenda and it’s not pro-America. Traitors!
Goebbels would be jealous of how successful the Ministry Of Propaganda has been.
From the Founding Era to the 1870s, newspapers were mostly weeklies - and during most of that time the printers didn’t have privileged access to sources of news from far-flung locales. You bought a newspaper, if you did, because you wanted to read the printer’s opinion much moreso than learning news. Not altogether different from choosing to listen to Rush.That began to change in the 1840s, with the advent of the telegraph and the wire service. The AP being the earliest, first starting in 1848. By the mid-1870s the burgeoning propaganda potential of the AP was being viewed with alarm. The AP replied to that criticism by pointing out that it carried stories from all its member newspapers, and those papers were notorious for not agreeing about much of anything. So, the AP claimed, the AP itself was “objective.”
Whatever facts supported that logic at that time, the AP constituted (and still constitutes) a continual virtual meeting of all major journalists. In the long run it was impossible that
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. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)could fail to prevail. The AP and its membership - all wire services and their subscribers - have the effect of homogenizing journalism.As the bad news industry, journalism inherently creates propaganda to the effect that the government should do more because society does or allows bad things. The “conspiracy against the public” lies in the claim that “all journalists are objective.” Since objectivity is a laudable goal but not a state of being, that claim is inherently false. What it does do is to create a herd mentality - journalists go along with each other ideologically, lest they be declared “not a journalist, not objective.” And have their careers “pecked to death” like a weak chick in a feedlot.
So to the ‘objective journalist' there are three kinds of people: “Objective journalists,” “liberals” (a.k.a. “progressives”) who toe the “objective journalist” line - and people who are fair game to attack. In 1964 the Warren Court unanimously held that public officials shouldn’t readily be allowed to sue for libel. But since “liberals” never get libeled, that is a lot like saying that “nobody is allowed to sleep under bridges, whether they are rich or poor.” The rich don’t need to sleep under bridges.
The Sullivan decision rests on the claim that
". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment”. . . which sounds good if you don’t know that prior to 1964 no court had ruled that the First Amendment touched libel law at all. The Bill of Rights was passed not to reduce anyone’s rights, but to assure that rights would not be changed. Thus, freedom from being libeled was not affected by the First Amendment.Republicans must bring libel suits against the AP and its members (and other wire services as applicable) and get SCOTUS to overturn Sullivan and bring “the media” away from calumny and back to facts.
Just telling it the way it is and has been for more than a couple of decades.
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They are very similar to con artists and should be prosecuted as such.
“the Vietnam War would have turned out much better had it not been for the biased US media.”
It did turn out better—better, that is, than most people think. We won the war, and left the Republic of Viet Nam able to protect itself.
Then Teddy Kenney and others like him betrayed our allies and delivered them into the hands of evil. But that was after the war.
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