Posted on 06/06/2016 9:01:17 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
Without an understanding of the increasingly centralized, global ownership of media outlets, it's hard to grasp the incredible power and influence of the half dozen companies who own the media. If this is news to you, you have some catching up to do. Search the internet for "who owns the media", and see what you find. Both my late dad and I have written about this periodically over the last many years.
It is a known fact within the journalism trade that reporters cover stories their editors tell them to, and are steered away (and sometimes prevented) from reporting stories they might themselves consider more newsworthy. They take on the bias of their editors in order to survive in the business.
While there is some disagreement as to the exact origin of the quote below, it has been attributed to a preeminent New York journalist John Swinton around 1880...
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. "There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty_four hours my occupation would be gone. "The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? "We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." If this was said almost 140 years ago, how much more is it true today, with the advances in modern communication to make mass deception that much easier?
Because so much of the media consists of liberals, progressives, and openly registered Democrats, their causes receive nearly limitless airtime.
It should come as no surprise that liberals, who favor big government and believe that government involvement is the solution for all of society's ills, are prime and willing supporters of one world government, the new world order. America cannot have the gargantuan government it has now AND be great; therefore, the liberal media has no interest in making this country great again, since it has seemingly thrived during its recent decline.
A very effective tool that the ruling elite has used in the past few decades to nearly silence dissent against their goal of world domination is political correctness. Anything that doesn't align with their agenda is labeled politically incorrect, hate speech, racism, bigotry, feminism, xenophobia, homophobia, etc.
When someone like Trump comes along, who doesn't pander to the powers behind these plans, they feel threatened, and will stoop to whatever depths necessary to minimize his influence, to include fabricating stories, distorting the truth, reporting only parts of stories, and the like. Public trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low; their treatment of Trump very aptly highlights it.
It is nauseatingly predictable that, in any mainstream newscast, all stories involving Trump will be negative (as was the case earlier tonight), and any stories about Hillary will be either neutral or positive. Are you the least bit surprised?
He defies the status quo, and because the people may have finally had their fill of political correctness, his brash honesty is a breath of fresh air. It seems more crude than it really is because people have been so accustomed to public figures walking on eggshells, apologizing for having spoken some painful truth. It's time we had political figures, statesmen, who don't mince words, but say the things that need to be said.
Who was the last political leader you recall even hinting that America's interest was his first priority? Prior to Rand Paul and Ron Paul, you'd have to go back to Ronald Reagan, during whose administration America experienced unparalleled prosperity and success in nearly every international arena. Trump has been the most outspokenly pro-American candidate in recent memory, and when the left viscerally opposes that as fervently as they have, you have to wonder what the left's vision for this country is - more of the same decline of the last eight years, while expanding government's role in every aspect of our lives. That is not American.
A quote from George Orwell bears reiterating from time to time, especially now - "In times of universal deceit, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act."
So unless you want America's borders to eventually disappear and this country to be merged with Canada and Mexico into the North American Union (as was done with the sovereignty robbing European Union), for Common Core to be the standard and unopposed curriculum dumbing down students nationwide, for the Second Amendment to become a relic of history, assume the opposite of whatever you're hearing from the mass media about Trump. Their attacks on him are not in your best interest, but to preserve theirs.
Better yet, abandon the mass media, and make the effort to pursue the truth rather than expect it to be fed to you by the lazy man's news, the major networks. There's a reason it's called programming. It's time for each of us to renounce political correctness, take personal responsibility for restoring this country to its formerly great status to the extent that we can, and stop depending on reporters to tell us what we want to hear.
More importantly, pray for revival, and that the ensuing revolution would be spiritual, peaceful and bloodless.
Don't put your trust in (any) man, but in God.
In Christ,
Fred Marshall III Copyright June 2016 All rights reserved - widespread distribution is welcome and encouraged.
To paraphrase the ignoble Nanzi, we will have to vote for Trump to find out who the real Trump is.
Good article that touches on what the west faces today. What the globalist progressive movement wants is not just the destruction of the United States but the destruction of ALL nations - a world without borders. And along with that they want the destruction of the differences between peoples and nations...a modern day Tower of Babel, if you will. Even last night on the relatively innocuous Anthony Bordain show on CNN, they were discussing - in Cologne, Germany of all places, where the Carnival riots and rapes occurred - that the only true solution to man’s problems were for all the races to inter-mingle and interbreed so that in a few generations all the people would become “brown people” (their words, not mine).
This is the progressive global goal and they are reaching for it hard in the west right now.
Trump is the working middle class key to their future. Trump campaigned against some 17 others. Did you hear any one of them champion the same issues as Trump? Anyone talk about jobs lost in faulty trade agreements? Anyone talk about illegal immigrants coming into the country and low-balling labor costs? Anyone talk about other countries getting a free ride as our soldiers die for them? Sure the media is against Trump as is all the Washington politicians who are indebted to their massive contributors. Sure Trump gets criticism for his personality when it really is his issues that irk them.
The mediots/media hate:
A strong America, Americans who believe in a Strong America.
They hate Christians, Jews, Veterans, Gun owners and those of us who pay the taxes for their losers in life.
Don’t hate the mediots/media, just refuse to let them into your life
I haven’t believed the mass media since the 1950s. I returned from Korea and read a story that was 180 degrees from what I saw.
The job of a journalist is not now, nor was it in 1880, to write one's opinions. The editorial pages are for opinion. A journalist's job is to objectively report the facts...absent his or anyone else's opinions. A job that hasn't been competently done ever.
The media hates Trump, and therefore he gets my vote.
I was hoping that the Internet would level the playing field and allow alternative media (e.g. conservative) to take hold. That has happened to a small extent but not nearly as much as I had hoped. Even today, Free Republic is still the best place to go on the Web to get the conservative viewpoint on the issues of the day. I was hoping by now we'd be just one of many conservative voices.
Talk Radio has also kept conservatism alive over the past quarter century, but so many conservative talk show hosts are loud-mouth "shouters" that preach to the choir but don't really produce any converts to the cause.
It really is that simple.
“General Jackson, when President, said to one of his fiercest newspaper opponents, “Send me your newspaper. I know that you are opposed to me. but then I like to see how many lies you can tell on me.” “General,” said the editor, “I think I do right in opposing you, and I shall continue to do so with all the ability of which I am the master.”
Here was a man after Jackson`s own heart, and he replied with an oath, “Sir, send me your paper,for aside from your abuse of me your paper is a good one...You may take the paper and tear it into fragments, and in each fragment you will see something to amuse or instruct you.”
“Essex County Republican”, Keeseville, NY Aug 27, 1874 front page
The free press should no longer be thought of as the mainstream paid media and commentators.
It's us on Free Republic and the greater Twitter-sphere of unpaid commentators found on the web.
Trump has shined the spotlight of truth upon the media, and like the cockroaches most of them are...they scurry.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Democrats, Republicans and the media all hate Trump.
I can’t think of a better endorsement.
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