Posted on 03/04/2017 4:09:43 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
The New York Times has published an article from opinion columnist and academic Thomas B. Edsall blaming the Internet for the collapse of establishment authority.
Arguing that the Internet “threatens Democracy,” Edsall openly concedes that he believes the freedom unleashed by the Internet to be a threat to the establishment; to its norms and language codes
"As the forces of reaction outpace movements predicated on the ideal of progress, and as traditional norms of political competition are tossed aside, it’s clear that the internet and social media have succeeded in doing what many feared and some hoped they would. They have disrupted and destroyed institutional constraints on what can be said, when and where it can be said and who can say it."
This is a rare moment of honesty from a mainstream commentator: up until now, the panicked, clumsy attempts to roll back freedom of speech on the web have advanced in disguise. Campaigns to reintroduce the language codes in the anarchic realm of the web have been concealed behind seemingly neutral concerns about “online harassment,” “trolling,” and “abuse.” Edsall, by contrast, doesn’t obfuscate. He straightforwardly admits that it’s really free speech on the web that concerns him. Good for him. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
NYT lamenting the fact that the Internet makes it more difficult for them to spread their propaganda and lies-oh that’s rich! More winning!
"As the forces of reaction AKA Freepers, Breitbart, Drudge, various Tea Party Scum and the like outpace movements predicated on the ideal of progress and our dreamed of workers paradise, and as traditional Marxist/socialist norms of political competition are tossed aside, it’s clear that the internet and social media have succeeded in doing what many feared and some hoped they would. "
In other words, we can’t lie and get away with it anymore.
That’s alright...I’ve reached the end of the Internet anyway.
Bypassing the #FakeNews Class
>>academic Thomas B. Edsall blaming the Internet for the collapse of establishment authority.
I wonder if he even took the “Question Authority” sticker off his Prius before writing this?
A way for the power to be taken from the establishment and given to the people was the dream of Leftists since the late 1960s. Now they have it and discover to their dismay that the people don’t agree with THEM and we are taking our power elsewhere.
Can’t have the peasants thinking for themselves, can we comrade?
Validates just what I have been saying and writing about for the past 20 years. WE have been ruled by a Mediacracy.
Now, there is enough new media to overcome their power.
Basically Trump is going right past the media to get his message out. Like today’s story of Obama wire tapping Trump Towers. The media hates it. Hahahahaha
“WE’RE LOSING CONTROL!!!”
Does "language codes" refer to the MSM power to refer to things exactly as they want? Case in point: They are "pro-choice" but we are "anti-abortion." They do not use the term "pro-life." Oh how I laugh when I think that the left invented the term FAKEnews themselves, not even realizing that it meant themselves.
The media has lost most of their power.... and they know it!
They threw everything they had at Trump and then some, yet he was still elected President.
This is a joke, right? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
So the establishment class determines? And just who is the establishment class and who designates who’s in it?
Believe me, you ain’t in it! LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9ce-yMEfc
Mika Brez-Nazi: Our job is to control what people think..
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