Posted on 06/14/2023 6:54:11 AM PDT by Starman417
There is no democracy without a free press. That’s been echoed by many people. Here’s one view:
The purpose of a free press is to ensure that the people are free to receive and impart information that is not manipulated or serving a particular person, entity or interest. Its duty, in fact, is often to investigate people of power, and especially the government, to ask the hard questions and to attempt to uncover what’s really happening, regardless of the political fallout.“not manipulated or serving a particular person.”
Today much of the press is manipulated in favor of a particular person- Joe Biden. Censorship by the left-wing media is very troublesome- it cost Donald Trump the 2020 election. Trump has been harassed and pursued by phony charges and accusations since 2015.If you pay attention to the media, you see that every accusation about Trump is true but every piece of evidence against Biden is false. Each time a credible piece of evidence against Biden appears, the DNC media ignores it.
On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” journalist Matt Taibbi stated that he believes there has been a lack of coverage of allegations of influence-peddling against President Joe Biden because “it happens to be politically inconvenient” and stated that it almost seems like members of the media “just get a memo to not cover stuff.”The dog whistle gets blownTaibbi said, “I think a lot of journalists of an older generation feel the same way, which is, once upon a time, most reporters didn’t really care who was in office. If they were corrupt, if they did something wrong, we’d do the reporting. It didn’t really matter to us. The idea that you would non-report something like the Biden story because it happens to be politically inconvenient would have been inconceivable, I think, in the mainstream press, even a dozen years ago.”
He added, “It appears that sometimes they just get a memo to not cover stuff. That happened with me with the Twitter files reports. Sometimes, we’d put something out, and it seemed clearly newsworthy, but everybody would react to it the same way, they would respond to it in the same language on Twitter, and I have no idea how that happens. It’s a mystery to me.”Censorship of Donald Trump by the left-wing media is over the top, wrong and it is dangerous to freedom. And it’s getting worse.
Everything Rachel @maddow of @MSNBC said here is a lie. WATCH pic.twitter.com/qRRwCtygqn
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) June 14, 2023
"Look at what PBS posted at the bottom of Trump's speech"...
PBS is now putting 'warning labels' on live Trump events. This is a new low — even for PBS.https://t.co/DEXcgPk1xL
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 14, 2023
But for some reason Biden’s chronic lies are acceptableCNN’S JAKE TAPPER ON TRUMP: “We're not carrying his remarks live because frankly he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.”
pic.twitter.com/7FxKsn27dY
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) June 14, 2023
Biden once again claims he has traveled "17, 18,000 miles together" with Xi Jinping.
That lie has been repeatedly debunked. pic.twitter.com/Ckwil8zPIH
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 13, 2023
Let’s also remember what the wannabe dictator said:Biden continues making things up: "When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something is still very wrong in America." pic.twitter.com/KYvkkZpWWk
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 10, 2023
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If you think we have a “Free Press”, look who owns the Press.
It’s a good thing we live in a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC!
We now have the internet.
So, the real issue comes down to this: "If we don't have "freedom of speech," we don't have a "democracy."
By that reasoning, we still have a "democracy" albeit a fragile one.
That said, there are other ways to kill a "democracy." One is a collapse of the institutions that the "democracy" depends on, like the DOJ, the FBI, and the military (which has gone Woke).
The same people who own our politicians. Blackrock, WEF, China, satanic orgs everywhere…..
“It’s a good thing we live in a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC!”
Do we really, though? Do you feel represented? I haven’t for decades. It looks to me like we’ve been fundamentally transformed into a Marxist Mobocracy...with a scant few moments of sanity sprinkled in on occasion.
It’s a good thing we live in a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC!
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We get to elect people who go on to represent the DC establishment.
Something between being a mobocracy and kleptocracy, whatever that is.
There is also no democracy with stolen elections.
we don’t have a “democracy.”
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But we do have lots of bureaucracy.
play it again Sam ....
When we use the words of the left we are already yielding to them.
Part of the problem is big cities carry to much weight ... we
could use a a little more “republic” and a little less “democracy”
Especially within the states.
I don’t trust anybody who refers to the type of government we’re supposed to have as a “democracy.”
There is very little of what most of us once believed to be a “free press”. There is now only a horde of propagandist whores who pretend to be news reporters/”journalists”, and a censorship apparatus that would have made Stalin envious.
“Sometimes, we’d put something out, and it seemed clearly newsworthy, but everybody would react to it the same way, they would respond to it in the same language on Twitter, and I have no idea how that happens. It’s a mystery to me.”
Taibbi never heard of the Journ-o-list? Or is he silly enough to think they didn’t replace it with another equivalent once they were caught?
If ever, there was a Civil War here in our country, those left wing mediapukes would be the VERY FIRST heads to be chopped off. I HATE THEM!!
Well, Taibbi is a leftie, just one who still seems to have at least a shred of integrity left.
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There is no democracy without the complete BOR.
Democrats are fine with the free press so long as it serves their interests.
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