Posted on 04/22/2018 1:06:38 PM PDT by Beave Meister
We are living through an era when the Western democracies are generally reassessing a great deal of assumed conventional liberal wisdom, and have been conducted in this direction by political leadership that is often disparaged in our mainstream media as disreputable rabble-rousing. The most remarkable aspect of it is no longer that there have been sharp populist turns in the American, British, German, Italian, French, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Austrian and other electorates (including, nascently, Brazil on the right and Mexico on the left). The larger issue in the United States and the leading western European countries is that the media are at war with the governments, and as all the governments involved have been freely elected, with the people.
The American media, joined by the fatuous imitative chirping of the Canadian media (not that Americans would be aware of or have the slightest interest in what the media or anyone else in Canada thought of anything), regularly imply or state that the U.S. government is being run autocratically by a thuggish individual unfit for his great office. Robert De Niro wants to send the president to prison in a comedy skit; Kathy Griffin, whose opening gambit was a still photograph of the president’s severed head, is now lampooning his entourage in predictable simulations. Desperately unoriginal and mouthy occupants of late-night purported comedy — Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Chelsea Handler — imagine that shouting rehashed denigrations of the president and his family are amusing. It is a bore; it isn’t working, and history moves on.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Big media is owned by global corporations that respond to anti American interests.
I am currently in Australia, and the coverage of President Trump is bizarre. The Australian media (what little I watch, mostly ABC) is as bad as American dominant networks in their extensive anti-Trump bias.
Good article; excellent writing. Never heard of this site. Bookmarked.
Big media is owned by global corporations that respond to anti American interests.
Article worth reading in its entirety.
Black is to kind to islime invaders of Europe. They are not refugees but the globalist puppet masters foot soldiers to terrorize Whitey and provide the electoral margin of victory for the globalist while Western Europe is browned out of existence
These truths still cannot be utered by any public figure
No one mentions them by name.
Disney and Comcast piss in our shoes daily.
Yep
Dittos
And there are only a handful of corporations that own virtually all media outlets. Something like five or six. So it’s really easy to have them all march in lockstep, using the same phrases and catch words in a “news” report.
Media here are a hugh monopoly.
Needs to be broken up.
#FakeNewsTabloidPress
Watching the network news is like standing in line at the grocery store.
Founding Fathers could never imagine the 1st. Amendment would be used as a weapon by Americans against Americans.
They have been “marching in lockstep” for 50 years and more.
All the networks took their stories and ques from AP, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.
50 years ago all three networks all had all the same stories.
When FDR signed the FCC into law in 1932, he immediately appointed a political crony to over see all broadcast media.
He made sure no anti-FDR administration stories were broadcast.
That led to the total domination of the broadcast media by philosophical Progressives of both parties, which, in large part, is how we got to where we are today.
From reason.com:
It did not take long for broadcasters to get the message. NBC, for example, announced that it was limiting broadcasts “contrary to the policies of the United States government.” CBS Vice President Henry A. Bellows said that “no broadcast would be permitted over the Columbia Broadcasting System that in any way was critical of any policy of the Administration.” He elaborated “that the Columbia system was at the disposal of President Roosevelt and his administration and they would permit no broadcast that did not have his approval.” Local station owners and network executives alike took it for granted, as Editor and Publisher observed, that each station had “to dance to Government tunes because it is under Government license.” Some dissident radio commentators, such as Father Charles Coughlin and Boake Carter, gained wide audiences. But radio as a whole was firmly pro-Roosevelt—and both Coughlin and Carter were eventually forced off the air for pushing the envelope too far.
Suddenly celebrities - news, academic, entertainment - suddenly they compose a separate social class of their own, not only in the United States but worldwide, their positions not a function of merit but of "official" possession of a microphone. They're not into the dilution of that authority by sharing the microphone, and especially not by the Internet conferring it to the unapproved and unwashed masses. And the gulf between that social class and the unwashed masses who comprise the source of that authority is wide and widening. It looks like class warfare because that's what it is.
The old journalism is dead and stinking like a three-day corpse in the hot Arizona sun. It had ethics, such as they were, or at least a credible pretense - gone. It had expertise, such as it was, born of familiarity with the people on and to whom it was reporting - gone. It had clout, a function of its ability to weigh in on either side of an issue - gone. What remains isn't pretty.
Bump
Lock then up sedition with the sentence to be served in say Mexico and Egypt.
The media is slowly losing influence, thankfully.
It is a cartel. The LEFT MEDIA CARTEL. They do not get a dime from me.
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