Let's Make The Mainstream Media Propaganda OFFICIAL

Start Thinking Right ^ | April 17, 2009 | Michael Eden

[Michael Eden]

Obama has appointed another far leftist radical to join the ranks of such as committed socialist Carol Browner (Global Warming czar) and committed globalist Harold Koh (State Department's legal adviser). Now it's Rosa Brooks, the far-left columnist for the Los Angeles Times who has said:

"George W. Bush and Dick Cheney shouldn't be treated like criminals who deserve punishment. They should be treated like psychotics who need treatment."

This is a committed globalist - which by definition means she calls for a diminution of American power and the American Constitution - who has served on the incredibly radical George Soros organization.

I hope none of you leftists mind if Ann Coulter goes to work in the next Republican administration. Maybe in some powerful capacity where she can just run hog wild all over you.

In her last column - published AFTER she became an official member of the Obama administration - Rosa Brooks offered her vision for state-owned media:

Influential Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks has hung up her journalistic hat and joined the Obama administration, but not before penning a public proposal calling for some radical ideas to help bail out the failing news industry.

Brooks, who has taken up a post as an adviser at the Pentagon, advocated upping "direct government support for public media" and creating licenses to govern news operations.

"Years of foolish policies have left us with a choice: We can bail out journalism, using tax dollars and granting licenses in ways that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary, or we can watch, wringing our hands, as more and more top journalists are laid off," she wrote in her parting column on April 9.

Brooks said this would help rescue the industry from a "death spiral" and left the government unaccountable to the journalists who must keep it honest. "[I] can't imagine anything more dangerous than a society in which the news industry has more or less collapsed," she wrote.

But critics say her proposal would spell an end to the independent media and make journalists reliant lapdogs.

"The day that the government gets involved in the news media you see the end of the democratic process, because an independent news media is absolutely essential to the success of a democracy," said L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group.

Bozell said licensing journalists would violate American traditions and was a form of "intellectual prostitution."

"Since when did our Founding Fathers envision that ... you could exercise your right to freedom of speech provided you had a license from the federal government? This is the kind of stuff you have revolutions about," he told FOXNews.com.

Attempts to reach Brooks by phone and e-mail were unsuccessful. A columnist for four years at the Times, Brooks this week joined the office of the undersecretary of Defense for policy, the principal adviser to the Pentagon's top brass. She retains her post as a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and during the Clinton administration served as a senior adviser to the State Department....

It is unclear whether the Obama administration is considering such assistance. A spokesman for Obama did not respond to questions about Brooks' statements, which were published after her appointment to the Pentagon.

Some in the government are already looking to assist the industry. Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., proposed legislation in March that would allow newspapers to operate as tax-exempt nonprofits as long as they don't endorse political candidates. The move was heralded as a positive step toward finding a fix but condemned by critics for potentially making newspapers beholden to the government.

Some scribes are already closely bound to Washington. As jobs are axed and papers felled across the country, many journalists have sought work elsewhere. A number have gone to work for the Obama administration, including Chicago Tribune correspondent Jill Zuckman; Time magazine's Washington bureau chief, Jay Carney; former L.A. Times reporter Peter Gosselin; and Warren Bass, once the Washington Post's deputy editor.

Brooks is not the first journalist to support a broadsheet bailout, but she is the first member of the administration to publicly declare her support for the move, which appears to be gaining momentum.

We need a Ministry of Propaganda to go along with everything else this administration is doing.

Contrast what Obama's new pick for his administration is calling for in relation to another liberal demand. The last third of one of my articles provides quote after quote from prominent Democrats calling for the re-imposition of the Fairness Doctrine. Most Americans recognize how fascist such a liberal attack on free speech would be, but Democrats will not be stopped: the outgoing FCC commissioner recently warned of a new "back-door" implementation of the Fairness Doctrine. And let's not forget the central fact: the Fairness Doctrine - by any liberal euphemism - is a blatant attempt to muzzle the only media outlet in which conservatives truly have a substantial voice.

While these verminous hypocrites want to legislate highly successful talk-radio out of existence simply because they don't like the message of the most successful talk radio hosts, they want to fund failed liberal media because they need to subsidize the leftist message coming out of the liberal-dominated mainstream media.

Fox News is doing fine. More than fine:

FOX RATINGS SURGE ON PROTEST COVERAGE 8-11 PM ET

FOXNEWS 3,390,000 MSNBC 1,210,000 CNN 1,070,000 CNN HEADLINE 909,000

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,980,000 FOXNEWS HANNITY 3,239,000 FOXNEWS GRETA 2,947,000 FOXNEWS BECK 2,740,000 FOXNEWS BAIER 2,401,000 FOXNEWS SHEP 2,185,000 COMEDY DAILY SHOW 1,777,000 MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,499,000 COMEDY COLBERT 1,446,000 CNNHN GRACE 1,336,000 CNN KING 1,292,000 MSNBC MADDOW 1,149,000 CNN COOPER 1,021,000

The Wall Street Journal doesn't have any financial worries. It's the uberliberal New York Times, Boston Globe, San Fransisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Rocky Mountain News (Denver), and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that are all failing. And fail these dishonest, corrupt, biased, propaganda rags should.

I’ve written about the fact that study after study has demonstrated that the media is dominated by liberalism. I've written about this in numerous articles, but one paragraph from a previous article should suffice to demonstrate that fact:

The media has been so blatantly biased throughout its election coverage that it is completely accurate to say that we are now in a propaganda state. There is no possible way that Republicans can win in this media climate: whether you look at the Media Research Center, or at the Project for Excellence in Journalism (or again at their brand new study), or at the University of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Advertising Project, there is widespread agreement with one longtime ABC journalist that the media is dangerously biased. Pew Research discovered that Americans believe by a 70% to 9% margin that the media is biased in favor of Obama and against McCain. The media now represents a fifth column of government - a propaganda wing - that attacks conservatives and celebrates and defends Democrats and their ideology. Democracy is going extinct in the country that founded democracy, because no free society can survive such a climate of propaganda.

The bias, the ideology masquerading as news, the dishonesty and corruption of the media, is rampant. And more and more Americans simply no longer trust them.

I would love to subscribe to my local newspaper. I'd love to have the coupons and the local news coverage. But the local paper is more likely to offend me than it is to inform me. The moderate competitor from immediately outside the area stopped delivering to my neighborhood. So now I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. It isn't delivered to my area either, and I like a hard-copy newspaper; so I have to wait at my mailbox for the darn thing and read it the day after the fact. But it's either that or no paper at all.

I don't need a "vast rightwing conspiracy" newspaper; just don't give me "General Betray Us." But that's just too damn much to expect from way too many newspapers and periodicals these days.

There just aren't enough people left who trust these bird-cage liners to make them profitable.

The tea parties are a great example of this. Hundreds of thousands of people showed up to some 750 events across the nation. As Channel 2 local news reported, "There were thousands on hand for that event at noon." And that was in a small city. And there was still another event scheduled for the evening that was expected to be even better attended. And horns were honking so loud from passing motorists who couldn't attend (but wished they could have) that you couldn't hear yourself think. Yet how does the mainstream media handle this major news event? They mock it and seek to undermine it even as they refuse to actually report it. They are disenfranchising their readership to their own extinction.

But rather than begin to correct the far-left ideology-as-news and supply the market with fair and objective news sources, far-leftwingers such as Rosa Brooks - who is now part of the Obama administration - say that Nazi Germany's Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and the Soviet TASS were sound government-business relationships.

I keep calling these people fascists. And they keep saying, "We're not quite fascist yet; but we're working toward it as hard as we can."

[EasySt]

The main stream media is already operating under the control of our leftist government.

She just wants to use our taxes to keep them in business, since the “product” is failing commercially.

[Michael Eden]

That’s pretty much the deal in a nutshell.

I just ordered the book on FDR “New Deal or Raw Deal,” and was immediately confronted with the hypocrisy that seems to pervade “academia” and the “news media.”

The author cites “the scholarship” on FDR, all the glowing praise for FDR and his wonderful new deal. Then he cites a single statement from FDR’s Treasury Secretary that blows up all the “scholarship” for the fraud that it was and is.

Henry Morganthau, FDR’s Treasury Secretary throughout his presidency, said in May 1939:

“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong... somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enought to eat. We have never made good on our promises... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!”

In April 1939, unemployment was 20.7%

The New Deal was a total failure - and even FDR’s Treasury Sec acknowledged it.

The “academics” and the “reporters” presented an entirely false picture, giving false credit to FDR even as they created a straw man to demonize Republicans.

It’s who these people are, and who they have been, for decades.