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This is What Happens When the Other Side Controls the Mass Media
Conservative Headquarters ^ | July 5, 2018 | Richard A. Viguerie

Posted on 07/05/2018 8:27:37 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot

In the coming years, virtually all of us in the conservative movement would find ourselves the targets of such smears, and without mass media outlets of our own, we were virtually defenseless against the charges – our protests simply were ignored. For example, CBS’s Mike Wallace asked conservative radio commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. to explain “the attraction the far Right has for crackpot fascist groups in America.” “Thunder against the Right,” in the November 24, 1961, issue of Time, featured attacks by President Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the Department of Social Action of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (mixing politics and religion was okay when practiced by the Left). The New York Times Magazine chimed in with “Report on the ‘Rampageous Right,’” or those who have “a deep distrust of democratic institutions and of the democratic process – a distrust, in short, of the people” and who “subscribe wholeheartedly to the conspiratorial, or devil, theory of history.” (Unfortunately M. Stanton Evans never got around to writing one of the books he wanted to write: The History Theory of Conspiracy). Newsweek go..

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TOPICS: History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediamonopoly; mediawingofthednc; newmedia; oldmedia; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: Neoliberalnot

Congress needs to pass fake news laws which suspend the ability of a network to broadcast any news at all for, oh, say 3 months on a first offense. One year on a second. Then permanently on a 3rd within 2 years.


21 posted on 07/05/2018 11:35:05 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: Boomer

I think all that needs to be done is to enforce the anti-trust acts already on the books. Evenly and predictably.


22 posted on 07/05/2018 12:17:43 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Boomer

Simply enforce the libel and slander laws already existing. Let them be sued out of business.


23 posted on 07/05/2018 2:00:02 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC .)
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