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How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media?
American Greatness ^ | 4 Dec, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/05/2022 5:15:39 AM PST by MtnClimber

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To: MtnClimber
Sadly, even THIS article is out of date. It does not reflect the DRAMATIC SHIFT at Twitter since Elon Musk took charge. Here’s some of his tweets:

Twitter will not censor accurate information about anything.(https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588666492572553216?s=46&t=rccaOfsOn72-ezD1Mvd64w)

Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information in the world. That’s our mission. (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589413653190938624?s=46&t=rccaOfsOn72-ezD1Mvd64w)

There’s MANY more such consistent tweets about FREEDOM of the press, etc. I suggest going to Elon Musk’s Twitter posts and reading all his Tweets and Replies since he took charge. AMAZING!

21 posted on 12/05/2022 7:09:08 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

My error. The author did mention “old Twitter” but did nothing to point out the “new Twitter.”


22 posted on 12/05/2022 7:19:39 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: MtnClimber

How corrupt? So corrupt that they are ignoring the fact that our nation has imprisoned peaceful protestors for over 2 years now, while,the government turns around and awards cash settlements to violent domestic terrorist rioters in blm and antifa.

That’s how corrupt they are


23 posted on 12/05/2022 7:21:57 AM PST by Bob434 (question)
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To: pas

I have four younger siblings, two sisters and two brothers who believe every bit of bs that comes out of the mouths of the Rats.

I haven’t spoken to the four of them in 6 years.

Now I know how they felt in 1861.


24 posted on 12/05/2022 7:56:08 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: robel

Many conservatives still only consider a news story credible if it’s covered by the corrupt media.

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They aren’t conservatives

They are willfully ignorant COWARDS.


25 posted on 12/05/2022 7:59:41 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: MtnClimber

How blue is blue?


26 posted on 12/05/2022 8:35:32 AM PST by fruser1
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To: MtnClimber

100 %


27 posted on 12/05/2022 8:46:31 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: RideForever
"We should be demanding that the FCC suspend the broadcast licenses of all broadcast media that inte(r)fered in the election."
Dream on!
28 posted on 12/05/2022 11:19:10 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Alouette; BatGuano; beaversmom; Brian Griffin; Cathi; cgk; ClearCase_guy; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Here are the "Chapters" in this excellent article:

Suppression

Fantasy

Chronological Manipulation

Asymmetry

Unethical Behavior

CNN Sums It Up

All fully documented by VDH. I am keeping this one close, to use when I get questions over the Christmas break.

FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR

Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall

American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness

His website: Victor Davis Hanson

Please let me know if you want on or off this new VDH ping list.

As a reminder, Professor Hanson has asked that we do not post the full article of his writings. Thank you for following the link to finish his article.

29 posted on 12/05/2022 3:09:54 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber

Non compos mentis is a Latin legal phrase that translates to “of unsound mind”:


30 posted on 12/05/2022 4:07:40 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: MtnClimber
Actually, there are laws against corrupt speech and corrupt publication. Those laws forbid slander, libel, and pornography, and they trace back to the founding era and before. They predate - and not legitimately touched by - the First Amendment.

In fact, the First Amendment was crafted not to touch such laws. Well, it would have been - making libel, slander, or pornography legal would have aroused fierce opposition in the 1790s, and the first ten amendments to the Constitution were proposed and ratified for no other reason than to eliminate controversy. Recall that the ratification of the Constitution was a close-run thing. And the Federalists - to whom ratification of the Constitution was a far higher priority than any thought any of them might have had about modifying libel law - had to promise the prompt inclusion of a bill of rights in the Constitution in order to get ratification of it.

“The” freedom . . . of the press” was understood by all to refer to freedom of the press as it already existed before the proposal, let alone ratification, of the Constitution. And that understanding was unchanged until in 1964 the Warren Court got its two cents in. Its justices held - unanimously, with some enthusiastic concurrences - that government officials couldn’t sue for libel without passing a high bar of proving “actual malice.” And ever since the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision was handed down, the corrupt publications which we call the MSM have been getting progressively worse.

I haven’t said anything which Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas haven’t said or implied, and if SCOTUS in its current configuration gets the right case, there is every reason to hope that Sullivan will be overturned. I certainly hope that Mr. Trump brings - is already bringing - that case. The MSM certainly continued to promote the “Russia collusion” hoax long after it had been officially debunked . . .

IMHO such a lawsuit would need to name the wire services and their members/subscribers individually, leaving the few innocent members of the wire services to argue their own innocence. And, IMHO, the wire services function as continuous virtual meetings of journalists - which, as Adam Smith noted, will always produce conspiracy against the public when performed by members of any trade, including journalism.

31 posted on 12/07/2022 8:54:06 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (A jury represents society. It presumes the innocence of anyone the government undertakes to punish)
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To: MtnClimber

Well, you have to remember that about 93% of Americans are pretty damn stupid.

Yeah, yeah I know that almost all of them graduated from high school, but for about the last 40 years you could have graduated a carrot from high school as valedictorian!

Plus the fact that a high school graduate is on about the same level as a third grader (back to that carrot) now days.

STUPID PEOPLE ARE EASILY LED TO BELIEVE WHATEVER THEY ARE TOLD!

The more often it is repeated the easier they will believe it.


32 posted on 12/26/2022 8:36:58 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: 5th MEB

As a post script to my previous comment; I am sure we have all noticed the the MEDIOTS are all reading from the same script, always the same sentence construction, same wording, same intent, with subtle shading for DIVERSITY’S sake.


33 posted on 12/26/2022 8:41:30 PM PST by 5th MEB
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