Orson Scott Card: Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights? (Devastating)

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[DrewsDad]

Why are we letting them get away with this?

[Hatteras]

Bump for future reference

[Erik Latranyi]

Orson Scott Card's complaint about Big Journalism's participation in the Democratic Party's lies reminds me of an idealistic seeker of truth in the Soviet Union. The Soviets had a system for handling people who had complaints about the difference between Communist rhetoric and Communist reality.

Communists called these people "useful idiots" who were placed into academia, the press and other educational roles where they could spread the socialist dogma.

Once true communists took over, the "useful idiots" were apalled at the true nature of evil and would revolt. These people were the first to be eliminated because their switch could change the minds of those who learned from them.

Those who always opposed communism were typically no real threat as they were disarmed and had no means of spreading the word. They were kept as 'examples of allowing an opposition' to exist because communism could tolerate opposition (in truth, it could only tolerate a declawed opposition).

These events took place in every country that turned to communism.

[geologist]

“This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.

If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe — and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.

If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.

You're just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it's time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a news paper in our city.

This article first appeared in The Rhinoceros Times of Greensboro, North Carolina, and is used here by permission.”
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Excellent article from a democrat who sees the error of his colleagues in journalism. Recently on PBS there is a series about the lives of our former Presidents ... The American Experience ... from their childhood on to whatever information is available.

As we know Lyndon Johnson did whatever it took to gain desired office, as did John F.Kennedy,and Richard Nixon. Nixon especially slandered and accused his opponents of being communist during a time of persecution and fear in this country. Winning was everything.

An antithesis to George Washington ... who could have been King.

We are in a sorry state of affairs, I fear.

Our hope is Jesus Christ.

[Blind Eye Jones]

ping

[conservative gal in PA]

Ping

[Interesting Times]

Ping and bravo.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping and bravo. He is right, of course: most journalists today are just shills for the Democrat party line.

[The Shrew]

Outstanding post. Thanks.