[skeeter]

All Americans should be scared to death at the death grip the MSM has on the flow of information. The flow of facts Americans need to self govern.

The self censorship and advocacy of todays news media is proving lethal to our lives & liberties.

[laplata]

All Americans should be scared to death at the death grip the MSM has on the flow of information. The flow of facts Americans need to self govern.

The self censorship and advocacy of todays news media is
proving lethal to our lives & liberties.

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Exactly!

May the MSM suffer for what they’ve done to our country.

Evil bastards.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

All Americans should be scared to death at the death grip the MSM has on the flow of information. The flow of facts Americans need to self govern.

If “all Americans” were "scared to death at the death grip the MSM has on the flow of information,” there wouldn’t be anything to worry about. The problem is precisely that so many Americans take a “What, me worry?” attitude toward the journalism monopoly. As Adam Smith pointed out, there is a straightforward reason why journalism behaves as a monopoly:

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public

The Associated Press newswire is precisely a continual, nonstop “conversation” among nominally competitive journalism outlets - and not for “merriment or diversion.” but precisely about the business of journalism. The direct and inevitable consequence is a conspiracy by journalists against the public. The result of which is the promotion of the influence of journalists - that is, of people who are critics and not actors whose decisions have consequences - at the direct expense of “the man who is actually in the arena,” and thus at the very real expense of the public. This produces a pro-socialist propaganda wind, which so-called “liberal” politicians exploit.

My idea of the way to attack that cabal would be to sue journalism in general by suing “the Associated Press and its members, joint and several liability, and also name the FCC for encouraging broadcast journalism even as NBC “shortens” the Zimmerman tape by editing out an answer and then a question, and the active case of the moment where pro-thug activism has resulted in looting. And how many others? Duke Lacrosse, Rathergate, etc, etc. This should be a RICO civil case, claiming triple damages. The claim should also be lodged against the FEC since its very existence is predicated on the absurd conceit that journalism is objective.