Posted on 12/29/2016 8:27:49 PM PST by Lorianne
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.The actual mission of FR is to enable us to pool our (individually naturally inadequate) incredulity sufficiently to be able to resist the Siren call of fake news. My principal contribution to that incredulity consists of pointing out that:The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
- Wire services homogenize news, and empower its practitioners. The result is ideological uniformity which is safe to go along with - and dangerous to cross.
- Journalists claim to be objective. This has two implications:
- Since journalism is negative and knows it, journalism claims that negativity is objectivity. A claim which can only be described as cynicism.
- The sine qua non of any attempt at objectivity is candor about any reasons why you might not be objective. Therefore a claim of actual objectivity (rather than, say, a claim to be trying to be objective) precludes any real effort at even trying to be objective.
- SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins . . . Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine
- Journalists, like all liberals, love to say society when they mean nothing other than government. This is a euphemism for government, but a slander on society.
- Journalists think that nothing actually matters except PR (Naturally they were shocked when Donald Trump withstood their devastating PR assault on him with an amazing display of pure chutzpah, and won the election). Thinking that they control who wins elections causes them to think highly of government. And as noted above, they are cynical about society.
- Objective journalism is liberal (actually, socialist) propaganda. Or, if you will, fake news."
OUTSTANDING c_I_c. Thanks very much for the ping/post and your work.
Fake news describes the MSM, what did they expect? I “Rather” like it that this bothers them.
Solzhenitsyn called out our “free press” in 1978 and said it was worse than Pravda. It was worse because at least Russians knew that Pravda was just promoting lies 24/7 and Americans “thought” they were getting the “truth”.
Ray Bradbury said MSM was (back in the 90s) a “dog and pony” show to addict people (waste their time) and keep them from the “truth” (reading original source documents).
I find that the above is true. Since JP Morgan bought all the APs in the early 1900s and Rothschild owned all Reuters, they knew how important it is to control ALL information that the masses get. That is why journalism was the most dangerous job of all.....journalists were killed if they dared state the truth. Truth is more hated than lies (Machiavelli). Truth is dangerous to power. Just like the DNC young man was killed by the Clintons-Obamas. Truth is dangerous and destroys power. Truth will set us free.
All MSM is a controlled “Narrative” (Mind (emotion) Control) and all major networks “Repeat” over and over (Brainwashing technique) the adjectives or concept, so it becomes the “truth” (embedded in the subconscious)(LOL)-—they promote emotions only-—like homosexual “marriage”—they pushed Gay “Pride” since the 70s to normalize sodomizing others and baby-killing (abortions to little girls in their Marxist curricula), to brainwash little children and make Vice into Virtue and flip 2000 years of ethics to Satanism (paganism—an evil, irrational religion).
There is no separation of Church and State since the State promotes Satanism 24/7 in the public square and public schools (It is all unconstitutional). Truth has to be promoted in a “Justice” (virtue) System, not vice and evil, dysfunctional acts.
They understand Wittgenstein—that whoever controls Language (Words) will control the emotions of the masses. Eddy Bernays understood that in his book Propaganda—written before 1920. Lenin’s and Hitler’s first act was to get total control of ALL information. Sorry to say, after JFK was killed by our CIA, we have had no truth from MSM.
That is why the internet is SO dangerous.....it is Pandora’s Box and the evil sodomite satanists (Luciferean/Freemasons) have to be able to control ALL ideas you are given so they can control “What” you “think”—especially destroy Christianity because it created Free Will and Individualism—the ability to think outside the State’s box.
When they give our little children lies and misinformation in the “education” brainwashing system called public schools, everything is forced through a Neo-Marxist, Neo-Freudian Lens which warps everything: they will become little ignorant snowflakes, unable to have agency, (think for themselves) because they will be programmed and their foundation is made up of lies and misinformation (only Classical Christian curricula teaches truth and gives the “tools” to think critically).
We have to take back our children, now. Unplug them from the satanic programming which destroys virtue formation-—and then be skeptical of everything that comes out of the government, CIA-controlled press. (Operation Mockingbird). We have to embed virtue in young children which requires innocence and protection of their minds and bodies-—otherwise they turn into Dahmers.
Fake News has been with us since before the Jekyll Is. cartel got us into WWI. It is all about money and control......for the NWO. Promotion of Lies and Misinformation so Slavery is Freedom, Up is Down, Snow is Black and Boys are Girls——people (and children) will be so irrational and ignorant, they will be incapable of critical thinking (Freedom/Free Will).
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