Posted on 02/02/2018 10:45:09 AM PST by davikkm
The imminent release of the Nunes memo detailing government corruption has brought about a delicious and insightful irony. With The Post is still in theaters, our media is fighting against government transparency. The whole idea behind Steven Spielberg’s latest piece of Oscar-bait, The Post, is to use big stars, like Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, to tell the public that our fearless and heroic media is on our side, will to stand up to the federal government, is only interested in the kind of transparency that exposes wrongdoing and corruption.
And yet, on this very day, if you look around, what you will see is the exact opposite; what you will see is a Nixonian media vehemently opposed to transparency, a corrupt institution fighting tooth-and-nail against the release of a document that will almost certainly expose government wrongdoing and corruption.
Spielberg’s well-reviewed film, which is currently in theaters, takes us back to a bygone era when the American media bravely defied the government in order to release the Pentagon Papers. This was a classified 7,000-page document illegally obtained by Daniel Ellsberg that betrayed a lot of ugly secrets about America’s involvement in Vietnam under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, both Democrats.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
What you’ve got today...... six monopolies that own 1500 newspapers, 1100 magazines, 9000 radio stations, 1500 TV stations, 2400 publishing companies and control 95% of the entertainment (programming) industry.....Was Anyone Expecting something different ??!
With Disney and Comcast leading the MSM.
What are the six companies???
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--"President Nixon at first planned to do nothing about publication of the study since it embarrassed the Johnson and Kennedy administrations rather than his. But Henry Kissinger convinced the president that not opposing the publication set a negative precedent for future secrets.[9] The administration argued Ellsberg and Russo were guilty of a felony under the Espionage Act of 1917, because they had no authority to publish classified documents.[23] After failing to persuade the Times to voluntarily cease publication on June 14,[9] Attorney General John N. Mitchell and Nixon obtained a federal court injunction forcing the Times to cease publication after three articles.[9] Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger said:"
This is strange isn’t it?
The liberals and media celebrate the movie about the Pentagon papers, and talk of the first amendment freedom of speech, transparency, openness, etc.
Yet those same people do not want openness and transparency and publicity to government secrets in the case of the FISA memo.
That mother is will probably win some Oscars. It will be funny to hear Hollywood idiots talk about the freedom of the press and freedom of speech, when contrasted with the secrecy liberals want regarding what’s going on now.
Should read that movie will win Oscars.
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