Posted on 03/11/2021 11:37:31 PM PST by Pelham
This new political battle does not break down along left v. right lines. This is an information war waged by corporate media to silence any competition or dissent.
On Wednesday, I wrote about how corporate journalists, realizing that the public’s increasing contempt for what they do is causing people to turn away in droves, are desperately inventing new tactics to maintain their stranglehold over the dissemination of information and generate captive audiences. That is why journalists have bizarrely transformed from their traditional role as leading free expression defenders into the the most vocal censorship advocates, using their platforms to demand that tech monopolies ban and silence others.
That same motive of self-preservation is driving them to equate any criticisms of their work with “harassment,” “abuse” and “violence” — so that it is not just culturally stigmatized but a banning offense, perhaps even literally criminal, to critique their journalism on the ground that any criticism of them places them “in danger.” Under this rubric they want to construct, they can malign anyone they want, ruin people’s reputations, and unite to generate hatred against their chosen targets, but nobody can even criticize them.
Any independent platform or venue that empowers other journalists or just ordinary citizens to do reporting or provide commentary outside of their repressive constraints is viewed by them as threats to be censored and destroyed. Every platform that enables any questioning of their pieties or any irreverent critiques of mainstream journalism — social media sites, YouTube, Patreon, Joe Rogan’s Spotify program — has already been systematically targeted by corporate journalists with censorship demands, often successfully.
Back in November, the media critic Stephen Miller warned: “It’s only a matter of time before the media tech hall monitors turn their attention to Substack.” And ever since, in every interview I have
(Excerpt) Read more at greenwald.substack.com ...
They think it’s the 1600s and they own the only printing press in the village.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is one of these crazy liberals coming out after Gab as being inherently “anti-Semitic.”
What a useful idiot for the Cause!
What journalists? There are very few left. They were replaced by propagandists..
Greenwald’s description reminds me a lot of a clique of high school ‘elites’ who have suddenly graduated, and find themselves in the real world. Like their high school counterparts, the media ‘elites’ had become accustomed to being able to gather together in their little gossip group, say whatever they wanted about the ‘geeks’ and ‘retards’, laugh and ridicule others all throughout their little lives, and still see themselves as the hottest things around.
Upon graduation, their world collapses. The high school clique disbands, off to different colleges, cities, and jobs. Suddenly ‘cool’ collapses, too, and they are judged by effort and competence, or often incompetence.
The media elites are finally there, too. Their “graduation” has been the wild proliferation of alternate pathways for news to be disseminated. The clique has been exposed as a bunch of insecure narcissists who can’t take any heat at all. The sad reality for them all is that there isn’t a thing they can do about it.
He must be talking about Presstitutes, because I haven’t seen any Journalism from the Fake News Media in over 30 years
Self-preservation is certainly their motive, but media propagandists are much less afraid of criticism from nose-bleed shouters on substack & Parler than they are of the younger new hires from J-schools that are ready to cancel them if they don’t pay slavish obeisance to the woke creed.
“Trust in the media has declined steadily over the years. In 2019, one estimate pegged the percentage of people who had a great deal of confidence in the press at only 6%.”
The link also explains “substack.”
There are a lot of people who you’d think to be left leaning and they are globalists but they also want freedom from central control. They like and write Open Source software and in error, believe Soros’ “Open Society” will be open like the software.
Decentralization and the blockchain is a big thing right now. Decentralized currency, Decentralized finance, Decentralized publishing, Decentralized retail markets.
I like the idea but you know tptb will figure out a way to control it centrally. Central Banks aren’t going to just let themselves be made obsolete.
Glenn Greenweld is great. Bookmarked his substack. Some good reads he has there.
Thanks!
“Central Banks aren’t going to just let themselves be made obsolete.”
A central bank can’t control cryptocurrencies other than one that they create. A government could try to outlaw their use but that might not be easy or practical.
The only thing that central banks can do is affect the amount of credit in their own country’s banking system. The quantity of money that commercial banks can create.
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