'The Official Truth': The End of Free Speech That Will End America

Gatestone Institute ^ | 5/28/23 | J.B. Shurk

[CFW]

[M]edia polling from Harvard-Harris showing that Americans hold almost diametrically opposing viewpoints from those that news corporations predominantly broadcast as the official "truth."

Americans have correctly concluded that [with the "Russia Hoax" and suppressing reported influence peddling in Hunter Biden's laptop ] journalists and spies advanced a "fraud" on voters as part of an effort to censor a damaging story and "help Biden win." Nevertheless, The New York Times and The Washington Post have yet to return the Pulitzer Prizes they received for reporting totally discredited "fake news."

"Under the current approach to journalism, it is the New York Times that receives a Pulitzer for a now debunked Russian collusion story rather than the New York Post for a now proven Hunter Biden laptop story." — Professor Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School, Twitter, May 15, 2023.

[CFW]

As this piece says, "It is not difficult to see the dangers that lie ahead. Now that the government has fully inserted itself into the news and information industry, the criminalization of free speech is a very real threat."

[ClearCase_guy]

I was recently re-reading “The Great War and Modern Memory” by Paul Fussell and he mentioned that during WWI the press published a lot of propaganda and lies. Like, the Battle of the Somme went well for the British. (It didn’t.) The men in the trenches knew that the press was full of crap and after the war, respect for the press took a long time to recover.

I think that, today, all of our institutions have suffered a loss of respect and I don’t know when they will recover. Who believes the government? The media? The doctors? They all only care about manipulating people.

[OttawaFreeper]

"Under the current approach to journalism, it is the New York Times that receives a Pulitzer for a now debunked Russian collusion story rather than the New York Post for a now proven Hunter Biden laptop story." Well, this is certainly not the first time the NYT won a Pulitzer for a fake Russian news story, witness Uncle Walter and his contributions to the annals of journalism.

[Salman]

Enforcement by private entities has already effectively ended free speech. This just makes it official.

[joma89]

Well, as Mao noted, all political power emanates from the barrel of a gun. So, get buying, folks.

[ClearCase_guy]

Once upon a time, people saw that the First Amendment read, “Congress shall make no law ...”.

But then it became interpreted more broadly, and people decided that no level of government should censor Free Speech.

But the whole game fell part when the Authoritarians realized that private entities could freely punish any speech or religious feelings. All dissent can be silenced, if you can get companies to do it.

A fatal flaw.

[cuz1961]

A fatal flaw.

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Speaking of...

Giving corporations the legal fiction of personhood

was another.

Corporations were then able to gain.
the financial edge over human citizens.

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[momincombatboots]

America died under a Republican prez during covid. People lost their jobs for non compliance/ disagreement.

[Hatteras]

Not dead yet. Severely wounded. But the Democrats are doing what they can to rape, pillage & burn what remains

[sauropod]

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[TomGuy]

the official "truth."

'Journalism'/'News' have been losing credibility for decades. In the 90s I noticed patterns in the network evening 'news':

First, every week or so they would have a lead headline and report about a revolutionary new pharmaceutical drug. They would spend several minutes on the subject. Those reports were nothing more than infomercials for the pharmaceutical industry.

Second, frequently they would have results of various polls. More times than not, those reports slanted the results toward the preferred narrative. [That was before WE learned about preferential 'narratives'.] Those kinds of polls were and still are pushed by the networks. I concluded a long time ago that he who commissions the poll can also commission the desired results.

Third, slow news days. Whenever there just nothing major happening, the newies came out with a new, astonishing, surprising, amazing report about Elvis or Marilyn Monroe or JFK.

The 'official truth' is can be summarize in quote attributed to P.T.Barnum:

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."

[StAnDeliver]

"Under the current approach to journalism, it is the New York Times that receives a Pulitzer for a now debunked Russian collusion story rather than the New York Post for a now proven Hunter Biden laptop story." — Professor Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School, Twitter, May 15, 2023.

Poor Jon, he's a red-pilled liberal who fears for his money if he comes out as a conservative. He actually believes anyone puts any credence into a "Pulitzer" or the "NYT", probably dreams of winning the first one and being featured for the win in the latter. WAKE THE F-CK UP TURLEY, stop wasting our time.

[SuperLuminal]

There are no limits to tyranny...