[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Holy Order of the Sky Is Falling

. . . is the natural condition of a unified Big Journalism establishment. Journalism doesn't do anything, it only tries to attract attention and impress people with big talk. So naturally journalists will promote anyone who criticizes people who actually get things done. And the environmental movement is simply a reactionary criticism of the people who provide our SUVs and our gasoline. Hey, it's a lot easier than organizing efficient production of vehicles, or figuring out where there is oil . . .

"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena - Theodore Roosevelt

The (il)logical conclusion of promoting criticism of anyone who does anything essential is to put critics - people who have zero track record of getting anything done - in charge of the economy. It's called "socialism" and, oddly enough </sarcasm>, it doesn't result in efficient production of anything but criticism and scapegoating. >

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

It seems we have progressed from the Founders' original intent to have a citizen legislature that would periodically return home after a short stint at writing law (presumably to live under that same law) to a class of professional lawmakers who have absolutely no intention of ever living under the very laws they wrote. Those laws are only for their subjects (called "constituents"). Being for the most part lawyers, Congresspeople have no skill in creating anything. They can only write law empowering themselves and extorting money from and otherwise hampering legitimate businesses.

The media mob (as Milhous has recently dubbed them) has appointed itself as the mouthpiece of these people. Their goal is to cheer on the efforts of the "leaders" to build a state completely controlled by the elite, and to put themselves into the position of speaking for their party (a la Pravda). Then they won't have to worry about profit or entertainment; they will have permanent jobs. Only the other day an article was posted on here where a journalism major posited that if newspapers could not survive as a business, why then it was the job of the government to support journalism all the same, out of your tax money.

Read the portion of the Gulag Archepelago where Solzenitzen talks about how the pre-Soviet media fawned over the leftist revolutionaries in jail, trumpeted their ideas and wailed about their conditions in prison. But Lenin turned on the media mob immediately after taking power, and their comrades buried their dead bodies in the northern island prison cemeteries where they had been shot like criminals. I suppose he had no reason to trust them, either. Presumably the same happened to the Chinese, Cuban, and Cambodian media as well.

It seems history isn't necessarily the strong suit of journalists, whether print or electronic.