The Left-Wing Legacy of the Mainstream Media

American Thinker.com ^ | December 7, 2021 | Steve McCann

[Kaslin]

Over the past eight decades there have many frauds promoted by the mainstream media. Perhaps the most notable, and consequential, was the media persuading an overwhelming majority of citizens over the years that their brand of journalism is a not only the epitome of a noble profession but one that always strives to be fair and balanced. But the legacy of the mainstream media is that it has always been the cheerleaders and propaganda arm of the left and the Democrat Party.

The modern-day mainstream media can trace its beginning to the passage of the Communications Act of 1934, which created the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), thus, placing de facto control of the electronic media under the federal government and greatly limiting competition. Consequently, three networks had a national monopoly on the dissemination of news broadcast over the airwaves for the next 60 years.

Additionally, the dominant members of the print media assumed even greater notoriety and dominance by cooperating with a fascist-sympathizing Roosevelt Administration and their heavy-handed treatment of the media. As radio and later television grew, metropolitan newspapers merged or ceased publication, leading to newspaper monopolies in all but a small handful of cities. With the rise of the internet, many other less prominent publications were driven into bankruptcy or obscurity. Thus, the mainstream media as we know it today was born.

As broadcast oligopolies and metropolitan newspaper monopolies advanced in the last century, the management of the leading newspapers, magazines, and broadcast networks found it necessary to initiate the mantra that their profession was the epitome of credibility and integrity. This began when they were unabashedly promoting Franklin Roosevelt and his big government agenda, and accelerated dramatically during World War II when they eagerly embraced a partnership with the deferral government to advance the war effort.

[ronnie raygun]

The media has blood on their hands and is responsible for many events that should have never happened

[marktwain]

But the legacy of the mainstream media is that it has always been the cheerleaders and propaganda arm of the left and the Democrat Party.

Exactly correct.

FDR used the FCC to cement Progressive control over the country and the Media.

[Elsie]

The modern-day mainstream media can trace its beginning to the passage of the Communications Act of 1934, which created the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), thus, placing de facto control of the electronic media under the federal government and greatly limiting competition.

That's because the 'free press' had already been codified into law.

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First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble (except on January 6^th), and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[SES1066]

Who else amongst us remembers that foul “Fairness Doctrine”? Promulgated by the FCC in 1949 (Truman Administration) under the high-minded concept that; “A broadcast licensee shall afford reasonable opportunity for discussion of conflicting views on matters of public importance.”

While the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) exempted its application to non-FCC entities, legal challenges were struck down through the early 1980s when a Reagan restriction against PBS stations giving editorial opinions was struck down. However, in the late 1980s, a GOP-dominated FCC started to remove these restrictions as the original argument of limited broadcast spectrum became moot.