“How Mainstream Media Destroys Democracy, What To Do About It”
I figured out what “to do about it” some years’ back:
I turned off the tv. I don’t watch “network news” anymore. I don’t watch ANY tv anymore. I don’t even own a television.
I stopped reading papers like the New York Times. I wouldn’t read it if it was free (and it freely obtainable where I work).
I stopped reading the “mainstream newsmagazines”.
I don’t even listen to the radio news.
I get my news and “opinion” here, and from sites like The Washington Times. Works for me.
I undertook these steps on my own, and was surprised to find that they were in line with what Pat Buchanan recommended in “The Death Of The West” - something he called “secession from the modern culture”. I sense that many Freepers have done as much, and those who have done the most are those who have taken to homeschooling their own children.
In some ways, this “withdrawal” from the increasingly leftist “mainstream” culture might be compared to the separation that the Amish and [some of the] Mennonites maintain for themselves.
One wonders how _much_ cultural secession will occur, before the Left decides that the latter-day “separationists” must be brought back into line, by force if need be...
- John
I believe many people across the nation have taken some of those steps to some degree, especially the majority of FReepers. The print media is going bankrupt, I wonder if the broadcast media and Hollywood are destined for the same thing as people become more disgusted?