Posted on 04/03/2011 7:21:25 AM PDT by Lakeshark
It has by now become glaringly apparent to all but the most obtuse or thoroughly indoctrinated among us that a majority of the members of the mainstream media (I call them cockroach media, but we’ll come back to that later) are socialists in outlook and practice. As Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote in an article for Pajamas Media on August 28, 2010, “We now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our formerly august mainstream media is replete with socialists.”
Well, excuse me. Not at all to diss Kyle-Anne, who does good work, but that information has been around for a long time and has been readily available to anyone who cares to look.
In the interest of clarity, though, let’s not use the word “socialists,” a term that has become somewhat socially acceptable in certain quarters and to that extent masks the radicalism of their ideas. Socialists are Marxists, so let’s call them what they are: Marxists.
How did the mainstream media get to be the way they are? To find the answer, let’s turn to an old source.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
When the government is 100% socialists what other can they report. They just favor the Democrat Socialists. They do not like the Republican Socialists for some reason.
Republicans = Mensheviks
Same objective
Different means
Unfortunately, the fight can never be "won" against them. It's a never ending battle. The best we can hope for is to possibly someday reduce them to a sizable minority. There will always be "leftist" members of the human race that either seek to control and lord over the rest, or that seek to loot & live off the work of others. The fight against these types is eternal.
Any time to hear or read some media idiot prattle about the need for “social justice,” it means you are reading or hearing the words of a socialist.
I want to do whatever I can to help destroy the cancer that is our media.
The left and its media, is actually on a third wave agenda. It’s Soros’ “Open Society” malarky. All that happens is OK, as long as all are moving towards openess. Punishing most civil or social crimes, ie, illegal entry, gay marriage, etc is counterproductive to openess.
Not hardly. Socialism was well under way not long after the Civil War, as the American aristocracy had sent their children to study in European universities, thereby to transplant that hierarchical elitist system here. It doesn't take much to redirect a society at that point, just stay on top of the Dean of Faculty by which to control who gets credentials.
Knowledge is thus institutionalized.
It took a generation or more for the entrepreneurial remnant to retire, but with the installation of expensive mass production equipment the control of capital was effectively control of the fourth estate.
"You need to professionalize your staff..."
Shudder!
Just as the Muslim Brotherhood with its Al Queda connections and support is being sold as a "democratic movement" by our traitorous Marxist media. ( Yeah! right! /s)
Our highest generals ( who likely **know** that Obama is a usurper) are allowing a likely usurper and Muslim direct our nation's troops to establish a regime that is dedicated to the destruction of our troops and our nation. And...This is being done while the Marxist cheerleaders in the media allow it to happen.
So?....Where is the evidence that these highest military officers have sought certifiable clarification of the likely usurper in the White House? I suppose abandoment of our troops to a usurper and support of corruption of the chain of command is not part of the military code of "honor".
I feel like I have walked through the Looking Glass where everything is upside down and backward. I live in a nation where our own generals willingly stuff our troops and our nation's security down the rabbit hole and dress our military women in head scarfs while the "Red" (Queen) Marxist media cheers.
Your point about 1960 is a good one. I remember that election...as a kid my family was pro-Kennedy...but even looking through that prism, what was clear was that the national media HATED Nixon.
The MSM blamed him for Alger Hiss, who they mostly believed was railroaded by Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover. Has anyone else noticed the almost total lack of coverage of Hiss’ guilt? When the KGB doors were opened in the early ninties...there it was, chapter and verse...the guy was a spy.
The media are terrible. They are in fact, a political party...they try (mostly successfully) to nominate their own candidates...John McCain is a good example. Once they nominated him they turned on him with a vengence.
Turn them off...especially NPR...perhaps the worst offender.
I don't see it as an never ending battle.
We must shut down our socialist-funded, collectivist and voter mob managed ( ie. “school board”), GODLESS government schools. Conservatives must work to see that children have access to PRIVATE and conservative schools that thoroughly integrate the child's specific Judeo-Christian belief and our nation's principles into every minute of their school day.
Children who attend GODLESS,socialist-funded, collectivist and voter mob ( school board) managed, compulsory, and prison-like government schools learn the following:
1) They learn to think and reason godlessly. The must do this simply to cooperate with the classroom indoctrination. They learn to look to government as their Redeemer and Savior.
2) Children learn to be comfortable with having government take money from their neighbor for a socialist service their parents want for tuition-free. Well! Gee! If government can use police threat to get money for schools, why not a thousand other wants and needs.
3) They learn to be comfortable with the collectivist voting mobs dictating their allowable politically correct thoughts, running the details of their lives, and, now with Death Panels, even how they die.
4) Children learn to be comfortable with government compulsion and prison-like treatment.
Our slide into socialism began when the first modern government schools opened in the mid-1800s to early 1900s. One to three generations later we had Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal.
“I want to do whatever I can to help destroy the cancer that is our media.”
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” . . . whatever I can . . . “? Do you mean it?
Probably not hard. Find out where they live. Then use your imagination in whatever (legal?) way you feel inspired. Study, practice, plan carefully, be discrete. We surround them.
The media propaganda started much earlier. Media was controlled by few elites and funded by communist Foundations like Carnegie, Ford, Rockefeller. They promoted their books, their authors, their professors.
Propaganda started in the schools with the Fabian socialist John Dewey—the Father of “American” education and agitprop was in full force to destroy Joseph McCarthy in the early 50’s and all who dare try to make Communist a dirty word.
Read Blacklisted. Communists were controlling policies in government and news decisions and controlling news outlets. It is why we were brainwashed into thinking only idiots believe in Conspiracies....so we would be conditioned to think people like McCarthy, who had the complete truth and trying to sound the alarm, destroyed.
As far as I can tell, they did not start out as Communist. There was actually a lot of good done by these organizations in the early years. I am pretty sure they were taken over from the inside by the left's "march through the institutions". Much of the problem was that a large number of the American power elite bought into the idea of "Progressivism". It gave them an excuse to ignore the Constitution.
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