Posted on 06/16/2018 4:16:41 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
This newfound media environment is a direct result of the corruption in American journalism today
To the envy of people throughout the world, Americans enjoy precious freedoms which are enshrined in our Bill of Rights. Fortunately, this includes the freedom of the press to conduct their journalistic responsibilities without government interference.
A free press has served Americans in many positive ways since the founding of our nation. We need a free press to serve as a watchdog on our government and to keep our politicians honest. Since the founding of our nation, responsible members of the press have reported on issues such as political corruption, the waste of taxpayer money, and the abuse of political power, among many other vital topics.
A free press doesn’t give them the right act like rabid dogs during a press briefing. Common sense dictates these rabid dogs should be removed from the equation by not allowing them to enter these press briefings and if they continue to act like deranged animals; their press credentials should be removed along with the parent company. How long this suspension lasts should be up to a panel of judges proven to be non-biased with decisions based on law; not ideology. If a pattern develops by one company; their right to represent the people should be revoked.
Enough is enough.
Millions of files are now held about Americans. The gestapo waits for you to deviate from what the call proper so you can be investigated. As Stalin said, "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime".
This goes to the core of the writings in the Federalist Papers.
The freedoms afforded in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights can only be enjoyed by a virtuous people.
The warning makes clear that without God fearing virtue, our freedoms can and will be used for evil purpose.
Since our culture has removed God from the public square, in favor of license to sin in a secular environment, we have set a pace for applying our freedoms for evil purpose.
Plus our federal government. (Congress in particular.)
95% of so called Journalists are self described Democrats, Leftists, Progressives and / or Socialists*.
Of the remaining 5%, four out of five are Liars.
(*according to Hillary Clinton, 40% of all Democrats are Socialists)
“The freedoms afforded in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights can only be enjoyed by a virtuous people.”
That is pure fiction. Such a people has NEVER existed, per Scripture. If GOD leading a country—displaying signs and wonders—can’t keep men from straying, how is our little old Constitution gonna fair?
Our Constitution is great, of course, but it comes down to the grace of God and His timing and will. Period.
The problem of “the press” is simply that we have only one press. Wire services in general, and the AP in particular, constitute continuous virtual meetings of all major journalism institutions. The result is precisely what Adam Smith predicted:People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Wealth of Nations (1776)Wire service journalism is monopoly journalism. Since journalists are essentially all in cahoots, they conspire against the public to further the interests of journalists. The interest of journalists is pretty well catalogued, again by Adam Smith:The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .Journalists attract attention and gain credence by telling people things that they don’t know. There are many things ordinary people don’t know, and most of which journalists don’t know either. Journalists tell stories which are simple enough for ordinary people - including journalists - to understand. For those simple things to be equally understandable by journalists and other ordinary people - yet not already known by people other than journalists, those “simple things” must be recent enough that journalists know them before ordinary people do. Hence, the journalist’s continual propaganda campaign to the effect that the “breaking news” is important. But in reality, ”breaking news” is important only in a crisis.The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Obviously the crisis mentality that breaking news is important is antithetical to wisdom and caution. Hence, the routine promotion of that mentality is directly counter to the public interest. Crisis mentality is fed by bad news, and interesting (and thus persuading) the public by an emphasis on bad news is a staple of journalism. And yet journalism’s conspiracy against the public promotes the conceit that journalism is objective. But "the conceit that negativity is objectivity" is a very serviceable definition of cynicism. Negative, crisis-promoting journalism which claims to be objective is instead cynical. And cynicism is the opposite of faith.
To “keep our politicians honest” requires that journalists be independent from politicians and that politicians be independent of journalists. In reality Democrat politicians go along and get along with journalists (even more than Republican politicians do). What is the public to do? Adam Smith again:
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Theory of Moral SentimentsHere on FR we pool our (individually inadequate) “incredulity” in an effort to be wise and cautious in the face of the propaganda onslaught of “News."
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Blog pimps?
Correct. The core of the problem.
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