I laughed out loud when I read my local paper today. Last August, when newspapers ran editorials protesting Donald Trump’s “attacks” on the media and the freedom of the press, my local paper participated and subsequently published the First Amendment on the editorial page each day for weeks to drive home the point.
Today, my paper, the Florida Times-Union, published a heart-clutching editorial warning of the perils of fake news. They asked: who should be responsible for “sorting” “fake” from “real” news? Then they listed the leftist, partisan Snopes as a reliable source. They earnestly pointed out that France is fighting the scourge by proposing a law that would prohibit “disinformation” in election campaigns. Why not? Most of the countries in the EU are already arresting people for anti-Muslim migrant thought crimes.
The fact that the T-U made such a mockery of the First Amendment, our most cherished right, so soon after plastering it across its editorial pages in defiance of the president’s (accurate) attacks on these partisan hacks who pose as journalists, made me cringe in horror and disbelief.
They didn’t even realize that they were undermining the intelligence of their readers. They wrongly assumed that we needed (or wanted) to be told what to believe and they were happy to provide a list of biased resources to help us out.
CNN and MSNBC are famous for this paternalistic approach to disseminating information. When Wikileaks released the damaging Clinton emails, CNN’s Chris Cuomo told their viewers, “Remember, it is illegal to possess these stolen documents. It is different from the media. So everything you learn about this, you are learning from us.” No wonder the leftist mobs look like saliva-bubbling zombies. They’re being programmed by half-wits like Cuomo to become shrieking, raging Manchurian Muppets.
These people are desperate to control the narrative. Too bad. It’s not their job. The observant among us know that we should weigh any corroborating evidence presented in all news items. And we’ve found that a large percentage of the stories corporate media deems to be “fake” are in fact true; they just happen to put one or more powerful people or interests in a bad light.
The vulture elite prefer to control the narrative, so they can be free to continue to work against the interests of the people of this nation without scrutiny. They’ve bought up the media companies, Hollywood and politicians (in both parties) to do just that.
Still, as long as the T-U pretends to be a “news” paper, I’m happy to remind them that their job is not to “curate” the news or reprint propaganda. Journalist should be unbiased, committed to following a story wherever it leads and then reporting the truth no matter who it embarrasses or heralds.
Unfortunately, journalism is dead. In the mainstream, anyway. There are only a handful of true journalists left and they are in the process of being silenced and demonetized. In a post-truth world, exposing the truth is a dangerous vocation.
Populist and conservative media outlets that question the official narrative are being attacked and/or ridiculed. They’re also having their social media accounts shut off without warning (and years of content is being flushed down the memory hole) and globalist banking and financial institutions are preventing these companies from monetizing their operations. PayPal accounts are being canceled, banks are refusing to do business with these journalists and other lawful companies that espouse or represent “beliefs” that they don’t agree with.
Funny; I don’t recall these banksters qualifying the multi-billion dollar bailouts they were given by Obama. A lot of that money came from taxes paid by the businesses they are now strangling to death. Hitler did this to the Jews before sending them to the camps. He shut down their ability to make money. Is this what America is about now? This is biased, authoritarian racketeering. It’s crossing some seriously dangerous lines. And it all started with censorship, mislabeled as “hate speech” or “fake news.”
Meanwhile, corporate media presstitutes are celebrating the persecution of independent and citizen journalists. They turn a blind eye and continue to publish the propaganda pushed by elite media owners under the misguided belief that they are beyond reproach. I hate to break it to them, but if they continue to support and endorse this tyranny, the boot will be on their necks, too. Sooner than they think.
Sadly, as I leaf through my paper daily, I find that its pages are littered almost exclusively with AP and Washington Post stories. Most stories put quotation marks around anything the president says (to ridicule and/or undermine him). Few, if any, stories even cover his significant accomplishments, and when they do they always find a way to put a negative spin on his achievements. In fact, 92% of all news stories are critical of President Trump.
When they’re not bashing Trump, they’re running stories or investigative reports designed to inflame racial, gender or sexuality relations. This is partisan hackery. Last week, they actually reprinted a Washington Post “news article” about what Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah thought of one of President Trump’s policies.
Meanwhile, two weeks ago, AT&T announced that they were adding Jacksonville, the market the T-U serves, to the list of cities that will be irradiated with 5G next spring. All I saw was one item in the Jacksonville Business Journal. The Times-Union is interested in more hard-hitting stories. Who cares about the well-documented health hazards we’re going to be subjected to? To say nothing of the creepy surveillance capabilies 5G promises, much to the glee of the anti-human technocrats behind this abomination. The T-U editors think that a Trevor Noah brain fart is more newsworthy. Fake news? Meet dumb news. Different approach; same outcome: The deliberate dumbing down of our citizens.
The elite-sponsored push for banning so-called “hate speech,” is tearing at the very fabric of this country. It’s Orwellian. I may not agree with what some people say, but I’ll fight to the death for their right to speak their truth, whatever it is.
People are motivated to come to our country first and foremost for FREEDOM. It’s no accident that the First Amendment of our Bill of Rights is Freedom of Speech. Most people see the Bill of Rights as rights granted to us by the government; not so. The rights are there to remind our government to not trample on the unalienable, God-given rights of all people. If, in our ignorance or apathy, we let them take our rights, we won’t get them back. I hope the Times-Union and all media outlets realize that someday before it’s too late.