"To preserve the freedom of the human mind... and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement." -Thomas Jefferson, 1799.
Just another dead white man. What does he know? The American press has always been biased.
“The Cuban Revolution of 1895, came at a perfect time for Hearst and his New York Journal. With the eyes of a businessman and a politician, Hearst saw the events in Cuba as a way place himself and his paper on center stage.
Journalism in the late 1890s became known as "yellow journalism" because the sensationalist articles were found among the same pages that carried popular yellow cartoon characters. The New York Journal's coverage of the insurrection was sharply biased, with articles, cartoons, and headlines that promoted the Cuban cause and called for the United States to intervene.
Perhaps the most famous anecdote surrounding Hearst's zeal for the war involves a legendary communication between illustrator Frederick Remington and Hearst. As the story goes, Remington, who had been sent to Cuba to cover the insurrection, cabled to Hearst that there was no war to cover. Hearst allegedly replied with, "You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war."
Fifty years ago, the weft infiltrated education, entertainment, politics and the media in its long, Gramscian march through the institutions, to bring about their beloved perfect world of communism. If you wonder why I call them the “weft,” it’s because that’s how a child would pronounce it. Whereas most of the “media” was reliably conservative up through the first half of the twentieth century, by the time the radicals took over those institutions, it had swung to the opposite pole.
Most of today’s media consumers have no idea who Walter Duranty was. Walter Duranty (25 May 1884 – 3 October 1957) was an Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen years (1922–1936) following the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1917–1923).
In 1932, Duranty received a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, eleven of which were published in June 1931. He was later criticized for his subsequent denial of the widespread famine (1930–1933) in the USSR,[1] most particularly the Holodomor. Beginning in 1990, there were calls for the Pulitzer board to revoke Duranty's prize. The Pulitzer Board declined to revoke the award and in 2003 said the articles which it examined in making the award did not contain "clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception". (Wikipedia.
Get that? While millions of Russian peasants, the hated kulaks, were starving to death to appease one of Stalin’s senseless five year plans, the New York Times reliably reported that everything was hunky dory, the Russians were fat and happy, and Stalin was a genius. There’s a movie called Mr. Jones which I urge you to watch. It’s about this very subject.
The New York Times, which is now the leading lickspittle organ, has never apologized for the countless lies it has told about everything from Woodrow Wilson’s racism to Barack Obama’s salad days, and his hours of adoring worship at the feet of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. “America’s chickens are coming home to roost!”
Proud members of the lickspittle, who live in guarded enclaves on the coasts, have no idea where food comes from, think CO2 is killing us, never have to worry about their personal safety, and have seldom touched down in flyover country. The people Obama called “bitter clingers.” The people Hillary called “the deplorables.” Ordinary people.
The Founding Fathers never imagined career politicians, but they understood human nature. They studied history and knew that eventually, every republic devolves to collectivist misery, with a tiny portion of the population living in regal splendor while lording over the despised masses. Cicero warned us.
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'"
Orwell warned us. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Inflation is down! There’s no crisis on the southern border! The jab will protect you! Stay in your homes! Wear masks, even at home! You will eat insects and be happy!
None of this would have happened if we had an honest, free, and independent press, but the legacy media is in the tank. It’s their business to dutifully regurgitate DNC talking points. They just read the press releases. Some who call themselves journalists are almost comical in their villainy. Joy Reid. George Stephanopoulus. Joe Scarborough. When they lie to the camera, I always think of this scene in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. John Wayne enters the tavern where villain Lee Marvin (Liberty Valance) is eating, and knocks Liberty’s plate to the floor. Liberty’s sychophant, brilliantly played by Strother Martin, leaps from his seat and dives for the floor. “I’ll get it, Liberty!” That’s the lickspittle. John Wayne kicks him in the face.
I have a group of friends with whom I trade bon mots every day. I like to rephrase headlines the way the Stasi or the Ministry of Fear would. Thus, Matt Taibbi: Biden’s Only Candidate Who Can Expect Not to Be Censored, and that’s a Threat to Democracy, becomes FBI TARGETS WHITE SUPREMACIST.
Archbishop Vigano: Biden must be recognized as excommunicated after ‘Trans Day of Visibility’ declaration, becomes: FBI TARGETS WHITE SUPREMACIST.
RFK Jr: Biden’s Censorship Regime Is Arguably A Worse Threat to Democracy Than Trump, becomes: FBI TARGETS WHITE SUPREMACIST
DHS Chief Mayorkas Pressed to Answer How Terrorists Were Reportedly Freed into US becomes: VERY GREAT GENIUS EXPLAINS HOW NEWCOMERS ENRICH OUR LIVES.
You get the idea. Is it sarcasm? I don’t think so. It’s what they think.