MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA has a summary of the total and complete negligence of the broadcast networks to cover policy during this election. That's not a shock, they've pretty much stopped covering policy in favor of Republican-fascist talking points, polls and pundits all obviously in service to helping Republican-fascists in this most dangerous election in our modern history. The idolized and lauded "free press" has entirely reversed the only reason for ever including it in the First Amendment, that it serve to accurately and honestly inform Americans on what we need to vote responsibly and to live better, safer lives as citizens in a viable democracy.
It's going to have to happen sometime, either now or after a total disaster, the media is going to have to be a. kept from spreading lies, b. to really give accurate, timely and important information and c. stop aiding white supremacists, billionaire and millionaire enemies of democracy (their owners and advertisers and in many cases its "journalists", in short). If they don't serve those purposes they don't deserve any kind of special privileges which the drafters of the First Amendment so naively phrased in the language of rights. Rights inhere only to human beings and other living creatures, they do not inhere to artificial entities, everything from the "press" and organizations and corporations right up to and including nation states and other national entities.
While I'm sure this will be put off many times as the enemies of democracy try again and again, we have got to start breaking the idols of Constitutional and First Amendment conventional piety. It's pretty clear many of the online "journatlists" of the right and the play-left (Greenwald, is a perfect example) are in league with the international fascist movement which Rachel Maddow sensibly called The New Axis, Putin, XI, the Kim regime in North Korea and the Iranian clergy-gangsters. And others. They are joined by many if not most of the big media companies, the NYT, WaPo, etc. As I mentioned recently the supposed alternative of PBS, NPR and C-SPAN sold out lots earlier.
They should be made liable for lies told about politicians and politics, sued into non-existence. If Hillary Clinton had been able to sue for the lies that even the most august of them told about her she could have bankrupted them and we'd never have had Trump. If Trump had been able to be sued for all of the lies he told about he would have been eddling knock off junk on sidewalks decades ago.
This election should be the death of the myth of the New York Times as a great institution of American democracy and American culture. It is the property of a wealthy family out for another big slug of Trump giveaway. I think it's what an insightful Latin journalist said it was, a gaming platform with a bit of journalism attached to it. If A. G. Sulzberger is still in control of it in 2028, he will be doing his best to get Republican-fascists elected. He has done something I wouldn't have thought was possible, being more of a piece of slime than Pinch was.
"Rights inhere only to human beings and other living creatures, they do not inhere to artificial entities, everything from the "press" and organizations and corporations right up to and including nation states and other national entities. "
ReplyDeleteShorter Sparky: Israel has no right to exist.
Gee -- how would normal sane people interpret that view? 😎
If Israel "has a right to exist" then every other national government must have a right to exist, including the Kim regime and the Third Reich. None of them have a right to exist, no country has a right to exist. You have to be pretty stupid not to understand the consequences of insisting any one does and you are that stupid, Simels.
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