The Last Chance Of Freedom : How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media?

Monday, December 5, 2022

The current "media"-loosely defined as the old major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, the network news channels, MSNBC and CNN, PBS and NPR, the online news aggregators like Google, Apple, and Yahoo-are corrupt
They have adopted in their news coverage a utilitarian view that noble progressive ends justify almost any unethical means to obtain them
Lax standards reflect weaponized journalism schools and woke ideology that short prior basic requisites of writing and ethical protocols of quoting and sourcing

Once a story is deemed antithetical to left-wing agendas, there arises a collective effort to smother it
Suppression is achieved both by neglect, and by demonizing others who report an inconvenient truth as racists, conspiracist "right-wingers," and otherwise irredeemable

The entire Russian-collusion hoax-Robert Mueller's vain 22-month and $40 million investigation-was a complete waste of time on the one hand, but on the other an effective effort to destroy the effectiveness of an elected president
How many print and television celebrity journalists declared that Trump would shortly resign, be jailed, or impeached over the pee-pee tape or Christopher Steele's other mishmash of lies?

After the midterms, did we suddenly learn that Donald Trump did not, as in the case of Barack Obama's Lois Lerner skullduggery, manipulate the IRS for political purposes to go after James Comey and Andrew McCabe?
Why suddenly post-election did we read that his presidential papers at Mar-a-Lago really did not contain "nuclear codes" and "nuclear secrets" or stuff intended for sale?

Did the media ever fully report that Hillary Clinton: 1) broke the law by using a personal server to communicate while Secretary of State; 2) lied about the missing emails by claiming they were all personal about "yoga" and "weddings"
destroyed subpoenaed evidence by smashing her devices
Had her husband accidently bump into Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a Phoenix tarmac
Became our first major election denialist by declaring "Russian collusion" to be true, Donald Trump to be illegitimately elected, and the 2016 balloting to be "rigged"?

Our once lions of network news were long ago revealed to have feet of clay
Dan Rather insisted that "fake but true" memos "proved" George W. Bush got special exemptions from military service
Brian Williams fabricated an entire Walter-Mitty fantasy existence with ease
Throughout the Obama years, Ben Rhodes distorted U.S. foreign policy

The long, slow death of Jeffery Zucker's CNN is emblematic of all the mortal sins listed above of our present-day corrupt media.
Former Obamaite Jim Sciutto is known as a serial offender of journalistic ethics and was recently the subject of an internal investigation.
Another CNN trio of Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Harris were forced out from CNN for their mythologies that the Trump-hating Anthony Scaramucci was directly involved in a $10 billion Russian fund.
The CNN circus also hired as a "security analyst" the admitted liar James Clapper.

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