[ April 19, 2024 ]
Members of the media have been engaged in an active battle on constitutional freedoms for some time — but this newest line of attack is akin to biting the hand that feeds.
Case in point: President Donald Trump.
CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times have gone into overtime to paint the idea that Trump is trying to kill the First Amendment with all his criticisms of the media.
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But they’re doing this, curiously enough, by destroying the very mouth that feeds them — the First Amendment.
Meanwhile, the social media attacks on freedom of speech continue:
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The media took a brief break from its campaign against the Sinclair Media Group to go after the National Enquirer. The two don’t have anything in common except the perception of being pro-Trump.
In the good old days, going after rival media outlets meant writing nasty things about them. But these days the media doesn’t write nasty things for the sake of writing them. It writes nasty things to get someone fired, investigated or imprisoned. And that’s what its Sinclair and Enquirer stories are about.
CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times had wasted barrels of ink and pixels, to warn that Trump’s criticism of their media outlets represented a grave threat to the First Amendment.
And what better way to protect the First Amendment than by destroying it?
In its story about the FBI raid on Trump’s lawyer, the Times managed to suggest that the Enquirer’s support for the President of the United States might strip it of its First Amendment protection.
The Times tells its readers that the “federal inquiry” poses “thorny questions about A.M.I.’s First Amendment protections, and whether its record in supporting Mr. Trump somehow opens the door to scrutiny usually reserved for political organizations.”
That’s a thorny question alright. And there’s plenty more thorns where that one came from.
In ’08, the New York Times published an op-ed by Obama, but rejected McCain’s response. It just published an editorial titled, “Watch Out, Ted Cruz. Beto is Coming” which appears to have no purpose other than to help Beto O’Rourke raise money from New York Times readers.
The Times has a sharp thorn. So sharp it could punch a hole in it and the entire mainstream media.
“In one instance, The Enquirer bought but did not publish a story about an alleged extramarital relationship years earlier with the presidential candidate,” the Times sniffs. It’s not unprecedented for a paper to have damaging material about a politician without publishing it. Just ask the Los Angeles Times about the vault they’re keeping Obama’s Khalidi tape in. Or ask the Washington Post about its embargo of the photo of Obama posing with Nation of Islam hate group leader Louis Farrakhan at a CBC event.
Try and suggest that behavior like that should strip them of their First Amendment rights and a howling mob of pudgy pundits would descend on the green rooms of CNN and MSNBC like hornets out of hell.
On the Sinclair front, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and eight other Senate Democrats sent a letter to the FCC demanding that it take away its licenses because Sinclair condemned media bias.
No, really.
As “strong defenders of the First Amendment”, Bernie, Liz and Cory want to silence Sinclair because its anchors warned about “the dangers of ‘one-sided news stories plaguing our country.'” And what better way to disprove such nonsense than by using government power to silence the news on the other side?
The Senate Stalinists accused Sinclair of a “systematic news distortion operation that seeks to undermine freedom of the press.” But most people know that as the mainstream media.
Freedom of the press requires us to accept the idea that a handful of major lefty corporations control the country’s new distortion operation because it also allows conservatives to have their own media.
But the media left doesn’t accept that compromise. It isn’t willing to settle for the first spot in a two-man race. Like Tonya Harding, it wants to take a club to the knee of its political opponents.
In the media’s utopia, just like in a Soviet election or a movie tagline, there can be only one.
The press is perversely waging its war on the First Amendment in the name of freedom of the press. Its definition of the First Amendment is an exclusive club. And the only way to protect the club from Republican riffraff is to strip away their First Amendment rights. All for the sake of the First Amendment.Like all leftists, the media doesn’t believe in freedom of the press. It believes in its own freedom. It identifies the First Amendment with itself and declares any threat to it to be a threat to the First.
That’s how the media can call for censoring rival media outlets in the name of the First Amendment.
After Trump’s victory, the media tore apart this country to boost its circulation and ratings (the New York Times and the Washington Post are so outraged that they can’t count the cash fast enough) and manufacture a crisis that would justify consolidating its control over the internet and print media.
Facebook was the biggest threat to the media’s bottom line. That’s why Mark Zuckerberg was testifying in Congress over data privacy issues that weren’t an issue when Obama Inc. had “ingested the entire social graph.” It was one of a series of fake news stories blaming Facebook for Trump’s victory.
Even the average leftist couldn’t care less about Facebook’s impact on the media’s business model. So the media instead rallied its mobs by accusing Facebook of collaborating with Trump and the Russians.
And the howls, imprecations and regulations began.
The media’s endgame was neutering Facebook and turning it into a profitable safe space for its content. The post-election accusations about “fake news” and the later conspiracy theories about “Russian bots” blamed Facebook’s “unregulated” spaces for powering Trump’s seemingly improbable election victory.
The solution to an unregulated space is regulation.
Facebook was blackmailed into letting the media’s fact checkers decide which stories should be allowed. Then algorithm tinkering wiped out the traffic of many conservative sites, leading several to shut down.
Google, Twitter and other social media companies have taken their own steps to prioritize lefty media views and silence conservative ones. The post-Trump environment in search and social has been rigged to be very favorable to the mainstream media and deeply unfriendly to Trump supporters.
The great media dream is a gated internet news operation completely under their control. But the attacks on Sinclair and the Enquirer show that even with the internet, old media is still in the crosshairs.
The media isn’t just going after websites; it’s also going after channels and print magazines. And it’s targeting them using the blunt tools of government censorship. FBI raids and FCC licenses are an escalation from pressuring Facebook into hiring its fact checkers to censor conservative media.
It’s the difference between monopolistic abuses and totalitarian ones.
The media has been using corporations to do its dirty work. But it’s never going to be satisfied with oligarchy if it can grab the brass ring of tyranny. Crackdowns by Citibank and the Bank of America on the Second Amendment or by Facebook and Google on the First Amendment are effective, but unsatisfying. The left didn’t spend over a century dying and killing just to have the Bank of America do its work for it.
As a dog returns to its vomit, the left returns to government repression.
The media will not accept any monopoly that is a hair short of total. FOX News, Sinclair and even the National Enquirer must be destroyed. Corporations and governments will be used as hand puppets to silence every voice of dissent. And it will be done for freedom of the press and the First Amendment.
The free press is a threat to freedom of the press, read about it in the mainstream media.
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12 Comments
5 years ago
The Senate Stalinists accused Sinclair of a “systematic news distortion operation that seeks to undermine freedom of the press.”
Get a grip, Pamela. Yes, Stalin did engage in “news distortion”, but from an operational standpoint, that is merely incidental to the nature of Stalinism, in which tens of millions of Soviet citizens (primarily Russian and Ukranian) were murdered by the Soviet state.
You trivialize Stalinism, and ill-serve the memory of his victims, when you engage in such hyperbole. By the way, don’t you know, Hitler was vain?
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
LOL, GTFO, your hypocrisy here stinks. You trivialize the vile, fascist, totalitarian, violent, antisemitic nature of islam every time you spew your “moderate”, “decent”, “honorable” muslum meme.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
You trivialize the vile, fascist, totalitarian, violent, antisemitic nature of islam every time you spew your “moderate”, “decent”, “honorable” muslum meme.< I have never trivialized "the vile, fascist, totalitarian, violent, antisemitic nature of islam". You are a despicable liar. You also are unable to distinguish Moselms from the overarching ideology of Islam, moron.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Gee f*ckwit, if someone self-identifies as a f’ing muslum doesn’t that IMPLY they subscribe to its fascist dictates?
6 years ago
The lame stream media is destroying itself, it tries to blame all sorts of events on the downward spiral of relevance and public support. All that is happening is that the media is screwing itself into the manure pile that much deeper.
6 years ago
The Sinclair claim is invalid since they’re trying to reduce consumer choice by buying up all major competitors…and sometimes breaking the rules in doing so; that last part is actually why the complaints occurred. That was NOT a First Amendment issue at all, and Sinclair for those past violations can and should have been stripped of broadcast licenses, which can be done without violating 1A.
The claims about Facebook, Google, and Twitter are also invalid but for a very different reason: if someone on the left violates the TOS, or posts something to incite violence, the police will often say not to delete the posts or take action because they have to monitor activity and don’t want to tip their hand, whereas the other way around, it’s a TOS violation but not one requiring law enforcement to get involved (meaning action can be taken right away), resulting in an appearance that isn’t really the case.
That leaves the National Enquirer, but Geller doesn’t really have much detail on that.
6 years ago
On Lou Dobbs Monday, Sebastian Gorka got right to the point of virtually every screwed up thing we’re watching play out in our country and our lives today when he inquired as to Comey: “How did a man like this become the director of the FBI?”
“obama.”
6 years ago
It’s not just with the media that we have this Orwellian inversion of reality.
The abortion industry and their allies and lapdogs and accomplices and enablers are working to crush any and all life-affirming alternative services to abortion (namely crisis pregnancy centers) – all in the name of “protecting a woman’s right to choose.” Yeah, right. Their idea of “choice” is very much like the Soviet Union – namely, that “a woman’s right to choose” begins and ends with abortion. Not to mention their colluding with SPLC to destroy and silence the pro-life movement; the Obama IRS hounding pro-life organizations in the same manner they’d done to conservative and Tea Party groups; working to outlaw the use of ultrasound machines in all women’s health clinics, to deliberately keep women in the dark about what’s going on in their wombs so as to make them that much more susceptible to being “convinced” to have an abortion; procuring and fostering a “Wild Wild West” mentality towards abortion regulation that shielded the “Butcher of Philly,” Kermit Gosnell, for decades before he was finally brought to justice; and blocking and suppressing development of any medical / surgical procedures that would, for example, in cases where a mother’s life is endangered by a pregnancy, make it possible to save both the mother and the baby – all to keep such women in such a situation trapped in the abortion lobby’s “zero-sum” binary of “either the baby dies or you do.” And that’s not counting that the overall message with abortion-on-demand that life is fundamentally cheap, expendable, a dime a dozen, of no appreciable worth or intrinsic value whatsoever, and can easily be eliminated if it so much as posed the slightest inconvenience; as well as the constant drumbeat of pregnancy being akin to a catastrophic illness and tantamount to a death sentence, motherhood being a form of punishment to be forever resented, and children an unwanted, unwelcome, undue burden that severely narrows and constricts a woman’s life, puts a major crimp in her lifestyle, takes years off her life she’d never get back, and prevents her from living (their definition of) a “fulfilled, liberated” life – that corrosive message of which, I’m sure, helped drive Casey Anthony, in 2008, to murder her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. What every talking head says she thought of her daughter almost point-by-point echoed Planned Parenthood’s and NARAL’s talking points about children, and raising them.
Then there’s the LGBT supremacists’ drive to further tighten the noose around their community to prevent them from leaving the lifestyle (something I’m sure HAMAS CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood affiliates/proxies/fronts are studying to copy in order to keep those converted to Islam in that “faith” forever) by outlawing so-called “conversion therapy” which doesn’t cost one red cent, but not only seeks to encourage but also outright expand the use of puberty-blocking and/or “transitioning” drugs to drag our youth further and further into the abyss of depravity, debauchery, perversion and degradation (and which has been linked to permanent sterility, impotence and infertility in those subjected to such harmful “treatments); to say nothing of their being subjected to even more harmful – and on top of it all, irreversible – reassignment surgery . . . all tied in to the Left’s drive to destroy the pillars of Western civilization, chief among them Judeo-Christian values, plus their crusade to end “white male heterosexual privilege” via their advocacy and spreading of transgenderism among the general population (something that is totally supported by Antifa terrorists), and sever humanity from the realities of biological and physiological differences between male and female.
6 years ago
The first American woman to win the Boston Marathon in more than 30 years placed her right hand over her heart during the playing of our National Anthem, but the NBC coverage used a very tight shot on her face only so you could not tell.
This is tantamount to a violation of NBC’s FCC license agreement, inasmuch as it was a deliberate act with malice.
No greater shame than you, NBC Sports.
6 years ago
Isn’t it interesting that people who take f’ing muslums as allies and friends adopt the fascist attitudes of islum at the same time?
6 years ago
Sharia Police in Uk are not willing to protect those who speak truth about islam https://tinyurl.com/ya6j3phj
Instead go after those who expose the jihadi crimes and their Left/Liberal supporters !
6 years ago
This is Orwellian at its best…THE LEFTISTS MEDIA ATTACKS FREEDOM OF SPEECH ON THE CLAIM THAT THEY ARE DEFENDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS TO PUBLISH IT. The same media that never misses an opportunity to distort every possible piece of news to advocate their own biases….and they know exactly what they are doing.
