Bruce Knipp (letter, “Freedom of the press no longer exists,” May 20) makes some interesting observations about how the press has been co-opted to advance sinister agendas that damage Americans. This is particularly evident and egregious in the global warming discussion.
Beyond slanting the news, some newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times established official policy disallowing publication of any opinion not conforming to the extreme alarmist view of global warming. With the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming in near total collapse, the only thing keeping it alive is intense political propaganda … and the media are eagerly complicit.
An early 20th century master of evil propaganda taught us that for the “big lie” to be successful, “It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” Lack of truth is irrelevant. (You know… “global warming is man-made,” “it’s dangerous,” “the science is settled,” “97 percent of scientists agree” … all of which are demonstrably untrue.) You can look up this principle in Adolph Hitler’s manifesto, Mein Kampf.
Earlier in the 20th century, H.L. Mencken noted that, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Loss of a free press is the prerequisite to loss of a free and democratic society. If we are to avoid this, we must demand better of our media outlets.
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The L.A. Slimes is the west coast version of the New York Slimes and both these liberal leftists rags are just american versions of PRAVDA nothing but liberal leftists propeganda and lies
We owe a debt of gratitude to President Trump for exposing the fake news industry .
NYT & LA Times for example no longer even bother with a pretense of journalistic integrity they are just a thicker tabloid and too lazy to do their homework .
The free press is the millions who speak out daily on sites like this .
For more than a decade
the only mission of the fake news MSM has been the
” sheepherding ” of the American people.
From the incessant lies of a
Greenhouse Effect, Global Warming and now Climate Change
as well as the well known lies of
Election Poll forecasting.
Remember when John Kerry landslided in 2004 ?
Remember when Hillary was ” INEVITABLE ” in 2008 ?
Inevitable until George Soros put his money on Obama in April 2008.
Remember when Hillary landslided in 2016 ?
Remember how every democrat landslided in every special federal election since 2016 ?
But of course, the MSM isn’t cheaply pimping for the democrat party ?
The MSM isn’t arrogantly telling Americans how to think ?