Just finished a pretty good book and it has relevance for today’s subject. A meme about the dog who tried to eat al-Baghdadi gets fact-checked, which is insane. We need to take a deeper look at this. That will lead me to a great book I read and haven’t rated yet about the corruption of the media.
Unfreedom of the Press
I just finished a book by great orator Mark Levin called Unfreedom of the Press. The book covers the history of the press corps and its history in politics and with politicians. There was a great article you can read after you read the book that gives five points that the book makes.
KEY IDEA #1: HAVING A FREE PRESS IS VITAL FOR A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY, BUT THE MODERN UNITED STATES PRESS IS FAR FROM FREE.
KEY IDEA #2: THE AMERICAN MEDIA OF THE PAST WAS BLATANTLY POLITICAL BUT BALANCED, AND ONLY LATER ATTAINED A FAKE AURA OF OBJECTIVITY.
KEY IDEA #3: THE MEDIA HAS BEEN UNPRECEDENTEDLY HOSTILE TOWARDS PRESIDENT TRUMP, AND YET HE HAS NOT PLACED RESTRICTIONS ON THE PRESS.
KEY IDEA #4: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY-PRESS NO LONGER REPORTS THE NEWS, AND INSTEAD OPTS TO CREATE FAKE NEWS. And hides other news.
KEY IDEA #5: INSTEAD OF BEING THE PAPER OF RECORD, THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS ACTED MORE LIKE THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE FOR DECADES.
The book was filled with information which I loved. But it did read like a text book, which is why I like to listened to these books on Audible. Mark Levin, as you may know if you listen to his podcast, is long-winded and and dry.
I have read his book, The Liberty Amendments which I also thought had some amazing ideas and was filled with information but is also really dry.
conscioused.org/books/unfreedom-of-the-press-mark-r-levin-review-summary
The Dreaded Meme!
The Daily Wire released a meme showing President Trump awarding the Medal of Pawner to the dog that tried to eat the ISIS terrorist and all-around-asshole al-Baghdadi. It was a cute meme and was re-Tweeted by President Trump.
The media went insane.
Jim Acosta, the journalism hero from CNN, decided it was time to do some journalisming. And he journalismed everywhere. The walls, mirrors the bed sheets. It was disgusting.
He Tweeted, “A WH official said ‘the dog is not at the WH’”
Awesome journalisming. He’s probably going to need a cigarette.
Voice of America’s Steve Herman Tweeted, “I’ve requested details from the @WhiteHouse on this photo. There was no such canine event on today’s @POTUS schedule but there is a Medal of Honor ceremony set here for later today for an active duty Green Beret.”
USA Today called it a “doctored image.”
Not to be out shined, the New York Times assigned two reporters…two…and they determined that the picture was a faked photo.
The Huffington Post said, “Fine, just the president of the United States disseminating a doctored image created by a right-wing propaganda site.”
Finally, the Washington Post, not to be outdone, came up with the best, “Trump tweeted a photo of a Medal of Honor recipient — who was edited out and replaced by Conan the dog.”
That’s good but that’s not why the Washington Post won. It’s the E-mail correspondence with Jeremy Boring, the co-founder and COO of the Daily Wire. Let me read it to you.
Um, Boreing responded. But the post published that Boreing refused the respond. BECAUSE IT WAS A JOKE!
Ugh. Listen to Ben.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/knowles-democracy-dies-in-barkness
Connecting the Dots
There are two things to take away from the above story and the idiocy of the media is not one of them.
The mainstream media is trying to control the narrative. And they can’t do it with the very powerful conservative voices on the Internet and cable news. Conservatives look at stupid things like this, and it’s always against conservative outlets and think it is a big joke. The media knows this and aren’t trying to convince that base. They are trying to make the conservative outlets look like “fake news.” But that’s only the start.
The real goal is to silence these outlets. Ban them. And there is a real push for that now.
I did not get this until I listen to Ben Shapiro talk about it on his Thursday show.
Attacking Social Media
This week, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter said he would not allow the publication of political ads. He encouraged Facebook to do the same thing. He stated:
“We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought … This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach.”
In fact, all democrats stated that Facebook should ban advertising.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO for Facebook, has been defending free speech. Weird. He said:
“I believe strongly — and I believe that history supports — that free expression has been important for driving progress and building more inclusive societies around the world…I think we also need to be careful about adopting more and more rules that restrict the way that people can speak and what they can say. In a democracy, I don’t think it’s right for private companies to censor politicians or the news.”
Zuckerberg, a liberal, is right and Dorsey, a liberal, is wrong. When we start banning things, it is only a manner of time before we start banning more.
Studies show that 40% of the population gets its news from social media. This isn’t good. And I admit, I do get some of my news from social media. But, when I hear my favorite celebrity is dead, I act like an adult and look it up. I don’t trust social media. I also don’t need Jack Dorsey controlling what I see. I’m pretty smart. I can figure it out.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/aaron-sorkin-who-ripped-mark-zuckerberg-in-the-social-network-tries-again-zuckerberg-uses-sorkins-own-words-against-him
https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitters-dorsey-bans-political-ads-tweaks-facebook-zuckerberg-responds-by-defending-free-speech
Conclusion
We live in a If-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie culture. Somebody who listens to this podcast about what I mean about that. It is a child’s parable showing what adults go through with children. Let me give you a bit of it:
- If you give a mouse a cookie, it will ask for a glass of milk.
- If you give a mouse a glass of milk, it will ask for a straw.
- If you give a mouse a straw, it will ask for a napkin.
- If you give a mouse a napkin, it will ask for a mirror to see if he has a mild mustache.
- If you give a mouse a mirror, he will see his fur is long and will want a haircut.
- If you give a mouse a haircut, it will want a broom to clean the hair.
Get the point? We need to stop giving in to the children because they will always demand more. Unfortunately the children, here, are fifty-year-old newscasters and twenty-five year old college graduates that are still living in their parents’ basements. Let me give you an example.
- Gays ask for equal rights, then the ask for gay marriage.
- We give them gay marriage, then they ask for trans rights.
- We give trans rights, then they ask to ignore biology and call them their desired sex.
- We can him a her or whatever, then they ask to allow kids to determine whether they are a he or she.
- You allow the child to determine if it is a he or she, then they ask to be allowed to have sex with the child because he’s mature enough to be able to determine his own sex so he should be able to consent.
Folk, this is what’s happening. It’s happening to free speech.
http://www.ric.edu/sherlockcenter/dsi/mousecookie.pdf