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We've never had an unbiased press-it should remain a free
press
A recent Rasmussen poll tells us that 62 percent of likely voters "think the
problem of bias in the news media is getting worse."
That's a big laugh to any sober person. Why on earth do the other
38 percent think there is, or ever was, any objectivism in the first place?
Alexander Hamilton used a newspaper, the Gazette of the United States to
prop himself up and excoriate his enemies — most notably John Adams and later
Thomas Jefferson.
The Gazette
of the United States began publication on April 15, 1789, a
month before the Constitutional Convention. Editor John Fenno used the
publication to promote Washington and gave Hamilton a forum for promotion of
self and later promotion of a national bank, his politics (Hamiltonianism,
which was British mercantilism or crony capitalism), his friends for political
office, and to denigrate his political enemies and Jefferson's actions as
Secretary of State.
While he was Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton used the Gazette as a house
organ for the Treasury Department and in turn supported the paper with money
from the Treasury Department in the form of "advertising." He also
leaned on friends and business associates to purchase ads in the paper in
exchange for "favors" from the government.
To counter Hamiltonianism, which Jefferson rightly saw as an
assault on individual liberty, he — with James Madison's assistance — recruited
another well-known editor named Philip Freneau to publish a paper named
the National Gazette in
1791. Jefferson even put Freneau on the State Department payroll to supplement
his salary.
Over most of the next decade, the two papers went after one
another and their benefactors tooth and thong, with the National Gazette revealing
an adulterous affair between Hamilton and Maria Reynolds, and the Gazette of the U.S. eventually
printing stories of a relationship between Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings.
The national press has changed little over the years. Elites have
used it to start wars, tear down their enemies and prop up others. They've used
it to plunder and pillage.
Unbiased?
One of the great deceptions of our time is the idea that there is,
or has ever been, objectivity in journalism. Granted there are some naïve,
young journalists who enter the field aiming to remain neutral and objective in
all aspects. But those altruistic motives are quickly co-opted, often without
the journalist even realizing it, by the propaganda from the sources covered,
by management, by funders (advertisers), by conventional wisdom and by the herd
mentality.
So "objective media" is really just a code word for the
agenda of the state.
Today, all national mainstream media are controlled by six
mega-corporations. But there has never been an objective media in the U.S., and
it's doubtful there has ever been one in the history of the world. During the
Revolutionary War, there were newspapers supporting and newspapers opposing the
revolution that printed either "facts" or "propaganda"
depending upon which side the reader supported.
Newspaper editors in colonial and early United States times
thought it their duty to society to give voice to the ideas in which they
believed. To muzzle themselves or others who held the same opinions would have
seemed nonsensical to them.
The early newspapers, broadsheets and pamphlets gave voice to the
ideas of Revolution. It's not a stretch to say that the Revolution would not
have been possible if newspapers had focused more on being
"objective" and less on being intentionally contrarian, if not
provocative or even incendiary.
Opinions vary, but only with a free press
Both truth and dissent — which may or may not be the same thing —
are like kryptonite to the power elite. The Founders understood this. They also
understood that propaganda was a powerful tool, but that it could be overcome
only by allowing a free press.
A thought here on psychological warfare: Since the American system
poses as an "open society" with a "free press," there is
the pretension to allow open debate, but only on spurious issues. The effect is
that as long as the issues are not real or are spurious they are welcomed and
promoted as open debate and commentary. The people do not have a clue that all
public commentary is spurious.
What then is the issue that even very savvy commentators fail to
understand or even mention?
The problem is that all of them are trying to see and understand
the American system as free enterprise when in fact it has been corporatist for
a hundred years.
All is a disgrace before God, as my mother used to say, that the
human race will allow itself generation after generation to be twisted and
perverted like animals to the slaughter and precious few ever question
"why" about anything. In fact the more learned and
"educated," the less capacity to think outside the prescribed system,
especially when learning the "facts" from the "free press."
In The
Founding Father's Guide to the Constitution, author Brion
McClannahan writes that the drafters spent little time debating most 1st
Amendment freedoms because they almost unanimously agreed they were all
essential for a free people. Still, some saw not giving the idea of a free
press a mention in the document as a grave oversight.
This is why I continue to write to you and why I hope you find
these Alerts valuable.
We are not a newspaper, but I agree with the sentiments toward a free press of
Richard Henry Lee, who wrote that "A free press is the channel of
communication as to mercantile and public affairs; by means of it the people in
large countries ascertain each other's sentiments; are enabled to unite and
become formidable to those rulers who adopt improper measures. Newspapers may
sometimes be the vehicles of abuse, and of many things not true; but these are
small inconveniences, in my mind, among many advantages."
Yours for the truth,
Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob
Livingston Letter®
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5 comments:
I agree with much of this post but must say media bias and outright lies among media & hack journalists has significantly grown since 2016-look at how often CNN lied about Trump! I hope Trump wins his lawsuit against them...he should sue Hillary too for the false narrative she spread w/ that loser Steele Dossier [you were the first to expose that nonsense but few paid attention]
Watch for the puke press mount attacks against conservatives this election cycle...these posers are anti-American values.
Fewer folks swallow media BS [only the stupid do]...this is why schools dumb down kids.
the media gets less trustworthy every year, especially TV lefties who must have all graduated college from the Univ of Moscow. [The apes on the 5 are some the dumbest twats on the air].
Biased bull is all we get from most media; even Fox [thanks to moron Murdoch] has gone to the dark side with few exceptions...
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