The astonishing volume of misinformation, disinformation, and plain falsehoods that emanate from traditionally reliable and historically dependable news media sources, especially the New York Times, often touted as the “newspaper of record,” is what started me writing. It didn’t take long for me to transition from the mistaken assessment that the news media are “lazy,” or “uninformed,” or just technically inept regarding certain things.
And among those certain things, are the Constitution, true history, and the Second Amendment. In fact, it is the latter specifically that has motivated me to stand and fight those journalistic shortcomings of both the print and electronic media.
The avalanche of anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment “reporting” and opining has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with mere shortcomings, or mistakes, or technical ignorance. It has everything to do with a malicious, deliberate attempt to fool and defraud the American people, who have been lulled to sleep by two misconceptions: first, our political system is on autopilot such that we need never fear our losing our basic rights; and second, the news media tell the truth most of the time. Neither is the case.
If it weren’t for the Internet, the media and the politicians would continue to lie, saddle us with fraud, and continue to plot and execute the theft of both our wealth and our freedoms. The press is supposed to inform us to prevent government waste, fraud and abuse of power. But what if the press, the media, is itself guilty of fraud and an abuse of their unaccountable social responsibility to accurately and truthfully relate the facts?
I grew up in New York City at a time when about a dozen newspapers were available. Today there are only four. I remember the Halloween issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine and its colorful annual cover adorned by corn stalks and pumpkins. As a kid, I looked forward to that every year. There were ghost stories, and the tale of Little Orphan Annie, and the like. The Times was very much a part of my childhood.
And when in grammar school, and more so in high school, several teachers strongly urged that we read the editorial page of the Sunday New York Times to improve our vocabulary for SAT scores for college. The Times wasn’t just a newspaper or a revered icon; it was America!
The Times was a bastion of American democracy, a standard, a symbol, every bit as revered as the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, and the Empire State Building. You always knew these things existed even if you’ve never seen them or don’t see them frequently. People across the country that have never held an issue of the New York Times in their hands know of its existence, and know of its reliability and accuracy. So what happened?
Power is what happened, unbridled, unchecked, unaccountable power. It’s the Lord Acton thing: “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely!” The Times took advantage of its unaccountable existence and its credentials as an accurate, articulate informer of record, such that it began taking liberal risks in both reporting and opining. It became radically politicized and acquired an arrogant, self-righteous attitude.
The New York Times is not dedicated to journalistic excellence; it is dedicated to a radical liberal agenda. And that agenda is so far afield from what America is about it aligns only with the liberal left of the Democrat Party, or the big government machinations of the neoconservative Bush administration. It staunchly supports big government, and attacks it only when attacking Republicans. And the Republican Party, in their efforts to gain media approval and popularity with those communicating information in order to shape popular opinion, have adopted the Zionist objectives of the neoconservative chicken hawks and have banished all true conservatives.
Considering the Times and their shortcomings, and its powerful influence over TV network news, the latter become increasingly irrelevant, it has been offered that it is sad to see such a great American icon come apart scandal after scandal. But considering the impact of the Internet and the un-American agenda of the “newspaper of record,” what’s left of this once great bastion of journalistic excellence is only nostalgia and an uncorrectable betrayal of the public trust. The former is understandable – the latter intolerable and unacceptable!
“Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact.”