POTUS calls the bile pouring out of the media "Fake News". But what is really happening? Is it all out and out lies? Completely fabricated stories with no basis in reality? Here's something to chew on.
“Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.” ~ Neil Postman
One of Postman's most influential works is Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. In Amusing, Postman argued that by expressing ideas through visual imagery, television reduces politics, news, history, and other serious topics to entertainment. He worried that culture would decline if the people became an audience and their public business a "vaudeville act." Postman also argued that television is destroying the "serious and rational public conversation" that was sustained for centuries by the printing press.
Postman was a progressive, a liberal but in the classic sense and he foresaw the dangers that faced American culture due to manipulation of our news/information providers.
There is no doubt that much of what we see in the MSM is outright manipulation. This is presented through journalism schools as "Advocacy Journalism." Definition:
Advocacy journalism is a genre of journalism that, unlike propaganda, is fact-based, but supports a specific point of view on an issue.
IMHO advocacy journalism accomplishes the exact same purpose as propaganda. It is more insidious and due to the dumbing down of the population, more effective. Out and out lies can be exposed for what they are, but fact-based manipulation just leads to arguments and division.
America just
celebrated its Independence Day. Thomas
Jefferson warned, “The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.”
There was a time when
journalists were trusted and admired. All
that has changed. Most of what you read,
watch and listen to is distorted by intentional bias and hostility toward a
president the media loathes and toward the voters who saw in him a man who
pledged to make America great again; someone who would unwind Obama’s “fundamental
transformation” of America.
On Monday, NBC’s Matt
Bradley accused President Trump of using critically ill Charlie Gard’s parents’
grief as a political prop.
If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.
Bradley suggested
that there may be a more sinister motive to Trump’s tweet. “Now, depending on how you see this, depending
really on your impressions of Mr. Trump beforehand, you could either decide
that this is the president selflessly stepping in to help grieving parents who
are experiencing a terrible, wrenching pain and a baby who has a very rare,
very difficult to treat illness or you could decide that this was the president
trying to use the grief of two parents and a small baby for political gain and
weighing into a situation that was very much a national and European issue and
not one we would expect anything from an American politician. But again, it all depends on how you look at
it,” said Bradley.
British Prime
Minister Theresa May faces increasing pressure to intervene after
President Trump and Pope Francis
gave their support as doctors prepare to turn off little Charlie’s life
support.
To defend human life, above all when it is wounded by illness, is a duty of love that God entrusts to all.
The Vatican said the
Pope “is following with affection and sadness the case of little Charlie Gard
and expresses his closeness to his parents. For this he prays that their wish
to accompany and treat their child until the end is not neglected.”
Legacy media outlets
have been reduced to mere caricatures having been exposed as unprofessional,
dishonest and vulgar.
Thomas Paine, often
called “The Father of the American Revolution” and author of the pamphlet Common Sensenoted, “Our
greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.”
From the vulgar
voices of Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher to the
assassination porn of Madonna, Snoop Dogg, Kathy Griffin or Shakespeare in the
Park, President Trump was right when he tweeted:
The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
Today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
President Trump spoke to an enthusiastic crowd as he vowed to uphold the
campaign promises.which thrust him into the White House. He committed to aggressive action on creating
jobs and heightening national security.
Part of his speech struck a chord with me. In a
moment you will understand why.
As part of my pledge to restore safety for the American
people, I have also directed the defense community to develop a plan to totally
obliterate ISIS.
Working with our allies, we will eradicate this evil from
the face of the Earth.
At the same time, we fully understand that national
security begins with border security; foreign terrorists will not be able to
strike America if they cannot get into our country.
By the way, take a look at what's happening in Europe,
folks, take a look at what's happening in Europe. I took a lot of heat on
Sweden.
And then a day later, I said has anybody reported what's
going on? And it turned out that they didn't—not too many of them
did. Take a look at what happened in Sweden. I love Sweden, great country,
great people, I love Sweden. But they understand. The people over there
understand I'm right. Take a look at what's happening in Sweden. Take a look at
what's happening in Germany. Take a look at what's happened in France. Take a
look at Nice and Paris.
I have a friend; he's a very, very substantial guy. He
loves the City of Lights, he loves Paris. For years, every year during the
summer, he would go to Paris, was automatic with his wife and his family.
Hadn't seen him in a while. And I said, Jim, let me ask you a question, how's
Paris doing? "Paris? I don't go there anymore, Paris is no longer
Paris." That was four years—four or five years
hasn't gone there. He wouldn't miss it for anything. Now he doesn't even think
in terms of going there.
Take a look at what's happening to our world, folks. And
we have to be smart. We have to be smart. We can't let it happen to us.
So let me state this as clearly as I can, we are going to
keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country.
We will not be deterred from this course, and in a matter
of days, we will be taking brand new action to protect our people and keep
America safe, you will see the action. I will never ever apologize for
protecting the safety and security of the American people, I won't do it.
If it means I get bad press, if it means people speak
badly of me, it's OK, doesn't bother me. The security of our people is number
one, is number one.
Here is why this part
of President Trump’s speech struck at my heart:
Paris is no longer
the romantic City of Lights depicted in Hollywood movies. Instead it bears a striking resemblance to
some post-apocalyptic Armageddon.
Two men pray among
tents on November 2, 2016 in a makeshift camp near the Stalingrad Metro Station
in Paris. (Photo credit: GEOFFROY VAN
DERHASSELT /AFP/Getty Images)
A Syrian flag used by
the Syrian National Coalition and nicknamed the “independence flag” is seen
hanging on a statue near the Eiffel tower during a demonstration of members of
the Syrian community in support of Syrian civilians and detainees in Syrian
prisons, on February 18, 2017 at the Trocadero Esplanade, also known as the
esplanade des droits de l'homme (esplanade of Human Rights', in Paris. (Photo
credit: ZAKARIA ABDELKAFI/AFP/Getty Images)
The video embedded
below is footage taken with a hidden camera by a Frenchman after 2000 illegal
immigrants were evacuated on September 16, 2016. It shows the devastating effects of
uncontrolled illegal mass immigration.
The immigrants have
since returned and have claimed the streets as their own. They defecate and urinate publicly. The police have completely given up trying to
counter the blight. Crime and rape is
rampant forcing Parisians to avoid the area at all cost.
If the trend
continues the French will become strangers in their own land forever changing
the romantic images of a once proud city and nation.
This is what the mainstream
media is concealing from us. Disgraceful.
