America Doesn't Have A Free Press Anymore

[mudwhistle]

It’s not the left controlling the media. It’s the billionaires.

What's the difference???

 

[S.J.]

America hasn't had a free press in decades.

 

[jc456]

America hasn't had a free press in decades.

Did we actually ever?

 

[gipper]

American doesn't have a press period. It has a Dem controlled propaganda ministry.

What news sources do you use? Fox? Breitbart? Do you ever read a newspaper or just rely on the bullshit you see here?

Fox, Brietbart, Gateway Pundit are no different from NBC ABC CBS PBS NPR MSNBC CNN NYT WAPO ETC...they are all run by a select group of billionaires with considerable control imposed by US government intelligence agencies.

Dude, the left in here are fking clueless

They say exactly the same thing about the right.

But we have facts

They say the same.

 

[bluzman61]

The media cannot be trusted.

Why?

Because the left controls them completely.

The United States of America no longer has a free press as of December 2019.

Press freedom was already in danger, as Mark Levin noted, as journalists became political activists in the Obama era, and feuded with the president in the Trump era. But press freedom could have thrived in a more openly partisan marketplace of ideas. In the end, press freedom was killed by the press itself, in the decision not to report the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment crisis.

His name — which Breitbart News published after it was first revealed by RealClearInvestigations — is no mystery. Apparently, his identity was the worst-kept secret in Washington, D.C. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) concluded in September that the “whistleblower,” a CIA employee, had shown “political bias,” and favored “a rival political candidate,” most likely former Vice President Joe Biden, for whom he reportedly worked.

Too long--edited

Any media outlet that wanted to share its content online — in other words, any media company that wanted to stay in business — had to suppress the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in impeachment coverage.

Pollak: Media, Tech Self-Censorship over 'Whistleblower' Marks Death of Free Press in United States | Breitbart​

The liberal bias of the mainstream media is sickening. It's been throwing a collective temper tantrum since Donald Trump won the election in 2016. Just pitiful.

 

[anynameyouwish]

The media cannot be trusted.

Why?

Because the left controls them completely.

The United States of America no longer has a free press as of December 2019.

Press freedom was already in danger, as Mark Levin noted, as journalists became political activists in the Obama era, and feuded with the president in the Trump era. But press freedom could have thrived in a more openly partisan marketplace of ideas. In the end, press freedom was killed by the press itself, in the decision not to report the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment crisis.

His name — which Breitbart News published after it was first revealed by RealClearInvestigations — is no mystery. Apparently, his identity was the worst-kept secret in Washington, D.C. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) concluded in September that the “whistleblower,” a CIA employee, had shown “political bias,” and favored “a rival political candidate,” most likely former Vice President Joe Biden, for whom he reportedly worked.

Too long--edited

Any media outlet that wanted to share its content online — in other words, any media company that wanted to stay in business — had to suppress the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in impeachment coverage.

Pollak: Media, Tech Self-Censorship over 'Whistleblower' Marks Death of Free Press in United States | Breitbart​

The liberal bias of the mainstream media is sickening. It's been throwing a collective temper tantrum since Donald Trump won the election in 2016. Just pitiful.

the right wing bias of the MOST WATCHED NEWS media stations (FOX, BREITBART, HATE RADIO) is sickening! they have been throwing a temper tantrum ever since roger ailles put rush limbaugh on radio stations ALL OVER THE COUNTRY 30 years ago

 

[bluzman61]

The media cannot be trusted.

Why?

Because the left controls them completely.

The United States of America no longer has a free press as of December 2019.

Press freedom was already in danger, as Mark Levin noted, as journalists became political activists in the Obama era, and feuded with the president in the Trump era. But press freedom could have thrived in a more openly partisan marketplace of ideas. In the end, press freedom was killed by the press itself, in the decision not to report the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment crisis.

His name — which Breitbart News published after it was first revealed by RealClearInvestigations — is no mystery. Apparently, his identity was the worst-kept secret in Washington, D.C. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) concluded in September that the “whistleblower,” a CIA employee, had shown “political bias,” and favored “a rival political candidate,” most likely former Vice President Joe Biden, for whom he reportedly worked.

Too long--edited

Any media outlet that wanted to share its content online — in other words, any media company that wanted to stay in business — had to suppress the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in impeachment coverage.

Pollak: Media, Tech Self-Censorship over 'Whistleblower' Marks Death of Free Press in United States | Breitbart​

The liberal bias of the mainstream media is sickening. It's been throwing a collective temper tantrum since Donald Trump won the election in 2016. Just pitiful.

the right wing bias of the MOST WATCHED NEWS media stations (FOX, BREITBART, HATE RADIO) is sickening! they have been throwing a temper tantrum ever since roger ailles put rush limbaugh on radio stations ALL OVER THE COUNTRY 30 years ago

You've proven once AGAIN that you're an IDIOT. Congratulations.

 

[jc456]

What news sources do you use? Fox? Breitbart? Do you ever read a newspaper or just rely on the bullshit you see here?

Fox, Brietbart, Gateway Pundit are no different from NBC ABC CBS PBS NPR MSNBC CNN NYT WAPO ETC...they are all run by a select group of billionaires with considerable control imposed by US government intelligence agencies.

Dude, the left in here are fking clueless

They say exactly the same thing about the right.

But we have facts

They say the same.

And we still have the facts. Going for a third? We still have the facts. Case in point, what’s the crime against trump?

 

[mudwhistle]

The media cannot be trusted.

Why?

Because the left controls them completely.

The United States of America no longer has a free press as of December 2019.

Press freedom was already in danger, as Mark Levin noted, as journalists became political activists in the Obama era, and feuded with the president in the Trump era. But press freedom could have thrived in a more openly partisan marketplace of ideas. In the end, press freedom was killed by the press itself, in the decision not to report the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment crisis.

His name — which Breitbart News published after it was first revealed by RealClearInvestigations — is no mystery. Apparently, his identity was the worst-kept secret in Washington, D.C. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) concluded in September that the “whistleblower,” a CIA employee, had shown “political bias,” and favored “a rival political candidate,” most likely former Vice President Joe Biden, for whom he reportedly worked.

The “whistleblower” triggered a process that could still lead to the ouster of the president. (His own lawyer, Mark S. Zaid, called for a “coup,” via impeachment, in January 2017, shortly after Trump had taken office.)

It would seem extraordinary for the world’s leading democracy to allow an election to be overturned based on the actions of a rogue CIA employee working with the opposition — and even stranger not to be told his name.

Moreover, the “whistleblower” himself admitted that he did not have first-hand information of the events he had described. It would seem an urgent matter of national security, and public interest, to know who was feeing him information — whether it was an enemy, foreign or domestic.

If the hysteria over Russian influence in the 2016 election had any useful lesson, it was that we ought to be curious about where information comes from, and why.

Yet the media have not only ignored the “whistleblower’s” name, but they have also actively suppressed it. That includes the conservative media.

Earlier this year, I appeared on a morning show in Los Angeles to discuss the impeachment inquiry. The moment I mentioned the name of the “whistleblower,” the hosts ended the interview.

The reason is twofold. First, most media outlets share the Democrats’ desire to be rid of Trump, and so joined them in pretending the “whistleblower” was protected by law. Federal law protects whistleblowers from retaliation, but they can often expect to be identified. The relevant law, the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, only prevents the ICIG from identifying the whistleblower. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, (D-CA) invented a statutory right to whistleblower anonymity that he later tacitly admitted did not exist.

After insisting that the “whistleblower” be allowed to testify, Schiff and the Democrats reversed themselves — once they were revealed to have lied to the public about their prior contact with him.

That ought to have made the media more curious, not less curious, about who the “whistleblower” was, and what his motivations and methods had been. Schiff then made up the idea that making the “whistleblower’s” name known would expose him to mortal danger. The media, who routinely ruin lives by publishing the names of both the guilty and the innocent, bought that line.

Second, the tech companies punished news outlets that dared to publish the name of the so-called “whistleblower.” Though tech giants like Facebook enjoy immunity from libel lawsuits under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, they behaved as if publishing the “whistleblower’s” name would expose them to serious legal risk.

Any media outlet that wanted to share its content online — in other words, any media company that wanted to stay in business — had to suppress the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in impeachment coverage.

Pollak: Media, Tech Self-Censorship over 'Whistleblower' Marks Death of Free Press in United States | Breitbart​

do lib-dems control FOX and breitbart? pjmedia and the blaze?

24 hours 7 days a week of conservative hate radio?

don't you remember that thread where all you conservatives were BOASTING about FOX being the NUMBER1 watched network?

how can lib-dems control the media if most people watch fox news?

I won't even bother discussing or debating "MSM liberal bias" because it is OBVIOUS that RIGHT WING MEDIA bias is even worse!


basically.....you want right wing media DOMINATING the media and airwaves AND you want to SILENCE everyone else......and at the same time YOU want to whine about "liberal media censorship"

fuk you!

YOU are the one who wants CENSORSHIP!

Fox News is owned by foreigners.
Most of their coverage is anti-Trump. Their primetime coverage is the only time during the day where it's slanted to the right. The rest of the time they've been talking about impeachment like it's legitimate.

The list of current and former Fox journalists that are known Trump haters is long:

• Chris Wallace
• Neil Cavuto
• Shepard Smith
• Megan Kelly
• John Roberts
• Juan Williams
• Ed Henry
• Dana Perino
• Major Garrett
• Brett Baier
• Bob Beckel
• Alan Colmes
• Charles Krauthammer
• Howard Kurtz

Even Fox refused to release the name of the whistleblower.

 

[jc456]

The media cannot be trusted.

Why?

Because the left controls them completely.

The United States of America no longer has a free press as of December 2019.

Press freedom was already in danger, as Mark Levin noted, as journalists became political activists in the Obama era, and feuded with the president in the Trump era. But press freedom could have thrived in a more openly partisan marketplace of ideas. In the end, press freedom was killed by the press itself, in the decision not to report the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment crisis.

His name — which Breitbart News published after it was first revealed by RealClearInvestigations — is no mystery. Apparently, his identity was the worst-kept secret in Washington, D.C. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) concluded in September that the “whistleblower,” a CIA employee, had shown “political bias,” and favored “a rival political candidate,” most likely former Vice President Joe Biden, for whom he reportedly worked.

Too long--edited

Any media outlet that wanted to share its content online — in other words, any media company that wanted to stay in business — had to suppress the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in impeachment coverage.

Pollak: Media, Tech Self-Censorship over 'Whistleblower' Marks Death of Free Press in United States | Breitbart​

The liberal bias of the mainstream media is sickening. It's been throwing a collective temper tantrum since Donald Trump won the election in 2016. Just pitiful.

the right wing bias of the MOST WATCHED NEWS media stations (FOX, BREITBART, HATE RADIO) is sickening! they have been throwing a temper tantrum ever since roger ailles put rush limbaugh on radio stations ALL OVER THE COUNTRY 30 years ago

Compensates the left wing bias. It is destroyed

 

[buttercup]

Not only do we not have a free press, but propaganda is basically legal now, since the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.

This is why I cringe every time I see people immediately believe whatever news story comes out... ESPECIALLY ones that obviously can further political agendas like gun control, more wars, more surveillance, etc.

 

[jc456]

Not only do we not have a free press, but propaganda is basically legal now, since the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.

This is why I cringe every time I see people immediately believe whatever news story comes out... ESPECIALLY ones that obviously can be used to further political agendas like gun control, more wars, more surveillance, etc.

Then why can stories be suppressed?

 

[buttercup]

Not only do we not have a free press, but propaganda is basically legal now, since the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.

This is why I cringe every time I see people immediately believe whatever news story comes out... ESPECIALLY ones that obviously can be used to further political agendas like gun control, more wars, more surveillance, etc.

Then why can stories be suppressed?

I'm not sure why you're asking that. They suppress stories because they have political agendas. Truth is often suppressed, or distorted, or they post other stories to distract from the truth.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Then why can stories be suppressed?

If you look on most political forums, even this one, the most critical stories that actually affect the electorate are buried very quickly by mainstream pablum that's meant to actually distract from those critical issues. Trustees in mainstream pablum are basically useful idiots. The reality is simple. People who participate in coercion understand very little of their part in it. And absolutely nothing of its consequence.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Take that impeachment circus, for example. It's all anyone on here was talking about. The dems were pretending they hate Trump. But the whole time it was going on they were sneaking by a 1.4 trillion dollar spending bill, over a dozen bills combined into one bill, then split into two just so Trump could keep his bullshit promise about not signing something like that again. Bills are supposed to be sent to the President seperately.

Yet with all of the supposed hatred for Trump, they funded everything he wanted to do. 1.4 trillion dollars we don't have. And some real bad stuff, too. Hell, they even bypassed the 72 hour rule so nobody could report on it even if they wanted to, which they didn't report on anyway. Not one peep from mainstream media about it the whole time and, of course, not one peep from anyone on here about it. People were just following the carrot on the stick and making sure everyone else did too, keeping it on top of the board. Though I mentioned it a few times. It just got buried by impeachement stuff. Which still hasn't been sent to the Senate, btw.

 

[evenflow1969]

American doesn't have a press period. It has a Dem controlled propaganda ministry.

Billions of dollars of free advertisement for Democrats.
Should be against the law.

Keep on crying you little bitch. Ya people are allowed to say things you do not agree with. Dumb fuck!

 

[jc456]

The media cannot be trusted.

Why?

Because the left controls them completely.

The United States of America no longer has a free press as of December 2019.

Press freedom was already in danger, as Mark Levin noted, as journalists became political activists in the Obama era, and feuded with the president in the Trump era. But press freedom could have thrived in a more openly partisan marketplace of ideas. In the end, press freedom was killed by the press itself, in the decision not to report the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment crisis.

His name — which Breitbart News published after it was first revealed by RealClearInvestigations — is no mystery. Apparently, his identity was the worst-kept secret in Washington, D.C. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) concluded in September that the “whistleblower,” a CIA employee, had shown “political bias,” and favored “a rival political candidate,” most likely former Vice President Joe Biden, for whom he reportedly worked.

The “whistleblower” triggered a process that could still lead to the ouster of the president. (His own lawyer, Mark S. Zaid, called for a “coup,” via impeachment, in January 2017, shortly after Trump had taken office.)

It would seem extraordinary for the world’s leading democracy to allow an election to be overturned based on the actions of a rogue CIA employee working with the opposition — and even stranger not to be told his name.

Moreover, the “whistleblower” himself admitted that he did not have first-hand information of the events he had described. It would seem an urgent matter of national security, and public interest, to know who was feeing him information — whether it was an enemy, foreign or domestic.

If the hysteria over Russian influence in the 2016 election had any useful lesson, it was that we ought to be curious about where information comes from, and why.

Yet the media have not only ignored the “whistleblower’s” name, but they have also actively suppressed it. That includes the conservative media.

Earlier this year, I appeared on a morning show in Los Angeles to discuss the impeachment inquiry. The moment I mentioned the name of the “whistleblower,” the hosts ended the interview.

The reason is twofold. First, most media outlets share the Democrats’ desire to be rid of Trump, and so joined them in pretending the “whistleblower” was protected by law. Federal law protects whistleblowers from retaliation, but they can often expect to be identified. The relevant law, the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, only prevents the ICIG from identifying the whistleblower. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, (D-CA) invented a statutory right to whistleblower anonymity that he later tacitly admitted did not exist.

After insisting that the “whistleblower” be allowed to testify, Schiff and the Democrats reversed themselves — once they were revealed to have lied to the public about their prior contact with him.

That ought to have made the media more curious, not less curious, about who the “whistleblower” was, and what his motivations and methods had been. Schiff then made up the idea that making the “whistleblower’s” name known would expose him to mortal danger. The media, who routinely ruin lives by publishing the names of both the guilty and the innocent, bought that line.

Second, the tech companies punished news outlets that dared to publish the name of the so-called “whistleblower.” Though tech giants like Facebook enjoy immunity from libel lawsuits under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, they behaved as if publishing the “whistleblower’s” name would expose them to serious legal risk.

Any media outlet that wanted to share its content online — in other words, any media company that wanted to stay in business — had to suppress the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in impeachment coverage.

Pollak: Media, Tech Self-Censorship over 'Whistleblower' Marks Death of Free Press in United States | Breitbart​

do lib-dems control FOX and breitbart? pjmedia and the blaze?

24 hours 7 days a week of conservative hate radio?

don't you remember that thread where all you conservatives were BOASTING about FOX being the NUMBER1 watched network?

how can lib-dems control the media if most people watch fox news?

I won't even bother discussing or debating "MSM liberal bias" because it is OBVIOUS that RIGHT WING MEDIA bias is even worse!


basically.....you want right wing media DOMINATING the media and airwaves AND you want to SILENCE everyone else......and at the same time YOU want to whine about "liberal media censorship"

fuk you!

YOU are the one who wants CENSORSHIP!

Hate radio? Is that what opposition news is huh? Well then you spew gasoline to ignite it. Maybe you should stop. Again, Fox is the number 1 watched network for political news, facts still aren’t your friends stupid fk

 

[mudwhistle]

The media cannot be trusted.

Why?

Because the left controls them completely.

The United States of America no longer has a free press as of December 2019.

Press freedom was already in danger, as Mark Levin noted, as journalists became political activists in the Obama era, and feuded with the president in the Trump era. But press freedom could have thrived in a more openly partisan marketplace of ideas. In the end, press freedom was killed by the press itself, in the decision not to report the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment crisis.

His name — which Breitbart News published after it was first revealed by RealClearInvestigations — is no mystery. Apparently, his identity was the worst-kept secret in Washington, D.C. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) concluded in September that the “whistleblower,” a CIA employee, had shown “political bias,” and favored “a rival political candidate,” most likely former Vice President Joe Biden, for whom he reportedly worked.

Too long--edited

Any media outlet that wanted to share its content online — in other words, any media company that wanted to stay in business — had to suppress the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in impeachment coverage.

Pollak: Media, Tech Self-Censorship over 'Whistleblower' Marks Death of Free Press in United States | Breitbart​

The liberal bias of the mainstream media is sickening. It's been throwing a collective temper tantrum since Donald Trump won the election in 2016. Just pitiful.

the right wing bias of the MOST WATCHED NEWS media stations (FOX, BREITBART, HATE RADIO) is sickening! they have been throwing a temper tantrum ever since roger ailles put rush limbaugh on radio stations ALL OVER THE COUNTRY 30 years ago

Compensates the left wing bias. It is destroyed

Liberals feel that 3 hrs of right slanted media coverage from one station totally erases 24/7/365 leftist coverage from the rest of the media......3 networks....CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, the Washington Post, The New York Times, the L.A. Times, not to mention all of the Hollywood movies and Television programming designed to trash the right and Donald Trump in particular.

 

[jc456]

The media cannot be trusted.

Why?

Because the left controls them completely.

The United States of America no longer has a free press as of December 2019.

Press freedom was already in danger, as Mark Levin noted, as journalists became political activists in the Obama era, and feuded with the president in the Trump era. But press freedom could have thrived in a more openly partisan marketplace of ideas. In the end, press freedom was killed by the press itself, in the decision not to report the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment crisis.

His name — which Breitbart News published after it was first revealed by RealClearInvestigations — is no mystery. Apparently, his identity was the worst-kept secret in Washington, D.C. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) concluded in September that the “whistleblower,” a CIA employee, had shown “political bias,” and favored “a rival political candidate,” most likely former Vice President Joe Biden, for whom he reportedly worked.

Too long--edited

Any media outlet that wanted to share its content online — in other words, any media company that wanted to stay in business — had to suppress the name of the so-called “whistleblower” in impeachment coverage.

Pollak: Media, Tech Self-Censorship over 'Whistleblower' Marks Death of Free Press in United States | Breitbart​

The liberal bias of the mainstream media is sickening. It's been throwing a collective temper tantrum since Donald Trump won the election in 2016. Just pitiful.

the right wing bias of the MOST WATCHED NEWS media stations (FOX, BREITBART, HATE RADIO) is sickening! they have been throwing a temper tantrum ever since roger ailles put rush limbaugh on radio stations ALL OVER THE COUNTRY 30 years ago

Compensates the left wing bias. It is destroyed

Liberals feel that 3 hrs of right slanted media coverage from one station totally erases 24/7/365 leftist coverage from the rest of the media......3 networks....CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, the Washington Post, The New York Times, the L.A. Times, not to mention all of the Hollywood movies and Television programming designed to trash the right and Donald Trump in particular.

They don’t want Tyrone fking talk! Know that

 

[Natural Citizen]

End of the day the malfeasant media thrives because their audience refuses to reason beyond the letters D and R. And the malfeasant media knows it. It doesn't matter that the letters D and R play on the same team. Nope. Huh uh. It's why they keep feeding their audience an endless feed of nonsensical, irrelevant pablum and distortion to pass around to everyone else. Which they will pass on to everyone else. Faithfully.

Personally, my view on things has changed. People deserve everything they get. And I hope they get it nice and good. Balls deep and nice and dry.

Call me when people start caring about things like the fact that our derelict congress just empowered our king to put us all in cages without charge nor trial. Call me when people start giving a flying fuck about the fact that our derelict congress just empowered our king to put us on the hook for trillions more dollars whenever he wants to arbitrarily send troops anywhere in the world for any arbitrary reason he wants without any constitutional approval from our derelict congress.

In the mean time, consumers of malfeasant media are the main part of the problem. Manufactured bullshit is a supply and demand game. And it's thriving for no other reason that it is in demand. And there's no such thing as left and right. That's another illusion. There's just as many big-government, big-spending statists who identify as 'right' as there are those whom identify as 'left'. Again, it's a load of horse pucky meant to forward the illusion of difference. There is no difference. You either want limited government or you fukin don't. Pick one.