Ray9
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- Jul 19, 2016
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Journalism in the US is at a dangerous crossroads. The contemporary Fourth Estate began going south in earnest as far back as 2004 when CBS news anchor Dan Rather was so consumed with a rabid hatred of then president GW Bush that he failed to authenticate falsified documents about Bush’s National Guard service.
Rather presented the phony documents on the CBS news program 60 Minutes aimed to smear Bush just before the presidential election. The disgraced news anchor was sent packing for insulting the intelligence of his viewers and embarrassing CBS with his delusions.
Unfortunately for Rather, the internet was well established by then and the fraud was quickly exposed. But “Derangement syndrome” has entered the national lexicon and in the ensuing fifteen years the intelligence of millions of Americans has been lowered to unprecedented levels while corrupted national media is bent, folded and mutilated to encourage people to ignore what they see and listen to what they’re told to feel.
As journalism in the US makes a dark shift from actual democratic, unbiased news gathering to Soviet-style, Deep-State propaganda dispensation, it’s obvious that the mission is to sink the observational intellect of the American people in much the same way it was in the former Soviet Union and remains in the Russian state.
While millions of Americans were still swooning over sycophantic journalistic praise of Barack Obama’s Cracker-Jacks-box birth certificate, his Deep-State operatives along with crooked national security agencies went all out in an underhanded coup attempt of an incoming president using bogus information from a foreign source (Christopher Steele) with falsified and unverified FISA Warrants. In the decades following Rather, journalism got worse.
The collective intelligence of the US population has dropped to such pathetic levels that today many cannot comprehend the basic precepts of the Electoral College. Cement dwelling urban populations could soon dictate centrally planned leadership to all the corners of the country.
The Orwellian practice of manipulating language to steer thought is well underway and journalism in the US has supplanted its purpose from a voice for the people to a propaganda freight train for the state. Trump’s election exposed this is all its glory; he threatens the state.
American journalism no longer functions to inform; it operates to control. The people are getting dumber and we are headed for a real mess because many can barely read the lines not between them.
Rather presented the phony documents on the CBS news program 60 Minutes aimed to smear Bush just before the presidential election. The disgraced news anchor was sent packing for insulting the intelligence of his viewers and embarrassing CBS with his delusions.
Unfortunately for Rather, the internet was well established by then and the fraud was quickly exposed. But “Derangement syndrome” has entered the national lexicon and in the ensuing fifteen years the intelligence of millions of Americans has been lowered to unprecedented levels while corrupted national media is bent, folded and mutilated to encourage people to ignore what they see and listen to what they’re told to feel.
As journalism in the US makes a dark shift from actual democratic, unbiased news gathering to Soviet-style, Deep-State propaganda dispensation, it’s obvious that the mission is to sink the observational intellect of the American people in much the same way it was in the former Soviet Union and remains in the Russian state.
While millions of Americans were still swooning over sycophantic journalistic praise of Barack Obama’s Cracker-Jacks-box birth certificate, his Deep-State operatives along with crooked national security agencies went all out in an underhanded coup attempt of an incoming president using bogus information from a foreign source (Christopher Steele) with falsified and unverified FISA Warrants. In the decades following Rather, journalism got worse.
The collective intelligence of the US population has dropped to such pathetic levels that today many cannot comprehend the basic precepts of the Electoral College. Cement dwelling urban populations could soon dictate centrally planned leadership to all the corners of the country.
The Orwellian practice of manipulating language to steer thought is well underway and journalism in the US has supplanted its purpose from a voice for the people to a propaganda freight train for the state. Trump’s election exposed this is all its glory; he threatens the state.
American journalism no longer functions to inform; it operates to control. The people are getting dumber and we are headed for a real mess because many can barely read the lines not between them.