>> BTW, "misogynist" the other day was a mistake. The wrong word came off my fingertips. I meant to write "misanthrope," which I had written in a post immediately upstream. Sorry about that.
Well, I still enjoyed the "misanthrope" comment immensely lol.
I'm very concerned about the media and Big Tech problem and I don't want to see intervention; but it is true that the competence of the media overall has eroded to a point where it presents a serious problem, going forward.
This election was exceedingly close, and we cannot have the media coordinating to elect the president of its choosing. That cannot be. While it was done in 1800, the sides battled it out. Today, that doesn't happen. We've never seen anything remotely like what just happened and it was part of the theft. Not fraud, but stealing the election.
In 1800, and in 1980, the media leaned to the Left, but it had scruples, professional self-respect; during the last four years, the self respect collapsed entirely.
I was once a member of the most highly respected profession in our country; when I became a CPA I was proud to be a member, and the organization was highly respected. Around 1985, we held a series of votes that radically altered the course of the business on disparate topics like advertising, continuing education, peer-review and other areas of self-regulation. I voted wrong on every one of them. Now, I can look back and realize we were sold this bill of goods by the association (our government) by people who wanted to take the profession a different direction.
I see a sort of connection here because the media, IMO, wants to take the country to a different place and it is abusing its power in doing so, and that is wrong and should condemned in the strongest possible times. We did not have a Pravda here; now we do. Our Pravda is the NYT and WaPo and TV news shows, all coordinating with political forces. Here is an example from last week, in which Senator Paul brilliantly knocked George S. back on his heels, but George fought the comments not as a questioning media personality, but as a bitter partisan trying to "prove" there was no fraud (although George failed miserably it wasn't for a lack of trying):
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If it were just ABC doing this, you could say, "ABC is just another MSNBC, no big deal." What was different in this election is the collusion among ALL media outlets, Big Tech, and the Democrat Party to run its business in a way so as to choose the president. And they did. That is not okay in any process that is to be considered as democratic.
There are so many problems with how this election was conducted I have no confidence we can ever return to a democratic election process. Maybe, I don't know. I understand Senator Paul's approach: "What else you gonna do?" And while that's where we area, it looks like an untenable position to be in and the only way out is truth. As a people we are giving up things that are hard fought and should not be destroyed by the will of half the people.
The Framers were extremely cognizant of the potential for teaming, e.g., amongst coast-dweller, and even permitted for a time the teaming of slave states because they recognized that created a union of states was the best way to end slavery, yet there would be no union if they tried to do it when the Constitution was drafted.
But they did not envisage a country full of giant businesses with great power, with the wealth of governments that had control of essentially all major media. And effective collusion: NYT withholds true reporting, then Google refuses to return search results from anyone who does actually report. Meanwhile, Google controls the dissemination of alternative views by serving as a gatekeeper to growth of online presence. Facebook can terminate a President's presence entirely, while pumping 100s of millions into media war against that president. Worse, Facebook's management can collude freely with media to shut down factual media coverage at the same time.
I don't like this kind of regulation but I think when Republicans are once again in control, they are going to have to act strongly against these false freedoms and prohibit such collusion and insist that media does its job. I think a ten year suspension of the special rights afforded media under the Constitution to see whether that can bring them back to honest reporting might be called for. |
