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eclimial, you are deluded. You wax nostalgically of the days of "Clark Kent and the Daily Planet" - that was a fiction.
There is no "free" press in the US, or most of Europe for that matter. The US news media is controlled by some 5 Corporate Conglomerates. These corporations don't give a shit about journalistic integrity, they don't work for the public, they work for their advertisers and stock holders. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp), he is one of yours, yes? Wall Street Journal, Fox News, 21st Century Fox, BskyB....over 800 media corporations in 50 countries. He's your "free press" along with a small cadre of other Media Oligarchs like him. These people decide what your political opinion 'should be', what is news worthy, what is not, who is in and who is to be crucified on the alter of the 'public interest'.
Seriously.....
Seriously, how can you even think there is a free press in the US? After the revelations of corruption in the DNC and of Clinton after the email hacks, NONE OF WHICH WERE DENIED, the MSM went hell bent off on a Rusophobic charade of Russian hacking and interference in the US elections. (Something the US does and has been doing in countless other countries for decades - but that is another thread). Since then Trump has been attacked mercilessly, not a single question regarding Clinton, even Benghazi was swept under the carpet,too - Libya is possibly one of the worst tragedies of US "gunboat diplomacy". Nothing said about US interference in Ukraine with the resulting destruction of democracy in Ukraine - another failed state racked up to the US - but we hear only that Russia has not fulfilled the Minsk accords (an agreement between Kiev and Donbass region).
Those emails described massive corruption in the Democratic National Committee at the highest levels, gross and direct interference in the Democratic Primary elections for President, graft and influence pedaling in the Clinton Charity and Felony level violations in the handling of Top Secret US documents by H. Clinton with the knowledge of Obama and other high ranking officials. There was enough material there to feed a hungry horde of investigative Journalists for years. Watergate paled in comparison - for which Nixon resigned as impeachment was inevitable.
If you read the bbc, you would know that after unfavorable reporting of Downing Street, there was a wholesale clear out of the bbc board of governors and the closing of several bbc divisions. Cannot have such independent reporting in the UK, can we now.
Der Spiegel, Das Welt have been called out repeatedly for blatant collusion with the BND.
Early in the Ukraine civil war, The state department was regularly providing pictures taken from social media and presenting them as certified fact - the US press never questioned these, including images of a BUK missile launcher traveling down a road at night......with snow on the ground in the background......that the State department said the image was taken.......in JULY!?!? Any Free Press worth its salt would have been all over that and many others.
Let us not forget that Political correctness is the weapon of choice to shoot down anyone that does not toe the line in the US and much of Europe - You will find yourself being labelled a homophobe or antisemitic...or worse yet, a Rusophile. Just look at how Jeremy Corbin is being attacked in the UK. You can compare to the attacks on Trump.
BTW, this is not new behavior. During my 20 years in Arizona, two "popularly elected governors", not part of the political power structure, were viciously attacked by the press and the political elite, one was impeached (Evan Mecham), only to be fully exonerated in court, the other (Fife Symington), he was elected to a second term! (he was latter highly rated as a very good governor) but was under constant investigation and fought charges against him in several trials (President Bill Clinton pardoned Symington on his last day in the oval office, he was a republican governor btw) . The legislature was kind enough to pay Mecham's legal bill after his exoneration..... A two party system like in the US and the UK is worse than a one party political system - in many ways it is more insidiously corrupt and self serving.
The first amendment is dead, trampled, the dead horse kicked and boiled down for glue long ago.
And no, I am not a fan of Trump, his administration, or of Hillary Clinton, or of any Congressional leaders - these people are all sociopathic egomaniacs, imho.
Kiho
over 5 years agoThere is no "free" press in the US, or most of Europe for that matter. The US news media is controlled by some 5 Corporate Conglomerates. These corporations don't give a shit about journalistic integrity, they don't work for the public, they work for their advertisers and stock holders. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp), he is one of yours, yes? Wall Street Journal, Fox News, 21st Century Fox, BskyB....over 800 media corporations in 50 countries. He's your "free press" along with a small cadre of other Media Oligarchs like him. These people decide what your political opinion 'should be', what is news worthy, what is not, who is in and who is to be crucified on the alter of the 'public interest'.
Seriously.....
Those emails described massive corruption in the Democratic National Committee at the highest levels, gross and direct interference in the Democratic Primary elections for President, graft and influence pedaling in the Clinton Charity and Felony level violations in the handling of Top Secret US documents by H. Clinton with the knowledge of Obama and other high ranking officials. There was enough material there to feed a hungry horde of investigative Journalists for years. Watergate paled in comparison - for which Nixon resigned as impeachment was inevitable.
If you read the bbc, you would know that after unfavorable reporting of Downing Street, there was a wholesale clear out of the bbc board of governors and the closing of several bbc divisions. Cannot have such independent reporting in the UK, can we now.
Der Spiegel, Das Welt have been called out repeatedly for blatant collusion with the BND.
Early in the Ukraine civil war, The state department was regularly providing pictures taken from social media and presenting them as certified fact - the US press never questioned these, including images of a BUK missile launcher traveling down a road at night......with snow on the ground in the background......that the State department said the image was taken.......in JULY!?!? Any Free Press worth its salt would have been all over that and many others.
Let us not forget that Political correctness is the weapon of choice to shoot down anyone that does not toe the line in the US and much of Europe - You will find yourself being labelled a homophobe or antisemitic...or worse yet, a Rusophile. Just look at how Jeremy Corbin is being attacked in the UK. You can compare to the attacks on Trump.
BTW, this is not new behavior. During my 20 years in Arizona, two "popularly elected governors", not part of the political power structure, were viciously attacked by the press and the political elite, one was impeached (Evan Mecham), only to be fully exonerated in court, the other (Fife Symington), he was elected to a second term! (he was latter highly rated as a very good governor) but was under constant investigation and fought charges against him in several trials (President Bill Clinton pardoned Symington on his last day in the oval office, he was a republican governor btw) . The legislature was kind enough to pay Mecham's legal bill after his exoneration..... A two party system like in the US and the UK is worse than a one party political system - in many ways it is more insidiously corrupt and self serving.
The first amendment is dead, trampled, the dead horse kicked and boiled down for glue long ago.
And no, I am not a fan of Trump, his administration, or of Hillary Clinton, or of any Congressional leaders - these people are all sociopathic egomaniacs, imho.