“We used to be strong and confident enough as a people—as a nation—to not wilt in the face of adversity”
I have a different take. This country has a long history of lying and wanton killing, but there was always a rock-solid consensus that our government could be trusted only because the manufactured narratives (FROM THAT GOVERNMENT) rein…
“We used to be strong and confident enough as a people—as a nation—to not wilt in the face of adversity”
I have a different take. This country has a long history of lying and wanton killing, but there was always a rock-solid consensus that our government could be trusted only because the manufactured narratives (FROM THAT GOVERNMENT) reinforced that consensus, and had no risk of being contradicted by facts.
Looking at how Julien Assange was treated for exposing facts that contradicted narratives, we should see that a consensus that was sustained in an impenetrable bubble is no consensus at all.
Americans are now experiencing multiple versions of America for the first time since radio was discovered, and the consensus is yet to be determined.
If alternative party candidates for the presidency receive votes in record numbers, the keepers of the empire will have more reasons to de-platform and censor and arrest and resort to more overt efforts to avoid copping to the truth that the emperor is naked, that the government hasn’t been legitimate for a long time.
The United States government became illegitimate the day LBJ committed an act of treason by allowing the Zionist League of America (now AIPAC) to register as a domestic lobbying group in direct contradiction to the FARA. JFK refused to allow this to happen, and just look what has happened in the past 61 years.
Back in The Good Old Days, publishing news was hard. For one thing, you needed a printing press, which was expensive and required specialized staff to operate it. Not only that, but a printing press cost money for every sheet of paper printed, and you had to spend more money on distribution.
They say that "freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" but there's more! Unless you planned to publish as an expensive and time-consuming hobby, you needed an income stream. You would get some money from subscriptions, but subscriptions are really a means to sell advertising. Dependence on advertising meant that there were some people the publisher had to keep happy, and others he could not afford to annoy.
Anyone who knows anything about local news is acutely aware of this. At best, it's a tightrope walk between giving subscribers the news they want to know, and not infuriating your advertisers. The result was a sort of natural censorship. Publishers had to think long and hard before they published anything that would tork the bigwigs off. The fact that a publisher was tied to a physical location and physical assets also made libel suits much easier.
The internet changed all that. Now, any anonymous toolio with a laptop and WiFi can go into the news publishing business by nightfall, and with worldwide distribution and advertising revenue, to boot. Marginal cost of readership is zero. Needless to say, this development has The People That Matter very concerned, and they are working hard to stuff that genie back into the bottle.
“We used to be strong and confident enough as a people—as a nation—to not wilt in the face of adversity”
I have a different take. This country has a long history of lying and wanton killing, but there was always a rock-solid consensus that our government could be trusted only because the manufactured narratives (FROM THAT GOVERNMENT) reinforced that consensus, and had no risk of being contradicted by facts.
Looking at how Julien Assange was treated for exposing facts that contradicted narratives, we should see that a consensus that was sustained in an impenetrable bubble is no consensus at all.
Americans are now experiencing multiple versions of America for the first time since radio was discovered, and the consensus is yet to be determined.
If alternative party candidates for the presidency receive votes in record numbers, the keepers of the empire will have more reasons to de-platform and censor and arrest and resort to more overt efforts to avoid copping to the truth that the emperor is naked, that the government hasn’t been legitimate for a long time.
The United States government became illegitimate the day LBJ committed an act of treason by allowing the Zionist League of America (now AIPAC) to register as a domestic lobbying group in direct contradiction to the FARA. JFK refused to allow this to happen, and just look what has happened in the past 61 years.
Back in The Good Old Days, publishing news was hard. For one thing, you needed a printing press, which was expensive and required specialized staff to operate it. Not only that, but a printing press cost money for every sheet of paper printed, and you had to spend more money on distribution.
They say that "freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" but there's more! Unless you planned to publish as an expensive and time-consuming hobby, you needed an income stream. You would get some money from subscriptions, but subscriptions are really a means to sell advertising. Dependence on advertising meant that there were some people the publisher had to keep happy, and others he could not afford to annoy.
Anyone who knows anything about local news is acutely aware of this. At best, it's a tightrope walk between giving subscribers the news they want to know, and not infuriating your advertisers. The result was a sort of natural censorship. Publishers had to think long and hard before they published anything that would tork the bigwigs off. The fact that a publisher was tied to a physical location and physical assets also made libel suits much easier.
The internet changed all that. Now, any anonymous toolio with a laptop and WiFi can go into the news publishing business by nightfall, and with worldwide distribution and advertising revenue, to boot. Marginal cost of readership is zero. Needless to say, this development has The People That Matter very concerned, and they are working hard to stuff that genie back into the bottle.