On Friday, the Reactionaries posing as the American Right set up yet another new agency out of whole cloth, this time resurrecting a Democrat initiative of a few years ago.
"The US White House has introduced a new 'media bias” tracker that publicly identifies news outlets it accuses of publishing false and misleading stories...Debuted on Friday, the tracker appears as a dedicated section on the White House website under the banner 'Misleading. Biased. Exposed.' The page features weekly examples of reporting the administration disputes, linking to the original stories and categorizing them as 'Misrepresentation,' 'Omission of context,' 'Bias”'or 'Malpractice.'"
From her Hong Kong-based X account, White House spokesxhe Karoline Leavitt boasted that "the Trump White House is holding the Fake News accountable like never before!" Aping the Democrats' tactics once again, the Woke Right has, since January, suspended journalists from the Pentagon and removed from the White House Press Corps anyone suspected of critical coverage; while news outlets have been subject to Lawfare and other forms of harassment. This reflects a trend that has been ongoing on the New Right for some time, and, of course dovetails with the WEF Agenda of tighter controls over the Press. This should have been obvious to American Conservatives once Media Moguls like Linda McMahon and Elon Musk started taking control of policy and Globalist media Oligarchs like Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg started lining up behind Team Woke: but unfortunately American 'Conservatives' decided either to look the other way, or jump on the Censorship Bandwagon themselves.
There has bipartisan effort ongoing for some time to subvert---or entirely eliminate---the First Amendment. Clinton-Era Speech Codes, the Bush Machine's Domestic Espionage Programs and dismantling of regulatory oversight, the Snowden Revelations, Obama's repeal of the Anti-Propaganda Act and promotion of Cancel Culture: all of these things led up to the wholesale shredding of the First Amendment during the Scamdemic. Americans' indifference to these and other affronts to a fundamental human right has rendered Freedom of the Press a Dead Letter. True, for political theater, the Republicans opposed Biden's attempts to set up an official censorship bureau; but now that they have the power, such things go on unopposed.
Our Founding Fathers well understood that attempts at mass Control of the Narrative was a certain path to Authoritarian Rule; and the mid-20th Century demonstrated painfully that Mass-Media needed civil oversight to keep Moneyed Interests from imposing the same tyranny. The New Right, however, is Authoritarian to its very core, and sees the Corporate Model of unaccountable Boards of Directors managing media outlets as marketing tools selling a product to a mass consumer base. This is wholly antithetical to the principle of a Free Press, which, in theory, offers information to stimulate public discourse and create a well-informed consensus.
In fairness, our Corporate Media has largely brought this situation upon themselves. For short-term profit, they willingly went along with all of the previous attempts to curb their own liberties---as long as their competition went down and they reaped the advertising revenue, they didn't care. They happily promoted whatever Official Narrative the Deep State put out and looked the other way at corruption and incompetence in exchange for favors. They willingly participated in the dumbing-down and commercialization of Public Information for their own benefit. Their pusillanimity has borne its final fruit, and they find themselves with few defenders now that their own heads are on the block.
Unfortunately, with the Reactionaries in power and WEF cash flooding the lobbying field, impetus to regain Press Freedom as a political policy is almost nonexistent. It's very unlikely that the Public will demand it either: when the outlets of information are this heavily restricted, how can they even become aware of the problem? Besides, the American Public itself was hardly unaware of the growing consolidation of Mass-Media and the ongoing restrictions on Free Speech. Their reactions to the Snowden Revelations and the Scamdemic Restrictions showed how little the American Public cares. As long as the Corporate Media feeds them a steady diet of distraction with sports, sitcoms, and sex scandals the Public won't question what they're told to do, say, or think.
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