{"id":1832,"date":"2008-06-07T18:26:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T22:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2008-06-07T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T22:28:01","slug":"this-is-a-free-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"This is a free media?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a congressman? Here’s a video I picked up from Little Green Footballs<\/a> on Democrat Congressman Keith Ellison speaking to the National Conference for Media Reform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Charles sums up the 17 minute video;<\/p>\n

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Ellison talks about how Ronald Reagan made him sick\u2014but not as sick as George W. Bush makes him. (Applause.)<\/p>\n

He calls America an \u201cimperial power.\u201d Then he suggests that the country should get rid of \u201chate radio\u201d and Fox News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that’s not all. He claims that journalists and lawyers are the only people who defend the Constitution because they’re the only occupations mentioned in Bill of Rights. I don’t remember lawyers being mentioned in the Bill of Rights. He singles out a free media’s most dangerous enemy – Rupert Murdoch. The only people who are afraid of Rupert Murdoch are people who are afraid to have their malfeasance exposed.<\/p>\n

He complains that media conglomerates control the news. Bill Moyers<\/a> who spoke the following day did, as well;<\/p>\n

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…the newspaper industry is in the middle of the most momentous change in its three hundred year history \u2013 a change that is diminishing the amount of real news available to the consumer. A generation of relentless corporatization is now culminating in a furious, unprecedented blitz of buying, selling and consolidating of newspapers, from the mightiest dailies to the humblest weeklies. It is a world where \u201csmall hometown dailies in particular are being bought and sold like hog futures. Where chains, once content to grow one property at a time, now devour other chains whole. Where they are effectively ceding whole regions of the country to one another, further minimizing competition. Where money is pouring into the business from interests with little knowledge and even less concern about the special obligations newspapers have to democracy.\u201d They go on to describe the toll that the never-ending drive for profits is taking on the news.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s people like Bill Moyers who doomed the media. They took over the media, as Ellison points out in 1964 and Conservatives couldn’t get a word in edgewise. For years, all we had was PBS’ Firing Line, The National Review and Commentary magazines. Folks got tired of the spin (before we knew that spin was the word) which gave rise to talk radio, more weeklies and finally, Fox News (who, despite the Leftist scripts, is more balanced than Right which makes them seem Right by comparison). What the Left can’t wrap their tiny brains around is that if Americans rejected the new media sources, they’d go out of business. Well, except The Washington Times which hemorrhages cash.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I don’t see how Ellison, a congressman, can find the nerve to say that he supports a free media in one breath, and then in the next condemn a news organization by name in the next. And then this organization applauds Ellison like they’re insane. From their own About page<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nonpartisan enough to cheer on Ellison who would shut down legal news organizations because they oppose him ideologically. I ought to mention his childish behavior in the beginning of the video, but the words that follow are so much more childish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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