John F. Kennedy had it right when he said, “Only an educated public and informed people will be a free people.” To prove his point, just look at the first industry the most odious dictators of recent memory sought to control as they gobbled up their countries and enslaved their peoples. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Hugo Chavez all set their sights on the mainstream media as their first target. They dominated, manipulated, reined in and finally regulated the media to screen and contaminate the flow of all sorts of information to their constituents. Basically, whatever “ false truths” they wanted to disseminate, they used the media to do their dirty work. Capitalism was bad, communism and fascism were good. Jews were evil, the German-Aryan-race was superior. The West, including America was bad, the Soviet Empire was good.
As children growing up, we were taught to believe that the media and reputable news sources were there to spread the truth with as rigorous objectivism and an inherent antipathy towards advocacy journalism. Sadly, we see that just the opposite has emerged in the last number of years. Yes, it is true that the words “Fake News” have been bandied about, but alas the vast majority of the news that we consume is created in a tendentious climate. Seems like the political zeitgeist collectively pushes us in that direction.
Frankly, our current media, now larger and more of a potent force than that utilized by the above tyrants, is rapidly losing whatever vestige of legitimacy it ever had. Ruefully, the climate of spurious news stories has adversely affected our entertainment industry with socially engineered movies, TV shows and “cultural” indoctrination from the cradle up.
We are referring to the content that is presented as educational that Disney, PBS and NPR purposefully infuse our youth with to tattoo them for life as Progressives. Our kids are fed the lies of a distorted social justice, #Metoo and infusions of anti-American, anti-gun, anti-family, anti-White and anti-religion propaganda from the cradle up. A rather simple but crucial task to keep people enslaved by their own beliefs.
Brainwashing or indoctrination, if you will, succeeds only with constant and incessant repetition and the folks who are lurking around the halls of fake news media outlets seem to make sure that this happens on a daily basis.
American values that are based on the family, the teachings we imbibe in our houses of worship and the beliefs we treasure in the Judeo-Christian culture in which we live are under a ruthless siege and brutal attack.
It is incumbent on us to call this out in the most vocal fashion that we can muster. It is obligatory for all of us to stand up for the unbiased and unvarnished truth.
