by
M. Richard Maxson
Most people believe what they’re told. It’s the reason advertising is so scarily effective. It’s why fake news is so pervasive in our society. When one is told something, especially kids and young people, it’s likely to be believed. Propaganda provides the leadership with a mechanism “to mold the mind of the masses” so that “they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. This is known as consent without consent. This process of “engineering consent” of the masses is an important element in totalitarian society.
The media business, for those who now own and run it, is more than just a money-making operation. The owners also promote their political agenda. To carry out this essential task, “the intelligentsia must make use of propaganda continuously and systematically to pull the wires which control the public mind. Through selecting and disseminating news—or presenting propaganda like “the pandemic will be over” or “drones almost always hit their targets”—the media moguls push the public to support that agenda, from their political candidates to their undeclared wars.
Journalism, in it’s true form, has all but disappeared in the States that were united. Journalists, disgusted with spewing the lies of the party machine are continuing to leave the industry. A few months ago Bari Weiss, a left-of-center reporter for the New York Times apparently wasn’t left enough. In her resignation letter Bari Weiss calls out the US paper of record for being more committed to the political narrative than the truth. Any piece that “does not explicitly promote progressive causes” gets published “only after every line is carefully massaged, negotiated and caveated,” she writes. Language itself is “degraded in service to an ever-shifting laundry list of right causes,” while some of her colleagues nod along, hoping that would protect them. Let’s face it, the Times stopped being a serious newspaper a long time ago
The list of disgusted journalists is getting longer with the latest being Kari Lake. The Emmy Award-winning Lake announced she is stepping away from broadcasting in the country’s 11th largest television market. Lake, 51, also shared several thoughts about the state of journalism, her career, her accomplishments, and why she says that the profession of journalism is in many ways “unrecognizable to what journalism was” when she walked into her first newsroom in 1992. “They just take gossip from blog posts, write articles about it, then other reporters pick up the lies from one article and re-write those lies as if they are facts, where there was never truth to it in the beginning.”
“I
became a journalist to be helpful, not harmful, I
believe that journalists should report the truth no matter how much
flak they take for doing so, but some of the stories I was
reading likely contributing to the fear and division—and I couldn’t
do that anymore,” she said. “Nearly 30 years of reading news, a
lot of it bad or negative news,” she says. “I didn’t realize
how abnormal that is.” Here is her complete statement:
True journalists like Kari, are being forced out by having their reputations smeared by untruths and innuendo. This is how the Leftists in the shadows destroy someone they want out. In early 2020, Lake was criticized by a small but loud group in what appeared to be a coordinated social media attack following a one-on-one interview with President Donald Trump. She also experienced negative pushback for having a social media presence on Parler and Gab, even though she also has a strong following on more liberal platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. “I think in a way, the nastiness toward me is meant to scare other journalists who are open-minded and considerate of all points-of-view to snap back into line or they, too, will be ‘cancelled’ and their reputation attacked,” Lake says. “If you abhor censorship, if you believe ‘cancelling’ people who hold different points of view goes against the grain of the basic rights this country was built upon, if you believe journalists should report the truth no matter how much flak they take for doing so….” That statement is an American ideal, something that is being ridiculed nationally and behind closed doors.
Fortunately, says Lake, the public is starting to recognize the bias and lies put forth by some news outlets. “They are tuning it all out and you see it in dropping subscriptions for some of these publications,” she said. “Once you’ve lost the news consumer’s attention, it is hard to get it back. I hold no anger toward them. I truly feel sorry for some of these reporters who have a preoccupation tearing people down.” They are not reporters, Kari, they are enemies of this nation.
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