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  1. And the real sad news is that so many Americans just believe the lies and propaganda spewed out by the “news” outlets.
    A large percentage of Americans, if they had lived in 1930’s Germany or Stalin’s Russia, would have totally believed what the govt. – via the news media – told them.

  2. Progressive (i.e. monotonic) liberalism (i.e. divergence).

    Religion (i.e. behavioral protocol), including: universal morality, its relativistic sibling ethics, its politically congruent (e.g. consensus, “=”) cousin law.

    Pro-Choice selective, opportunistic, relativistic, nominally “secular” religion. Let us bray. #HateLovesAbortion

  3. The worst (concerning Israel) are The New York Times and The Washington Post. In Britain it it is the BBC, Sky News, The Guardian, and The Independent.

  4. It’s interesting — an Arab journalist write about how American journalists were screwing up their own (the Arab journalist’s own) country by constantly going on and on and on and on and on about how evil America is, the Arab street thinks how bad can the Arab country be, in that case.

    It was an interesting read.

  5. They learned in “Jounalism School” that gathering facts and data is dull, hard work and often dangerous. It is much easier to grab a prepared propaganda narrative, and then go have a drink with all the other “smart” people. According to Leftists and the lazy, there are no “facts” and the story is whatever text you can peddle to the guy with the cash. “Presstitute” summarizes that mob quite well.

  6. Propagandists draped in journalistic camouflage,
    declared enemies of truth,
    too blinded by ideological fanaticism to see,
    that they walk upon,
    The Road to Perdition…

    Geoffrey Britain:

    That’s practically a verse from Dylan’s “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).” Compare and contrast:
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    Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their mark
    Made everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
    It’s easy to see without looking too far
    That not much is really sacred

    –Bob Dylan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJHbfkROow

  7. Believe it or not, my first attempt at poetry.

    Reasoned discourse seemed inadequate to describe the depth and despicableness of journalist’s betrayal of ethical reportage.

    But never doubt, the liar knows what they do…

  8. Geoffrey Britain:

    Not bad! Keep it up, if you should desire. Poetry exists for inadequacies of discourse. Bob Dylan knew that … in spades.

    You don’t strike me as a Dylan-kinda-guy. Nonetheless, you might give his “wild mercury sound” albums — from “Bringing It All Back Home” to “Blonde on Blonde” a listen. Those albums have never been equaled for significance and changed American music and world music forever.

    I have my cavils with the Nobel Prize committee for giving a songwriter the ultimate Literature accolade. But given the weakness of Lit for the past 20-30 years, they could have done worse and have.

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