Every word that Hersh speaks about journalism in America is
a devastating indictment of American media reporting. Hersh in a few words describes the devolution
of American journalism and their self imposed fear of practicing the freedoms
of the first amendment of the US constitution lest they separate from their fully
embraced missions of greed and liberal ideology.
This media, this inside group – Comcast/NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS,
Fox and CNN as well as their print counterparts have traded the fundamental of
inquiry and analysis and perseverance for entertainment and self
enrichment. They are what we call the
Hollywood media. Notice that Hersh gives
his interview to the Guardian – he doesn’t waste his time with the failed American
group above.
This Hollywood media are in it for money and then more money
and the illusion of power. They have no
power – the money they take is table scraps.
The price we pay is our freedoms and our moral compass. We trade discipline and hard work for pennies
in the pockets of these fools.
The simple reason blogs and essay writers and internet
websites are flourishing is due to the vacuum created by journalists who find a
Washington DC party invitation; a book deal; a few thousand for an empty speech
to a fawning group; a seat in an auditorium listening to a white house hack or
some such thing more rewarding than the shoe leather and discomfort of
investigating a story and being left off an invitation list.
There is one other compelling reason – the faux journalists
of the Hollywood media have embraced the vote selling/get something for nothing
politics of the left. Many cannot even
imagine, even contemplate, the alternative so they parrot the words of the political
propagandists and sway the unintelligent, uniformed, vote selling citizen who
thinks they can get something for nothing.
Something for nothing – that is what American journalism is
about today. They live it – they enjoy
it – or at least pretend to do so. They
are “nincompoops” of the highest order.
They are simply afraid to go against power. They enjoy their delusion of puissant perquisites
at the expense of our principles and fundamentals.
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