From "We've Got Issues"

4/5/2024

   Reading Dr. Phil McGraw's "We've Got Issues," about Bari Weiss who was an editor with the New York Times and was forced to resign after bringing conservative opinions and suffering harsh criticism. Cancellation, in my words. A quote, and a warning,  from her resignation letter: "a new consensus has emerged...that the truth isn't a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known (my words: Ideology) to n enlightened  few whose job is to inform everyone else." 

   We don't often get to see this far into important conclusions and corruptions of trusted resources like the NYT that we rely on for our day to day thinking. Theoretically, "we the people" run this country. The Media has the responsibility to advise us. But we have abdicated our rule to the unknown faces behind closed doors of Media by trusting them not only to advise but also to give consent. 

    Do you remember what happened to the news when CNN and Robin Meade became 24 hour face of our news while reporting on Hurricane Hugo? I remember. And my take on what happened was that the News Media had a tremendous growth spurt. For the first time we had news 100% of the time. Then the others came like Fox...old news. Right? Well, my take is that the news Media grew by a leap...but the news did not. What we have had since then is comparable to a couple dozen horses pulling a one wagon train of news. The first multi million dollar a year news announcers who quickly exhausted the news load, and still does every day, had to have something to broadcast. So they started providing us with their opinions. That's what has happened. And with the editorials came agendas of very rich elite people who knew that they could generate money profits by attracting our attention (clicks)  in conjunction with online Media, with algorithms. Proven and documented and still going on.  The old saying that good news doesn't sell nearly as well as bad news because fear and hate generate a hell of a lot more attention that warm and fuzzy. If they can divide us they can profit from that.

   It's gone so far as to enable our President to censure political opponents using Facebook and Twitter BY the FBI and DOJ. Proven and documented. AND they used the same to provide cover for their censuring of Americans over the January 6 Insurrection That Wasn't and Schiff's and the Democrats' falsely charging our President with legal garbage. 

   It's not pretty. Border that the Democrats will not close. Immigration policy that won't work and no one is working on it. Biden tried to pass a change allowing 2 million a year through and credential them to work. That's not a solution but the Left wants us to think it was. 

    So that's all I have tonight. God bless you and God bless America,.  

Jim Self