Daniel Greenfield analyzes the insidious influence of the
mainstream media on American values and culture. In his article at Front Page
Magazine (“The Media is a Threat to America: and it’s destroying the
country”), he concludes:
The media has gone from taking part
in a political debate to turning into a James Bond villain.
The problem is not, as the media
insists, the First Amendment, or Russian bots, or Facebook. The problem is an
industry that built monopolies around investments in outdated technology. These
technologies, from the printing press to radio to cable news, were
revolutionary at the time.
The internet killed their
monopolistic power, and they’ve been trying to rebuild it ever since.
The media would rather have a
monopoly in a broken country, than live in a thriving country where internet
content is too diversified to support traditional media organizations. Like
Milton’s Satan, it would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven. And it’s
turning the country into its own private hell.
The First Amendment was meant to
protect speech, not industries. The media industry is trying to kill speech and
is willing to kill the country to make it happen.
But it’s the industry that
needs to die.
Full article is here.
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