Only those who tread the party line are allowed in the elite media club. WikiLeaks, a news outlet that breaks into private/government Internet accounts and posts what it finds on line, was a darling of the left, loved respected and celebrated by the media, until they posted documents taken from Secretary HillaryClinton’s campaign, oops bad form.Now the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) legal team is stating that WikiLeaks is in collusion with the Russians and the Trump camp to destroy our democracy. Internet raiders and thieves are heroic figures protecting our Constitution and free speech, until they cross the line and expose left wing faults, then they are “colluding with the Russians to destroy our democracy.” Got to love the hypocrisy.
Leakers, hackers and bandits are the darlings of the media but travel outside of the reservation and fail the test of loyalty, not to truth, but to the socialist system, and stand by for a crap storm of epic proportions. A very few old-style journalists dedicated to truth and not a political party still admire Julian Assange, who is currently living under asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The old school journalists like the editor of this paper, folks dedicated to the truth, are few and far between and still defending WikiLeaks.
The DNC lawsuit argues at length that the massive amount of internal DNC emails released by WikiLeaks during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election was WikiLeaks, the Trump campaign and the Russians working in collusion to steal the election.Most of the documents were ones written by former Secretary of State Clinton’s campaign and her chairman John Podesta, who used “password” as his password was part of a conspiracy to damage Clinton’s presidential run.
WikiLeaks and the Russians “destabilize the U.S. political environment” according to the suit. I would argue that the Republican National Committee (RNC) was also attacked; however, the RNC, as the target of most media outlets and a favorite target of hackers, was more careful with passwords and aware of online security and whose firewalls held.
A heroic whistle blower admired by most in the media to the point of worship is now enemy number one in collusion with the Russkies and the President to destroy our sacred democracy? It is getting hard to keep track of the players in the media drama that passes for news today. The hype and hyperbole are way out of control with a true dearth of reliable unbiased news outlets.
Fair and balanced, the FOX news slogan stands for fair and balanced in the eyes of right wing folks. All the news that’s fit to print is the slogan of the New York Times meaning all the left wing spun news they can find to print along with ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, MSNBC and more.
It has been bad before when the media went after President Ronald Reagan; Sam Donaldson admitted it when he said, stating his frustration, that President Regan’s popularity was so high even after “we go after him as hard as we can his numbers go up, I do not know what more we can do?”
Perhaps in six years, when President Trump leaves office, things will be more civil, but I would not wager much on it. The days of designer fully biased news are here to stay. When we lose the currently few old news dogs who believe in unbiased news, they will not be replaced. Our colleges and universities are teaching the next generation of journalists to believe in correct speech, not free speech. The problem with biased news is folks will just disregard the true news, entering an echo chamber of designer news spun right or left.
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