Has MSM Journalism Become the “Propaganda” Machine Similar to Nazi Germany?
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Unless you haven’t noticed, the MSM journalists are now the Left Wing propaganda machine. Willingly, they support, extol virtue, and report no ill about Liberals. The propaganda machine of Hitler was identical. He killed 6.5 million innocent people with the full support by his media of the lies he told too.
Now I have to ask you if that opening heading is a bit strong? Well, I really don’t think it is because I have a good understanding of the way Adolph Hitler came to power in Germany. There was a time in the 1920′s that Germany had a free and open press. They reported facts and they reported good and bad on everyone and everything in the news. Opinions were left on the Editorial pages and identified accordingly. News was reported and not turned into a “feature story” that made one look virtuous as it destroyed another. Headlines encouraged readers to read the story and not draw the conclusion based on the first paragraph.
Look in the major newspapers today and any reporting about Sen. Obama is slanted in his favor or his errors of judgement is totally ignored. Good examples are his associations from his past. Journalists are totally ignoring them, passing them off to you as unimportant and irrelevant to this election and telling you that they are to be ignored. “Obamamania” has swept the journalistic medium so much so that reporting relevant facts are detrimental to Obama’s chances to be elected, hence, the reporting of glowing opinions within news stories that editors approve willingly and encourage demonstratively about Sen. Obama. There is also a totally biased reporting of any and all opinion against the opposition as facts. It is the goal to print and report a total destruction of someone asking questions, or report any misspoken word or sentence as an “indictment” of unreliability of the opposition. The only examination of Republicans is negative while their examination of the Left is in glowing and supportive terms and content.
The Right to Free speech is guaranteed in our Constitution. Scholars agree that a free and open press falls directly under this First Amendment right and it’s preservation is vital to liberty and freedom necessary for this nation to survive. However, with this vast and unbridled freedom also comes a vital and important responsibility and that is to have all facts presented fairly and without opinion. When opinion of a journalist becomes the printed word as a fact, then no longer are we experiencing the freedom of press, but rather the spread of propaganda that destroys the very fabric of our nation. It was the use of this form of propaganda in the late 20′s and 30′s that allowed Nazism to rise to the power and world domination they briefly enjoyed. (more…)
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