A Grand Unifying Theory of Big Media
Turns out, there’s a reason why the multi-billion-dollar corporations that run America’s Big Media depend on the health of our consumer-oriented capitalist economy while simultaneously propagandizing their customers with bullshit that seeks to undermine the general legitimacy of the political structures in which we consumer-customers live: because skepticism and distortion are more profitable as journalistic standards than truth-telling.
The Bush Administration, for instance, does not exist so much for the execution of its foreign and domestic policies as it does for its value as a target for asshole reporters who don’t know their history and who consider the dissemination of their Leftist lies more important than fairly informing the American public of the truth of what we do in war and peace.
If your default setting is the belief that this country does not have a right to defend itself or its allies and that everything we do to make the world safer for ourselves and for those friends is somehow suspect or illegitimate or unprecedented, then it is nothing at all to stand there before the cameras and the world and spout bullshit intended to undermine our values as Americans.
Jefferson, who was so wrong about so much, was right about the necessity of tyranny in democratic societies —such as ours was to be— when he said that the tree of our liberty needed to be fertilized sometimes with a whole lot of crushed dissent.
In don’t regard it as a journalistic or intellectual virtue for these reporters at CNN and elsewhere to constantly seek the worst possible way to portray our diplomatic and military efforts in the fight against the Islamofascists. Do these propagandists actually believe that the ideology that we and our friends are fighting against is superior to our own?! What in their experience of the world would warrant such a belief?
Well, it’s the skepticism. And it’s the bullshit belief that the little guy is always right because the big guy must inherently be wrong: how else would the big guy have gotten so big if he hadn’t stepped all over the little guy? But, sometimes, you gotta figure that the little guy may just be an asshole. That’s the case these days, jack. You want to see what the press looks like in a society where the men are blowing themelves up to get to paradise, the women are covered up in clothes that approximate body bags, and the kids are sent to schools where they’re taught that Jews are apes and pigs?
You’ve gotta big platform, assholes. You’ve got a mostly pliant and passive audience that deserves better information than what you want to supply. And you’re doing them this disservice because you want the approval of like-minded award-givers and the profits that come from the perverted and cynical mass of anti-American nonsense you traffic in.
Y’all are nothing more than a bunch of Eason Jordans.
