chapotraphouse

Free Press tho

Ghouls gather, craving more flesh to feast upon and more marrow to lick from cracked bones.

The fourth branch of the government AKA the media

Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials

As if their opinion was at all unbiased

A machine shouldn't speak for men

So shut the fuck up you mindless drone

Needs to be balanced by adding:

• Analyst whose consulting firm has worked for Hamas

• Another host who previously worked at the same firm and consulted for Palestinian Islamic Jihad

• Analyst who is not so much an analyst as a trained and armed Hezbollah operative

“Freedom of the press” is another of the principal slogans of “pure democracy”. And here, too, the workers know — and socialists everywhere have admitted it millions of times — that this freedom is a deception while the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists and while capitalist rule over the press remains, a rule that is manifested throughout the world all the more strikingly, sharply, and cynically, the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example.

The first thing to do to win real equality and genuine democracy for the working people, for the workers and peasants, is to deprive capital of the possibility of hiring writers, buying up publishing houses, and hiring newspapers. And to do that the capitalists and exploiters have to be overthrown and their resistance suppressed.

The capitalists have always used the term ‘freedom’ to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death.

In capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion.

In this respect, too, the defenders of ‘pure democracy’ prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media. They prove to be deceivers of the people who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement.

—Lenin, Congress of the First Comintern (1919)

They're getting serious. Stern looking white people in black suits will be on every major news network telling us about national security threats for the foreseeable future.

I'm no fan of the media's response to the Israel conflict, but is the former press secretary who hosts the show supposed to not talk to the current secretary of state? I'm not 100% sure why Brennan was there, but as the former director of the CIA he's not completely out of place either.

This is more an indictment of the MIC's presence in government, not media.