Being government censors appeals to most of them more strongly, so long as the government is of the Left. Once you hold that speech you hate may be banned, the idea of freedom of speech for anyone but you and those who think like you becomes anathema and so it is with most members of the media.
Comparing your ideological adversaries to demons is normally a bad sign as to your commitment to free speech:
In her retirement letter, Michelle Malkin had this to say:
It’s not just “fake news” that plagues us. It’s sold-out, skewed “news” that serves corporate and global special interests, not the truth. It’s lazy, soulless, dumbed-down opinion writing from hacks who care nothing about the craft. It’s shady influence operations masquerading as “journalism.” It’s information-suppression disguised as “misinformation” monitoring.
The homogenization of American journalism on both sides of the ideological spectrum has led to its collective deterioration. My colleagues at the Daily News were an eclectic bunch — including a Korean War Navy vet in his 60s, a former college math professor in her 50s who had taught English in Shanghai, and a hotshot New England politico in his 30s who had worked in D.C. as a press secretary.
Now the liberal media is dominated by endless supplies of smug, usually very pale-faced millennial J-school grads spouting about “diversity” while parroting the same worn set of views on whites as evil, America as oppressor, nuclear families as abnormal, and liberal democracy as sacrosanct.
“Conservative” media is not much better. It’s dominated by snot-nosed D.C. libertarian elites from overpriced universities who slavishly promote “free-market capitalism” and cast “big government” as our greatest enemy, while private Silicon Valley corporations and their nonprofit allies crush nationalist dissent, handcuff free speech and deplatform free thinkers through censorship (hard and soft) and lawfare (systematic abuse of the courts to harm political critics).
Note, it’s of a piece with the evolution of the news media and higher education since about 1940. They did not used to be monocultures, but that’s what they are.
Jonathan Turley is increasingly bewildered as to what’s happened to academe since he entered it in 1987. A consistent detractor of Prof. Turley is one ‘Joe Patrice’, a failed lawyer who writes for Above the Law. Turley has an aside here about Patrice and the mentality he manifests.
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/11/18/medical-professor-sues-university-of-louisville-for-alleged-termination-due-to-his-transgender-views/comment-page-1/
All Bezos is really proposing is to roll things back to the late 00’s when social media first became popular. Beyond that he doesn’t have much in the way of conservative values, and even if he did get his wish things would just slide to the place they were at before because he isn’t willing to put in the hedges against the insanities of the left which are necessary to prevent us from ending up where we were before.
But despite all that, he’s being painted as the devil, since even going back one decade is too much lost ground for the left to comprehend. And even if all he does is introduce chaos to the system, that’s still a net win for us.
All Bezos is really proposing is to roll things back to the late 00’s when social media first became popular.
I think you mean ‘all Musk is really proposing is’.
It’s sometimes instructive, although not really surprising, to see how lefties like Bezos and his minions characterize their perceived enemies. I had two Twitter accounts, one for Catholic/Christian issues and one political, and both were permanently banned in the great Twitter purge of early 2021 for no reason that was ever explained. My attempts to “appeal” (don’t laugh too hard) were simply ignored. But now, Czar Bezos informs us, reinstatement of my accounts, and millions of others banned for presumably the same non-reasons, would equate to “opening the gates of Hell.”
Good to know where I stand in their beady little eyes.
Fancy Bezos making that comment. Bezos models his thinking on the sweatshop robotic business model in which he runs his Amazon empire. Receive, fulfil, ship- rinse and repeat. This is how the left operate- within the confines of an ideology which has no room for anything outside of the boundary. And with the sole benefit of advancing and remunerating the person/people pulling the strings. In this case, it’s Bezos. His business model wouldn’t work if one if his staff didn’t follow the process. I’m sure he runs the Washington Post the same way and expects his staff to produce “journalism” which operates within the confines of his own leftist agenda. The irony is he has become very wealthy and untouchable by towing the leftist line. The leftist line, which is meant to be about “social justice and distribution of wealth”. Bezos couldn’t give a darn about anyone else but Bezos. Bezos the hypocrite needs to shut up.
Yeah I meant Musk. Posted before the necessary caffeine intake.
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