The best argument against freedom of the press has always been the press (now media) itself.
British Papers
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The Daily Mail is clickbait tabloid. I find you don’t really need to read the article itself, just the headline and the little blurb. Takes about 5 minutes. What more would you expect from free online news site.
It’s Freedom of the Podcast(s) now for me, the Press is all propaganda.
I think there’s been a general decline in integrity from one generation to the next and I’m not seeing where the bottom is. I don’t think it’s evenly distributed over economic sectors. I think it’s much worse in the word merchant sector than anywhere else and worse among the haut bourgeois than anywhere else.
You have to turn to British papers to see actual reporting about events in the United States, rather than narrative management. They’re less far gone than we are.