Many of us older folks are saying "welcome to the club". The most to-the-point article was the awakening of Matti Friedman to the reality many of us have lived with our entire lives -- every story published to advance an ideology. Just because issues have morphed over the years, it doesn't change the fact that the sides have not.
The alternate point of view has made a few historic dents in the machine. That used to be possible from time to time as the press used to understand that one key element to their empowering themselves was to at least manage the appearance of objectivity.
But every decade or so something comes along that the press cannot control, experiences a setback, and has to regroup.
40 years ago Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh gave the masses access to stories and narratives that the press had successfully swept to the information ghettos of tiny alternate press -- National Review, Human Events -- that few if any read. They were actually perversely quoted only when it served the press in maintaining their illusion of objectivity.
Social media has more recently opened the floodgates of information the press had controlled and we're experiencing a new counter revolution of sorts. But this too will only be a short-lived blip in the forward progress because, though it has provided a degree of uncertainty in the left, they will regroup and come back stronger for two reasons: 1. This current blowback against the lies is nevertheless NOT philosophically united. It's against the lies, but it's not for anything. 2. The driving force that has given us the latest spate of lies (the delineated in the attached articles) still OWNS all the major institutions of academia, journalism, business, and especially the government that runs our government. Those things will not change, and even if this tiny coalition of dissidents freshly outraged by the current lies DID want those institutions to change, we don't agree on how they should change. We don't agree on much of anything except that we've been had.
In fact, The Free Press still has lies it is willing to protect -- because of what they will serve.
Yes, don't lie is good advice or if you are going to lie, tell funny lies like, "I didn't inhale"or "I did not have sex with that woman". These are not really lies they are just great stand up comedy. President Clinton was honest about the important stuff.
A serious lie is that the polio vaccine causes cancer. I am certain that Bill Clinton did get the flu vaccine and this is why he is on the road to recovery
Get better soon President Clinton. Merry Christmas.
Ollie, if you could somehow restrain your over-the-top hatred of Trump and all things conservative and embrace the possibility that as Americans, conservatives and liberals are far more similar than they are different, you might actually gain the trust of your audience and become a reliably unbiased journalist, which should be the ultimate goal for every journalist.
Oliver - tell me where you are on this quest to dunk a ball. Possibly I can help. Can you touch rim? Or dunk a smaller ball - say something you can palm? Or if someone passes the ball perfectly to the rim, in an alley-oop? And are you better jumping off one foot or two?
Don’t forget things like a springboard or a shorter rim to basically get a feel for it, there is some degree of timing involved when it’s a challenge to dunk.
If you had told me in 1980 that our legacy media would become the Izvestia and Pravda of the west I would have laughed. Now what we got makes me want to cry for the lack of real journalism, for the activism. Be an activist and be in the struggle. If you want to be a journalist then report the facts and inform the public. That’s why I read The Free Press!
But let’s ignore the torrential spewing of lies by Trump and the cover ups of heinous behavior. Sure it’s all about Biden. TFP is just Fox in a yarmulka
There was no "shock" after the debate from those who followed Joe Biden for several decades. There certainly was no shock from the Democrat party leadership and those who "handled" him. As Nancy Pelosi stated before the 2020 election, "a glass of water could run against DJT and win". The plan included having a president who was not cognitively intact, to glide through the agenda we saw these past 4 years, and letting the debate happen when it did was just part of the plan to allow him to shuffle off stage. To call the defense of his cognition a "lie" is only accurate in the sense of other such statements followed by "wink, wink". Anyone that was actually shocked only has themselves to blame, for either being very asleep at the wheel or in serious denial. The sadness and irony of our society in so many areas, e.g. politics, intelligence services, marketing, etc. is that lying is required/imbedded in order to be "successful". In the big picture, it is like a house built on sand, destined to collapse at some point.
TFP had fostered some of these lies or flagrantly Ignored it when exposed . I read blatant RFK lies just a few days ago. Over all I like the free press , but they are starting to get quite arrogant proclaiming they are beacons of truth and light . I worry going from zero to over 50 million in annual subscriber revenue in such a shot period of time can breed over confidence and arrogance.
TFP has, in my view, been incredibly unfair towards RFK.
I can't see why removing the fluoride from water, studying the safety of the 72 recommended injections for children, and circumventing America's health crisis are such objectionable aims.
I say injections to play it safe. I know there are 72 shots, but sometimes vaccines take more than one shot. So is it like 48 vaccines over 72 injections, or 72 separate vaccines... ask RFK!
It’s mostly because he dared to challenge covid and well , that is never forgiven by media and TFP. So when he wants to take one of six polio vaccines off the shelf due to lack of testing , it’s RFK wants to ban the polio vaccine in general “! That isn’t truth that is politics
What people, particularly Christians, forget is that Christianity is a faith, not a church. Jesus' message was a simple one, by faith you are saved because God loves you and will forgive your sins. All that is required is belief in Jesus as the Son of God who came to earth as a man to share His message of love.
Originally, Christianity required no secret handshake, password, rituals, temples, sacred places. or sacrifices. There was no need to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, or Mecca to fulfill your duty. The faith was not for a single people, nation, or empire, but was available to all from rulers to slaves without exception.
The damage done to Christianity by Constantine in making it a state religion was to create a link between Christ and the government which was clearly not what Jesus had in mind ("Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's"). Tying Chrisian belief to the state created a history of abuses by both and made religion a church instead of an act of faith.
It took the Protestant revolution to initially break the connection with the state, but then, Christianity was split by internal strife among the various Protestant sects eventually seeking alliances with regional principalities and individual states, thus undermining the movement to return to the basic faith. The virtue of America and Founding Fathers was the recognition of the need for freedom of conscience and the separation of Church and state.
Yet, Christianity has never quite recovered from Constantine's creation of the Christian Church and Christian state. Even as America has become more religiously diverse, we find our politics immersed in Christian sectionalism and antagonisms between Christians while our political leadership pretends to follow the words of Jesus. Lest we forget, Jesus embraced and forgave sinners of all kinds, even the Romans who executed him.
So, in closing, I wish you all, even you nonbelievers, a Merry Christmas, and remind all you Christians that we do not know when Jesus was born but accept December 25, the date chosen by the Church to incorporate the Germanic pagan worship of the Solstice, as the birthday of our Savior. Let the peace of Christ reign on earth.
My prayer is that we have learned a lesson. Probably a Pollyanna wish. At least for the time being we understand that journalists (I use that term lightly) have an agenda that has nothing to do with reporting the facts. The NYT,WSJ,Wapo, et al have no more relevance than Tic Tok.
It is amazing to me that people who we thought were paying attention are acting surprised by the what is alleged to be exposure of lies this past year. We are looking at you journalists. The lies have been obvious for many years.
oh... and as to the dunking thing, I was once given this advice: jump up and don't come back down until you've dunked it.
Many of us older folks are saying "welcome to the club". The most to-the-point article was the awakening of Matti Friedman to the reality many of us have lived with our entire lives -- every story published to advance an ideology. Just because issues have morphed over the years, it doesn't change the fact that the sides have not.
The alternate point of view has made a few historic dents in the machine. That used to be possible from time to time as the press used to understand that one key element to their empowering themselves was to at least manage the appearance of objectivity.
But every decade or so something comes along that the press cannot control, experiences a setback, and has to regroup.
40 years ago Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh gave the masses access to stories and narratives that the press had successfully swept to the information ghettos of tiny alternate press -- National Review, Human Events -- that few if any read. They were actually perversely quoted only when it served the press in maintaining their illusion of objectivity.
Social media has more recently opened the floodgates of information the press had controlled and we're experiencing a new counter revolution of sorts. But this too will only be a short-lived blip in the forward progress because, though it has provided a degree of uncertainty in the left, they will regroup and come back stronger for two reasons: 1. This current blowback against the lies is nevertheless NOT philosophically united. It's against the lies, but it's not for anything. 2. The driving force that has given us the latest spate of lies (the delineated in the attached articles) still OWNS all the major institutions of academia, journalism, business, and especially the government that runs our government. Those things will not change, and even if this tiny coalition of dissidents freshly outraged by the current lies DID want those institutions to change, we don't agree on how they should change. We don't agree on much of anything except that we've been had.
In fact, The Free Press still has lies it is willing to protect -- because of what they will serve.
Yes, don't lie is good advice or if you are going to lie, tell funny lies like, "I didn't inhale"or "I did not have sex with that woman". These are not really lies they are just great stand up comedy. President Clinton was honest about the important stuff.
A serious lie is that the polio vaccine causes cancer. I am certain that Bill Clinton did get the flu vaccine and this is why he is on the road to recovery
Get better soon President Clinton. Merry Christmas.
Hope(yesterday) and truth(today). Thank you TFP. Can hardly wait to read what is shared tomorrow.
Ollie, if you could somehow restrain your over-the-top hatred of Trump and all things conservative and embrace the possibility that as Americans, conservatives and liberals are far more similar than they are different, you might actually gain the trust of your audience and become a reliably unbiased journalist, which should be the ultimate goal for every journalist.
Oliver - tell me where you are on this quest to dunk a ball. Possibly I can help. Can you touch rim? Or dunk a smaller ball - say something you can palm? Or if someone passes the ball perfectly to the rim, in an alley-oop? And are you better jumping off one foot or two?
Don’t forget things like a springboard or a shorter rim to basically get a feel for it, there is some degree of timing involved when it’s a challenge to dunk.
That’s all - would love to hear about it
If you had told me in 1980 that our legacy media would become the Izvestia and Pravda of the west I would have laughed. Now what we got makes me want to cry for the lack of real journalism, for the activism. Be an activist and be in the struggle. If you want to be a journalist then report the facts and inform the public. That’s why I read The Free Press!
Refreshing. Thank you.
This is perfect and have loved reading all these stories. Definitely a page to bookmark!!
But let’s ignore the torrential spewing of lies by Trump and the cover ups of heinous behavior. Sure it’s all about Biden. TFP is just Fox in a yarmulka
Oliver,
A number of playgrounds have 8-foot rims..... :-)
There was no "shock" after the debate from those who followed Joe Biden for several decades. There certainly was no shock from the Democrat party leadership and those who "handled" him. As Nancy Pelosi stated before the 2020 election, "a glass of water could run against DJT and win". The plan included having a president who was not cognitively intact, to glide through the agenda we saw these past 4 years, and letting the debate happen when it did was just part of the plan to allow him to shuffle off stage. To call the defense of his cognition a "lie" is only accurate in the sense of other such statements followed by "wink, wink". Anyone that was actually shocked only has themselves to blame, for either being very asleep at the wheel or in serious denial. The sadness and irony of our society in so many areas, e.g. politics, intelligence services, marketing, etc. is that lying is required/imbedded in order to be "successful". In the big picture, it is like a house built on sand, destined to collapse at some point.
TFP had fostered some of these lies or flagrantly Ignored it when exposed . I read blatant RFK lies just a few days ago. Over all I like the free press , but they are starting to get quite arrogant proclaiming they are beacons of truth and light . I worry going from zero to over 50 million in annual subscriber revenue in such a shot period of time can breed over confidence and arrogance.
Don’t think they have got a million yet Davy.
TFP has, in my view, been incredibly unfair towards RFK.
I can't see why removing the fluoride from water, studying the safety of the 72 recommended injections for children, and circumventing America's health crisis are such objectionable aims.
72 vaccinations not injections
How do they administer vaccinations i wonder...
I say injections to play it safe. I know there are 72 shots, but sometimes vaccines take more than one shot. So is it like 48 vaccines over 72 injections, or 72 separate vaccines... ask RFK!
It’s mostly because he dared to challenge covid and well , that is never forgiven by media and TFP. So when he wants to take one of six polio vaccines off the shelf due to lack of testing , it’s RFK wants to ban the polio vaccine in general “! That isn’t truth that is politics
What people, particularly Christians, forget is that Christianity is a faith, not a church. Jesus' message was a simple one, by faith you are saved because God loves you and will forgive your sins. All that is required is belief in Jesus as the Son of God who came to earth as a man to share His message of love.
Originally, Christianity required no secret handshake, password, rituals, temples, sacred places. or sacrifices. There was no need to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, or Mecca to fulfill your duty. The faith was not for a single people, nation, or empire, but was available to all from rulers to slaves without exception.
The damage done to Christianity by Constantine in making it a state religion was to create a link between Christ and the government which was clearly not what Jesus had in mind ("Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's"). Tying Chrisian belief to the state created a history of abuses by both and made religion a church instead of an act of faith.
It took the Protestant revolution to initially break the connection with the state, but then, Christianity was split by internal strife among the various Protestant sects eventually seeking alliances with regional principalities and individual states, thus undermining the movement to return to the basic faith. The virtue of America and Founding Fathers was the recognition of the need for freedom of conscience and the separation of Church and state.
Yet, Christianity has never quite recovered from Constantine's creation of the Christian Church and Christian state. Even as America has become more religiously diverse, we find our politics immersed in Christian sectionalism and antagonisms between Christians while our political leadership pretends to follow the words of Jesus. Lest we forget, Jesus embraced and forgave sinners of all kinds, even the Romans who executed him.
So, in closing, I wish you all, even you nonbelievers, a Merry Christmas, and remind all you Christians that we do not know when Jesus was born but accept December 25, the date chosen by the Church to incorporate the Germanic pagan worship of the Solstice, as the birthday of our Savior. Let the peace of Christ reign on earth.
My prayer is that we have learned a lesson. Probably a Pollyanna wish. At least for the time being we understand that journalists (I use that term lightly) have an agenda that has nothing to do with reporting the facts. The NYT,WSJ,Wapo, et al have no more relevance than Tic Tok.
Activism is being taught from an early age as crucial to being a good person. The activist-journalist is an unfortunate natural outcome.
On the antisemitic left views the Israeli-Hamas war and how to rebut it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsMLNjl1whE
It is amazing to me that people who we thought were paying attention are acting surprised by the what is alleged to be exposure of lies this past year. We are looking at you journalists. The lies have been obvious for many years.