tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013897764001276703.post6832562336534138316..comments2023-09-27T08:43:49.469-04:00Comments on Salmon Alley: It's On - Let's Join Keith and Try to Rid Our Country of the Most Destructive Force Against Democracy, Fox News.Greendaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01710250693111228019noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013897764001276703.post-32441916634593357502009-09-07T18:56:11.367-04:002009-09-07T18:56:11.367-04:00I hear you loud and clear Darkblack.
Modern jour...I hear you loud and clear Darkblack. <br /><br />Modern journalism is a shadow of it's former self and is no longer a check and balance on the political process. Bill Moyers says, "Sadly, in many respects, the Fourth Estate has become the fifth column of democracy, colluding with the powers that be in a culture of deception that subverts the thing most necessary to freedom, and that is the truth". http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3790/is_the_fourth_estate_a_fifth_column/Greendaymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01710250693111228019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013897764001276703.post-55260900808094187412009-09-07T18:46:41.763-04:002009-09-07T18:46:41.763-04:00'Does this not sound like something out of the...<i>'Does this not sound like something out of the Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew White House for dealing with so-called enemies in the press?'</i><br /><br />No, the Nixon 'enemies list' was created with the express intent of marginalizing ideological opponents by fair means or foul, in stealth. ColorOfChange, conversely, operated out in the open with legitimate tactics that forced a reactive response from advertisers who truthfully couldn't have cared less what the message of the sponsored show was as long as the ratings were high and the commodities hawked on it kept flying off of the shelves into the hands of low-information consumers.<br /><br />The inability of a modern 'journalist' to process that substantial difference logically, instead choosing to treat a secret government pogrom against free speech and a blatantly public initiative from a private concern as being morally and effectively equivalent doesn't surprise me, and should surprise no one else.<br /><br />;>)darkblackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584075324283109495noreply@blogger.com