Symmetry wrote:Dukasaur wrote:The American media may be privately owned, but they're no less tools of the state than the Russian media.
Utter BS. Russia has a terrible record for freedom of the press. Don't be an apologist for the Russian gov't. If you really see no difference between assassination of critics and a free media, you need help.
I said I'm no friend of Russia. I know full well what kind of criminal gang is running things in Russia. Former KGB thugs turned kleptocrats. No argument there, whatsoever.
The core of my point is about the American media. Of what use if freedom of the press if you don't use it for anything? Free to speak the truth, and yet choose to parrot the official Pentagon line.
Why do you think the American media are so supine? Many have spoken about it. Career advancement depends on being given access to high-ranking officials, and high-ranking officials won't give access to someone who doesn't toe the line. That's why the American media choose to parrot the official Pentagon line. Not because they're afraid of being shot or imprisoned, or sent to the coal mines, but because it
might reduce their chances of scoring the six o'clock anchor slot next year! WHORES! Bootlicking whores. Crawling on their hands and knees to lick the boot of any General or Undersecretary of Defense who will throw them a crumb and grant them an interview full of lies. Dreaming of the day that the Vice-President might pass by and defecate on their face because oh! what a grand photo-op that would be!
God, I would have so much respect for these monkeys if they had something to fear! If speaking the truth meant being sent to the Gulag, I would say, "yeah, they need to save themselves first and foremost." But they don't. They're free to say whatever they want. They CHOOSE to blubber the official lies because of competitive advantage, because the monkey who drools the most while shining the Undersecretary of the Navy's shoes this year, will be most likely to get the first photo-op with SEAL Team 3 when they come back from blowing up the Rwandan Parliament buildings or whatever.
My grandfather was court-martialed for telling the truth about Stalin. And he was given a chance to save himself. He had a good post as an instructor at the Staff College and archivist of the Czech Army. They offered him a deal, to recant, sign his name to a pack of lies praising our Russian brothers, and he could have kept his post and his status. He refused. He would not turn his back on the truth, would not deny the despicable treacheries that the Russians pulled on the Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Rumanian resistance movements. Gave up his lands, his titles, his rank, his job, his name. Willingly entered a life of poverty, prohibited by the terms of his court-martial from ever seeking any position of responsibility, spent the remaining 40 years of his life carrying luggage for East German tourists.
If my grandfather had looked at the 40 years of poverty ahead, compared it to the idyllic life of an archivist and military history instructor, it might be forgivable if he had chosen the wrong path. He didn't, but it might be forgivable if he had. But that's not the choice these monkeys face. These drooling NBC and ABC and CBS monkeys, crawling on their hands and knees through the Pentagon halls, shining the floor with tongue, they face no life of poverty, no jail term, no loss of life or limb. All they face is a marginally-reduced pace of career advancement if they fail to score the SEAL Team photo-op. Whores. Sad, pathetic, despicable whores, licking Big Massah's anus. Slaves who have been given their freedom, but choose to remain on the plantation, because truth is a big scary place.
