The Propaganda Cartel

Someone once said, "The pen is mightier than the sword."  I would add that the media is much mightier than, "the pen".   And the media is under the control of a bunch of greedy, Socialist leaning, geeks, who care nothing about Constitutional freedoms, but only want to placate a cattle-brained populace into marching lock-step into whatever political agenda is the most profit serving option for their companies!

Today, we have a largely unregulated (at least in this country) cartel of propagandists, made up of ideologically dedicated Socialist journalists, who have learned early in their post-graduate careers that free enterprise, and Capitalistic views were the fastest way to committing professional suicide in their chosen field.  They should not be blamed for holding to those values, nor should their editors be blamed for obviously hiring, almost exclusively. those who demonstrate those values.  But the companies that hire the editors, who hire the journalists, who follow the corporate policies, are controlled by boards of directors that prefer dealing with Socialist governments, because they can control the masses better than a government that recognizes the freedoms of a Constitutional set of laws.  Essentially, they consider the people to be a mass of cattle-brained buffoons, that can be easily directed to accept whatever propaganda they wish to promote, provided there is no counter opinion expressed to the contrary!   That's why censorship of all opposing views is necessary, in their views.

The so-called social media is even less regulated than the Press, and that has become blatantly obvious of late, as the brazen squelching of conservative websites, through the technique known as, "shadow banning" has risen to the point of critical mass, so that even President Trump's administration has received enough complaints to begin to investigate whether Congressional oversight is necessary.  This is a concept that no one wants, and the corporate directors are obviously banking on our eventually deciding against it, but the issue has become serious enough that it may well be deemed preferable to the free reign of these greedy corporate directors.  It would be a shame to restrict a lot of our freedoms, under the supervision of a lot of government bureaucrats, who may become even more corrupt than these corporate directors, but can be controlled more easily, than the directors.  They can be fired, especially if their government employees contract is edited to make firing for malfeasance, and incompetence easier to do.

All of this should be unnecessary, but the collective greed of the corporate directors needs to be reigned  in, one way, or another!