Bill O’Reilly tries his best to make the Internet the great technological Satan when the award rightly goes to television. He is too well-informed not to know that the government is out to abolish freedom of speech on the Internet, yet he is the only television personalty that I know of who is doing the government’s dirty work.
This excerpt from a great piece by Dennis Prager justifies my contempt for Bill O’Reilly:
Bill O’Reilly is a Roman Catholic, a teacher, and a talking head with a very large audience. Any one of the three would identify him as a totalitarian who comes by his love of government naturally:
I do have one slight disagreement with Dennis Prager.
Governments slaughtering their own people in the millions is the only new phenomenon. Every government and every religion ends up totalitarian. Look at where a once free people are at today if you doubt it. When television threw in with everything that was done to get here it was Bill O’Reilly and his kind who laid the groundwork for the butchery that will come to Americans as surely as it comes to the people in every totalitarian government.
Let me point out that everything that gives the government the legal right to murder their own people will be made possible by television. The Ottoman Empire, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union notwithstanding, radio and print journalism alone could not have gotten Americans to this point.
If there is any truth in Prager’s closing sentence:
the question has to be “Why didn’t television come down on the side of life, instead of doing so much to destroy it?”
Let me close with a brief word about eliminating tax deductible advertising dollars. Corporations and businesses give television all of that money well-knowing where television is taking the country. The rest of us are forced to pay for their beliefs. In short: There is not one logical reason for advertisers to get a free pass for helping median tear down this country.
This excerpt from a great piece by Dennis Prager justifies my contempt for Bill O’Reilly:
It is almost impossible to overstate the power of mass media. If the mass media of a society constantly communicate something — anything — most of the society will believe it. Without mass media, none of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century would have been possible. Totalitarianism is a new phenomenon because mass media are a new phenomenon.
Bill O’Reilly is a Roman Catholic, a teacher, and a talking head with a very large audience. Any one of the three would identify him as a totalitarian who comes by his love of government naturally:
totalitarian (adjective)
Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed: "A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).
noun
A practitioner or supporter of such a government.
totalitarianism (noun)
Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed: "A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).
noun
A practitioner or supporter of such a government.
totalitarianism (noun)
I do have one slight disagreement with Dennis Prager.
Totalitarianism is a new phenomenon because mass media are a new phenomenon.
Governments slaughtering their own people in the millions is the only new phenomenon. Every government and every religion ends up totalitarian. Look at where a once free people are at today if you doubt it. When television threw in with everything that was done to get here it was Bill O’Reilly and his kind who laid the groundwork for the butchery that will come to Americans as surely as it comes to the people in every totalitarian government.
Let me point out that everything that gives the government the legal right to murder their own people will be made possible by television. The Ottoman Empire, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union notwithstanding, radio and print journalism alone could not have gotten Americans to this point.
If there is any truth in Prager’s closing sentence:
There doesn’t appear to be anything that they cannot persuade most people, in any country, to believe.
October 21, 2014 12:00 AM
Media Much Scarier than Ebola
They’re creating a nationwide hysteria.
By Dennis Prager
Media Much Scarier than Ebola National Review Online
Media Much Scarier than Ebola
They’re creating a nationwide hysteria.
By Dennis Prager
Media Much Scarier than Ebola National Review Online
the question has to be “Why didn’t television come down on the side of life, instead of doing so much to destroy it?”
Let me close with a brief word about eliminating tax deductible advertising dollars. Corporations and businesses give television all of that money well-knowing where television is taking the country. The rest of us are forced to pay for their beliefs. In short: There is not one logical reason for advertisers to get a free pass for helping median tear down this country.
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