Thought Control by Controlling the News

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Thought Control by Controlling the News​

Thought Control by Controlling the News (townhall.com)
9 Jan 2021 ~~ By Jeff Davidson
Like many people, I attended school, K-12, and four years in college. I then spent two years in graduate school. For all the lessons I was taught and all the reading I've done – thousands of books – added to all the historical movies, TV shows, and documentaries that I've watched, I never once was told that the barbarians who invaded Rome were, indeed, justified.
The Real Barbarians
The Romans were the ones who acted like barbarians to their captors and to the slaves that they made out of them. This 'personal' revelation came to me as a result of watching a TV series. On the History Channel's eight-part series, The Barbarians, for the first time, I learned how the barbarian uprisings over a 700-year period eventually spelled the death of Rome.
Nine different leaders were highlighted in this series, and each of their assaults on Roman territory seemed justified. These leaders did not know one another, and decades or even hundreds of years passed between the emergence of each.
How is it that in all the schooling that we receive, when we learn about the Egyptian Empire, Greek civilization, the Roman Empire, and so on, we’re hardly exposed to their excesses, particularly in a way that registers?
The people that Rome considered barbarians were treated unmercifully. Roman soldiers and Roman citizens regarded them as little more than cattle. The 'barbarians' had every right to rebel. They had every right to free themselves from their captors, kill them if they could, and seek whatever peace they might find in this world.
The Official Story
I surmise that with all history, the 'official story' belongs to those in power. So, over the course of two millennia, the Roman view of these uprisings prevailed in the history books, and eventually the movies, videos, and A/V presentations that are readily available today.
It makes me wonder: What historical viewpoint of today will prevail?
~Snip~
No Objectivity, All Viewpoint
CNN and MSNBC cannot broadcast for longer than 90 to 120 seconds without a fresh bashing. Time it for yourself. As Laura Logan, a former reporter for CBS’s 60 Minutes, quipped, if you don’t like the president’s style, then report 50% on that and 50% on his achievements.
When are you reporting 92% negative, and presumably 8% neutral or positive, what kind of service are you offering to the populace? Actually, none.
~Snip~
Steeped in What We ‘Know’
The broad mass of news and information consumers dwell behind the information “Iron Curtain” and won’t bother to look further. Even the "fact-checkers" are hopelessly biased. As such, the media machine gets to unceasingly spew its propaganda. The irony is that news consumers are only a few clicks away from alternative and more objective news and views.
So, it seems we're going to have to wait several years, if not a couple of decades, to discover the truth about what's actually occurring now. It's a shame because we have the capabilities today to generate objective news more effectively than at any other time in history.


Comment:
The Quisling media is the enemy of the people. It has become the Fifth Column of the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat Left.
Nearly the entirety of the MSM as a prime example declined to report on or investigate the Hunter Biden hard drive debacle was some sort of oversight or coincidence, did you?
It’s was like living in an alternate reality. We listened to a poll watcher(s) describe how they saw ballots manipulated and votes added, then the complicit media news feeds told us there is no such evidence of fraud.
The Quisling media is like Breaking Bad’s Walter White. Originally a good, decent presence that crosses the line for ostensibly noble reasons, only to get addicted to the power obtained when doing so. Each time the bad actor’s better angels harken back to a more virtuous time the dark side resurfaces and the addictive nature of raw power wins out heading down the path to pure evil power with a disregard for everything else.
Ultimately the formerly virtuous, now fully converted villain’s evil becomes its own undoing and ruin.
Unlike the television series, when the final episode airs we won’t feel sadness when we hear the opening chords of Baby Blue. Like Walter, they will have brought it on themselves.
The only way the Progressive Marxist/DSA Left can convince people to eat socialist excrement is if they can make it look like it is a delicacy. Unfortunately, we are well into the Marxist Socialist take over of our country and the media is complicit in it. The old saying, the truth will set you free, is what they fear and these propagandists cannot allow it to spread because freedom is what they're against. In the end the media will regret being the Left's propaganda machine, but by that time it will be too late. Their usefulness will come to an end and being controlled completely by the state won't be a good experience for these want-to-be media elite king makers.
History continues to repeats itself.....

 

[Moonglow]

Damn that OAN...

 

[ReinyDays]

It's a choice ... people who don't want to think for themselves will have whoever think for them ... consider last Wednesday, The Donald had to think for all them people, they couldn't think for themselves ...

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Thought Control by Controlling the News​

Thought Control by Controlling the News (townhall.com)
9 Jan 2021 ~~ By Jeff Davidson
Like many people, I attended school, K-12, and four years in college. I then spent two years in graduate school. For all the lessons I was taught and all the reading I've done – thousands of books – added to all the historical movies, TV shows, and documentaries that I've watched, I never once was told that the barbarians who invaded Rome were, indeed, justified.
The Real Barbarians
The Romans were the ones who acted like barbarians to their captors and to the slaves that they made out of them. This 'personal' revelation came to me as a result of watching a TV series. On the History Channel's eight-part series, The Barbarians, for the first time, I learned how the barbarian uprisings over a 700-year period eventually spelled the death of Rome.
Nine different leaders were highlighted in this series, and each of their assaults on Roman territory seemed justified. These leaders did not know one another, and decades or even hundreds of years passed between the emergence of each.
How is it that in all the schooling that we receive, when we learn about the Egyptian Empire, Greek civilization, the Roman Empire, and so on, we’re hardly exposed to their excesses, particularly in a way that registers?
The people that Rome considered barbarians were treated unmercifully. Roman soldiers and Roman citizens regarded them as little more than cattle. The 'barbarians' had every right to rebel. They had every right to free themselves from their captors, kill them if they could, and seek whatever peace they might find in this world.
The Official Story
I surmise that with all history, the 'official story' belongs to those in power. So, over the course of two millennia, the Roman view of these uprisings prevailed in the history books, and eventually the movies, videos, and A/V presentations that are readily available today.
It makes me wonder: What historical viewpoint of today will prevail?
~Snip~
No Objectivity, All Viewpoint
CNN and MSNBC cannot broadcast for longer than 90 to 120 seconds without a fresh bashing. Time it for yourself. As Laura Logan, a former reporter for CBS’s 60 Minutes, quipped, if you don’t like the president’s style, then report 50% on that and 50% on his achievements.
When are you reporting 92% negative, and presumably 8% neutral or positive, what kind of service are you offering to the populace? Actually, none.
~Snip~
Steeped in What We ‘Know’
The broad mass of news and information consumers dwell behind the information “Iron Curtain” and won’t bother to look further. Even the "fact-checkers" are hopelessly biased. As such, the media machine gets to unceasingly spew its propaganda. The irony is that news consumers are only a few clicks away from alternative and more objective news and views.
So, it seems we're going to have to wait several years, if not a couple of decades, to discover the truth about what's actually occurring now. It's a shame because we have the capabilities today to generate objective news more effectively than at any other time in history.


Comment:
The Quisling media is the enemy of the people. It has become the Fifth Column of the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat Left.
Nearly the entirety of the MSM as a prime example declined to report on or investigate the Hunter Biden hard drive debacle was some sort of oversight or coincidence, did you?
It’s was like living in an alternate reality. We listened to a poll watcher(s) describe how they saw ballots manipulated and votes added, then the complicit media news feeds told us there is no such evidence of fraud.
The Quisling media is like Breaking Bad’s Walter White. Originally a good, decent presence that crosses the line for ostensibly noble reasons, only to get addicted to the power obtained when doing so. Each time the bad actor’s better angels harken back to a more virtuous time the dark side resurfaces and the addictive nature of raw power wins out heading down the path to pure evil power with a disregard for everything else.
Ultimately the formerly virtuous, now fully converted villain’s evil becomes its own undoing and ruin.
Unlike the television series, when the final episode airs we won’t feel sadness when we hear the opening chords of Baby Blue. Like Walter, they will have brought it on themselves.
The only way the Progressive Marxist/DSA Left can convince people to eat socialist excrement is if they can make it look like it is a delicacy. Unfortunately, we are well into the Marxist Socialist take over of our country and the media is complicit in it. The old saying, the truth will set you free, is what they fear and these propagandists cannot allow it to spread because freedom is what they're against. In the end the media will regret being the Left's propaganda machine, but by that time it will be too late. Their usefulness will come to an end and being controlled completely by the state won't be a good experience for these want-to-be media elite king makers.
History continues to repeats itself.....

Subjective, wrongheaded opinion from a conservative ideologue posting on a rightwing misinformation website devoid of credibility.

The right's unwarranted hostility toward ‘the media’ is both idiotic and ridiculous – no thought is being ‘controlled’ by the news.