{"id":85969,"date":"2017-01-30T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=85969"},"modified":"2017-01-29T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T11:44:21","slug":"the-media-is-now-the-political-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/01\/the-media-is-now-the-political-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Is Now the Political Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

27 Jan 2017 \u2013 <\/em>Stephen Bannon is correct that the US media\u2014indeed, the entire Western print and TV media\u2014is nothing but a propaganda machine for the ruling elite. The presstitutes are devoid of integrity, moral conscience, and respect for truth. https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/375271-bannon-trump-media-cnn\/<\/a> Read the comments in which morons define freedom of the press as the freedom to lie to the public.<\/p>\n

Who else but the despicable Western media justified the enormous war crimes committed against millions of peoples by the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes in nine countries\u2014Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Palestine, and the Russian areas of Ukraine?<\/p>\n

Who else but the despicable Western media justified the domestic police states that have been erected in the Western world in the name of the \u201cwar on terror\u201d?<\/p>\n

Along with the war criminals that comprised the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes, the Western media should be tried for their complicity in the massive crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

The Western media\u2019s effort to sustain the high level of tension between the West and Russia is a danger to all mankind, a direct threat to life on earth. Gorbachev\u2019s warnings are correct. http:\/\/time.com\/4645442\/gorbachev-putin-trump\/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook <\/a>Yet presstitutes declare that if Trump lifts the sanctions it proves that Trump is a Russian agent. It is paradoxical that the Democrats and the liberal-progressive-left are mobilizing the anti-war movement to oppose Trump\u2019s anti-war policy!<\/p>\n

By refusing to acknowledge and to apologize for its lies, euphemistically called \u201cfake news,\u201d the Western media has failed humanity in a number of other ways. For example, by consciously telling lies, the media has legitimized the suborning of perjury and false testimony used to convict innocent defendants (such as Walter McMillian in Bryan Stevenson\u2019s Just Mercy<\/em>) in America\u2019s \u201cjustice\u201d system, which has about the same relation to justice as genocide has to mercy. If the media can lie about world events, police and prosecutors can lie about crimes.<\/p>\n

By taking the role of the political opposition to Trump, the media has discredited itself as an honest critic on topics where Trump needs criticism, such as the environment and his tolerance of oppressive methods used by police. The presstitutes have ended all chance of improving Trump\u2019s performance with reports and criticism.<\/p>\n

Trump needs moderating on the environment, on the police, and on the war on terror. Trump needs to understand that \u201cthe Muslim threat\u201d is a hoax created by the neoconservatives and the military\/security complex with the complicity of the presstitutes to serve the hegemony agenda and the budget and power of the CIA, Pentagon, and military industries. If the US stops bombing and slaughtering Muslims and training and equipping forces to overthrow non-compliant Muslim governments such as Syria, Iraq, and Libya, \u201cthe Muslim threat\u201d will disappear.<\/p>\n

Maybe Trump will add to his agenda breaking into hundreds of pieces the six mega-media companies that own 90% of the US media and selling the pieces to seperate independent owners who have no connection to the ruling elites. Then America would again have a media that can constrain the government with truth rather than use lies to act for or against the government.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Dr. Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the <\/em>Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for <\/em>Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and <\/em>Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. Roberts’ latest books are <\/em>The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West<\/a> and<\/em> How America Was Lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By taking the role of the political opposition to Trump, the media has discredited itself as an honest critic on topics where Trump needs criticism, such as the environment and his tolerance of oppressive methods used by police. The presstitutes have ended all chance of improving Trump\u2019s performance with reports and criticism. Trump needs moderating on the environment, on the police, and on the war on terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}