This is a Step Back in the Days when Newspapers had Credibility

And then we go and double down and back Harris or double down and back Trump showing you that we really do have an agenda and an axe to grind. We really are picking sides. This is a step back into the days when newspapers had credibility. And you know what? He’s right. So he’s managing the credibility crisis. The new media taking center stage is winning because the yesteryear media has shown themselves to be so biased, so dishonest, so manipulative that nobody trusts them anymore. Well, this is an effort by these 200 newspapers to try to regain the moral high ground and say, wait a minute, we are news people.

And I’m okay if you’re a commentator or a news person or both, but you got to be transparent about what you are. Don’t pretend all year that you’re above partisan politics and then break down and endorse a presidential candidate. That’s a lie. Now, if you’re Sam Bush, when you say, I’ll give you the who, what, when, where, why of a story, I’ll be clear about when I give that. Then I’ll give you my commentary and I’ll be clear when it’s my opinion of my commentary. Well, they could do that too, but they don’t. So they pretend they’re above partisan politics, then they double down and back a candidate and they lose all credibility.

It’s a credibility crisis. Jeff Bezos nailed that one. But over 200 newspapers this time are not endorsing candidates, Jack. Well, you know, again, Thomas Jefferson said the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them in as much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than those whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. So, you know, even in 1700s, the newspapers were not something that everyone believed were truth telling and worthy of respect as to who they would choose for a political office. Anyway, it’s interesting how the media itself is something that doesn’t get properly policed by we the people.

And then we allow authority to create pseudo authority like the Communications Act of 1934, for example, which takes control of all of radio frequencies away from individuals and hands them to the government. And then they begin to create licenses and a variety of regulations and then equal opportunity employment. And it goes into a myriad of ways in which only a handful of people can now ever after own any kind of media. This is the sort of thing that has to be fixed. It can’t happen ever again and needs to be routed from our civilization. So now we’re down to talking on the Internet.

Only we found out that the Internet is controlled by a handful, maybe four or five big players that control all the routers. [tr:trw].