Chris Mitchell
Winning by seizing strategic positions - - Part 5
By Chris Mitchell
SEIZING STRATEGIC POSITION IN COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA & THE ARTS
(LIES & HALF-TRUTHS & ARTSY TRASH)
Want to talk about a vast conspiracy? How about the VAST LEFT-WING MAINSTREAM MEDIA? It wants you to mindlessly believe everything it spews out.
This was a difficult piece to write. If I wrote for a travel magazine, and specifically about tourist spots in mountain ranges, this article would be about the Himalayas and Mt. Everest. One problem though. If 1 handful of mountain rock & dirt equals 1 lie by the Left-Wing Mainstream Media, then Mt. Everest is too short and the Himalayas are too small. Comparatively speaking, the Himalayas can never grow enough to stay abreast with the ever-growing mountains of lies manufactured by the Left-Wing Mainstream Media.
When the Founders of America established the Constitution and Bill of Rights, it was done in the spirit that the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of federal government would vigilantly "check and balance" each other. I grew up hearing "checks and balances" hundreds of times per school year. It had not yet been expunged from curriculum. The Constitution clearly defines authorized "check and balance" powers.
And, if things go awry, the "4th estate" news media shall provide the inestimably valuable service of government watchdogs — apprising We The People of ill acts perpetrated against us by any and all branches of government. It's a huge public trust extended by the Founders to We The People. It's our and our news media's sacrosanct duty to vigilantly watch government. As Founding Documents define, it's also our revered duty to use the system to "check and balance" government when it violates its Constitutionally-defined operating specifications. News media — the 4th estate of We The People's government — was entrusted to sound the early warnings.
Somewhere along the way, the news media turned severely to the left. "Left" as in Left-Wing, socialists, one-world-government globalists, U.N. worshipers, U.S. bashers, unpatriotic and zealously anti-patriot, anti-gun ownership, anti-Ten Commandments, pro-killing of the unborn (i.e., genocidal abortions of convenience for irresponsible babymakers), pro-queer lifestyles, radically anti-Christian, pro-atheist & agnostic, and anti-GOD. The list is longer, but you get the idea.
Public media — for news and entertainment communications — morphed into a mega-institution of sick, immoral values. Its steady stream of toxins evermore poisons We The People's minds and consciousnesses. Especially the malleable minds of toddlers, children, adolescents & young adults.
How did this happen? I must return to the title theme of this series of articles:
Winning By Seizing Strategic Positions
In this case, the hijacked institution is the communications media industry. The Founders relied on a realistic expectation that the news media would uphold a virtuously high standard of honesty and integrity. Media was to report truth and impart & reinforce wholesome ethics, values and morality.
For the Founders, this was a good foundation on which to build another of American society's citadels: the very strategic position of communication to, and among, We The People. This castle was to be imperviously strong and on ground high enough to overlook the citadels of politics, education, religion, and morals & ethics. It was situated so that blasts on trumpets from its ramparts would awaken We The People and stir us into action to set things aright.
A good theory — not lost on those who want to kill the American dream. That's why they seized it.
Let's do a "position check" to see where we are now. Mass media bombards us with:
The usual suspects to blame for purveying propaganda and perversion include these news-manufacturing and communications media icons:
Their specialty is to research methods to deceive people and find ways to refine lies until they seem like truth. They carefully select and present information. They omit, fabricate, exaggerate and over emphasize to shamelessly misinformation of the masses. Such tactics have been recently exposed in the shenanigans of the New York Time's Jayson Blair and its exposed managerial edict to bias editorials, and the Los Angeles Time's attempted crucifixion of Arnold Schwarznegger. The LA Times won't learn its lesson. It now attempts to discredit and shame an American Lt. General because he admits that he is a Christian. Normal people withdraw from endeavors that lack merit when they find themselves so involved.
These culprits don't. They are part of a vast left-wing conspiracy. Their mission is to manipulate and control public opinion by establishing cultural & societal hegemony. They are on a long march through our American institutions to conquer universities, schools, churches, government bureaucracy, courts, political parties, labor unions, media/communications and the arts.
It's very disturbing & distressing that they already command much of what happens in these institutions. Concerning the news media, how do we best address a thousand daily new or continued half-truths and grandiose lies? Alternative news sources are great at telling both sides of stories; the facts, the liberal/socialist spin, the 'big picture' and what it all really means.
The internet is a rising media (but be prepared to filter out urban legends). It carries facts & truths that the left-wing mainstream media won't dare divulge. But, Nielsen Ratings for June 2003 found that MSNBC had a unique audience of 20.5 million visitors (not to be confused with site "hits" which is a bigger number), CNN had 17.5, the NY Times site had 9.2, Washington Post — 6.3, USA Today — 4.6, ABC News — 4.6, BBC — 3.1, CBS News — 2.9 and NPR — 1 million.
Non-propagandists had less. Fox News — 3.7 million, The Drudge Report — 1.8, News Max — 1.7, The Washington Times — 1.5, and with 700,000 each — WorldNetDaily, National Review, townhall and rushlimbaugh. These news sources are valiantly recapturing our seized news media citadel. They're good watchdogs and they're earning We The People's trust.
Repeating "The X Files" tag line: "The Truth Is Out There." But, you must know where to look.
© Chris Mitchell
SEIZING STRATEGIC POSITION IN COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA & THE ARTS
(LIES & HALF-TRUTHS & ARTSY TRASH)
Want to talk about a vast conspiracy? How about the VAST LEFT-WING MAINSTREAM MEDIA? It wants you to mindlessly believe everything it spews out.
This was a difficult piece to write. If I wrote for a travel magazine, and specifically about tourist spots in mountain ranges, this article would be about the Himalayas and Mt. Everest. One problem though. If 1 handful of mountain rock & dirt equals 1 lie by the Left-Wing Mainstream Media, then Mt. Everest is too short and the Himalayas are too small. Comparatively speaking, the Himalayas can never grow enough to stay abreast with the ever-growing mountains of lies manufactured by the Left-Wing Mainstream Media.
When the Founders of America established the Constitution and Bill of Rights, it was done in the spirit that the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of federal government would vigilantly "check and balance" each other. I grew up hearing "checks and balances" hundreds of times per school year. It had not yet been expunged from curriculum. The Constitution clearly defines authorized "check and balance" powers.
And, if things go awry, the "4th estate" news media shall provide the inestimably valuable service of government watchdogs — apprising We The People of ill acts perpetrated against us by any and all branches of government. It's a huge public trust extended by the Founders to We The People. It's our and our news media's sacrosanct duty to vigilantly watch government. As Founding Documents define, it's also our revered duty to use the system to "check and balance" government when it violates its Constitutionally-defined operating specifications. News media — the 4th estate of We The People's government — was entrusted to sound the early warnings.
Somewhere along the way, the news media turned severely to the left. "Left" as in Left-Wing, socialists, one-world-government globalists, U.N. worshipers, U.S. bashers, unpatriotic and zealously anti-patriot, anti-gun ownership, anti-Ten Commandments, pro-killing of the unborn (i.e., genocidal abortions of convenience for irresponsible babymakers), pro-queer lifestyles, radically anti-Christian, pro-atheist & agnostic, and anti-GOD. The list is longer, but you get the idea.
Public media — for news and entertainment communications — morphed into a mega-institution of sick, immoral values. Its steady stream of toxins evermore poisons We The People's minds and consciousnesses. Especially the malleable minds of toddlers, children, adolescents & young adults.
How did this happen? I must return to the title theme of this series of articles:
Winning By Seizing Strategic Positions
In this case, the hijacked institution is the communications media industry. The Founders relied on a realistic expectation that the news media would uphold a virtuously high standard of honesty and integrity. Media was to report truth and impart & reinforce wholesome ethics, values and morality.
For the Founders, this was a good foundation on which to build another of American society's citadels: the very strategic position of communication to, and among, We The People. This castle was to be imperviously strong and on ground high enough to overlook the citadels of politics, education, religion, and morals & ethics. It was situated so that blasts on trumpets from its ramparts would awaken We The People and stir us into action to set things aright.
A good theory — not lost on those who want to kill the American dream. That's why they seized it.
Let's do a "position check" to see where we are now. Mass media bombards us with:
- TV & movies that most often glorify perverse values — the "Can you top this?" syndrome
- cop-killer 'music'
- mutilate & kill video & computer games
- music and video that spits down on and/or hatefully defies and scorns authority and tradition
- infamous, perverted art abominations by Maplethorpe-type "artists" and other rogues subsidized by the National Endowment for the Arts
- high-profile politics of personal destruction & character assassination attempts on:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's criminal, serial-groper Governor (per ex-Gov. Davis). It's poetic justice that this assassination attempt backfired on the LA Times and its ex-Gov.
- Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore balks at anti-Constitutional lawless ruling by federal circuit court judge Myron Thompson. Is demonized. MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD?
- President George W. Bush. Ted Kennedy bellows in Senate chambers that GWB is a liar about all reasons to fight in Iraq, and all civil progress made since major fighting. Attempt is ongoing. Left-Wing Media plays along. Daily decries Iraqi attacks, US military deaths & casualties, and no clear "exit strategy." Mute on exiting Bosnia, Korea, Germany & Japan. DOUBLE STANDARD?
- Trent Lott pays respect to Strom Thurmond at his 100th birthday. Democrats (demon rats ?) distort praise into racial slur. Lott loses Senate Majority Leadership. Robert Byrd (D-WV) says "N word" brazenly twice in public politics. Zero consequences. MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD?
- Bob Livingstone, under siege by Clinton smear machine, resigns as House Majority Leader. Vilified for sexual affair. Yet, Clinton impeachment is "only about sex" — personal indiscretions. "President's personal affairs don't impact job performance." MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD?
- Henry Hyde, House leader of Clinton impeachment, smeared for years-old marital infidelity. Senate stonewalls impeachment. Clinton gets "free pass." MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD?
- Newt Gingrich's book deal. He was reviled and pushed to quit Congress in a cloud of shame.
- Hillary Clinton's $8 million ballyhooed fictional non-fiction book. MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD?
- Hailed already, Bill Clinton's book (more revised history?) due during '04 Presidential campaign
- Left-Wing Mainstream Media cover-ups and free passes:
- a Democratic '04 Presidential wannabe proclaimed that America was founded on a graduated personal income tax. Fact: the Constitution expressly forbids it. Fealty extracted by the IRS was unlawful until the unratified 16th Amendment of 1913. For such a big gaffe, Left-Wing Media would roast alive any non-Democratic Presidential hopeful. MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD?
- Dick Gephardt (D-MO) is complicit in criminal intimidation via tapping phones, breaking & entering, burglary & theft of his '00 Congressional opponent's home & offices, instigating & provoking an altercation to manufacture cause to file bogus criminal complaint. Opponent Bill Federer acquitted by jury in 35 minutes. Judicial Watch prosecuting Gephardt. Media is mute.
- The "Chinagate" sellout of defense & military secrets for election money … It never happened.
- To downplay Lewinsky's day of testimony, Clinton bombed an aspirin factory. Free pass.
- Lewinsky's revealed dalliance derailed investigations of impeachable Clinton crimes. Pass.
- Demonrats spun Clinton debacles to, "It's all about sex." Left-Wing Media saturates America with that sentiment. Complicit media is mute and never pursued truth/facts about scandals:
- "Whitewater" — Heartless financial manhandling to victimize land investors
- Mena, Arkansas — War on Drugs behind-the-scenes; following money & murder cover ups
- "Filegate" — Why did the Clintons have 900 FBI files of rivals in the White House?
- "Travelgate" — Unethical framing & discrediting of former White House travel manager
- Vince Foster — Death was highly suspicious. White House said things before facts were in.
- Rapes/molestations of Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Kathleen Willey, et al.
- Reno Dept. of Justice evaded review of huge body of evidence about Oklahoma City.
- Cover up and refusal to review & reveal huge body of evidence on TWA 800 shoot down.
- Transfer of control of secret military technology from Defense Dept. to Commerce Dept. to enable sale of high-technology and military secrets to communist China.
- Plane crash with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown; autopsy showed 'shot in the head'
- "Pardongate" — fest of pardons, allegedly for cash, during Clinton's last days in office
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's criminal, serial-groper Governor (per ex-Gov. Davis). It's poetic justice that this assassination attempt backfired on the LA Times and its ex-Gov.
- perpetual "public opinion" polls — new every nanosecond — to manipulate public psyche and herd people into attitudes, beliefs and actions that the left-wing media and its power elite want
- total ignoring & omission of the effort of the American Center for Law & Justice to stop Democrats from obstructing the review & consent process for federal judiciary nominees
- total ignoring & omission of the effort of the We The People Constitutional Education Foundation and We The People Congress to get the federal government to answer questions about the anti-Constitutional income tax, starting international wars without Congressional Declarations of War, and respond to formal Redress of Grievances in accordance with the Bill of Rights' 1st Amendment
The usual suspects to blame for purveying propaganda and perversion include these news-manufacturing and communications media icons:
- four major newspapers — New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and USA Today
- local newspapers in many major cities (You likely know if yours lies liberally or tells the truth.)
- all four of the evening news shows on the major networks — CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS
- cable/satellite's CNN, and often enough, the socialist-leaning BBC, and sometimes CNBC
- many major magazines that don't try too hard to tell the whole truth and nothing but
- many warped-value movies from Hollywood
Their specialty is to research methods to deceive people and find ways to refine lies until they seem like truth. They carefully select and present information. They omit, fabricate, exaggerate and over emphasize to shamelessly misinformation of the masses. Such tactics have been recently exposed in the shenanigans of the New York Time's Jayson Blair and its exposed managerial edict to bias editorials, and the Los Angeles Time's attempted crucifixion of Arnold Schwarznegger. The LA Times won't learn its lesson. It now attempts to discredit and shame an American Lt. General because he admits that he is a Christian. Normal people withdraw from endeavors that lack merit when they find themselves so involved.
These culprits don't. They are part of a vast left-wing conspiracy. Their mission is to manipulate and control public opinion by establishing cultural & societal hegemony. They are on a long march through our American institutions to conquer universities, schools, churches, government bureaucracy, courts, political parties, labor unions, media/communications and the arts.
It's very disturbing & distressing that they already command much of what happens in these institutions. Concerning the news media, how do we best address a thousand daily new or continued half-truths and grandiose lies? Alternative news sources are great at telling both sides of stories; the facts, the liberal/socialist spin, the 'big picture' and what it all really means.
The internet is a rising media (but be prepared to filter out urban legends). It carries facts & truths that the left-wing mainstream media won't dare divulge. But, Nielsen Ratings for June 2003 found that MSNBC had a unique audience of 20.5 million visitors (not to be confused with site "hits" which is a bigger number), CNN had 17.5, the NY Times site had 9.2, Washington Post — 6.3, USA Today — 4.6, ABC News — 4.6, BBC — 3.1, CBS News — 2.9 and NPR — 1 million.
Non-propagandists had less. Fox News — 3.7 million, The Drudge Report — 1.8, News Max — 1.7, The Washington Times — 1.5, and with 700,000 each — WorldNetDaily, National Review, townhall and rushlimbaugh. These news sources are valiantly recapturing our seized news media citadel. They're good watchdogs and they're earning We The People's trust.
Repeating "The X Files" tag line: "The Truth Is Out There." But, you must know where to look.
© Chris Mitchell
The views expressed by RenewAmerica columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of RenewAmerica or its affiliates.
(See RenewAmerica's publishing standards.)
