David Strom writes for HotAir.com about reaction to the end of taxpayer funding for government media.
The joke is getting old, but it is still worth repeating: George Orwell’s 1984 was not intended to be an instruction manual.
But somehow it is. Freedom is slavery, illegals are “law-abiding,” riots are “mostly peaceful,” censorship is truth-preserving, and the state should run the media.
When I read the liberal media (but I repeat myself), I fear getting whiplash from so much head shaking. The latest insanity that has my neck sore is the media’s claim that National Public Radio and the Public Broadcast System not only deserve public money, but that defunding them is a threat to the free press.
The First Amendment is dying because two government propaganda outlets are being cut off from public funds–which, we have been told for years, barely make a dent in their budgets anyway. Could you make it make sense? I can’t.
Without Pravda, how will you get the news? Or, we are told, weather reports? How will the hicks in the sticks hear about weather without NPR? …
… These state-funded outlets insist that they have no political bias, which is as credible as the claim that white supremacists who happen to watch the black-themed Empire show, attack actors at 2 in the morning, shouting that Chicago is MAGA country. …
… Over the past few years, Pravda Media has called for censorship, spread multiple hoaxes about Donald Trump, racism, illegal immigration, and terrorist Catholics and parents. Pulitzer Prizes were handed out for covering and promoting a proven hoax, and we all were propagandized with the absurdity that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack.
That NPR is our one good source for weather forecasting is just another in a long line of BS arguments, of course. But I still can’t get past the absurd argument that GOVERNMENT FUNDING of media is the last line of defense for democracy.
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