With the election over, and the Democrats now controlling Washington D.C., the United States is in for an express ride into socialism, with liberal-progressive fascist captains at the helm.
Under fascism, like all oppressive and tyrannical regimes, it is essential to control the media. If you control the media, you control public perception. And perception is reality. Just ask Stalin & Mussolini.
The muzzling of dissent will likely come in a number of phases.
The first to go will be interviews and face time with anyone who would be critical of the Obama administration. News stations and reporters who ask probing questions critical of the administration would be blacklisted. Preferential treatment will be given to media outlets that do everything possible to help the administration. These things have already been happening during the Obama campaign:
The next thing to go will be talk radio, by means of the re-imposition of the innocent-sounding “Fairness Doctrine.” The purpose was — and is — to silence conservative talk radio. While few Democrats will talk about this, it is certainly on the agenda. First, Democrat Senator Jeff Bingaman from New Mexico was interviewed on the radio in mid-October:
Then, on election day, Senator Charles Schumer also called for its return. The Fairness Doctrine basically stated that equal airtime must be given on radio stations to opposing views. This sounds like a good thing, but in reality it never worked. Radio stations were so worried about “equal airtime” that they aired no political talk at all. In addition, this runs counter to free-market principles of supply and demand: where there is a demand for something, the free market will supply it. The bankrupt failure of syndicated liberal talk radio station Air America is the perfect example of this: despite millions of dollars, Air America failed due to lack of demand. In the meantime conservative talk radio is flourishing due to increased demand. Some markets actually added additional conservative talk radio stations after Air America’s demise, to supply the greater public demand for conservative wit and wisdom.
Speaking on issues of supply-and-demand, newspapers and network TV news shows are floundering badly. This is due to two reasons: first, the public’s growing distrust of the media’s integrity following “Rathergate” in 2004, and second, the swelling numbers of people turning to the internet for their news. Sites like YouTube and popular sites and blogs give people endless abilities to sort, sift, locate, and consume whatever flavor of news that they personally like and have come to trust. It was an internet site and dozens of blogs that popped the “Rathergate” bubble and did the investigative journalism that the mainstream news media refuses to do. While there is a bit of effort involved in separating the wheat from the chaff in divining what is simply biased blogging versus honest reporting, the beauty of the internet is the ease it affords people to go searching for information and alternate viewpoints, and the speed in which people can get information and forward it to their friends. This rise of a news medium outside their control will certainly be viewed by an Obama administration as a danger, and dealt with accordingly. It would be of no surprise if the re-imposition of the Fairness Doctrine was written in such a way that it included web sites such as this one. Also a possibility — and just as chilling — is a government “bail out” of the news industry. At that point they may as well change the name of the New York Times to Pravda.
With the media firmly under control, any amount of mischief could — and will — occur, liberty be damned.
Frightening times lie ahead.
Prepare.
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