The Amerikan state-run media makes Soviet-era TASS look like Woodward and Bernstein.
With the release this week of further evidence that Washington is covering up their Benghazi cover-up, CBS inexplicably/predictably failed to report it. Hello, Sharyl Attkisson? Conversely, ABC's Jon Karl took the smug Comrade Carney to task over the surreal obfuscation and backpedaling the separatist regime is now engaging in, dude.
These latest revelations may prove to be the straw that at least got onto the camel's back: A House select committee on Benghazi, chaired by South Carolina's Trey Gowdy, finally appears to be happening.
Any moment now, DNC spokesmen Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will provide unbiased, in-depth analysis and set the record straight once and for all. It's such a strange time: journalists abdicate their purpose and integrity, while Citizens outsource their awareness to comedians.
In this video, Jeremy Scahill from The Intercept is right out in front on the sorry state of the semi-Republic's media apparatus:
"We're left with a bankrupt media culture in this country... If we lose the institution of investigative journalism, of fact checking, of peer review, of edited pieces of old-school muckraking, of document diving like I.F. Stone did, or going to the scene as Seymour Hersch did... if we lose that and we cede everything to social media, to this 'Ritalin Society', then we're going to be in far worse shape than we are now, and we're already at the lowest point in terms of media relevance to ordinary people in our society that we've ever been in... One of the premiere battles of our lifetime is to try to get these corporations out of our lives, out of our electoral process in this country, out of the domination of the media."
The point? There's a war on journalism, and they have realized metadata is the ultimum vas. My question is, who are "they, They, THE OMINOUS THEY"?
I scored 31/35 on the Technician Class exam on Saturday. I've been hammering the FCC license website ever since, waiting for my call sign to (finally) pop up. Well, today all that F5'ing finally paid off:
KT3LAN will be transmitting live from the streets of Washington, DC, during the American Spring. The following is a list of OAS frequencies and repeaters, so you'll likely find me somewhere in here:
2 meter simplex: 146.520 146.580
2 meter repeaters: W3ETX : 145.1100 (-.600 offset, no tone) W3DOS : 145.1900 (-.600 offset, 151.4 tone) K3VOA : 147.0450 (+.600 offset, no tone)
In the era of American state-run media, what a treat it is to follow Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald. Their cogent, unbiased and relentless research and analysis are beacons in the MSNBCABCCBSCNN darkness. They walk the walk, too: Scahill likened his "Dirty Wars" journey to a "three year counter-terrorism Truman show", and Greenwald was forced to fight the illegal detention of his boyfriend in the U.K on Snowden-related charges.
It gets even better. These two All-Stars have teamed up to form a journalistic equivalent of JSOC: A digital magazine called The Intercept was unveiled on February 10, and its mission is to provide "fearless adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues." That's badass. While the rest of the PC Amerikardashian media focuses on minutiae, our generation's Woodward and Bernstein are going to be a plasma torch on the genuine issues.
This particular quote by Scahill makes The Third Lantern glow more brightly today:
"There's
a reason why journalism is the only specifically cited job outside of
government jobs in the Constitution. That's because if the three
branches of power collude together against the interests of The People,
the press is the fourth estate. Journalists have an obligation to take
an inherently adversarial role toward those in authority, in the service
of the public good."
Like Rome, America isn't a place so much as it is an idea. Hell, that was one of the coolest things about the Revolution: Men and women who'd traditionally identified themselves as stalwart New Englanders and proud Georgians (and every other colonial calling in between) joined together over a notion, a principle. They'd didn't all scramble to one location and proclaim themselves American; our germ was not geography, it was ethos.
Hearing the story about the California school banning American flags on Cinco de Mayo served as a reminder. The Republic isn't being assailed by armies and armadas, it's being subverted by a collective counter principle, an inverted ethos. It may not happen in a week or a year, but rights erode into privileges, and privileges into restrictions. How many intrinsically American tenets have changed since you were a child?
Even stone gives way to wind. As Marcus Aurelius tells Maximus, "There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only... whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish. It was so fragile, and I fear that it will not survive the winter."
Rome's successor has reached a similar crossroads. Will you be the philosopher, the warrior, the tyrant? Or will you be the Citizen who gave America back her true self?
The Amerikan state-run media makes Soviet-era TASS look like Woodward and Bernstein.
Any moment now, DNC spokesmen Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will provide unbiased, in-depth analysis and set the record straight once and for all. It's such a strange time: journalists abdicate their purpose and integrity, while Citizens outsource their awareness to comedians.
