Is the American news media an enemy of the American people? Or has President Trump overstated it?
The answer: Yes, unequivocally. The dominant, established American news media is an enemy of the people. Even if they do not know it, or care to know it.
Here’s why.
Liberty, freedom and individual rights are objectively valuable. The media supports the opposite of these things. Its hostility runs deeper than President Trump.
The media detests capitalism, even though they’re part of the for-profit structure, their means of survival.
If the media got its way, and capitalism were abolished, before too long we’d have a government-run media, as in all socialist or authoritarian countries. They would no longer work for a profit, and they’d no longer work with the freedom to say what they wish (even when it’s false). They would be legally bound not to offend the government. Careful what you wish for, left-wing journalists!
The media hates our Bill of Rights. It overwhelmingly and consistently runs biased stories in favor of political correctness, against gun ownership by peaceful citizens, against the Second Amendment itself. The First and Second Amendment are the two most precious liberties in our Bill of Rights. That’s precisely why the media hates them; and it’s precisely why media professionals are not your friend, but your enemy.
People have free will. They do not have to listen to the media’s crap. Increasingly, they’re tuning it out, as low ratings on CNN demonstrate. But it doesn’t change the fact that the media is our enemy. If liberty, freedom, the First and Second Amendments, and the rest of our republic matter, and if our lives are better off with those things than without them, then anyone who attacks them with the ferocity and consistency of our dominant media establishment is most indeed our enemy.
You’ve heard the phrase, “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” The media should be our friend. It should be on the side of free speech, individual rights, gun rights, private property rights and all the things without which the media itself would not last five minutes.
“Friends don’t tell friends that freedom and liberty don’t matter.” Yet the media tells us that, implicitly and explicitly, each and every minute of every hour of every day.
Long live freedom of speech and the First Amendment. But our dominant media establishment can rot, if truth and liberty are what you value the most.
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